Question 1

A user wants to make so that whenever the CPU utilization of the AWS EC2 instance is above 90%, the redlight of his bedroom turns on. Which of the below mentioned AWS services is helpful for this purpose?

Accepted Answer

AWS CloudWatch can monitor the CPU utilization and trigger an alarm when it exceeds 90%. AWS SNS can then be used to send a notification or trigger an action, such as turning on the light through an IoT device or service.

Question 2

A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16. The user has created public and VPN only subnets along with hardware VPN access to connect to the user's datacenter. The user wants to make so that all traffic coming to the public subnet follows the organization's proxy policy. How can the user make this happen?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A user has created a VPC with...

Question 3

An organization (Account ID 123412341234. has attached the below mentioned IAM policy to a user. What does this policy statement entitle the user to perform?

Accepted Answer

The answer of An organization (Account ID 123412341234. has attached...

Question 4

A user has configured Elastic Load Balancing by enabling a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) negotiation configuration known as a Security Policy. Which of the below mentioned options is not part of this secure policy while negotiating the SSL connection between the user and the client?

Accepted Answer

The Client Order Preference is not part of the security policy in SSL negotiation. The security policy typically includes SSL Protocols, SSL Ciphers, and Server Order Preference.

Question 5

A user has created an ELB with Auto Scaling. Which of the below mentioned offerings from ELB helps the user to stop sending new requests traffic from the load balancer to the EC2 instance when the instance is being deregistered while continuing in-flight requests?

Accepted Answer

ELB connection draining allows existing in-flight requests to complete while preventing new requests from being sent to instances that are being deregistered.

Question 6

A user is trying to configure the CloudWatch billing alarm. Which of the below mentioned steps should be performed by the user for the first time alarm creation in the AWS Account Management section?

Accepted Answer

The user must enable receiving billing alerts in the AWS Account Management section to create a CloudWatch billing alarm for the first time.

Question 7

A user has received a message from the support team that an issue occurred 1 week back between 3 AM to 4 AM and the EC2 server was not reachable. The user is checking the CloudWatch metrics of that instance. How can the user find the data easily using the CloudWatch console?

Accepted Answer

The user can use the Absolute tab in the CloudWatch console to specify the exact time range (1 week back between 3 AM to 4 AM) to view the metrics for that specific period.

Question 8

A user has launched two EBS backed EC2 instances in the US-East-1a region. The user wants to change the zone of one of the instances. How can the user change it?

Accepted Answer

To change the availability zone of an EC2 instance, the user must create an AMI of the instance and then launch a new instance from that AMI in the desired availability zone. Availability zones cannot be changed directly.

Question 9

A user has created a queue named "myqueue" in US-East region with AWS SQS. The user's AWS account ID is 123456789012. If the user wants to perform some action on this queue, which of the below Queue URL should he use?

Accepted Answer

The correct format for an SQS queue URL includes the region and account ID, as shown in option A.

Question 10

An organization is planning to use AWS for 5 different departments. The finance department is responsible to pay for all the accounts. However, they want the cost separation for each account to map with the right cost center. How can the finance department achieve this?

Accepted Answer

Consolidated billing allows the finance department to manage payments while providing cost separation for each account, enabling mapping to the correct cost center.

Question 11

A user has configured ELB with two EBS backed EC2 instances. The user is trying to understand the DNS access and IP support for ELB. Which of the below mentioned statements may not help the user understand the IP mechanism supported by ELB?

Accepted Answer

The statement that ELB supports either IPV4 or IPV6 but not both is incorrect because ELB can support both IPV4 and IPV6 using Dualstack.

Question 12

A user has launched an EBS backed EC2 instance. What will be the difference while performing the restart or stop/start options on that instance?

Accepted Answer

Restarting an instance does not incur any additional charges, while stopping and starting an instance will be charged as a separate hour.

Question 13

You are managing the AWS account of a big organization. The organization has more than 1000+ employees and they want to provide access to the various services to most of the employees. Which of the below mentioned options is the best possible solution in this case?

Accepted Answer

The answer of You are managing the AWS account of...

Question 14

A user is launching an instance. He is on the "Tag the instance" screen. Which of the below mentioned information will not help the user understand the functionality of an AWS tag?

Accepted Answer

The maximum length for a tag key is 128 Unicode characters, not 64.

Question 15

A user has configured CloudWatch monitoring on an EBS backed EC2 instance. If the user has not attached any additional device, which of the below mentioned metrics will always show a 0 value?

Accepted Answer

DiskReadBytes will show a 0 value if no additional device is attached, as there would be no disk read operations occurring.

Question 16

A user has setup an EBS backed instance and a CloudWatch alarm when the CPU utilization is more than 65%. The user has setup the alarm to watch it for 5 periods of 5 minutes each. The CPU utilization is 60% between 9 AM to 6 PM. The user has stopped the EC2 instance for 15 minutes between 11 AM to 11:15 AM. What will be the status of the alarm at 11:30 AM?

Accepted Answer

The alarm will be in OK status at 11:30 AM because the CPU utilization has been below 65% for the past 5 periods of 5 minutes each. The instance was stopped for 15 minutes between 11 AM to 11:15 AM, but this does not affect the alarm status because the alarm is only triggered when the CPU utilization is above 65% for 5 consecutive periods.

Question 17

A sys admin is trying to understand EBS snapshots. Which of the below mentioned statements will not be useful to the admin to understand the concepts about a snapshot?

Accepted Answer

EBS snapshots are asynchronous, not synchronous.

Question 18

A user is checking the CloudWatch metrics from the AWS console. The user notices that the CloudWatch data is coming in UTC. The user wants to convert the data to a local time zone. How can the user perform this?

Accepted Answer

In the CloudWatch console, the user can select the local time zone under the Time Range tab to view the data as per the local timezone.

Question 19

A user has launched an EC2 instance from an instance store backed AMI. The infrastructure team wants to create an AMI from the running instance. Which of the below mentioned steps will not be performed while creating the AMI?

Accepted Answer

Defining the AMI launch permissions is not a step performed during the creation of an AMI from an instance store-backed instance. It is a separate action that can be done after the AMI is created to control who can launch instances from it.

Question 20

An organization has setup consolidated billing with 3 different AWS accounts. Which of the below mentioned advantages will organization receive in terms of the AWS pricing?

Accepted Answer

Consolidated billing allows the organization to combine usage across accounts, which can lead to volume discounts, such as for S3 storage.

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