SysOps Administrator Associate (Page 24)

A company has adopted a security policy that requires all customer data to be encrypted at rest.Currently, customer data is stored on a central Amazon EFS file system and accessed by a number of different applications from Amazon EC2 instances.How can the SysOps Administrator ensure that all customer data stored on the EFS file system meets the new requirement?Read More →

A company stores data in Amazon S3 buckets that are provisioned in three separate AWS Regions.The data is copied from the S3 buckets to the data center over the public internet using a VPN.The SysOps administrator notices that, occasionally, the transfers take longer than usual, and determines the issue is congestion within the company’s ISP network.What is the MOST cost-effective approach the administrator can take to ensure consistent transfer times from S3 to the data center?Read More →

The Database Administration team is interested in performing manual backups of an Amazon RDS Oracle DB instance.What steps should be taken to perform the backups?Read More →

A company has an Amazon EC2 instance that supports a production system.The EC2 instance is backed by an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume.The EBS volume’s drive has filled to 100% capacity, which is causing the application on the EC2 instance to experience errors.Which solution will remediate these errors in the LEAST amount of time?Read More →

An application running on Amazon EC2 instances needs to write files to an Amazon S3 bucket.What is the MOST secure way to grant the application access to the S3 bucket?Read More →

A company is running Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB clusters.The company uses an AWS CloudFormation template to create the databases individually with a default size of 100 GB.The company creates the databases every Monday and deletes the databases every Friday.Occasionally, the databases run low on disk space and initiate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm.A SysOps administrator must prevent the databases from running low on disk space in the future.Which solution will meet these requirements with the FEWEST changes to the application?Read More →

A company has created a separate AWS account for all development work to protect the production environment.In this development account, developers have permission to manipulate IAM policies and roles.Corporate policies require that developers are blocked from accessing some services.What is the BEST way to grant the developers privileges in the development account while still complying with corporate policies?Read More →

A SysOps administrator is re-architecting an application.The SysOps administrator has moved the database from a public subnet, where the database used a public endpoint, into a private subnet to restrict access from the public network.After this change, an AWS Lambda function that requires read access to the database cannot connect to the database.The SysOps administrator must resolve this issue without compromising security.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

Company A purchases Company B and inherits three new AWS accounts.Company A would like to centralize billing and Reserved Instance benefits but wants to keep all other resources separate.How can this be accomplished?Read More →

A SysOps administrator wants to monitor the free disk space that is available on a set of Amazon EC2 instances that have Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached.The SysOps administrator wants to receive a notification when the used disk space of the EBS volumes exceeds a threshold value, but only when the DiskReadOps metric also exceeds a threshold value.The SysOps administrator has set up an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.How can the SysOps administrator receive notification only when both metrics exceed their threshold values?Read More →