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Amazon Web Services SOA-C01 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Exam Practice Test

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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Questions and Answers

Question 1

A sysops administrator is creating two AWS Cloud Formation templates The first template will create a VPC with associated resources, such as subnets, route tables, and an internet gateway The second template will deploy application resources within the VPC that was created by the first template The second template should refer to the resources created by the first template

How can this be accomplished with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?

Options:

A.

Add an export field to the outputs of the first template and import the values in the second template

B.

Create a custom resource that queries the stack created by the first template and retrieves the required values.

C.

Create a mapping in the first template that is referenced by the second template

D.

Input the names of resources in the first template and refer to those names in the second template as a parameter

Question 2

A company’s Auditor implemented a compliance requirement that all Amazon S3 buckets must have logging enabled.

How should the SysOps Administrator ensure this compliance requirement is met, while still permitting Developers to create and use new S3 buckets?

Options:

A.

Add AWS CloudTrail logging for the S3 buckets.

B.

Implement IAM policies to allow only the Storage team to create S3 buckets.

C.

Add the AWS Config managed rule S3_BUCKET_LOGGING_ENABLED.

D.

Create an AWS Lambda function to delete the S3 buckets if logging is not turned on.

Question 3

A SysOps Administrator must set up notifications for whenever combined billing exceeds a certain threshold for all AWS accounts within a company. The Administrator has set up AWS Organizations and enabled Consolidated Billing.

Which additional steps must the Administrator perform to set up the billing alerts?

Options:

A.

In the payer account: Enable billing alerts in the Billing and Cost Management console; publish an Amazon SNS message when the billing alert triggers.

B.

In each account: Enable billing alerts in the Billing and Cost Management console; set up a billing alarm in Amazon CloudWatch; publish an SNS message when the alarm triggers.

C.

In the payer account: Enable billing alerts in the Billing and Cost Management console; set up a billing alarm in the Billing and Cost Management console to publish an SNS message when the alarm triggers.

D.

In the payer account: Enable billing alerts in the Billing and Cost Management console; set up a billing alarm in Amazon CloudWatch; publish an SNS message when the alarm triggers.

Question 4

A SysOps Administrator is notified that an automated failover of an Amazon RDS database has occurred.

What are possible causes for this? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

A read contention on the database.

B.

A storage failure on the primary database.

C.

A write contention on the database.

D.

Database corruption errors.

E.

The database instance type was changed.

Question 5

A SysOps administrator created an AWS service catalog portfolio and shared the portfolio with a second AWS account in the company. The second account is controlled by a different administrator.

Which action will the administrator of the second account be able to perform?

Options:

A.

Add a product from the imported portfolio to a local portfolio.

B.

Add new product to the imported portfolio.

C.

Change the launch role for the products contained in the imported portfolio.

D.

Remove Products from the imported portfolio.

Question 6

The Security team has decided that there will be no public internet access to HTTP (TCP port 80) because if it is moving to HTTPS for all incoming web traffic. The team has asked a SysOps Administrator to provide a report on any security groups that are not compliant.

What should the SysOps Administrator do to provide near real-time compliance reporting?

Options:

A.

Enable AWS Trusted Advisor and show the Security team that the Security Groups unrestricted access check will alarm.

B.

Schedule an AWS Lambda function to run hourly to scan and evaluate all security groups, and send a report to the Security team.

C.

Use AWS Config to enable the restricted-common-ports rule, and add port 80 to the parameters.

D.

Use Amazon Inspector to evaluate the security groups during scans, and send the completed reports to the Security team.

Question 7

A sysops administrator has an AWS Lambda function that performs maintenance on various AWS resources. This function must be run nightly. Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Options:

A.

Launch a single t2.nano Amazon EC2 instance and create a Linux cron job to invoke the Lambda function at the same time every night.

B.

Set up an Amazon CloudWatch metrics alarm to invoke the Lambda function at the same time every night.

C.

Schedule a CloudWatch event to invoke the Lambda function at the same time every night.

D.

Implement a Chef recipe in AWS OpsWorks stack to invoke the Lambda function at the same time every night.

Question 8

A company is migrating its exchange server from its on-premises location to a VPC in the AWS Cloud Users working from home connect using a secure encrypted channel over the internet to the exchange server However, after the migration to AWS. users are having trouble receiving email.

The VPC flow log records display the following.

Options:

A.

SMTP traffic from the network interface was blocked by an outbound network ACL

B.

SMTP traffic from the network interface was blocked by an outbound security group

C.

SMTP traffic to the network interface was blocked by an inbound network ACL

D.

SMTP traffic to the network interface was blocked by an inbound security group

Question 9

A gaming application is deployed on four Amazon EC2 instances in a default VPC. The SysOps Administrator has noticed consistently high latency in responses as data is transferred among the four instances. There is no way for the Administrator to alter the application code.

The MOST effective way to reduce latency is to relaunch the EC2 instances in:

Options:

A.

a dedicated VPC.

B.

a single subnet inside the VPC.

C.

a placement group.

D.

a single Availability Zone.

Question 10

A serverless application running on AWS Lambda is expected to receive a significant increase in traffic. A SysOps Administrator needs to ensure that the Lambda function is configured to scale so the application can process the increased traffic.

What should the Administrator do to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Attach additional elastic network interfaces to the Lambda function

B.

Configure AWS Application Auto Scaling based on the Amazon CloudWatch Lambda metric for the number of invocations

C.

Ensure the concurrency limit for the Lambda function is higher than the expected simultaneous function executions

D.

Increase the memory available to the Lambda function

Question 11

A SysOps Administrator has implemented an Auto Scaling group with a step scaling policy. The

Administrator notices that the additional instances have not been included in the aggregated metrics.

Why are the additional instances missing from the aggregated metrics?

Options:

A.

The warm-up period has not expired

B.

The instances are still in the boot process

C.

The instances have not been attached to the Auto Scaling group

D.

The instances are included in a different set of metrics

Question 12

Security has identified an IP address that should be explicity denied for both ingress and egress requests for all services in an Amazon VPC immediately.

Which feature can be used to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Host-based firewalls

B.

NAT Gateway

C.

Network access control lists

D.

Security Groups

Question 13

An application is running on Amazon EC2 Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). An operations team wants to be notified in near-teal time when the ALB has issues connecting to backend EC2 instances.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

Options:

A.

Configure the ALB to send logs to Amazon S3. Write an AWS Lambda function to process the log files and send an email message to the operations team when the number of requests exceeds the threshold.

B.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch rule to monitor the HealthyHostCount metric and send Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) messages to the operations team when HealthyHostCount is equal to zero.

C.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch rule lo monitor the TargetConnectionErrorCount metric and send Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) messages to the operations team when TargetConnectionErrorCount is greater than 1.

D.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch rule to monitor the HTTPCode_Target_5XX_Count metric and send Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) messages to the operations team when HTTPCode_Target_5XX_Count is greater than zero.

Question 14

An application team has asked a sysops administrator to provision an additional environment for an application in four additional regions. The application is running on more than 100 instances in us-east-1, using fully baked AMIs, An AWS CloudFormation template has been created to deploy resources in us-east-1.

What must the sysops administrator do to provision the application quickly?

Options:

A.

Copy the AMI to each region using aws ec2 copy-image Update the CloudFormation mapping include mappings for the copy AMIs.

B.

Creating a snapshot of the running instance and copy the snapshot to the other regions. Create an AMI from the snapshots. Update the CloudFormation template for each region to use the new AMI.

C.

Run the existing CloudFormation template in each additional region based on the success of the template used currently in us-east-1.

D.

Update the CloudFormation template to include the additional regions in the auto scaling group. Update the existing stack in us-east-1.

Question 15

Company issued SSL certificates to its users, and needs to ensure the private keys that are used to sign the certificates are encrypted. The company needs to be able to store the private and perform cryptographic signing operations in a secure environment.

Which service should be used to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

AWS CloudHSM

B.

AWS KMS

C.

AWS Certificate Manager

D.

Amazon Connect

Question 16

An ecommerce site is using Amazon ElastiCache with Memcached to store session state for a web application and to cache frequently used data. For the last month, users have been complaining about performance. The metric data for the Amazon EC2 instances and the Amazon RDS instance appear normal, but the eviction count metrics are high.

What should be done to address this issue and improve performance?

Options:

A.

Scale the cluster by adding additional nodes

B.

Scale the cluster by adding read replicas

C.

Scale the cluster by increasing CPU capacity

D.

Scale the web layer by adding additional EC2 instances

Question 17

A company has adopted a security policy that requires all customer data to be encrypted at rest. Currently, customer data is stored on a central Amazon EFS file system and accessed by a number of different applications from Amazon EC2 instances.

How can the SysOps Administrator ensure that all customer data stored on the EFS file system meets the new requirement?

Options:

A.

Update the EFS file system settings to enable server-side encryption using AES-256.

B.

Create a new encrypted EFS file system and copy the data from the unencrypted EFS file system to the new encrypted EFS file system.

C.

Use AWS CloudHSM to encrypt the files directly before storing them in the EFS file system.

D.

Modify the EFS file system mount options to enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) on each of the EC2 instances.

Question 18

A SysOps Administrator is responsible for a large fleet of EC2 instances and must know whether any

instances will be affected by upcoming hardware maintenance.

Which option would provide this information with the LEAST administrative overhead?

Options:

A.

Monitor AWS CloudTrail for StopInstances API calls related to upcoming maintenance.

B.

Review the Personal Health Dashboard for any scheduled maintenance.

C.

From the AWS Management Console, list any instances with failed system status checks.

D.

Deploy a third-party monitoring solution to provide real-time EC2 instance monitoring.

Question 19

A SysOps Administrator must find a way to set up alerts when Amazon EC2 service limits are close to being reached.

How can the Administrator achieve this requirement?

Options:

A.

Use Amazon Inspector and Amazon CloudWatch Events.

B.

Use AWS Trusted Advisor and Amazon CloudWatch Events.

C.

Use the Personal Health Dashboard and CloudWatch Events.

D.

Use AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch Events.

Question 20

A SysOps Administrator needs to retrieve a file from the GLACIER storage class of Amazon S3. the Administrator wants to receive an amazon SNS notification when the file is available for access.

What action should be taken to accomplish this?

Options:

A.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch Events for file restoration from Amazon S3 Glacier using the GlacierJobDescrbption API and send the event to an SNS topic the administrator has subscribed to.

B.

Create an AWS Lambda function that perform a HEAD request on the object being restored and checks the storage class of the object. Then send a notification to an SNS topic the administrator has subscribed to when the storage class changes to STANDARD.

C.

Enable an Amazon S3 event notification for the s3: ObjectCreated : Post event that a sends notification to an SNS topic the administrator has subscribed.

D.

Enable S3 event notification for the S3: ObjectRestore: Completed event that sends a notification to an SNS topic the Administrator has subscribed to.

Question 21

A company is storing monthly reports on Amazon S3. The company’s security requirement states that traffic from the client VPC to Amazon S3 cannot traverse the internet.

What should the SysOps Administrator do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Use AWS Direct Connect and a public virtual interface to connect to Amazon S3.

B.

Use a managed NAT gateway to connect to Amazon S3.

C.

Deploy a VPC endpoint to connect to Amazon S3.

D.

Deploy an internet gateway to connect to Amazon S3.

Question 22

A company wants to increase the availability and durability of a critical business application. The application currently uses a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance. The company wants to minimize application changes.

How should the company meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Shut down the EC2 instance. Enable multi-AZ replication within the EC2 instance, then restart the instance.

B.

Launch a secondary EC2 instance running MySQL. Configure a cron job that backs up the database on the primary EC2 instance and copies it to the secondary instance every 30 minutes.

C.

Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS Aurora DB instance and create a Read Replica in another Availability Zone.

D.

Create an Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL DB instance and enable multi-AZ replication. Back up the existing data and import it into the new database.

Question 23

A web application accepts orders from online users and places the orders into an Amazon SQS queue. Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group read the messages from the queue, process the orders, and email order confirmations to the users. The Auto Scaling group scales up and down based on the queue depth. At the beginning of each business day, users report confirmation emails are delayed.

What action will address this issue?

Options:

A.

Create a scheduled scaling action to scale up in anticipation of the traffic.

B.

Change the Auto Scaling group to scale up and down based on CPU utilization.

C.

Change the launch configuration to launch larger EC2 instance types.

D.

Modify the scaling policy to deploy more EC2 instances when scaling up.

Question 24

A SysOps Administrator is notified that an Amazon EC2 instance has stopped responding The AWS Management Console indicates that the system status checks are failing What should the SysOps Administrator do first to resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

Reboot the EC2 instance so it can be launched on a new host

B.

Stop and then start the EC2 instance so that it can be launched on a new host

C.

Terminate the EC2 instance and relaunch it.

D.

View the AWS CloudTrail log to investigate what changed on the EC2 instance

Question 25

A company developed and now runs a memory-intensive application on multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The memory utilization metrics of the EC2 Linux instances must be monitored every minute.

How should the SysOps Administrator publish the memory metrics? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Enable detailed monitoring on the instance within Amazon CloudWatch

B.

Publish the memory metrics to Amazon CloudWatch Events

C.

Publish the memory metrics using the Amazon CloudWatch agent

D.

Publish the memory metrics using Amazon CloudWatch Logs

E.

Set metrics_collection_interval to 60 seconds

Question 26

A sysops administrator must monitor a fleet of Amazon EC2 Linux instances with the constraint that no agents be installed. The sysops administrator chooses Amazon CloudWatch as the monitoring tool.

Which metric can be measured given the constraints? (Select Three)

Options:

A.

CPU Utilization

B.

Disk Read Operations

C.

Memory Utilization

D.

Network Packets In

E.

Network Packets Dropped

F.

CPU Ready Time

Question 27

A SysOps administrator must deploy a company's infrastructure as code (laC) The administrator needs to write a single template that can be reused for multiple environments in a safe, repeatable manner

How should the administrator meet this requirement by using AWS Cloud Formation?

Options:

A.

Use duplicate resource definitions for each environment selected based on conditions

B.

Use nested stacks to provision the resources

C.

Use parameter references and mappings for resource attributes

D.

Use AWS Cloud Formation StackSets to provision the resources

Question 28

A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability tor an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server and a secondary passive server. Route 53 should route traffic to the primary server if the associated health check returns 2xx or 3xx HTTP codes. AH other traffic should be directed to the secondary passive server. The failover record type, set ID, and routing policy have been set appropriately for both primary and secondary servers.

Which next step should be taken to configure Route 53?

Options:

A.

Create an A record for each server. Associate the records with the Route 53 HTTP health check.

B.

Create an A record for each server. Associate the records with the Route 53 TCP health check.

C.

Create an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the records with the Route 53 HTTP health check.

D.

Create an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the records with the Route 53 TCP health check.

Question 29

A SysOps Administrator created an Application Load balancer (ALB) and placed two Amazon EC2 instances in the same subnet behind the ALB. During monitoring, the Administrator observes HealthyHostCount drop to 1 in Amazon CloudWatch.

What is MOST likely causing this issue?

Options:

A.

The EC2 instances are in the same Availability Zone, causing contention between the two.

B.

The route tables are not updated to allow traffic to flow between the ALB and the EC2 instances.

C.

The ALB health check has failed, and the ALB has taken EC2 instances out of service.

D.

The Amazon Route 53 health check has failed, and the ALB has taken EC2 instances out of service.

Question 30

A SysOps Administrator is responsible for managing a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. These EC2 instances upload build artifacts to a third-party service. The third-party service recently implemented stncl IP whitelisting that requires all build uploads to come from a single IP address.

What change should the Systems Administrator make to the existing build fleet to comply with this new requirement?

Options:

A.

Move all of the EC2 instances behind a NAT gateway and provide the gateway IP address to the service.

B.

Move all of the EC2 instances behind an internet gateway and provide the gateway IP address to the service.

C.

Move all of the EC2 instances into a single Availability Zone and provide the Availability Zone IP address to the service.

D.

Move all of the EC2 instances to a peered VPC and provide the VPC IP address to the service.

Question 31

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Information Security team wants to track application requests by the originating IP and the EC2 instance that processes the request.

Which of the following tools or services provides this information?

Options:

A.

Amazon CloudWatch

B.

AWS CloudTrail

C.

Elastic Load Balancing access logs

D.

VPC Flow Logs

Question 32

A user accidentally deleted a file from an Amazon EBS volume. The SysOps Administrator identified a recent snapshot for the volume.

What should the Administrator do to restore the user's file from the snapshot?

Options:

A.

Attach the snapshot to a new Amazon EC2 instance in the same Availability Zone, and copy the deleted file.

B.

Browse to the snapshot and copy the file to the EBS volume within an Amazon EC2 instance.

C.

Create a volume from the snapshot, attach the volume to an Amazon EC2 instance, and copy the deleted file.

D.

Restore the file from the snapshot onto an EC2 instance using the Amazon EC2 console.

Question 33

An application running on Amazon EC2 allows users to launch batch jobs for data analysis. The jobs are run asynchronously, and the user is notified when they are complete. While multiple jobs can run concurrently, a user’s request need not be fulfilled for up to 24 hours. To run a job, the application launches an additional EC2 instance that performs all the analytics calculations. A job takes between 75 and 110 minutes to complete and cannot be interrupted.

What is the MOST cost-effective way to run this workload?

Options:

A.

Run the application on On-Demand EC2 instances. Run the jobs on Spot Instances with a specified duration.

B.

Run the application on Reserved Instance EC2 instances. Run the jobs on AWS Lambda.

C.

Run the application on On-Demand EC2 instances. Run the jobs on On-Demand EC2 instances.

D.

Run the application on Reserved instance EC2 instances. Run the jobs on Spot Instances with a specified duration.

Question 34

A Systems Administrator is responsible for maintaining custom, approved AMIs for a company. These AMIs must be shared with each of the company’s AWS accounts.

How can the Administrator address this issue?

Options:

A.

Contact AWS Support for sharing AMIs with other AWS accounts.

B.

Modify the permissions on the AMIs so that they are publicly accessible.

C.

Modify the permissions on the IAM role that are associated with the AMI.

D.

Share the AMIs with each AWS account using the console or CLI.

Question 35

A security researcher has published a new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) report that impacts a popular operating system A SysOps Administrator is concerned with the new CVE report and wants to patch the company's systems immediately The Administrator contacts AWS Support and requests the patch be applied to all Amazon EC2 instances

How will AWS respond to this request?

Options:

A.

AWS will apply the patch during the next maintenance window and will provide the Administrator with a report of all patched EC2 instances

B.

AWS will relaunch the EC2 instances with the latest version of the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and will provide the Administrator with a report of all patched EC2 instances

C.

AWS will research the vulnerability to see if the Administrator's operating system is impacted and will patch the EC2 instances that are affected

D.

AWS will review the shared responsibility model with the Administrator and advise them regarding how to patch the EC2 instances

Question 36

A company has deployed its infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation Recently the company made manual changes to the infrastructure. A SysOps Administrator is tasked with determining what was changed and updating the CloudFormation template

Which solution will ensure all the changes are captured?

Options:

A.

Create a new CloudFormation stack based on the changes that were made Delete the old stack and deploy the new stack

B.

Update the CloudFormation stack using a change set Review the changes and update the stack

C.

Update the CloudFormation stack by modifying the selected parameters in the template to match what was changed

D.

Use drift detection on the CloudFormation stack Use the output to update the CloudFormation template and redeploy the stack

Question 37

A company has an application running on a fleet of Microsoft Windows instances. Patches to the operating system need to be applied each month. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager is used to apply the patches on a schedule.

When the fleet is being patched, customers complain about delayed service responses.

What can be done to ensure patches are deployed with MINIMAL customer impact?

Options:

A.

Change the number of instances patched at any one time to 100%.

B.

Create a snapshot of each server in the fleet using a Systems Manager Automation document before starting the patch process.

C.

Configure the maintenance window to patch 10% of the instance in the patch group at a time.

D.

Create a patched Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Configure the maintenance window option to deploy the patched AMI on only 10% of the fleet at a time.

Question 38

A company has a web application that is experiencing performance problems many times each night. A root cause analysis reveals spikes in CPU utilization that last 5 minutes on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. A SysOps administrator is tasked with finding the process ID (PID) of the service or process that is consuming more CPU.

How can the administrator accomplish this with the LEAST amount of effort?

Options:

A.

Configure an AWS Lambda function in Python 3.7 to run every minute to capture the PID and send a notification.

B.

Configure the procstat plugin to collect and send CPU metrics for the running processes.

C.

Log in to the EC2 Linux instance using a .pern key each night and then run the top command

D.

Use the default Amazon CloudWatch CPU utilization metric to capture the PID in the CloudWatch dashboard.

Question 39

A development team recently deployed new version of a web application to production. After the release, penetration testing revealed a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could expose user data.

Which AWS service will mitigate this issue?

Options:

A.

AWS Shield Standard

B.

AWS WAF

C.

Elastic Load balancing

D.

Amazon Cognito

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