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

A company's Marketing department generates gigabytes of assets each day and stores them locally. They would like to protect the files by backing them up to AWS. All the assets should be stored on the cloud, but the most recent assets should be available locally for low latency access. Which AWS service meets the requirements?

After installing and configuring the Amazon CloudWatch agent on an EC2 instance, the anticipated system logs are not being received by CloudWatch Logs. Which of the following are likely to be the cause of this problem? (Choose two.)

What is the main use of EMR?

A user has configured ELB with two EBS backed instances. The user has stopped the instances for 1 week to save costs. The user restarts the instances after 1 week. Which of the below mentioned statements will help the user to understand the ELB and instance registration better?

A user has created an EBS volume of 10 GB and attached it to a running instance. The user is trying to access EBS for first time. Which of the below mentioned options is the correct statement with respect to a first time EBS access?

A user is trying to setup a recurring Auto Scaling process. The user has setup one process to scale up every day at 8 am and scale down at 7 PM. The user is trying to setup another recurring process which scales up on the 1st of every month at 8 AM and scales down the same day at 7 PM. What will Auto Scaling do in this scenario?

A company's Security team wants to track data encryption events across all company AWS accounts. The team wants to capture all AWS KMS events related to deleting or rotating customer master keys (CMKs) from all production AWS accounts. The KMS events will be sent to the Security team's AWS account for monitoring. How can this be accomplished?

You are running a database on an EC2 instance, with the data stored on Elastic Block Store (EBS) for persistence. At times throughout the day, you are seeing large variance in the response times of the database queries Looking into the instance with the isolate command you see a lot of wait time on the disk volume that the database's data is stored on. What two ways can you improve the performance of the database's storage while maintaining the current persistence of the data? (Choose two.)

A user has launched an EBS backed EC2 instance in the US-East-1a region. The user stopped the instance and started it back after 20 days. AWS throws up an 'InsufficientInstanceCapacity' error. What can be the possible reason for this?

An organization has created 50 IAM users. The organization wants that each user can change their password but cannot change their access keys. How can the organization achieve this?

A user wants to upload a complete folder to AWS S3 using the S3 Management console. How can the user perform this activity?

When an EC2 EBS-backed (EBS root) instance is stopped, what happens to the data on any ephemeral store volumes?

A user has configured an Auto Scaling group with ELB. The user has enabled detailed CloudWatch monitoring on Elastic Load balancing. Which of the below mentioned statements will help the user understand this functionality better?

A user has configured ELB with a TCP listener at ELB as well as on the back-end instances. The user wants to enable a proxy protocol to capture the source and destination IP information in the header. Which of the below mentioned statements helps the user understand a proxy protocol with TCP configuration?

A company recently implemented an Amazon S3 lifecycle rule that accidentally deleted objects from one of its S3 buckets. The bucket has S3 versioning enabled. Which actions will restore the objects? (Choose two.)

A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/24. The user has used all the IPs of CIDR and wants to increase the size of the VPC. The user has two subnets: public (20.0.0.0/28) and private (20.0.1.0/28). How can the user change the size of the VPC?

A user has configured Auto Scaling with 3 instances. The user had created a new AMI after updating one of the instances. If the user wants to terminate two specific instances to ensure that Auto Scaling launches an instances with the new launch configuration, which command should he run?

A sysops administrator is trying to deploy a new Amazon EC2 instance using the AWS Management Console, but the instance is failing to launch. What could be causing this problem? (Choose two.)

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?

You are currently hosting multiple applications in a VPC and have logged numerous port scans coming in from a specific IP address block. Your security team has requested that all access from the offending IP address block be denied for the next 24 hours. Which of the following is the best method to quickly and temporarily deny access from the specified IP address block?