SOA-C03 Exam Questions

A medical research company uses an Amazon Bedrock powered AI assistant with agents and knowledge bases to provide physicians quick access to medical study protocols. The company ne...

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

A company's website runs on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance. The website needs to serve PDF files from an Amazon S3 bucket. All public access to the S3 bucket is blocked at the accoun...

A financial services company stores customer images in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. To comply with regulations, the company must ensure that all existing objects ar...

A CloudOps engineer has created a VPC that contains a public subnet and a private subnet. Amazon EC2 instances that were launched in the private subnet cannot access the internet....

A company's architecture team must receive immediate email notifications whenever new Amazon EC2 instances are launched in the company's main AWS production account. What should a...

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 that connects to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database. A developer accidentally drops a table from the database, causing application err...

A company is using an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that has point-in-time recovery, backtracking, and automatic backup enabled. A CloudOps engineer needs to roll back the DB clus...

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

A company's security policy prohibits connecting to Amazon EC2 instances through SSH and RDP. Instead, staff must use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Users report they cannot...

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...

An AWS Lambda function is intermittently failing several times a day. A CloudOps engineer must find out how often this error occurred in the last 7 days. Which action will meet thi...

A company is storing backups in an Amazon S3 bucket. These backups must not be deleted for at least 3 months after creation. What should the CloudOps engineer do?

A company's Amazon EC2 instance with high CPU utilization is a t3.large instance running a test web app. The company determines the app would run better on a compute-optimized larg...

A company's CloudOps engineer monitors multiple AWS accounts in an organization and checks each account's AWS Health Dashboard. After adding 10 new accounts, the engineer wants to...

A company that uses AWS Organizations recently implemented AWS Control Tower. The company now needs to centralize identity management. A CloudOps engineer must federate AWS IAM Ide...

A company hosts an FTP server on EC2 instances. AWS Security Hub sends findings to Amazon EventBridge when the FTP port becomes publicly exposed in attached security groups. A Clou...

A company has an application running on EC2 that stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL Single- AZ DB instance. The application requires both read and write operations, and the com...

A company has an AWS CloudFormation template that includes an AWS::EC2::Instance resource and a custom resource (Lambda function). The Lambda function fails because it runs before...

A company uses an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue and Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with target tracking for a web application. The company collects...

A CloudOps engineer has created an AWS Service Catalog portfolio and shared it with a second AWS account in the company, managed by a different CloudOps engineer. Which action can...

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application runs on EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The target g...

A CloudOps engineer must manage the security of an AWS account. Recently, an IAM user's access key was mistakenly uploaded to a public code repository. The engineer must identify e...

A company runs custom statistical analysis software on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. The software is highly sensitive to network latency between nodes, although network throug...

A company is using AWS CloudTrail and wants to ensure that SysOps administrators can easily verify that the log files have not been deleted or changed. Which action should a SysOps...

A company runs several production workloads on Amazon EC2 instances. A SysOps administrator discovered that a production EC2 instance failed a system health check. The SysOps admin...

A company has an application that uses Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached to cache query responses to improve latency. However, the application's users are reporting slow response ti...

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 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 CloudOps engineer wants to configure observability of specific metrics for a public website that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The CloudOps engineer wan...

A company runs an application that logs user data to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. The company discovers that personal information the application has logged is visible in p...

A multinational company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage over 200 member accounts across multiple AWS Regions. The company must ensure that all AWS resources mee...

A company uses AWS Organizations to create and manage many AWS accounts. The company wants to deploy new IAM roles in each account. Which action should the SysOps administrator tak...

A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a MySQL database. The EC2 instance has a General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon EBS volume attached. The com...

Application A runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group and are in the same subnet that is associated with t...

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 hosts a production MySQL database on an Amazon Aurora single-node DB cluster. The database is queried heavily for reporting purposes. The DB cluster is experiencing perio...

A CloudOps engineer configures an application to run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a simple scaling Auto Scaling group with the default setti...

A CloudOps engineer needs to build an event infrastructure for custom application-specific events. The events must be sent to an AWS Lambda function for processing. The CloudOps en...

An AWS CloudFormation template creates an Amazon RDS instance. This template is used to build up development environments as needed and then delete the stack when the environment i...

A company has a VPC that contains a public subnet and a private subnet. The company deploys an Amazon EC2 instance that uses an Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and has the...

A global company runs a critical primary workload in the us-east-1 Region. The company wants to ensure business continuity with minimal downtime in case of a workload failure. The...

A CloudOps engineer is using AWS Compute Optimizer to generate recommendations for a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. Some of the instances use newly released instance types, while o...

A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company needs to send specific events from all the accounts in the organization to a new re...

A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance. Users report that the web application is occasionally unresponsive. Amazon CloudWatch metrics indicate that the CPU uti...

A company runs an application on a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances to process financial transactions. The EC2 instances share data by using an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazo...

The company uses AWS Organizations to manage its accounts. For the production account, a SysOps administrator must ensure that all data is backed up daily for all current and futur...

A company needs to ensure that an AWS Lambda function can access resources in a VPC in the company's account. The Lambda function requires access to third-party APIs that can be ac...

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. A CloudOps engineer must identify all IPv4 ports open to 0.0.0.0/0 across the organization's accounts. Which solut...

A company hosts a static website in an Amazon S3 bucket, accessed globally via Amazon CloudFront. The Cache-Control max-age header is set to 1 hour, and Maximum TTL is set to 5 min...