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A company is setting up a VPC peering connection between its VPC and a customer’s VPC.The company VPC is an IPv4 CIDR block of 172.16.0.0/16, and the customer’s is an IPv4 CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16.The SysOps Administrator wants to be able to ping the customer’s database private IP address from one of the company’s Amazon EC2 instances.What action should be taken to meet the requirements?Read More →

A security team is concerned that intellectual property might leak to the internet.A SysOps administrator must identify controls to address the potential problem.The instances in question operate in a VPC and cannot be allowed to send traffic to the internet.What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator deployed an AWS Elastic Beanstalk worker node environment that reads messages from an auto-generated Amazon Simple QueueService (Amazon SQS) queue and deletes them from the queue after processing.Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling scales in and scales out the number of worker nodes based on CPU utilization.After some time, the Administrator notices that the number of messages in the SQS queue are increasing significantly.Which action will remediate this issue?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is using AWS KMS with AWS-generated key material to encrypt an Amazon EBS volume in a company’s AWS environment.TheAdministrator wants to rotate the KMS keys using automatic key rotation, and needs to ensure that the EBS volume encrypted with the current key remains readable.What should be done to accomplish this?Read More →

A company runs an application that uses Amazon RDS for MySQL.During load testing of equivalent production volumes, the Development team noticed a significant increase in query latency.A SysOps Administrator concludes from investigating Amazon CloudWatch Logs that the CPU utilization on the RDS MySQL instance was at 100%.Which action will resolve this issue?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is tasked with deploying and managing a single CloudFormation template across multiple AWS accounts.What feature of AWS CloudFormation will accomplish this?Read More →

Development teams are maintaining several workloads on AWS.Company management is concerned about rising costs and wants the SysOps Administrator to configure alerts so teams are notified when spending approaches preset limits.Which AWS service will satisfy these requirements?Read More →

A developer created a new application that uses Spot Fleet for a variety of instance families across multiple Availability Zones.What should the developer do to ensure that the Spot Fleet is configured for cost optimization?Read More →

A company wants to track Amazon EC2 usage charges that are based on the value of a tag that is named Business-Unit.Company leaders instruct developers to update all EC2 resources with the tag.The developers notify the leaders that they have completed this task.Later that week, a finance team member checks Cost Explorer.The finance team member sees EC2 costs in the different accounts but cannot find the Business-Unit tag to filter by or group by.What is the MOST likely reason that the Business-Unit tag is absent?Read More →

A company has several business units that want to use Amazon EC2.The company wants to require all business units to provision their EC2 instances by using only approved EC2 instance configurations.What should a SysOps administrator do to implement this requirement?Read More →