SOA-C02 Exam Questions

A company uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. The company's compliance policy requires the data to be available in a separate, distinct geographic location. The company must...

A company's VPC has connectivity to an on-premises data center through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN. The company needs Amazon EC2 instances in the VPC to send DNS queries for example.co...

A company deploys an application on AWS behind an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the us-west-2 Region. Amazon Route 53 manages DNS CNAME records for the applica...

A company runs an application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 Windows instances in a Multi-AZ deployment. The company needs a solution that will give the instances access to shared files....

A company website contains a web tier and a database tier on AWS. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The...

A company has a public web application that experiences rapid traffic increases after advertisements appear on local television. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that a...

A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting a website that will not load for users. The website is hosted by an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has an Amazon S3 bucket as the ori...

A company moved its server infrastructure to Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to track metrics for a Java application. The company has integ...

A company requires the rotation of administrative credentials for production workloads on a regular basis. A SysOps administrator must implement this policy for an Amazon RDS DB in...

A SysOps administrator needs to monitor Amazon DynamoDB usage across a company's AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization with all features enabled in AWS Organizations. T...

A company migrates a write-once, read-many (WORM) drive to an Amazon S3 bucket that has S3 Object Lock configured in governance mode. During the migration, the company copies unnee...

A company is creating a new multi-account environment in AWS Organizations. The company will use AWS Control Tower to deploy the environment. Users must be able to create resources...

A company is hosting a public website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company needs the website to support HTTPS connections. Which solution...

A team of developers is using several Amazon S3 buckets as centralized repositories. Users across the world upload large sets of files to these repositories. The development team's...

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

A company has an NFS server that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. A SysOps administrator needs to replace the NFS server with a highly available file system. A total of 30 EC2...

A SysOps administrator has used AWS Secrets Manager to set up automatic password rotation for a company's Amazon RDS databases. A web application uses the password to connect to th...

A company that uses AWS Organizations has an organization that contains several AWS accounts. A SysOps administrator needs to implement controls to prevent an account from leaving...

A company has an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in an isolated private subnet in a VPC. The EC2 instance needs to access data that is in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has...

A SysOps administrator needs to set up alerting and remediation for a web application. The application consists of Amazon EC2 instances that have AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Age...

A SysOps administrator needs to delete an AWS CloudFormation stack that is in the DELETE_FAILED state. CloudFormation was unable to delete an Amazon EC2 security group. What should...

A SysOps administrator needs to track workload costs across all accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. All components of each workload have a workload tag. However, the...

A company has an ecommerce application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The company runs a backend PostgreSQL database on Amazon RDS...

A company needs to launch a public website. The company will deploy the website on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group extends across mul...

A company has its accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company deploys its first service control policy (SCP) to an organizational unit (OU). The SCP denies the ia...

A company is using an Amazon EC2 instance to inspect inbound traffic. The EC2 instance runs Amazon Linux and has the Amazon CloudWatch agent installed and configured. The company n...

A company is deploying a new version of its website. A SysOps administrator must deploy the new website in a limited rollout to 20% of the company's customers. The company uses Ama...

A SysOps administrator is configuring an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for an application. The average CPU utilization of the instances in the Auto Scaling group must...

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application supports customers in Europe and runs in a single Availabi...

A company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances from custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in two AWS Regions. The company registered all the instances with AWS Systems Manager. The comp...

A company's APIs are not receiving all their expected events. The company has hundreds of Amazon EventBridge rules configured and no dead-letter queues for failed event delivery. A...

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 SysOps administrator launches two Amazon EC2 instances and creates a single public subnet for testing purposes in the same Availability Zone. The SysOps administrator wants Amazo...

A company plans to create many AWS accounts. Each account requires a VPC that has a unique IPv4 CIDR allocation. The company has an organization with all features enabled in AWS Or...

A company made a configuration change to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group that hosts a production application. The change affected the number of available EC2 instances and caused...

A company uses Amazon ElastiCache (Redis OSS) to cache application data. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to increase the resilience of the cache. The solution also...

A company needs to optimize costs for its Amazon RDS DB instances. The company currently runs more than 20 RDS DB instances and suspects that some databases are rarely used. Some o...

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application connects to a single Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. Traffic for the application has increased for several...

A company has AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has built an AWS Lambda function in one account. The Lambda function needs to retrieve a list of Ama...

A company wants to centrally provide file shares to Windows machines by using SMB. The company wants to provide file shares to Linux machines by using NFS. The company requires hig...

A company has deployed AWS Lambda functions, Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes across multiple AWS Regions. A SysOps administrator needs to...

A company has a microservice that runs on a set of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A SysOps administrator must use Amazon Rou...

A company is creating an application that runs on smart TVs and mobile phones. Static images for the application are loaded from an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The images have...

A company deploys an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company wants to protect the application from SQL i...

A SysOps administrator launches an Amazon EC2 instance in a VPC that has an IPv4 CIDR block of 172.16.0.0/22. The VPC does not have internet access. The EC2 instance has an IAM ins...

A company has turned on server access logging for all of its existing Amazon S3 buckets. The company wants to implement a solution to monitor the logging settings for new and exist...

A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances. Users can upload images to an Amazon S3 bucket and publish the images to the website. The company wants to deploy a serverless ima...

A company has an AWS account that multiple teams use. A SysOps administrator needs to identify any IAM users and roles in the account that have not been used within the last 30 day...

A company has a security AWS account and a production AWS account. The company stores API keys as a secret in AWS Secrets Manager in the security account. The company uses an AWS K...

A SysOps administrator manages an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for an application. Each instance requires a significant amount of dynamic configuration at boot time....