Design Resilient Architectures Practice Question
Question
For a reporting pipeline, an architect is reviewing decoupled applications requirement set 3. Which design choice best fits the requirement while following AWS architectural best practices?
Answer choices
- A. Use queues, events, and managed services to reduce direct service dependencies.
- B. Place all components on a single large instance to simplify troubleshooting.
- C. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
- D. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.
Correct Answer
A. Use queues, events, and managed services to reduce direct service dependencies.
Explanation
The best answer applies decoupled applications: use queues, events, and managed services to reduce direct service dependencies. The other options increase operational risk, weaken security, or remove observability that an AWS Solutions Architect should preserve.
Question details
- Difficulty: easy
- Domain: Design Resilient Architectures
- Objective: decoupled applications