Exam 13: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (SOA-C01)

A system admin wants to add more zones to the existing ELB. The system admin wants to perform this activity from CLI. Which of the below mentioned command helps the system admin to add new zones to the existing ELB?

A Big Data consulting company wants to separate its customers' workloads for billing and security reasons. The company would like to maintain billing and security controls on these workloads. According to best practices, how can the workloads be separated if no shared resources are needed?

A user has recently started using EC2. The user launched one EC2 instance in the default subnet in EC2-VPC Which of the below mentioned options is not attached or available with the EC2 instance when it is launched?

A company needs to have real-time access to image data while seamlessly maintaining a copy of the images in an offsite location for disaster recovery purposes. Which solution meets the requirement?

A developer is deploying a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and notices that the application is not receiving all the expected elements from HTTP requests. The developer suspects users are not sending the correct query string. How should a sysops administrator verify this?

An organization is trying to create various IAM users. Which of the below mentioned options is not a valid IAM username?

A user has created a queue named "myqueue" in US-East region with AWS SQS. The user's AWS account ID is 123456789012. If the user wants to perform some action on this queue, which of the below Queue URL should he use?

An organization has configured Auto Scaling with ELB. There is a memory issue in the application which is causing CPU utilization to go above 90%. The higher CPU usage triggers an event for Auto Scaling as per the scaling policy. If the user wants to find the root cause inside the application without triggering a scaling activity, how can he achieve this?

You have been asked to leverage Amazon VPC BC2 and SOS to implement an application that submits and receives millions of messages per second to a message queue. You want to ensure your application has sufficient bandwidth between your EC2 instances and SQS Which option will provide the most scalable solution for communicating between the application and SQS?

An organization has decided to consolidate storage and move all of its backups and archives to Amazon S3. With all of the data gathered into a hierarchy under a single directory, the organization determines there is 70 TB of data that needs to be uploaded. The organization currently has a 150-Mbps connection with 10 people working at the location. Which service would be the MOST efficient way to transfer this data to Amazon S3?

A SysOps Administrator must ensure that AWS CloudFormation deployment changes are properly tracked for governance. Which AWS service should be used to accomplish this?

A company is using an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster in a production environment. To align with the company's technical requirements, a SysOps administrator needs to select a deployment to provide increased availability and fault tolerance. Which action should the SysOps administrator take to accomplish this goal?

A system admin is managing buckets, objects and folders with AWS S3. Which of the below mentioned statements is true and should be taken in consideration by the sysadmin?

A user has launched an EC2 instance from an instance store backed AMI. The user has attached an additional instance store volume to the instance. The user wants to create an AMI from the running instance. Will the AMI have the additional instance store volume data?

A SysOps Administrator must use a bastion host to administer a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. All access to the bastion host is managed by the Security team. What is the MOST secure way for the Security team to provide the SysOps Administrator access to the bastion host?

You run a web application where web servers on EC2 Instances are in an Auto Scaling group. Monitoring over the last 6 months shows that 6 web servers are necessary to handle the minimum load During the day up to 12 servers are needed five to six days per year, the number of web servers required might go up to 15. What would you recommend to minimize costs while being able to provide hill availability?

A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets using the VPC wizard. Which of the below mentioned statements is true in this scenario?

A company is hosting backend web services across Amazon EC2 Linux instances in public subnets in a VPC. A SysOps administrator tries to connect to the instance by using SSH but is unable to connect. What could be the cause of the failed connection?

An organization has configured Auto Scaling with ELB. One of the instance health check returns the status as Impaired to Auto Scaling. What will Auto Scaling do in this scenario?

A user is launching an instance. He is on the "Tag the instance" screen. Which of the below mentioned information will not help the user understand the functionality of an AWS tag?