Exam 12: AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01)

You are using a configuration management system to manage your Amazon EC2 instances. On your Amazon EC2 Instances, you want to store credentials for connecting to an Amazon RDS DB instance. How should you securely store these credentials?

What is the scope of an EC2 EIP?

A business has an application that consists of five independent AWS Lambda functions. The DevOps Engineer has built a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild that builds, tests, packages, and deploys each Lambda function in sequence. The pipeline uses an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule to ensure the pipeline execution starts as quickly as possible after a change is made to the application source code. After working with the pipeline for a few months, the DevOps Engineer has noticed the pipeline takes too long to complete. What should the DevOps Engineer implement to BEST improve the speed of the pipeline?

A company has deployed several applications globally. Recently, Security Auditors found that few Amazon EC2 instances were launched without Amazon EBS disk encryption. The Auditors have requested a report detailing all EBS volumes that were not encrypted in multiple AWS accounts and regions. They also want to be notified whenever this occurs in future. How can this be automated with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

A company has migrated its container-based applications to Amazon EKS and want to establish automated email notifications. The notifications sent to each email address are for specific activities related to EXS components. The solution will include Amazon SNS topics and an AWS Lambda function to evaluate incoming log events and publish messages to the correct SNS topic. Which logging solution will support these requirements?

A DevOps Engineer has a single Amazon DynamoDB table that received shipping orders and tracks inventory. The Engineer has three AWS Lambda functions reading from a DymamoDB stream on that table. The Lambda functions perform various functions such as doing an item count, moving items to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, monitoring inventory levels, and creating vendor orders when parts are low. While reviewing logs, the Engineer notices the Lambda functions occasionally fail under increased load, receiving a stream throttling error. Which is the MOST cost-effective solution that requires the LEAST amount of operational management?

What option below is the geographic limit of an EC2 security group?

You have an application consisting of a stateless web server tier running on Amazon EC2 instances behind load balancer, and are using Amazon RDS with read replicas. Which of the following methods should you use to implement a self-healing and cost-effective architecture? (Choose two.)

A company updated the AWS CloudFormation template for a critical business application. The stack update process failed due to an error in the updated template, and CloudFormation automatically began the stack rollback process. Later, a DevOps engineer found the application was still unavailable, and that the stack was in the UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state. Which combination of actions will allow the stack rollback to complete successfully? (Choose two.)

A DevOps engineer is deploying an AWS Service Catalog portfolio using AWS CodePipeline. The pipeline should create products and templates based on a manifest file in either JSON or YAML, and should enforce security requirements on all AWS Service Catalog products managed through the pipeline. Which solution will meet the requirements in an automated fashion?

A DevOps Engineer is asked to implement a strategy for deploying updates to a web application with zero downtime. The application infrastructure is defined in AWS CloudFormation and is made up of an Amazon Route 53 record, an Application Load Balancer, Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group, and Amazon DynamoDB tables. To avoid downtime, there must be an active instance serving the application at all times. Which strategies will ensure the deployment happens with zero downtime? (Select TWO.)

For auditing, analytics, and troubleshooting purposes, a DevOps Engineer for a data analytics application needs to collect all of the application and Linux system logs from the Amazon EC2 instances before termination. The company, on average, runs 10,000 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The company requires the ability to quickly find logs based on instance IDs and date ranges. Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?

A mobile application running on eight Amazon EC2 instances is relying on a third-party API endpoint. The third-party service has a high failure rate because of limited capacity, which is expected to be resolved in a few weeks. In the meantime, the mobile application developers have added a retry mechanism and are logging failed API requests. A DevOps Engineer must automate the monitoring of application logs and count the specific error messages; if there are more than 10 errors within a 1-minute window, the system must issue an alert. How can the requirements be met with MINIMAL management overhead?

A company maintains a stateless web application that is experiencing inconsistent traffic. The company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy the application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run across multiple Availability Zones. The company wants to include the use of Spot Instances while continuing to use a small number of On-Demand Instances to ensure that the application remains highly available. What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets these requirements?

To access the AWS Security Token Service (STS) you can issue calls directly to the AWS STS Query API. This API is a web service interface that accepts ______ requests.

Your company wants to understand where cost is coming from in the company's production AWS account. There are a number of applications and services running at any given time. Without expending too much initial development time, how best can you give the business a good understanding of which applications cost the most per month to operate?

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Amazon RDS MySOL is used on the backend. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Application Load Balancer health check ensures the web servers are operating and able to make read/write SQL connections. Amazon Route 53 provides DNS functionality with a record pointing to the Application Load Balancer. A new policy requires a geographically isolated disaster recovery site with an RTO of 4 hours and an RPO of 15 minutes. Which disaster recovery strategy will require the LEAST amount of changes to the application stack?

You are hired as the new head of operations for a SaaS company. Your CTO has asked you to make debugging any part of your entire operation simpler and as fast as possible. She complains that she has no idea what is going on in the complex, service-oriented architecture, because the developers just log to disk, and it's very hard to find errors in logs on so many services. How can you best meet this requirement and satisfy your CTO?

An application has microservices spread across different AWS accounts and is integrated with an on-premises legacy system for some of its functionality. Because of the segmented architecture and missing logs, every time the application experiences issues, it is taking too long to gather the logs to identify the issues. A DevOps Engineer must fix the log aggregation process and provide a way to centrally analyze the logs. Which is the MOST efficient and cost-effective solution?

A DevOps Engineer is researching the least-expensive way to implement an image batch processing cluster in AWS. The application cannot run in Docker containers and must run on Amazon EC2. The batch job stores checkpoint data on a Network File System (NFS) and can tolerate interruptions. Configuring the cluster software from a generic EC2 Linux image takes 30 minutes. Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?