SOA-C02 Exam Questions

A company has two general purpose Amazon EC2 instances that run a software package. Each EC2 instance is attached to its own 500 GiB General Purpose SSD (gp2) Amazon Elastic Block...

A company has a new application that runs on three Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are spread across three Availability Zones in a single AWS Region. The application is acc...

A SysOps administrator supports a publicly accessible web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The SysOps administrator wants to migrate the EC2 instances to AWS Graviton...

A company has a workload that runs on several Amazon EC2 instances. The company must retain the workload's system logs and application logs for 13 months. The logs must be availabl...

A SysOps administrator must ensure that all of a company's Amazon S3 buckets have versioning enabled. Which solution will meet this requirement?

A company is running workloads on Amazon EC2 instances that are in a single AWS Region. The company needs to create daily backups of each EC2 instance. A SysOps administrator must...

An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on a shopping website. A SysOps administrator views Amazon CloudW...

A data storage company has a service that gives users the ability to upload and download files. The files are stored as objects in Amazon S3 Standard storage. A SysOps administrato...

Users are reporting consistent forced logouts from a stateful web application. The web application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The instance...

A company's security policy requires incoming SSH traffic to be restricted to a defined set of addresses. The company is using an AWS Config rule to check whether security groups a...

A company performs advanced statistical analysis by using custom software. The custom software runs on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances and is sensitive to network latency between...

A company hosts an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application periodically causes a surge in CPU utilization on the EC2 instances. A SysOps administrator needs to impleme...

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 company has an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that is configured as a Single-AZ DB instance. A SysOps administrator must configure the DB instance to fail over automatically in...

A company has hybrid connectivity by using an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection between an on- premises network and a VPC. The company creates a new public Network Load Balancer (NLB...

A company is running a stateless application. The application consists of a web server and a PostgreSQL database that run on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance becomes...

A SysOps administrator configures an Amazon S3 gateway endpoint in a VPC. The private subnets inside the VPC do not have outbound internet access. A user logs in to an Amazon EC2 i...

A company's application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company has configured an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor the HTTPCode_Target...

A SysOps administrator needs to deploy an application in multiple AWS Regions. The application is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The SysOps administrator must implement...

A SysOps administrator needs to build an event infrastructure for a set of custom application- specific events. The events must be sent to an AWS Lambda function for processing. Th...

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores data on an Amazon RDS for MySQL Single-AZ DB instance. Requests to the DB instance from the a...

A company uses AWS accounts for its applications. The accounts are in an organization with all features enabled in AWS Organizations. The company operates in a single AWS Region. T...

A SysOps administrator creates a new source AWS account to use with a company's new application. The application will use Amazon CloudWatch for observability from a monitoring acco...

A company has AWS accounts that use various AWS Regions. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company's security team has enabled AWS Security Hub and seve...

A company has an Amazon S3 bucket that is encrypted by an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. The KMS key has an alias of DataKey. A SysOps administrator is...

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region and the us-west-2 Region. The instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region. An Amaz...

A company operates compute resources in a VPC and in the company's on-premises data center. The company already has an AWS Direct Connect connection between the VPC and the on-prem...

A restaurant has a service that receives and processes delivery orders. The restaurant uses Amazon EventBridge for its event bus and event-driven routing requirements. When an orde...

A SysOps administrator needs to implement a solution to monitor a company's application endpoints and API endpoints. The solution must perform several operations in sequential orde...

A company needs to copy an Amazon Aurora database from one AWS account to a second account that uses a second AWS Region. A SysOps administrator must automate this process to occur...

A company has a legacy non-production application that can scale only vertically. The application is deployed on a single t3.large (general purpose) Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 in...

A company has an online gaming application that is experiencing increased usage. The application stores data in a single Amazon DynamoDB table. Forecasts indicate that the applicat...

A SysOps administrator needs to give an existing AWS Lambda function access to an existing Amazon S3 bucket. Traffic between the Lambda function and the S3 bucket must not use publ...

A company's SysOps administrator needs to troubleshoot an AWS Lambda function that runs in a private subnet in a VPC. The company has enabled Lambda Insights logging in the Lambda...

A company has created an AWS CloudFormation template that includes only an IAM role. The company needs to deploy the template to the company's primary and secondary AWS Regions. Du...

A company needs to monitor its website's availability to end users. The company needs a solution to provide an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if the w...

A company runs its workload on Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The instances have General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon E...

A company has implemented a data ingestion pipeline to process files in the form of messages. A frontend application accepts user input and stores the input in Amazon S3. A backend...

A company migrated a two-tier web application from an on-premises environment to AWS by using a rehost strategy. The company hosts the web tier on Amazon EC2 instances in a public...

A SysOps administrator is creating a nested AWS CloudFormation stack. One stack creates a VPC. A second stack needs to reference the ID of the VPC to create resources in the VPC. W...

A company is using a single AWS account to support a workload. A SysOps administrator is responsible for the security of the AWS account. The SysOps administrator must implement a...

A company runs a workload on a high performance computing (HPC) cluster on AWS. The workload is Linux-based and uses three Amazon EC2 instances. Each EC2 instance has a 10 TiB Thro...

A SysOps administrator has submitted an AWS Support case. The SysOps administrator needs to receive immediate and automatic notifications in a Slack channel when the case is update...

A non-production application is installed on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application's developer has created an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that reboots the EC2 instance if a critical...

A company is worried that its developers might accidentally schedule AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed keys for deletion. The developers want to maintain agilit...

A company is using Amazon EventBridge to deliver events to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The solution was fully functional until the company enabled AWS Key Ma...

Accompany runs multiple Amazon EC2 instances that are distributed across multiple AWS Regions. The company uses AWS Systems Manager tools to manage the EC2 instances. The company n...

A company's AWS accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization has all features enabled. The accounts use Amazon EC2 instances to host applications. The com...

A company has an AWS Config rule that identifies open SSH ports in security groups. The rule has an automatic remediation action to delete the SSH inbound rule for noncompliant sec...

A company is deploying a third-party unit testing solution that is delivered as an Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The company is deploying the testing solution on On-Demand...