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SOA-C02 · Question #109

A SysOps administrator receives notification that an application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances has failed to authenticate to an Amazon RDS database. To troubleshoot, the SysOps…

The correct answer is B. EC2 instance application logs. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Submitted by deeparc· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Question

A SysOps administrator receives notification that an application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances has failed to authenticate to an Amazon RDS database. To troubleshoot, the SysOps administrator needs to investigate AWS Secrets Manager password rotation. Which Amazon CloudWatch log will provide insight into the password rotation?

Options

  • AAWS CloudTrail logs
  • BEC2 instance application logs
  • CAWS Lambda function logs
  • DRDS database logs

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  • A
    10% (5)
  • B
    85% (44)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Topics

#AWS Secrets Manager#CloudWatch Logs#Troubleshooting#Database Authentication

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