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

An organization has created one IAM user and applied the below mentioned policy to the user. What entitlements do the IAM users avail with this policy?

A SysOps Administrator must generate a report that provides a breakdown of all API activity by a specific user over the course of a year. Given that AWS Cloud Trail was enabled, how can this report be generated?

A root account owner has created an S3 bucket testmycloud. The account owner wants to allow everyone to upload the objects as well as enforce that the person who uploaded the object should manage the permission of those objects. Which is the easiest way to achieve this?

A user is trying to pre-warm a blank EBS volume attached to a Linux instance. Which of the below mentioned steps should be performed by the user?

A user is trying to configure the CloudWatch billing alarm. Which of the below mentioned steps should be performed by the user for the first time alarm creation in the AWS Account Management section?

A user has enabled termination protection on an EC2 instance. The user has also set Instance initiated shutdown behavior to terminate. When the user shuts down the instance from the OS, what will happen?

Network ACLs in a VPC operate at the ______.

In the context of sending metrics to CloudWatch using Amazon Kinesis, which of the following statements best describes the metric "PutRecord.Latency"?

A SysOps Administrator needs to create a replica of a company's existing AWS infrastructure in a new AWS account. Currently, an AWS Service Catalog portfolio is used to create and manage resources. What is the MOST efficient way to accomplish this?

A SysOps Administrator is deploying an Amazon EC2 instance and is using third-party VPN software to route traffic to an on-premises data center. Based on the shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for managing which element of this deployment?

In which screen does a user select the Availability Zones while configuring Auto Scaling?

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 bucket owner, the Administrator realizes the S3 bucket is an origin for an Amazon CloudFront web distribution. Which action should the Administrator take to ensure that users access objects in Amazon S3 by using only CloudFront URLs?

A user has setup a CloudWatch alarm on the EC2 instance for CPU utilization. The user has setup to receive a notification on email when the CPU utilization is higher than 60%. The user is running a virus scan on the same instance at a particular time. The user wants to avoid receiving an email at this time. What should the user do?

The chief financial officer (CFO) of an organization has seen a spike in Amazon S3 storage costs over the last few months. A SysOps administrator suspects that these costs are related to storage for older versions of S3 objects from one of its S3 buckets. What can the administrator do to confirm this suspicion?

What does Amazon SWF stand for?

A SysOps administrator must run a script on production servers to fix an issue. The company has a policy to block all remote interactive access to production servers. Based on this situation, how should the administrator run the script?

A user is trying to understand the detailed CloudWatch monitoring concept. Which of the below mentioned services provides detailed monitoring with CloudWatch without charging the user extra?

An e-commerce company wants to lower costs on its nightly jobs that aggregate the current day's sales and store the results in Amazon S3. The jobs are currently run using multiple on-demand instances and the job take just under 2 hours to complete. If a job fails for any reason, it needs to be restarted from the beginning. What method is the MOST cost effective based on these requirements?

A user has launched a Windows based EC2 instance. However, the instance has some issues and the user wants to check the log. When the user checks the Instance console output from the AWS console, what will it display?

A user is configuring the Multi AZ feature of an RDS DB. The user came to know that this RDS DB does not use the AWS technology, but uses server mirroring to achieve HA. Which DB is the user using right now?