SysOps Administrator Associate (Page 30)

A user has setup a CloudWatch alarm on the EC2 instance for CPU utilization.The user has setup to receive a notification on email when the CPU utilization is higher than 60%.The user is running a virus scan on the same instance at a particular time.The user wants to avoid receiving an email at this time.What should the user do?Read More →

A company’s web application is available through an Amazon CloudFront distribution and directly through an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB).A SysOps administrator must make the application accessible only through the CloudFront distribution and not directly through the ALB.The SysOps administrator must make this change without changing the application code.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16.The user has created one subnet with CIDR 20.0.0.0/16 in this VPC.The user is trying to create another subnet with the same VPC for CIDR 20.0.0.1/24.What will happen in this scenario?Read More →

A company runs hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.Each EC2 instance has two attached 1 GiB General Purpose SSD (gp2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.A critical workload is using all the available IOPS capacity on the EBS volumes.According to company policy, the company cannot change instance types or EBS volume types without completing lengthy acceptance tests to validate that the company’s applications will function properly.A SysOps administrator needs to increase the I/O performance of the EBS volumes as quickly as possible.Which action should the SysOps administrator take to meet these requirements?Read More →

A root account owner has given full access of his S3 bucket to one of the IAM users using the bucket ACL.When the IAM user logs in to the S3 console, which actions can he perform?Read More →

A company is expanding globally and needs to back up data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to a different AWS Region.Most of the EBS volumes that store the data are encrypted, but some of the EBS volumes are unencrypted.The company needs the backup data from all the EBS volumes to be encrypted.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?Read More →

A company uses LDAP-based credentials and has a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 identity provider.A SysOps administrator has configured various federated roles in a new AWS account to provide AWS Management Console access for groups of users that use the existing LDAP-based credentials.Several groups want to use the AWS CLI on their workstations to automate daily tasks.To enable them to do so, the SysOps administrator has created an application that authenticates a user and generates a SAML assertionWhich API call should be used to retrieve credentials for federated programmatic access?Read More →

A company has an AWS CloudFormation template that creates an Amazon S3 bucket.A user authenticates to the corporate AWS account with their Active Directory credentials and attempts to deploy the CloudFormation template.However, the stack creation fails.Which factors could cause this failure? (Choose two.)Read More →

A SysOps administrator is implementing automated I/O load performance testing as part of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process for an application.The application uses an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS volume for each instance that is restored from a snapshot and requires consistent I/O performance.During the initial tests, the I/O performance results are sporadic.The SysOps administrator must ensure that the tests yield more consistent results.Which actions could the SysOps administrator take to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)Read More →

An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.Following the deployment of a new feature on the EC2 instances, some instances were marked as unhealthy and then replaced by the Auto Scaling group.The EC2 instances terminated before a SysOps administrator could determine the cause of the health status changes.To troubleshoot this issue, the SysOps administrator wants to ensure that an AWS Lambda function is invoked in this situation.How should the SysOps administrator meet these requirements?Read More →