Question 1

A database running on Amazon EC2 requires sustained IOPS performance. Which kind of Amazon EBS volume should an Administrator choose for this solution?

Accepted Answer

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 or io2) volumes are designed to provide sustained IOPS performance, making them ideal for databases that require consistent and high-performance I/O operations.

Question 2

What does Amazon RDS perform?

Accepted Answer

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) manages the work involved in setting up, operating, and scaling a relational database in the cloud.

Question 3

The compliance department within your multi-national organization requires that all data for your customers that reside in the European Union (EU) must not leave the EU and also data for customers that reside in the US must not leave the US without explicit authorization. What must you do to comply with this requirement for a web based profile management application running on EC2?

Accepted Answer

The answer of The compliance department within your multi-national organization...

Question 4

A user has launched five instances and have registered them with an ELB. How can the user add the sixth EC2 instance to the ELB?

Accepted Answer

The user can dynamically add instances to an ELB using the AWS Management Console, CLI, or API without stopping the ELB.

Question 5

When you put objects in Amazon S3, what is the indication that an object was successfully stored?

Accepted Answer

A HTTP 200 result code and MD5 checksum indicate that the object was successfully stored in Amazon S3.

Question 6

In regard to AWS CloudFormation, to pass values to your template at runtime you should use ____________.

Accepted Answer

Parameters in AWS CloudFormation allow you to pass values to your template at runtime, enabling you to customize the stack configuration.

Question 7

___________ is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale.

Accepted Answer

Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale.

Question 8

How can an EBS volume that is currently attached to an EC2 instance be migrated from one Availability Zone to another?

Accepted Answer

To migrate an EBS volume to another Availability Zone, you must first create a snapshot of the volume. Then, you can create a new volume from that snapshot in the desired Availability Zone.

Question 9

What is the main use of EMR?

Accepted Answer

EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is primarily used for processing large volumes of data quickly and efficiently, making it ideal for data-intensive processing tasks.

Question 10

You have private video content in S3 that you want to serve to subscribed users on the Internet. User IDs, credentials, and subscriptions are stored in an Amazon RDS database. Which configuration will allow you to securely serve private content to your users?

Accepted Answer

Pre-signed URLs allow temporary access to private S3 content, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can access the content based on their subscription status.

Question 11

Amazon EBS snapshots have which of the following two characteristics? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

EBS snapshots save only the incremental changes since the last snapshot, making them efficient. They can be created without stopping the EC2 instance, allowing for real-time backups.

Question 12

A .NET application that you manage is running in Elastic Beanstalk. Your developers tell you they will need access to application log files to debug issues that arise. The infrastructure will scale up and down. How can you ensure the developers will be able to access only the log files?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A .NET application that you manage is...

Question 13

You run a web application with the following components Elastic Load Balancer (EL8), 3 Web/Application servers, 1 MySQL RDS database with read replicas, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for static content. Average response time for users is increasing slowly. What three CloudWatch RDS metrics will allow you to identify if the database is the bottleneck? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Monitoring the number of outstanding IOs (A) and write latency (B) can help identify if disk access is causing delays. The read replica lag (D) indicates if replicas are not keeping up with the master, which can affect read performance.

Question 14

Which of the following size ranges is true of Individual Amazon S3 objects?

Accepted Answer

Amazon S3 objects can range in size from 0 bytes to 5 terabytes.

Question 15

An application hosted on AWS is going through an external compliance assessment. An Administrator has been tasked with providing proof of physical security at the facilities that are hosting the application. What should the Administrator do?

Accepted Answer

The answer of An application hosted on AWS is going...

Question 16

An application you maintain consists of multiple EC2 instances in a default tenancy VPC. This application has undergone an internal audit and has been determined to require dedicated hardware for one instance. Your compliance team has given you a week to move this instance to single-tenant hardware. Which process will have minimal impact on your application while complying with this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Stopping the instance, creating an AMI, launching a new instance with dedicated tenancy, and terminating the old instance ensures compliance with minimal impact, as it allows for a smooth transition to dedicated hardware.

Question 17

An Administrator has an Amazon EC2 instance with an IPv6 address. The Administrator needs to prevent direct access to this instance from the Internet. The Administrator should place the EC2 instance in a:

Accepted Answer

The answer of An Administrator has an Amazon EC2 instance...

Question 18

What does AMI stand for?

Accepted Answer

AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image, which is a template that contains a software configuration (operating system, application server, and applications) used to create a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

Question 19

What does Amazon SES provide?

Accepted Answer

Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) provides a scalable email sending and receiving service, allowing users to send and receive emails using their own email addresses and domains.

Question 20

What is a security group in Amazon AWS?

Accepted Answer

A security group in AWS acts as a virtual firewall that controls the inbound and outbound traffic for one or more instances, allowing you to specify rules to permit or deny traffic.

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