SysOps Administrator Associate (Page 79)

A company’s data processing workflow uses AWS Lambda to interact with other AWS services, including AWS Step Functions, Amazon DynamoDB, and AmazonS3.The Lambda functions make several API calls to these services as a part of the workflow.AWS CloudTrail has been enabled in the AWS Region and is logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.The Lambda functions are also logging to CloudWatch Logs.A SysOps administrator notices that a specific Lambda function in the workflow is taking longer to run than it did last month.The SysOps administrator needs to determine the parts of the Lambda function that are experiencing higher-than-normal response times.What solution will accomplish this?Read More →

A SysOps administrator is responsible for managing a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.These EC2 instances upload build artifacts to a third-party service.The third-party service recently implemented strict IP whitelisting that requires all build uploads to come from a single IP address.What change should the systems administrator make to the existing build fleet to comply with this new requirement?Read More →

A SysOps administrator manages an AWS CloudFormation template that provisions Amazon EC2 instances, an Elastic Load Balancer, and Amazon RDS instances.As part of an ongoing transformation project, CloudFormation stacks are being created and deleted continuously.The administrator needs to ensure that the RDS instances continue running after a stack has been deleted.Which action should be taken to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has developed a new memory-intensive application that is deployed to a large Amazon EC2 Linux fleet.The company is concerned about potential memory exhaustion, so the development team wants to monitor memory usage by using Amazon CloudWatch.What is the MOST operationally efficient way to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator has been tasked with deploying a company’s infrastructure as code.The Administrator wants to write a single template that can be reused for multiple environments in a safe, repeatable manner.What is the recommended way to use AWS CloudFormation to meet this requirement?Read More →

An application accesses data through a file system interface.The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones, all of which must share the same data.While the amount of data is currently small, the company anticipates that it will grow to tens of terabytes over the lifetime of the application.What is the MOST scalable storage solution to fulfill the requirement?Read More →

A company has two AWS accounts: development and production.All applications send logs to a specific Amazon S3 bucket for each account, and the Developers are requesting access to the production account S3 buckets to view the logs.Which is the MOST efficient way to provide the Developers with access?Read More →

A SysOps Administrator is running an automatically scaled application behind an Application Load Balancer.Scaling out is triggered when the CPUUtilization instance metric is more than 75% across the Auto Scaling group.The Administrator noticed aggressive scaling out.Developers suspect an application memory leak that is causing aggressive garbage collection cycles.How can the Administrator troubleshoot the application without triggering the scaling process?Read More →

An organization has decided to consolidate storage and move all of its backups and archives to Amazon S3.With all of the data gathered into a hierarchy under a single directory, the organization determines there is 70 TB of data that needs to be uploaded.The organization currently has a 150-Mbps connection with 10 people working at the location.Which service would be the MOST efficient way to transfer this data to Amazon S3?Read More →

After launching a new Amazon EC2 instance from a Microsoft Windows 2012 Amazon Machine Image (AMI), the SysOps Administrator is unable to connect to the instance using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).The instance is also unreachable.As part of troubleshooting, the Administrator deploys a second instance from a different AMI using the same configuration and is able to connect to the instance.What should be the next logical step in troubleshooting the first instance?Read More →