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A company’s SysOps administrator needs to change the AWS Support plan for one of the company’s AWS accounts.The account has multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated, and the MFA device is lost.What should the SysOps administrator do to sign in?Read More →

A company runs a worker process on three Amazon EC2 instances.The instances are in an Auto Scaling group that is configured to use a simple scaling policy.The instances process messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.Random periods of increased messages are causing a decrease in the performance of the worker process.A SysOps administrator must scale the instances to accommodate the increased number of messages.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is expanding its fleet of Amazon EC2 instances before an expected increase of traffic.When a SysOps administrator attempts to add more instances, an InstanceLimitExceeded error is returned.What should the SysOps administrator do to resolve this error?Read More →

A company runs a stateless application that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance.Users are reporting performance issues.A SysOps administrator reviews theAmazon CloudWatch metrics for the application and notices that the instance’s CPU utilization frequently reaches 90% during business hours.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that will improve the application’s responsiveness?Read More →

An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on the shopping site.When viewing recent Amazon CloudWatch metrics data for the ElastiCache cluster, the SysOps administrator notices a large number of evictions.Which of the following actions will reduce these evictions? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company’s architecture team must receive immediate email notification whenever new Amazon EC2 instances are launched in the company’s main AWS production account.‘What should a SysOps administrator do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company wants to track its expenditures for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS within AWS.The company decides to implement more rigorous tagging requirements for resources in its AWS accounts.A SysOps administrator needs to identify all noncompliant resources.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets this requirement?Read More →

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.A SysOps administrator notices that some of these EC2 instances show up as healthy in the Auto Scaling group but show up as unhealthy in the ALB target group.What is a possible reason for this issue?Read More →

A company’s SysOps administrator manages a fleet of Windows Amazon EC2 instances that run in a single AWS account.The instances have a tag that includes a key of “OS” and a value of “Windows.” The company uses AWS Systems Manager to patch the instances.The company has installed the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the instances, but the configuration is inconsistent.The SysOps administrator needs to reconfigure every instance to use the same predefined CloudWatch configuration.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A SysOps administrator is managing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an 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 →