SysOps Administrator Associate (Page 67)

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 →

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 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 →

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’s web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region.The infrastructure must be designed so the application remains available with no performance degradation in the event of an Availability Zone (AZ) failure.To ensure optimal performance, the application must maintain a minimum of 12 instances at all times.Which solution will meet the requirements with the fewest running instances possible?Read More →

After a particularly high AWS bill, an organization wants to review the use of AWS services.What AWS service will allow the SysOps Administrator to quickly view this information to share it, and will also forecast expenses for the current billing period?Read More →

A company stores its internal data within an Amazon S3 bucket.All existing data within the S3 bucket is protected by using server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed encryption keys (SSE-S3).S3 Versioning is enabled.A SysOps administrator must replicate the internal data to another S3 bucket in a different AWS account for disaster recovery.All the existing data is copied from the source S3 bucket to the destination S3 bucket.Which replication solution is MOST operationally efficient?Read More →

A sysops administrator created an AWS Lambda function within a VPC with no access to the Internet.The Lambda function pulls messages from an Amazon SQS queue and stores them in an Amazon RDS instance in the same VPC.After executing the Lambda function, the data is not showing up on the RDS instance.Which of the following are possible causes for this? (Choose two.)Read More →

A custom application must be installed on all Amazon EC2 instances.The application is small, updated frequently, and can be installed automatically.How can the application be deployed on new EC2 instances?Read More →

A developer is deploying a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and notices that the application is not receiving all the expected elements from HTTP requests.The developer suspects users are not sending the correct query string.How should a sysops administrator verify this?Read More →