SOA-C02 Exam Questions

A company's SysOps administrator is troubleshooting communication between the components of an application. The company configured VPC flow logs to be published to Amazon CloudWatc...

A company deploys a new application on three Amazon EC2 instances across three Availability Zones. The company uses a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to route traffic to the EC2 instan...

A company needs to enforce tagging requirements for Amazon DynamoDB tables in its AWS accounts. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to identify and remediate all Dynam...

A company is preparing for a marketing campaign that will increase traffic to a new web application. The application uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda for the application logi...

A company is using Amazon S3 to set up a temporary static website that is public. A SysOps administrator creates an S3 bucket by using the default settings. The SysOps administrato...

A company has internal hybrid applications that have resources in the AWS Cloud and on premises. Users report that the applications sometimes are not available. The company has con...

A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting an AWS CloudFormation stack creation that failed. Before the SysOps administrator can identify the problem, the stack and its resources ar...

A company needs to implement a solution to install specific software on Amazon EC2 instances when the instances launch. Which solution will meet this requirement?

A company has an application that uses Amazon DynamoDB tables. The tables are spread across AWS accounts and AWS Regions. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy AWS resource...

A company has created an AWS CloudFormation template that consists of the AWS::EC2::Instance resource and a custom CloudFormation resource. The custom CloudFormation resource is an...

A SysOps administrator needs to ensure that an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance has available backups. The DB instance has automated backups turned on with a backup retention...

A company has a list of pre-approved Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for developers to use to launch Amazon EC2 instances. However, developers are still launching EC2 instances from u...

Users of a company's internal web application recently experienced application performance issues for a brief period. The application includes frontend web servers that run in an A...

A company is using AWS to deploy a critical application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The company is rewriting the application because the application failed a security revie...

A company receives an alert from an Amazon CloudWatch alarm. The alarm indicates that a web application that is running on Amazon EC2 instances is not responding to requests. The E...

A company is using an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor the FreeLocalStorage metric for an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL production database. The alarm goes into ALARM state and indica...

A company is running a development application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application uploads 500,000 files that are 1 GB in size into a target Amazon S3 bucket that has defaul...

A company is using an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to support a workload. A SysOps administrator finds that the Auto Scaling group is configured with two similar scaling policies....

An application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes one Aurora Replica. The application's read performance degrades when there are more than 200 user connections. T...

A company runs a single-page web application on AWS. The application uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver static content from an Amazon S3 bucket origin. The application also uses an...

A company hosts an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group that uses a launch template. The amount of application traffic changes...

A SysOps administrator must ensure that all of a company's current and future Amazon S3 buckets have logging enabled. If an S3 bucket does not have logging enabled, an automated pr...

A company has business-critical resources in one of its AWS accounts. The company wants to receive an email notification every time an AWS Management Console root user sign-in even...

A company moved to a hybrid environment that includes on-premises instances and Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to track the instance logs for...

A company has a production application that runs on large compute optimized Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto...

A company has an Amazon EC2 instance that runs Windows Server 2019. An encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume is attached to the instance as the main boot volume....

A SysOps administrator manages the security of accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The SysOps administrator must implement a solution that applies a base configuratio...

A company hosts an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). One of the company's vendors needs a static IP address. The vendor will add this s...

A company runs applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to ensure that the SSH ports on the EC2 instances are never open. The company already has enabled AWS Config...

A SysOps administrator needs to configure a caching layer for a read-heavy application that uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database. The application exists across three AWS Regi...

A company has a multi-account AWS environment that includes the following: - A central identity account that contains all IAM users and groups - Several member accounts that contai...

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. A SysOps administrator needs to implement a solution that provides a central storage location for err...

A company migrated a non-production application that is I/O intensive to a general purpose Amazon EC2 instance. A General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)...

A company hosts a critical legacy application on two Amazon EC2 instances that are in one Availability Zone. The instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The compan...

A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting an implementation of Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. The CloudWatch Synthetics results must be sent to an Amazon S3 bucket. The SysOps admin...

A company is performing deployments of an application at regular intervals. Users report that the application sometimes does not work properly. The company discovers that some user...

A SysOps administrator implements a new Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) policy to create instance snapshots for Amazon EC2 instances. After the new policy runs, the SysO...

A SysOps administrator notices that the cache hit ratio for an Amazon CloudFront distribution is less than 10%. Which combination of actions should the SysOps administrator take to...

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a set of AWS accounts. The company has set up organizational units (OUs) in the organization. An application OU supports various applicat...

A SysOps administrator needs to optimize a company's Amazon S3 storage costs. The company has a mobile app that uses the S3 Standard storage class to store images. Users access the...

A company wants to enhance its security by applying IAM permissions boundaries. The company tries to use IAM policy conditions and receives the following error: "Error: error updat...

A company hosts a static website in an Amazon S3 bucket. The website is accessed globally. The company has configured an Amazon CloudFront distribution and has set the S3 bucket as...

A company has a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The ALB is associated with...

A company is implementing a custom monitoring service that is based on machine learning. The monitoring service consumes Amazon EventBridge events that Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling gene...

A SysOps administrator is using EC2 Image Builder in a build pipeline. The build pipeline fails and produces the following error message: "Step timed out while step is verifying th...

A company is using an organization in AWS Organizations to manage its multi-account AWS environment. A SysOps administrator needs to share a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with the...

A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to create and manage new AWS accounts. The company has a new requirement to update the alternate account contacts for billing, o...

A company is migrating many on-premises servers to Amazon EC2 instances. The company currently maintains the operating systems and the installed software manually. A SysOps adminis...

A company's ecommerce application is running on Amazon EC2 instances that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group. Customers repor...

A company has an application that runs on five Amazon EC2 instances. The instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application processes messages from an Amazon...