SysOps Administrator Associate (Page 38)

A company is expanding its use of AWS services across its portfolios.The company wants to provision AWS accounts for each team to ensure a separation of business processes for security, compliance, and billing.Account creation and bootstrapping should be completed in a scalable and efficient way so new accounts are created with a defined baseline and governance guardrails in place.A SysOps administrator needs to design a provisioning process that saves time and resources.Which action should be taken to meet these requirements?Read More →

A SysOps administrator creates an AWS CloudFormation template to define an application stack that can be deployed in multiple AWS Regions.The SysOps administrator also creates an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard by using the AWS Management Console.Each deployment of the application requires its own CloudWatch dashboard.How can the SysOps administrator automate the creation of the CloudWatch dashboard each time the application is deployed?Read More →

A company has a web application that is experiencing performance problems many times each night.A root cause analysis reveals spikes in CPU utilization that last 5 minutes on an Amazon EC2 Linux instance.A SysOps administrator is tasked with finding the process ID (PID) of the service or process that is consuming more CPU.How can the administrator accomplish this with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A SysOps administrator is required to monitor free space on Amazon EBS volumes attached to Microsoft Windows-based Amazon EC2 instances within a company’s account.The administrator must be alerted to potential issues.What should the administrator do to receive email alerts before low storage space affects EC2 instance performance?Read More →

The chief financial officer (CFO) of an organization has seen a spike in Amazon S3 storage costs over the last few months.A SysOps administrator suspects that these costs are related to storage for older versions of S3 objects from one of its S3 buckets.What can the administrator do to confirm this suspicion?Read More →

A company’s SysOps administrator has created an Amazon EC2 instance with custom software that will be used as a template for all new EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. The Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance are encrypted with AWS managed keys.The SysOps administrator creates an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of the custom EC2 instance and plans to share the AMI with the company’s other AWS accounts. The company requires that all AMIs are encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys and that only authorized AWS accounts can access the shared AMIs.Which solution will securely share the AMI with the other AWS accounts?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is deploying a legacy web application on AWS.The application has four Amazon EC2 instances behind a Classic Load Balancer and stores data in an Amazon RDS instance.The legacy application has known vulnerabilities to SQL injection attacks, but the application code is no longer available to update.What cost-effective configuration change should the Administrator make to mitigate the risk of SQL injection attacks?Read More →

A company hosts a web portal on Amazon EC2 instances.The web portal uses an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Amazon Route 53 for its public DNS service.The ELB and the EC2 instances are deployed by way of a single AWS CloudFormation stack in the us-east-1 Region.The web portal must be highly available across multiple Regions.Which configuration will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is hosting backend web services across Amazon EC2 Linux instances in public subnets in a VPC.A SysOps administrator tries to connect to the instance by using SSH but is unable to connect.What could be the cause of the failed connection?Read More →

A team of developers is using several Amazon S3 buckets as centralized repositories. Users across the world upload large sets of files to these repositories. The development team’s applications later process these files.A SysOps administrator sets up a new S3 bucket, DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET, to support a new workload, The rew S3 bucket also receives regular uploads cf large sets of files from users worldwide. When the new S3 bucket is put into production, the upload performance from certain geographic areas is lower than the upload performance that the existing $3 buckets provideWhat should the SysOps administrator do to remediate this issue?Read More →