SOA-C02 Exam Questions

A company has an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket that is hosted in the ap-southeast-2 Region. Users from the eu-west-2 Region access the S3 bucket over the internet. The users from eu-...

A company has a large on-premises tape backup solution. The company has started to use AWS Storage Gateway. The company created a Tape Gateway to replace the existing on-premises h...

A SysOps administrator manages a company's Amazon S3 buckets. The SysOps administrator has identified 5 GB of incomplete multipart uploads in an S3 bucket in the company's AWS acco...

A SysOps administrator manages policies for many AWS member accounts in an AWS Organizations structure. Administrators on other teams have access to the account root user credentia...

A company has users that deploy Amazon EC2 instances that have more disk performance capacity than is required. A SysOps administrator needs to review all Amazon Elastic Block Stor...

A SysOps administrator has many Windows Amazon EC2 instances that need to share a file system between nodes. The SysOps administrator creates an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon...

A company has a multi-account environment. Account A has a production application that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application needs to query data in an Amazon DynamoD...

A company has implemented a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon ECS) to host a microservices-based application. The company expects application traffic...

A company deploys a new application to Amazon EC2 instances. The application code is stored in an AWS CodeCommit repository. The company uses an AWS CodePipeline pipeline to deploy...

A SysOps administrator configured VPC flow logs by using the default format. The SysOps administrator specified Amazon CloudWatch Logs as the destination. This solution has worked...

A SysOps administrator notices that the cache hit ratio for an Amazon CloudFront distribution is less than 10%. The SysOps administrator needs to increase the cache hit ratio for t...

A custom application must be installed on all Amazon EC2 instances. The application is small, updated frequently, and can be installed automatically. How can the application be dep...

A SysOps administrator wants to securely share an object from a private Amazon S3 bucket with a group of users who do not have an AWS account. What is the MOST operationally effici...

A company is running an ecommerce application on AWS. The application maintains many open but idle connections to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. During times of peak usage, the datab...

A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting a VPC with public and private subnets that leverage custom network ACLs. Instances in the private subnet are unable to access the internet...

A company stores its internal data within an Amazon S3 bucket. All existing data within the S3 bucket is protected by using server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption...

A company has a high performance computing (HPC) application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires minimum latency and maximum network throughput between node...

A company has a stateless application that is hosted on a fleet of 10 Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances in an Auto Scaling group. A minimum of 6 instances are needed to meet service r...

A company has developed a service that is deployed on a fleet of Linux-based Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The service occasionally fails unexpectedly bec...

A company's web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The infrastructure must be designed so the application remains available with no performance degrad...

A company needs to monitor the disk utilization of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The EBS volumes are attached to Amazon EC2 Linux instances. A SysOps administrat...

An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on a shopping website. The cache eviction policy is randomly evic...

A company deployed a new web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group. Users report th...

A company has scientists who upload large data objects to an Amazon S3 bucket. The scientists upload the objects as multipart uploads. The multipart uploads often fail because of p...

A company stores data in Amazon S3 buckets that are provisioned in three separate AWS Regions. The data is copied from the S3 buckets to the data center over the public internet us...

A company has an Amazon EC2 instance that supports a production system. The EC2 instance is backed by an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The EBS volume's drive has...

A company has several member accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company recently discovered that administrators have been using account root user creden...

A company is transitioning away from applications that are hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to implement a serverless architecture that uses Amazon S3, Amazon API...

A company uses Amazon CloudFront to serve static content to end users. The company's marketing team recently deployed updates to 150 images on the company's website. However, the w...

A SysOps administrator is responsible for a company's disaster recovery procedures. The company has a source Amazon S3 bucket in a production account, and it wants to replicate obj...

A company is running Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB clusters. The company uses an AWS CloudFormation template to create the databases individually with a default size of 100...

A SysOps administrator wants to share a copy of a production database with a migration account. The production database is hosted on an Amazon RDS DB instance and is encrypted at r...

A company hosts a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment on AWS. The CI/CD environment includes a Jenkins server that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instanc...

A company is running an application on a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The EC2 instances run across three Availability Zones. The company needs...

A SysOps administrator receives an alert that a production Auto Scaling group has been scaled down to two Amazon EC2 instances. The Auto Scaling group was originally configured wit...

A company wants to store sensitive financial data within Amazon S3 buckets. The company has a corporate policy that does not allow public read or write access to the buckets. A Sys...

A SysOps administrator must create an IAM policy for a developer who needs access to specific AWS services. Based on the requirements, the SysOps administrator creates the followin...

A SysOps administrator is re-architecting an application. The SysOps administrator has moved the database from a public subnet, where the database used a public endpoint, into a pr...

Users are reporting consistent forced logouts from a stateful web application. The logouts occur before the expiration of a 15-minute application logout timer. The web application...

A company's social media application has strict data residency requirements. The company wants to use Amazon Route 53 to provide the application with DNS services. A SysOps adminis...

A company has a cluster of Linux Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that read many files from and write many files to attached Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The EC2 insta...

A company observes that a newly created Amazon CloudWatch alarm is not transitioning out of the INSUFFICIENT_DATA state. The alarm was created to track the mem_used_percent metric...

A company is uploading important files as objects to Amazon S3. The company needs to be informed if an object is corrupted during the upload. What should a SysOps administrator do...

A SysOps administrator needs to create a report that shows how many bytes are sent to and received from each target group member for an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Which combi...

A company runs thousands of Amazon EC2 instances that are based on the Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to record command...

A company that uses AWS Organizations recently implemented AWS Control Tower The company now needs to centralize identity management. A SysOps administrator must federate AWS AM Id...

A company recently moved its server infrastructure to Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to track the instance logs. What should a SysOps adminis...

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy its infrastructure. The company recently retired an application. A cloud operations engineer initiates CloudFormation stack deletion, an...

A company needs to track spending in its AWS account. The company must receive a notification when current costs and forecasted costs exceed specific thresholds. Which solution wil...

A company uses a multi-account structure in the AWS Cloud. The company's environment includes a shared account for common resources. The environment also includes a development acc...