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

A company is using AWS to deploy an application. The development team must automate the deployments. The team has created an AWS CodePipeline pipeline to deploy the application to Amazon EC2 instances using AWS CodeDeploy after it has been built using AWS CodeBuild. The team wants to add automated testing to the pipeline to confirm that the application is healthy before deploying the code to the EC2 instances. The team also requires a manual approval action before the application is deployed, even if the tests are successful. The testing and approval must be accomplished at the lowest costs, using the simplest management solution. Which solution will meet these requirements?

A consulting company was hired to assess security vulnerabilities within a client company's application and propose a plan to remediate all identified issues. The architecture is identified as follows: Amazon S3 storage for content, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer with attached Amazon EBS storage, and an Amazon RDS MySQL database. There are also several AWS Lambda functions that communicate directly with the RDS database using connection string statements in the code. The consultants identified the top security threat as follows: the application is not meeting its requirement to have encryption at rest. What solution will address this issue with the LEAST operational overhead and will provide monitoring for potential future violations?

A company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy a three-tier web application that stores data in an Amazon RDS MySOL Multi-AZ DB instance. A DevOps Engineer must upgrade the RDS instance to the latest major version of MySQL while incurring minimal downtime. How should the Engineer upgrade the instance while minimizing downtime?

If you are trying to configure an AWS Elastic Beanstalk worker tier for easy debugging if there are problems finishing queue jobs, what should you configure?

A DevOps engineer is writing an AWS CloudFormation template to stand up a web service that will run on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. The Engineer must ensure that the service can accept requests from clients that have IPv6 addresses. Which configuration items should the Engineer incorporate into the CloudFormation template to allow IPv6 clients to access the web service?

A company wants to implement a CI/CD pipeline for an application that is deployed on AWS. The company also has a source-code analysis tool hosted on premises that checks for security flaws. The tool has not yet been migrated to AWS and can be accessed only on-premises server. The company wants to run checks against the source code as part of the pipeline before the code is compiled. The checks take anywhere from minutes to an hour to complete. How can a DevOps Engineer meet these requirements?

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Recently, an issue occurred that prevented EC2 instances from launching successfully, and it took several hours for the Support team to discover the issue. The Support team wants to be notified by email whenever an EC2 instance does not start successfully. Which action will accomplish this?

You have an ELB setup in AWS with EC2 instances running behind it. You have been requested to monitor the incoming connections to the ELB. Which of the below options can suffice this requirement?

In DynamoDB, a secondary index is a data structure that contains a subset of attributes from a table, along with an alternate key to support ______ operations.

A company has mandated a global encryption-at-rest policy. A DevOps engineer has been tasked to ensure that new data uploaded to both new and existing Amazon S3 buckets is encrypted at rest across the company's AWS Organizations organization. There are a number of legacy applications deployed on AWS that use Amazon S3 and do not store data encrypted at rest. These applications MUST continue to operate. The engineer must ensure S3 encryption at rest across the organization without requiring an application code change. How should this be accomplished with MINIMAL effort?

The development team is creating a social media game which ranks users on a scoreboard. The current implementation uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database for storing user data; however, the game cannot display scores quickly enough during performance testing. Which service would provide the fastest retrieval times?

A DevOps Engineer is using AWS CodeDeploy across a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The associated CodeDeploy deployment group, which is integrated with EC2 Auto Scaling, is configured to perform in-place deployments with CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime . During an ongoing new deployment, the Engineer discovers that, although the overall deployment finished successfully, two out of five instances have the previous application revision deployed. The other three instances have the newest application revision. What is likely causing this issue?

You have just recently deployed an application on EC2 instances behind an ELB. After a couple of weeks, customers are complaining on receiving errors from the application. You want to diagnose the errors and are trying to get errors from the ELB access logs. But the ELB access logs are empty. What is the reason for this.

You are building a Ruby on Rails application for internal, non-production use which uses MySQL as a database. You want developers without very much AWS experience to be able to deploy new code with a single command line push. You also want to set this up as simply as possible. Which tool is ideal for this setup?

A healthcare services company is concerned about the growing costs of software licensing for an application for monitoring patient wellness. The company wants to create an audit process to ensure that the application is running exclusively on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. A DevOps Engineer must create a workflow to audit the application to ensure compliance. What steps should the Engineer take to meet this requirement with the LEAST administrative overhead?

You are getting a lot of empty receive requests when using Amazon SQS. This is making a lot of unnecessary network load on your instances. What can you do to reduce this load?

What is the scope of an EBS volume?

A company wants to migrate its content sharing web application hosted on Amazon EC2 to a serverless architecture. The company currently deploys changes to its application by creating a new Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances and a new Elastic Load Balancer, and then shifting the traffic away using an Amazon Route 53 weighted routing policy. For its new serverless application, the company is planning to use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The company will need to update its deployment processes to work with the new application. It will also need to retain the ability to test new features on a small number of users before rolling the features out to the entire user base. Which deployment strategy will meet these requirements?

Your company currently runs a large multi-tier web application. One component is an API service that all other components of your application rely on to perform read/write operations. This service must have high availability and zero downtime during deployments. Which technique should you use to provide cost-effective, zero-downtime deployments for this component?

A Development team wants to deploy an application using AWS CloudFormation stacks, but the Developer IAM role does not currently have the required permissions to provision the resources specified in the CloudFormation template. A DevOps Engineer is tasked with allowing Developers to deploy the stacks while following the principal of least privilege. Which solution will meet these requirements?