SOA-C02 Exam Questions

A company runs an application that uses a MySQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has a General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The c...

A SysOps administrator is setting up a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group for an application. The fleet should have 50% CPU available at all times to accommodat...

A company has an on-premises DNS solution and wants to resolve DNS records in an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone for example.com. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect c...

A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance in a production VPC. Client connections to the application are failing. A SysOps administrator inspects the VPC flow log...

A company is expanding its use of AWS services across its portfolios. The company wants to provision AWS accounts for each team to ensure a separation of business processes for sec...

A media company hosts a public news and video portal on AWS. The portal uses an Amazon DynamoDB table with provisioned capacity to maintain an index of video files that are stored...

A SysOps administrator has used AWS CloudFormation to deploy a serverless application into a production VPC. The application consists of an AWS Lambda function, an Amazon DynamoDB...

A SysOps administrator is reviewing AWS Trusted Advisor warnings and encounters a warning for an S3 bucket policy that has open access permissions. While discussing the issue the b...

A company has a critical serverless application that uses multiple AWS Lambda functions. Each Lambda function generates 1 GB of log data daily in its own Amazon CloudWatch Logs log...

A SysOps administrator needs to give users the ability to upload objects to an Amazon S3 bucket. The SysOps administrator creates a presigned URL and provides the URL to a user, bu...

A company wants to track its expenditures for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS within AWS. The company decides to implement more rigorous tagging requirements for resources in its AWS acc...

A company runs a web application on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company notices that random periods of increased traffic cause a degra...

A company uses several large Chef recipes to automate the configuration of virtual machines (VMs) in its data center. A SysOps administrator is migrating this workload to Amazon EC...

A company runs its infrastructure on Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Recently, the company promoted faulty code to the entire EC2 fleet. This faulty code ca...

A SysOps Administrator is required to monitor free space on Amazon EBS volumes attached to Microsoft Windows-based Amazon EC2 instances within a company's account. The administrato...

A company has deployed an application on AWS. The application runs on a fleet of Linux Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group is configured...

A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting an AWS CloudFormation template whereby multiple Amazon EC2 instances are being created. The template is working in us-east-1, but it is fa...

A SysOps administrator has enabled AWS CloudTrail in an AWS account. If CloudTrail is disabled, it must be re-enabled immediately. What should the SysOps administrator do to meet t...

A SysOps administrator is using AWS Compute Optimizer to get recommendations for a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. After the analysis is complete, some of the EC2 instances are miss...

A SysOps administrator is investigating issues on an Amazon RDS for MariaDB DB instance. The SysOps administrator wants to display the database load categorized by detailed wait ev...

A company is partnering with an external vendor to provide data processing services. For this integration, the vendor must host the company's data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the ven...

A company is planning to host an application on a set of Amazon EC2 instances that are distributed across multiple Availability Zones. The application must be able to scale to mill...

A SysOps administrator is provisioning an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to provide shared storage across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The instances all exis...

When the AWS Cloud infrastructure experiences an event that may impact an organization, which AWS service can be used to see which of the organization's resources are affected?

A company creates custom AMI images by launching new Amazon EC2 instances from an AWS CloudFormation template. It installs and configures necessary software through AWS OpsWorks, a...

A gaming application is deployed on four Amazon EC2 instances in a default VPC. The SysOps administrator has noticed consistently high latency in responses as data is transferred a...

A company monitors its account activity using AWS CloudTrail, and is concerned that some log files are being tampered with after the logs have been delivered to the account's Amazo...

A company uses AWS Organizations to host several applications across multiple AWS accounts. Several teams are responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure of the app...

A SysOps administrator must create a solution to automatically shuts down any Amazon EC2 instances that have less than 10% average CPU to monitor average CPU utilization for 60 min...

A company has a new requirement stating that all resources in AWS must be tagged according to a set policy. Which AWS service should be used to enforce and continually identify all...

An organization finds that a high number of gp2 Amazon EBS volumes are running out of space. Which solution will provide the LEAST disruption with MINIMAL effort?

A SysOps administrator must create a solution that immediately notifies software developers if an AWS Lambda function experiences an error. Which solution will meet this requiremen...

A company has an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone in its AWS account. The private hosted zone is connected to the company's on-premises data center by an AWS Direct Connect conn...

A sofware development company has multiple developers who work on the same product. Each developer must have their own development environments, and these development environments...

A company is running workloads on premises and on AWS. A SysOps administrator needs to automate tasks across all servers on premises by using AWS services. The SysOps administrator...

A SysOps administrator has an AWS CloudFormation template of the company's existing infrastructure in us-west-2. The administrator attempts to use the template to launch a new stac...

With the threat of ransomware viruses encrypting and holding company data hostage, which action should be taken to protect an Amazon S3 bucket?

A company has an existing web application that runs on two Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) across two Availability Zones. The application uses an Ama...

A company is running an application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The EC2 instances are launched by an Auto Scaling group and are au...

A company is using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to share a file system among several Amazon EC2 instances. As usage increases, users report that file retrieval from the...

A company uses an Amazon RDS DB instance for data storage for its web application. For disaster recovery purposes, a SysOps administrator has configured an AWS Lambda function that...

An errant process is known to use an entire processor and run at 100%. A SysOps administrator wants to automate restarting the instance once the problem occurs for more than 2 minu...

A company has a stateless application that runs on four Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires four instances at all times to support all traffic. A SysOps administrator mu...

The security team is concerned because the number of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies being used in the environment is increasing. The team tasked a SysOps adminis...

A SysOps administrator is attempting to download patches from the internet into an instance in a private subnet. An internet gateway exists for the VPC, and a NAT gateway has been...

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 SysOps administrator developed a Python script that uses the AWS SDK to conduct several maintenance tasks. The script needs to run automatically every night. What is the MOST ope...

An Amazon EC2 instance needs to be reachable from the internet. The EC2 instance is in a subnet with the following route table: Which entry must a SysOps administrator add to the r...

A SysOps administrator has launched a large general purpose Amazon EC2 instance to regularly process large data files. The instance has an attached 1 TB General Purpose SSD (gp2) A...

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...