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

A SysOps Administrator is receiving multiple reports from customers that they are unable to connect to the company's website. which is being served through Amazon CloudFront. Customers are receiving HTTP response codes for both 4XX and 5XX errors. Which metric can the Administrator use to monitor the elevated error rates in CloudFront?

An application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. A SysOps Administrator is tasked with allowing the application access to an Amazon S3 bucket. What should be done to ensure optimal security?

Company A purchases Company B and inherits three new AWS accounts. Company A would like to centralize billing and Reserved Instance benefits but wants to keep all other resources separate. How can this be accomplished?

A company's use of AWS Cloud services is quickly growing, so a SysOps Administrator has been asked to generate details of daily spending to share with management. Which method should the Administrator choose to produce this data?

True or False: Amazon Route 53 provides highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS), domain name registration, and health-checking web services.

A company is using AWS Storage Gateway to create block storage volumes and mount them as Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) devices from on-premises servers. As the Storage Gateway has taken on several new projects, some of the Development teams report that the performance of the iSCSI drives has degraded. When checking the Amazon CloudWatch metrics, a SysOps Administrator notices that the CacheHitPercent metric is below 60% and the CachePercentUsed metric is above 90%. What steps should the Administrator take to increase Storage Gateway performance?

What is the maximum size of an object in Amazon S3?

A SysOps Administrator created an AWS CloudFormation template for the first time. The stack failed with a status of ROLLBACK_COMPLETE . The Administrator identified and resolved the template issue causing the failure. How should the Administrator continue with the stack deployment?

A mobile application must allow users to securely access their own content stored in a shared Amazon S3 bucket. Which AWS services should be used to enable this access? (Choose two.)

A SysOps Administrator discovers the organization's tape archival system is no longer functioning in its on-premises data center. What AWS service can be used to create a virtual tape interface to replace the physical tape system?

A user has launched an EC2 instance. However, due to some reason the instance was terminated. If the user wants to find out the reason for termination, where can he find the details?

A website uses Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) in front of several Amazon EC2 instances backed by an Amazon RDS database. The content is dynamically generated for visitors of a webpage based on their geographic location. and is updated daily. Some of the generated objects are large in size and are taking longer to download than they should, resulting in a poor user experience. Which approach will improve the user experience?

A user is trying to aggregate all the CloudWatch metric data of the last 1 week. Which of the below mentioned statistics is not available for the user as a part of data aggregation?

Which AWS service offers cost optimization by launching instances automatically only when need-ed?

A SysOps Administrator is running Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions. The Administrator wants to aggregate the CPU utilization for all instances onto an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. Each region should be present on the dashboard and represented by a single graph that contains the CPU utilization for all instances in that region. How can the Administrator meet these requirements?

A user is publishing custom metrics to CloudWatch. Which of the below mentioned statements will help the user understand the functionality better?

A SysOps Administrator is running an automatically scaled application behind an Application Load Balancer. Scaling out is triggered when the CPUUtilization instance metric is more than 75% across the Auto Scaling group. The Administrator noticed aggressive scaling out. Developers suspect an application memory leak that is causing aggressive garbage collection cycles. How can the Administrator troubleshoot the application without triggering the scaling process?

You are setting up a VPC and you need to set up a public subnet within that VPC. Which following requirement must be met for this subnet to be considered a public subnet?

A user is trying to understand the CloudWatch metrics for the AWS services. It is required that the user should first understand the namespace for the AWS services. Which of the below mentioned is not a valid namespace for the AWS services?

A user is planning to schedule a backup for an EBS volume. The user wants security of the snapshot data. How can the user achieve data encryption with a snapshot?