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A SysOps Administrator has been notified that some Amazon EC2 instances in the company’s environment might have a vulnerable software version installed.What should be done to check all of the instances in the environment with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is maintaining a web application using an Amazon CloudFront web distribution, an Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon RDS, andAmazon EC2 in a VPC.All services have logging enabled.The Administrator needs to investigate HTTP Layer 7 status codes from the web application.Which log sources contain the status codes? (Choose two.)Read More →

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.TheDevelopment team wants to analyze the unhealthy instances before termination.What should the SysOps Administrator do to accomplish this?Read More →

An application running on Amazon EC2 needs login credentials to access a database.The login credentials are stored in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as secure string parameters.What is the MOST secure way to grant the application access to the credentials?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is receiving alerts related to high CPU utilization of a Memcached-based Amazon ElastiCache cluster.Which remediation steps should be taken to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)Read More →

A SysOps Administrator manages an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance in production.The database is accessed by several applications.The Administrator needs to ensure minimal downtime of the applications in the event the database suffers a failure.This change must not impact customer use during regular business hours.Which action will make the database MORE highly available?Read More →

An enterprise is using federated Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to access the AWS Management Console.How should the SAML assertion mapping be configured?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is managing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group.The administrator wants to set an alarm for when all target instances associated with the ALB are unhealthy.Which condition should be used with the alarm?Read More →

A company has deployed a NAT instance to allow web servers to obtain software updates from the internet.There is high latency on the NAT instance as the network grows.A SysOps Administrator needs to reduce latency on the instance in a manner that is efficient, cost-effective, and allows for scaling with future demand.Which action should be taken to accomplish this?Read More →

A security researcher has published a new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) report that impacts a popular operating system.A SysOps Administrator is concerned with the new CVE report and wants to patch the company’s systems immediately.The administrator contacts AWS Support and requests the patch be applied to all Amazon EC2 instances.How will AWS respond to this request?Read More →