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

An AWS account owner has setup multiple IAM users. One IAM user only has CloudWatch access. He has setup the alarm action which stops the EC2 instances when the CPU utilization is below the threshold limit. What will happen in this case?

A SysOps Administrator is implementing SSL for a domain of an internet-facing application running behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The Administrator decides to use an SSL certificate from Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) to secure it. Upon creating a request for the ALB fully qualified domain name (FQDN), it fails, and the error message "Domain Not Allowed" is displayed. How can the Administrator fix this issue?

A SysOps Administrator is managing an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The Administrator must ensure that that application stays available if the database becomes unresponsive. How can these requirements be met?

Can a user depict CloudWatch metrics such as CPU utilization in % and Network I/O in bytes on a single graph?

Amazon EBS provides the ability to create backups of any Amazon EC2 volume into what is known as _____.

A sys admin has created the below mentioned policy and applied to an S3 object named aws. j p g. The aws. j p g is inside a bucket named cloudacademy. What does this policy define?

A user has created an ELB with Auto Scaling. Which of the below mentioned offerings from ELB helps the user to stop sending new requests traffic from the load balancer to the EC2 instance when the instance is being deregistered while continuing in-flight requests?

A user has configured the AWS CloudWatch alarm for estimated usage charges in the US East region. Which of the below mentioned statements is not true with respect to the estimated charges?

A company has received a notification in its AWS Personal Health Dashboard that one of its Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instances is on hardware that is scheduled for maintenance. The instance runs a critical production workload that must be available during normal business hours. Which steps will ensure that the instance maintenance does not produce an outage?

An application you maintain consists of multiple EC2 instances in a default tenancy VPC. This application has undergone an internal audit and has been determined to require dedicated hardware for one instance. Your compliance team has given you a week to move this instance to single-tenant hardware. Which process will have minimal impact on your application while complying with this requirement?

A SysOps Administrator is attempting to use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to initiate a SSH session with an Amazon EC2 instance running on a custom Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The Administrator cannot find the target instance in the Session Manager console. Which combination of actions will solve this issue? (Choose two.)

A user has configured an HTTPS listener on an ELB. The user has not configured any security policy which can help to negotiate SSL between the client and ELB. What will ELB do in this scenario?

You have a proprietary data store on-premises that must be backed up daily by dumping the data store contents to a single compressed 50GB file and sending the file to AWS. Your SLAs state that any dump file backed up within the past 7 days can be retrieved within 2 hours. Your compliance department has stated that all data must be held indefinitely. The time required to restore the data store from a backup is approximately 1 hour. Your on-premise network connection is capable of sustaining 1gbps to AWS. Which backup methods to AWS would be most cost-effective while still meeting all of your requirements?

A SysOps Administrator is trying to set up an Amazon Route 53 domain name to route traffic to a website hosted on Amazon S3. The domain name of the website is www.anycompany.com and the S3 bucket name is anycompany-static. After the record set is set up in Route 53, the domain name www.anycompany.com does not seem to work, and the static website is not displayed in the browser. Which of the following is a cause of this?

An organization has created a Queue named "modularqueue" with SQS. The organization is not performing any operations such as SendMessage, ReceiveMessage, DeleteMessage, GetQueueAttributes, SetQueueAttributes, AddPermission, and RemovePermission on the queue. What can happen in this scenario?

An existing data management application is running on a single Amazon EC2 instance and needs to be moved to a new AWS Region in another AWS account. How can a SysOps Administrator achieve this while maintaining the security of the application?

A user has provisioned 2000 IOPS to the EBS volume. The application hosted on that EBS is experiencing less IOPS than provisioned. Which of the below mentioned options does not affect the IOPS of the volume?

What is Amazon Import/Export?

An application is running on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are configured in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. A SysOps Administrator must configure the application to scale based on the number of incoming requests. Which solution accomplishes this with the LEAST amount of effort?

In the AWS Storage Gateway, using the ____________, you can cost-effectively and durably ar-chive backup data in Amazon Glacier.