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SOA-C02 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

An organization is running multiple applications for their customers. Each application is deployed by running a base AWS CloudFormation template that configures a new VPC. All applications are run in the same AWS account and AWS Region. A SysOps administrator has noticed that when trying to deploy the same AWS

CloudFormation stack, it fails to deploy.

What is likely to be the problem?

Options:

A.

The Amazon Machine image used is not available in that region.

B.

The AWS CloudFormation template needs to be updated to the latest version.

C.

The VPC configuration parameters have changed and must be updated in the template.

D.

The account has reached the default limit for VPCs allowed.

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Questions 5

A company hosts a web portal on Amazon EC2 instances. The web portal uses an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Amazon Route 53 for its public DNS service. The ELB and the EC2 instances are deployed by way of a single AWS CloudFormation stack in the us-east-1 Region. The web portal must be highly available across multiple Regions.

Which configuration will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Deploy a copy of the stack in the us-west-2 Region. Create a single start of authority (SOA) record in Route 53 that includes the IP address from each ELB. Configure the SOA record with health checks. Use the ELB in us-east-1 as the primary record and the ELB in us-west-2 as the secondary record.

B.

Deploy a copy of the stack in the us-west-2 Region. Create an additional A record in Route 53 that includes the ELB in us-west-2 as an alias target. Configure the A records with a failover routing policy and health checks. Use the ELB in us-east-1 as the primary record and the ELB in us-west-2 as the secondary record.

C.

Deploy a new group of EC2 instances in the us-west-2 Region. Associate the new EC2 instances with the existing ELB, and configure load balancer health checks on all EC2 instances. Configure the ELB to update Route 53 when EC2 instances in us-west-2 fail health checks.

D.

Deploy a new group of EC2 instances in the us-west-2 Region. Configure EC2 health checks on all EC2 instances in each Region. Configure a peering connection between the VPCs. Use the VPC in us-east-1 as the primary record and the VPC in us-west-2 as the secondary record.

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Questions 6

A SysOps administrator has enabled AWS CloudTrail in an AWS account If CloudTrail is disabled it must be re-enabled immediately What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements WITHOUT writing custom code''

Options:

A.

Add the AWS account to AWS Organizations Enable CloudTrail in the management account

B.

Create an AWS Config rule that is invoked when CloudTrail configuration changes Apply the AWS-ConfigureCloudTrailLogging automatic remediation action

C.

Create an AWS Config rule that is invoked when CloudTrail configuration changes Configure the rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function to enable CloudTrail

D.

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) hourly rule with a schedule pattern to run an AWS Systems Manager Automation document to enable CloudTrail

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Questions 7

A company stores sensitive data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must log all access attempts to the S3 bucket. The company's risk team must receive immediate notification about any delete events.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Enable S3 server access logging for audit logs. Set up an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNSJ notification for the S3 bucket. Select DeleteObject tor the event type for the alert system.

B.

Enable S3 server access logging for audit logs. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance for the alert system. Run a cron job on the EC2 instance to download the access logs each day and to scan for a DeleteObject event.

C.

Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs for audit logs. Use Amazon CloudWatch alarms with an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification for the alert system.

D.

Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs for audit logs. Launch an Amazon EC2 instance for The alert system. Run a cron job on the EC2 Instance each day to compare the list of the items with the list from the previous day. Configure the cron job to send a notification if an item is missing.

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Questions 8

A company has an initiative to reduce costs associated with Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda. Which action should a SysOps administrator take to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Analyze the AWS Cost and Usage Report by using Amazon Athena to identity cost savings.

B.

Create an AWS Budgets alert to alarm when account spend reaches 80% of the budget.

C.

Purchase Reserved Instances through the Amazon EC2 console.

D.

Use AWS Compute Optimizer and take action on the provided recommendations.

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Questions 9

A company runs several workloads on AWS. The company identifies five AWS Trusted Advisor service quota metrics to monitor in a specific AWS Region. The company wants to receive email notification each time resource usage exceeds 60% of one of the service quotas.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Create five Amazon CloudWatch alarms, one for each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for email notification each time that usage exceeds 60% of one of the service quotas.

B.

Create five Amazon CloudWatch alarms, one for each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for email notification each time that usage exceeds 60% of one of the service quotas.

C.

Use the AWS Service Health Dashboard to monitor each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Configure an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue for email notification each time that usage exceeds 60% of one of the service quotas.

D.

Use the AWS Service Health Dashboard to monitor each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for email notification each time that usage exceeds 60% of one of the service quotas.

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Questions 10

A company has an application that customers use to search for records on a website. The application's data is stored in an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The application's usage varies by season and by day of the week.

The website's popularity is increasing, and the website is experiencing slower performance because of increased load on the DB cluster during periods of peak activity. The application logs show that the performance issues occur when users are searching for information. The same search is rarely performed multiple times.

A SysOps administrator must improve the performance of the platform by using a solution that maximizes resource efficiency.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Deploy an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster in front of the DB cluster. Modify the application to check the cache before the application issues new queries to the database. Add the results of any queries to the cache.

B.

Deploy an Aurora Replica for the DB cluster. Modify the application to use the reader endpoint for search operations. Use Aurora Auto Scaling to scale the number of replicas based on load. Most Voted

C.

Use Provisioned IOPS on the storage volumes that support the DB cluster to improve performance sufficiently to support the peak load on the application.

D.

Increase the instance size in the DB cluster to a size that is sufficient to support the peak load on the application. Use Aurora Auto Scaling to scale the instance size based on load.

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Questions 11

A company updates its security policy to clarify cloud hosting arrangements for regulated workloads. Workloads that are identified as sensitive must run on hardware that is not shared with other customers or with other AWS accounts within the company.

Which solution will ensure compliance with this policy?

Options:

A.

Deploy workloads only to Dedicated Hosts.

B.

Deploy workloads only to Dedicated Instances.

C.

Deploy workloads only to Reserved Instances.

D.

Place all instances in a dedicated placement group.

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Questions 12

A global company handles a large amount of personally identifiable information (Pll) through an internal web portal. The company's application runs in a corporate data center that is connected to AWS through an AWS Direct Connect connection. The application stores the Pll in Amazon S3. According to a compliance requirement, traffic from the web portal to Amazon S3 must not travel across the internet.

What should a SysOps administrator do to meet the compliance requirement?

Options:

A.

Provision an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon S3. Modify the application to use the interface endpoint.

B.

Configure AWS Network Firewall to redirect traffic to the internal S3 address.

C.

Modify the application to use the S3 path-style endpoint.

D.

Set up a range of VPC network ACLs to redirect traffic to the Internal S3 address.

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Questions 13

A company needs to implement a managed file system to host Windows file shares for users on premises. Resources in the AWS Cloud also need access to the data on these file shares. A SysOps administrator needs to present the user file shares on premises and make the user file shares available on AWS with minimum latency.

What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements?

Options:

A.

Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway.

B.

Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection.

C.

Use AWS DataSync to automate data transfers between the existing file servers and AWS.

D.

Set up an Amazon FSx File Gateway.

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Questions 14

A database is running on an Amazon RDS Mufti-AZ DB instance. A recent security audit found the database to be out of compliance because it was not encrypted. Which approach will resolve the encryption requirement?

Options:

A.

Log in to the RDS console and select the encryption box to encrypt the database

B.

Create a new encrypted Amazon EBS volume and attach it to the instance

C.

Encrypt the standby replica in the secondary Availability Zone and promote it to the primary instance.

D.

Take a snapshot of the RDS instance, copy and encrypt the snapshot and then restore to the new RDS instance

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Questions 15

A Sysops administrator needs to configure automatic rotation for Amazon RDS database credentials. The credentials must rotate every 30 days. The solution must integrate with Amazon RDS.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options:

A.

Store the credentials in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as a secure string. Configure automatic rotation with a rotation interval of 30 days.

B.

Store the credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. Configure automatic rotation with a rotation interval of 30 days.

C.

Store the credentials in a file in an Amazon S3 bucket. Deploy an AWS Lambda function to automatically rotate the credentials every 30 days.

D.

Store the credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. Deploy an AWS Lambda function to automatically rotate the credentials every 30 days.

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Questions 16

A company is managing multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The company is reviewing internal security of its AWS environment. The company's security administrator has their own AWS account and wants to review the VPC configuration of developer AWS accounts.

Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure manner?

Options:

A.

Create an IAM policy in each developer account that has read-only access related to VPC resources Assign the policy to an IAM user. Share the user credentials with the security administrator.

B.

Create an IAM policy in each developer account that has administrator access to all Amazon EC2 actions, including VPC actions. Assign the policy to an IAM

user. Share the user credentials with the security administrator.

C.

Create an IAM policy in each developer account that has administrator access related to VPC resources. Assign the policy to a cross-account IAM role. Ask the security administrator to assume the role from their account.

D.

Create an IAM policy in each developer account that has read-only access related to VPC resources Assign the policy to a cross-account IAM role Ask the security administrator to assume the role from their account.

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Questions 17

A company has a critical serverless application that uses multiple AWS Lambda functions. Each Lambda function generates 1 GB of log data daily in tts own Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. The company's security team asks for a count of application errors, grouped by type, across all of the log groups.

What should a SysOps administrator do to meet this requirement?

Options:

A.

Perform a CloudWatch Logs Insights query that uses the stats command and count function.

B.

Perform a CloudWatch Logs search that uses the groupby keyword and count function.

C.

Perform an Amazon Athena query that uses the SELECT and GROUP BY keywords.

D.

Perform an Amazon RDS query that uses the SELECT and GROUP BY keywords.

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Questions 18

A company's SysOps administrator needs to change the AWS Support plan for one of the company's AWS accounts. The account has multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated, and the MFA device is lost.

What should the SysOps administrator do to sign in?

Options:

A.

Sign in as a root user by using email and phone verification. Set up a new MFA device. Change the root user password.

B.

Sign in as an 1AM user with administrator permissions. Resynchronize the MFA token by using the 1AM console.

C.

Sign in as an 1AM user with administrator permissions. Reset the MFA device for the root user by adding a new device.

D.

Use the forgot-password process to verify the email address. Set up a new password and MFA device.

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Questions 19

A company using AWS Organizations requires that no Amazon S3 buckets in its production accounts should ever be deleted.

What is the SIMPLEST approach the SysOps administrator can take to ensure S3 buckets in those accounts can never be deleted?

Options:

A.

Set up MFA Delete on all the S3 buckets to prevent the buckets from being deleted.

B.

Use service control policies to deny the s3:DeleteBucket action on all buckets in production accounts.

C.

Create an IAM group that has an IAM policy to deny the s3:DeleteBucket action on all buckets in production accounts.

D.

Use AWS Shield to deny the s3:DeleteBucket action on the AWS account instead of all S3 buckets.

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Questions 20

A company is partnering with an external vendor to provide data processing services. For this integration, the vendor must host the company's data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the vendor's AWS account. The vendor is allowing the company to provide an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key to encrypt the company's data. The vendor has provided an IAM role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to the company for this integration.

What should a SysOps administrator do to configure this integration?

Options:

A.

Create a new KMS key. Add the vendor's IAM role ARN to the KMS key policy. Provide the new KMS key ARN to the vendor.

B.

Create a new KMS key. Create a new IAM user. Add the vendor's IAM role ARN to an inline policy that is attached to the IAM user. Provide the new IAM user ARN to the vendor.

C.

Configure encryption using the KMS managed S3 key. Add the vendor's IAM role ARN to the KMS managed S3 key policy. Provide the KMS managed S3 key ARN to the vendor.

D.

Configure encryption using the KMS managed S3 key. Create an S3 bucket. Add the vendor's IAM role ARN to the S3 bucket policy. Provide the S3 bucket ARN to the vendor.

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Questions 21

If your AWS Management Console browser does not show that you are logged in to an AWS account, close the browser and relaunch the

console by using the AWS Management Console shortcut from the VM desktop.

If the copy-paste functionality is not working in your environment, refer to the instructions file on the VM desktop and use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V or Command-C , Command-V.

Configure Amazon EventBridge to meet the following requirements.

1. use the us-east-2 Region for all resources,

2. Unless specified below, use the default configuration settings.

3. Use your own resource naming unless a resource

name is specified below.

4. Ensure all Amazon EC2 events in the default event

bus are replayable for the past 90 days.

5. Create a rule named RunFunction to send the exact message every 1 5 minutes to an existing AWS Lambda function named LogEventFunction.

6. Create a rule named SpotWarning to send a notification to a new standard Amazon SNS topic named TopicEvents whenever an Amazon EC2

Spot Instance is interrupted. Do NOT create any topic subscriptions. The notification must match the following structure:

Input Path:

{“instance” : “$.detail.instance-id”}

Input template:

“ The EC2 Spot Instance has been on account.

Options:

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Questions 22

A webpage is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Configure the SS bucket to serve a static error page in the event of a failure at the primary site.

1. Use the us-east-2 Region for all resources.

2. Unless specified below, use the default configuration settings.

3. There is an existing hosted zone named lab-

751906329398-26023898.com that contains an A record with a simple routing policy that routes traffic to an existing ALB.

4. Configure the existing S3 bucket named lab-751906329398-26023898.com as a static hosted website using the object named index.html as the index document

5. For the index-html object, configure the S3 ACL to allow for public read access. Ensure public access to the S3 bucketjs allowed.

6. In Amazon Route 53, change the A record for domain lab-751906329398-26023898.com to a primary record for a failover routing policy. Configure the record so that it evaluates the health of the ALB to determine failover.

7. Create a new secondary failover alias record for the domain lab-751906329398-26023898.com that routes traffic to the existing 53 bucket.

Options:

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Questions 23

You need to update an existing AWS CloudFormation stack. If needed, a copy to the CloudFormation template is available in an Amazon SB bucket named cloudformation-bucket

1. Use the us-east-2 Region for all resources.

2. Unless specified below, use the default configuration settings.

3. update the Amazon EQ instance named Devinstance by making the following changes to the stack named 1700182:

a) Change the EC2 instance type to us-east-t2.nano.

b) Allow SSH to connect to the EC2 instance from the IP address range

192.168.100.0/30.

c) Replace the instance profile IAM role with IamRoleB.

4. Deploy the changes by updating the stack using the CFServiceR01e role.

5. Edit the stack options to prevent accidental deletion.

6. Using the output from the stack, enter the value of the Prodlnstanceld in the text box below:

See the Explanation for solution.

Options:

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Exam Code: SOA-C02
Exam Name: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)
Last Update: Apr 23, 2024
Questions: 305
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