SysOps Administrator Associate (Page 26)

A user has enabled instance protection for his Auto Scaling group that has spot instances.If Auto Scaling wants to terminate an instance in this Auto Scaling group due to a CloudWatch trigger unre-lated to bid price, what will happen?Read More →

A company has two VPC networks named VPC A and VPC B.The VPC A CIDR block is 10.0.0.0/16 and the VPC B CIDR block is 172.31.0.0/16.The company wants to establish a VPC peering connection named pcx-12345 between both VPCs.Which rules should appear in the route table of VPC A after configuration? (Choose two.)Read More →

In a hardware security module (HSM), what is the function of a Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)?Read More →

A company analyzes sales data for its customers.Customers upload files to one of the company’s Amazon S3 buckets, and a message is posted to an AmazonSimple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue that contains the object Amazon Resource Name (ARN).An application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance polls the queue and processes the messages.The processing time depends on the size of the file.Customers are reporting delays in the processing of their files.A SysOps administrator decides to configure Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling as the first step.TheSysOps administrator creates an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is based on the existing EC2 instance.The SysOps administrator also creates a launch template that references the AMI.How should the SysOps administrator configure the Auto Scaling policy to improve the response time?Read More →

You are setting up security groups for both incoming traffic and outgoing traffic in your VPC net-work on the AWS CLI.Which of the following AWS CLI commands would you use for adding one or more incoming traffic rules to a security group?Read More →

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.Scale-out actions take a long time to become complete because of long-running boot scripts.A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to reduce the required time for scale-out actions without overprovisioning the Auto Scaling group.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A web service runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancer.External clients must whitelist specific public IP addresses in their firewalls to access the service.What load balancer or ELB feature should be used for this application?Read More →

A company hosts a production MySQL database on an Amazon Aurora single-node DB cluster.The database is queried heavily for reporting purposes.The DB cluster is experiencing periods of performance degradation because of high CPU utilization and maximum connections errors.A SysOps administrator needs to improve the stability of the database.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A web application’s performance has been degrading.Historically, the application has had highly-variable workloads, but lately, there has been a steady growth in traffic as the result of a new product launch.After reviewing several Amazon CloudWatch metrics, it is discovered that over the last two weeks the balance of CPU credits has dropped to zero several times.Which solutions will improve performance? (Choose two.)Read More →

A SysOps administrator has an AWS CloudFormation template of the company’s existing infrastructure in us-west-2.The administrator attempts to use the template to launch a new stack in eu-west-1, but the stack only partially deploys, receives an error message, and then rolls back.Why would this template fail to deploy? (Choose two.)Read More →