Question requirement wording

[mddreeves]

On the questions that require 2 answers. I find it a little confusing determining if the 2 correct answers combined make up the proper solution, or if the 2 correct answers are viable solutions independently. Some of your questions specifically state: “Which combination of steps provide the proper solution”, which makes perfect sense, but some of them simply say: “Which of the following options should the Solutions Architect implement to meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)” . Sometimes this seems to mean, “Which 2 are viable solution options” and sometimes it seems to mean: “Which 2 combined make up a valid solution”. Is there a trick to interpreting these?

[Nikee-TutorialsDojo]

Hello mddreeves,

Thank you for your feedback and thoughtful question!

Our practice exams are designed to mirror the AWS certification exam format as closely as possible. In both our exams and the real AWS exam, questions that say “(Select TWO)” typically mean that the two correct answers work together to form the complete solution.

If a question asks for two independent solutions, it will clearly say so; otherwise, you can assume the two answers are meant to be combined.

Hope that clears it up! Let us know if any specific questions feel unclear.

Best Regards,

Nikee @ Tutorials Dojo

[mddreeves]

Here is an example. the 2 correct answers are independent solutions:

A technology company runs an industrial chain orchestration software on the AWS cloud. It consists of a web application tier that is currently deployed on a fixed fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The database tier is deployed on Amazon RDS. The web and database tiers are deployed in the public and private subnet of the VPC respectively. The company wants to improve the service to make it more cost-effective, scalable, highly available and should require minimal human intervention.

Which of the following actions should the solutions architect implement to improve the availability and load balancing of this cloud architecture? (Select TWO.)

Create a Non-Alias Record in Route 53 with a Multivalue Answer Routing configuration and add all the IP addresses for your web servers. (CORRECT)

Set up a NAT instance in your VPC. Update your route table by creating a default route via the NAT instance with all subnets associated with it. Configure a DNS A Record in Route 53 pointing to the NAT instance’s public IP address.

Launch a load balancer in front of all the web servers then create a Non-Alias Record in Route 53 which maps to the DNS name of the load balancer.

Create a CloudFront distribution whose origin points to the private IP addresses of your web servers. Also set up a CNAME record in Route 53 mapped to your CloudFront distribution.

Place an Application Load Balancer in front of all the web servers. Create a new Alias Record in Route 53 which maps to the DNS name of the load balancer. (CORRECT)

[Nikee-TutorialsDojo]

Hi mddreeves,

Thanks for pointing this out. In the question you shared, it asks:

“Which of the following actions should the solutions architect implement to improve the availability and load balancing of this cloud architecture? (Select TWO.)”

This type of question asks you to pick two actions a Solutions Architect could take to improve the system. These actions do not have to work together — they are separate, valid improvements that each help meet the same goal (in this case, better availability and load balancing).

So even though the two correct answers are independent solutions, they are both considered valid actions, and the question is simply asking you to choose the two that best match the objective.

So, in short, the question you gave is actually written correctly. It’s asking for two valid things the architect could do, and both answers just happen to be good solutions individually.

I hope that clears it up. Thanks again!

Best,
Nikee @ Tutorials Dojo