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

A sysops administrator set up an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached cluster for an application. During testing, the application experiences increased latency. Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the Memcached cluster show CPUUtilization is consistently above 95% and FreeableMemory is consistently under 1 MB. Which action will solve the problem?

A user has launched 5 instances in EC2-CLASSIC and attached 5 elastic IPs to the five different instances in the US East region. The user is creating a VPC in the same region. The user wants to assign an elastic IP to the VPC instance. How can the user achieve this?

AMIs can be ______________.

What can an Administrator do to monitor whether an organization's instances are compliant with corporate policies and guidelines?

An application running on Amazon EC2 allows users to launch batch jobs for data analysis. The jobs are run asynchronously, and the user is notified when they are complete. While multiple jobs can run concurrently, a user's request need not be fulfilled for up to 24 hours. To run a job, the application launches an additional EC2 instance that performs all the analytics calculations. A job takes between 75 and 110 minutes to complete and cannot be interrupted. What is the MOST cost-effective way to run this workload?

An AWS account wants to be part of the consolidated billing of his organization's payee account. How can the owner of that account achieve this?

How many metrics are supported by CloudWatch for Auto Scaling?

A user is accessing RDS from an application. The user has enabled the Multi AZ feature with the MS SQL RDS DB. During a planned outage how will AWS ensure that a switch from DB to a standby replica will not affect access to the application?

A company's auditor implemented a compliance requirement that all Amazon S3 buckets must have logging enabled. A SysOps administrator is tasked to ensure this compliance requirement is met, while still permitting developers to create and use new S3 buckets. Which action should be taken to accomplish this?

A company runs a web application that users access using the domain name www.example.com. The company manages the domain name using Amazon Route 53. The company created an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the application and would like www.example.com to access the application though CloudFront. What is the MOST cost-effective way to achieve this?

Which services allow the customer to retain run administrative privileges or the undertying EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

A sys admin is trying to understand the sticky session algorithm. Please select the correct sequence of steps, both when the cookie is present and when it is not, to help the admin understand the implementation of the sticky session: ELB inserts the cookie in the response ELB chooses the instance based on the load balancing algorithm Check the cookie in the service request The cookie is found in the request The cookie is not found in the request

What does Amazon S3 stand for?

A user has setup an EBS backed instance and attached 2 EBS volumes to it. The user has setup a CloudWatch alarm on each volume for the disk data. The user has stopped the EC2 instance and detached the EBS volumes. What will be the status of the alarms on the EBS volume?

A company stores thousands of non-critical log files in an Amazon S3 bucket. A set of reporting scripts retrieve these log files daily. Which of the following storage options will be the MOST cost-efficient for the company's use case?

What cloud service does Amazon S3 offer?

A system admin is planning to encrypt all objects being uploaded to S3 from an application. The system admin does not want to implement his own encryption algorithm; instead he is planning to use server side encryption by supplying his own key (SSE-C). Which parameter is not required while making a call for SSE-C?

What does Amazon EMR stand for?

You are creating an Auto Scaling group whose Instances need to insert a custom metric into CloudWatch. Which method would be the best way to authenticate your CloudWatch PUT request?

A company has a fleet of EC2 instances, and needs to remotely execute scripts for all of the instances. Which Amazon EC2 Systems Manager feature allows this?