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

A new application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and accesses data in an Amazon RDS database instance. When fully deployed in production, the application fails. The database can be queried from a console on a bastion host. When looking at the web server logs, the following error is repeated multiple times: *** Error Establishing a Database Connection. Which of the following may be causes of the connectivity problems? (Choose two.)

A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability for an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server and a secondary passive server. Route 53 should route traffic to the primary server if the associated health check returns 2xx or 3xx HTTP codes. All other traffic should be directed to the secondary passive server. The failover record type, set ID, and routing policy have been set appropriately for both primary and secondary servers. Which next step should be taken to configure Route 53?

What does the AWS Storage Gateway provide?

A recent organizational audit uncovered an existing Amazon RDS database that is not currently configured for high availability. Given the critical nature of this database, it must be configured for high availability as soon as possible. How can this requirement be met?

A company's IT department noticed an increase in the spend of their Developer AWS account. There are over 50 Developers using the account, and the Finance team wants to determine the service costs incurred by each Developer. What should a SysOps Administrator do to collect this information? (Choose two.)

A company is storing monthly reports on Amazon S3. The company's security requirement states that traffic from the client VPC to Amazon S3 cannot traverse the internet. What should the SysOps Administrator do to meet this requirement?

What does Amazon IAM provide?

What does the "configure" command allow an Administrator to do when setting up the AWS CLI? (Choose two.)

In IAM, a policy has to include the information about who (user) is allowed to access the resource, known as the _____.

In the 'Detailed' monitoring data available for your Amazon EBS volumes, Provisioned IOPS volumes automatically send _____ minute metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.

An organization has developed a new memory-intensive application that is deployed to a large Amazon EC2 Linux fleet. There is concern about potential memory exhaustion, so the Development team wants to monitor memory usage by using Amazon CloudWatch. What is the MOST efficient way to accomplish this goal?

Your business is building a new application that will store its entire customer database on a RDS MySQL database, and will have various applications and users that will query that data for different purposes. Large analytics jobs on the database are likely to cause other applications to not be able to get the query results they need to, before time out. Also, as your data grows, these analytics jobs will start to take more time, increasing the negative effect on the other applications. How do you solve the contention issues between these different workloads on the same data?

A user is trying to connect to a running EC2 instance using SSH. However, the user gets a connection time out error. Which of the below mentioned options is not a possible reason for rejection?

A SysOps Administrator is notified that an automated failover of an Amazon RDS database has occurred. What are possible causes for this? (Choose two.)

A company manages multiple AWS accounts and wants to provide access to AWS from a single management account using an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory domain. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon Route 53 is used for DNS and points to the load balancer. A SysOps Administrator has launched a new Auto Scaling group with a new version of the application, and wants to gradually shift traffic to the new version. How can this be accomplished?

A user has configured an EC2 instance in the US-East-1a zone. The user has enabled detailed monitoring of the instance. The user is trying to get the data from CloudWatch using a CLI. Which of the below mentioned CloudWatch endpoint URLs should the user use?

A medical imaging company needs to process large amounts of imaging data in real time using a specific instance type. The company wants to guarantee sufficient resource capacity for 1 year. Which action will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?

A SysOps administrator is testing a new batch job. The batch job will upload 20 GB of data from Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet to an Amazon S3 bucket each day. After the first test is complete, a small cost is reported. The cost has the heading "NAT Gateway - Data Processed." Which change can the SysOps administrator make to eliminate this cost for future tests?

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an Auto Scaling group that terminates unhealthy instances. The Auto Scaling group is configured to determine the health status of EC2 instances using both EC2 status checks and ALB health checks. The Development team wants to analyze the unhealthy instances before termination. What should the SysOps Administrator do to accomplish this?