SOA-C02 Exam Questions

A company requires that all activity in its AWS account be logged using AWS CloudTrail. Additionally, a SysOps administrator must know when CloudTrail log files are modified or del...

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Following the deployment of a new feature on the EC2 instances, some instances were marked as unhealthy and th...

A company runs an application that hosts critical data for several clients. The company uses AWS CloudTrail to track user activities on various AWS resources. To meet new security...

A global company operates out of five AWS Regions. A SysOps administrator wants to identify all the company's tagged and untagged Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires the out...

A SysOps administrator maintains the security and compliance of a company's AWS account. To ensure the company's Amazon EC2 instances are following company policy, a SysOps adminis...

A company analyzes sales data for its customers. Customers upload files to one of the company's Amazon S3 buckets, and a message is posted to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon...

A company runs a multi-tier web application with two Amazon EC2 instances in one Availability Zone in the us-east-1 Region. A SysOps administrator must migrate one of the EC2 insta...

A company wants to prohibit its developers from using a particular family of Amazon EC2 instances. The company uses AWS Organizations and wants to apply the restriction across mult...

A company uses an AWS Service Catalog portfolio to create and manage resources. A SysOps administrator must create a replica of the company's existing AWS infrastructure in a new A...

A company runs a retail website on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company must secure traffic to the website over an HTTPS connection....

A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region. The company is preparing to extend its website into the eu-central-1 Region, but the database must rema...

A company hosts a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. The application is accessed wi...

A SysOps administrator needs to configure automatic rotation for Amazon RDS database credentials. The credentials must rotate every 30 days. The solution must integrate with Amazon...

A company has a workload that is sending log data to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. One of the fields includes a measure of application latency. A SysOps administrator needs to monitor th...

A company runs an encrypted Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance. The company wants to make regular backups available in another AWS Region. What is the MOST operationally efficient s...

A company is storing media content in an Amazon S3 bucket and uses Amazon CloudFront to distribute the content to its users. Due to licensing terms, the company is not authorized t...

A company has a memory-intensive application that runs on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). The instances run in an Auto Scaling group. A SysOp...

A SysOps administrator creates a new VPC that includes a public subnet and a private subnet. The SysOps administrator successfully launches 11 Amazon EC2 instances in the private s...

A SysOps administrator has created an Amazon EC2 instance using an AWS CloudFormation template in the us-east-1 Region. The administrator finds that this template has failed to cre...

A SysOps administrator is investigating a company's web application for performance problems. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The ap...

A company has a compliance requirement that no security groups can allow SSH ports to be open to all IP addresses. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution that will notify...

A company has an application that runs only on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with scheduled scaling actions. However, the capacit...

A company plans to deploy a database on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The database will store data for a demonstration environment. The data must be reset on a daily basis. Wh...

An ecommerce company has built a web application that uses an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The DB cluster includes memory optimized instance types with both a writer node and a reader...

A SysOps administrator creates two VPCs, VPC1 and VPC2, in a company's AWS account The SysOps administrator deploys a Linux Amazon EC2 instance in VPC1 and deploys an Amazon RDS fo...

A company needs to take an inventory of applications that are running on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company has configured users and roles with the appropriate permissions...

A company's reporting job that used to run in 15 minutes is now taking an hour to run. An application generates the reports. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and extrac...

A company's SysOps administrator regularly checks the AWS Personal Health Dashboard in each of the company's accounts. The accounts are part of an organization in AWS Organizations...

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group and run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application experiences...

A company recently migrated its application to a VPC on AWS. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection connects the company's on-premises network to the VPC. The application retrieves cus...

A company needs to implement a managed file system to host Windows file shares for users on premises. Resources in the AWS Cloud also need access to the data on these file shares....

A company is hosting applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company is hosting a database on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. The company requires all connections to th...

A company recently purchased Savings Plans. The company wants to receive email notification when the company's utilization drops below 90% for a given day. Which solution will meet...

A company runs hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. Each EC2 instance has two attached 1 GiB General Purpose SSD (gp2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) v...

A company has an application that is deployed to two AWS Regions in an active-passive configuration. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balance...

A company is implementing a monitoring solution that is based on machine learning. The monitoring solution consumes Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) events that are ge...

A company is storing backups in an Amazon S3 bucket. The backups must not be deleted for at least 3 months after the backups are created. What should a SysOps administrator do to m...

A SysOps administrator needs to track the costs of data transfer between AWS Regions. The SysOps administrator must implement a solution to send alerts to an email distribution lis...

A company needs to archive all audit logs for 10 years. The company must protect the logs from any future edits. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company's AWS Lambda function is experiencing performance issues. The Lambda function performs many CPU-intensive operations. The Lambda function is not running fast enough and i...

A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The web server logs are published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The log events have the same structure and include the HTT...

A company is attempting to manage its costs in the AWS Cloud. A SysOps administrator needs specific company-defined tags that are assigned to resources to appear on the billing rep...

A SysOps administrator creates an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that uses AWS Fargate. The cluster is deployed successfully. The SysOps administrator needs...

A company's application currently uses an IAM role that allows all access to all AWS services. A SysOps administrator must ensure that the company's IAM policies allow only the per...

A company updates its security policy to clarify cloud hosting arrangements for regulated workloads. Workloads that are identified as sensitive must run on hardware that is not sha...

A SysOps administrator wants to monitor the free disk space that is available on a set of Amazon EC2 instances that have Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached. T...

Users are periodically experiencing slow response times from a relational database. The database runs on a burstable Amazon EC2 instance with a 350 GB General Purpose SSD (gp2) Ama...

A software company runs a workload on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A SysOps administrator needs to define a custom health check for the EC2 . Wha...

A company uses AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy cloud infrastructure. An analysis of all the company's templates shows that the company has declared the same components in mu...

A SysOps administrator is helping a development team deploy an application to AWS. The AWS CloudFormation template includes an Amazon Linux EC2 instance, an Amazon Aurora DB cluste...