AWS – SysOps Back to Exams Page. 1. A sys admin is maintaining an application on AWS. The application is installed on EC2 and the user has configured ELB and Auto Scaling. Considering future load increase, the user is planning to launch new servers proactively so that they can be registered with ELB. How can the user add these instances with Auto Scaling? Increase the maximum limit of the Auto Scaling group Decrease the minimum limit of the Auto Scaling group Increase the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group Launch an instance manually and register it with ELB on the flyQuestion 1 of 50 2. An organization has created five IAM users. The organization wants to give them the same login ID but different passwords. How can the organization achieve this? The organization should create each user in a separate region so that they have their own URL to login The organization should create various groups and add each user with the same login ID to different groups. The users can login with their own group IDs The organization should create a separate login ID but give the IAM users the same alias so that each one can login with their alias It is not possible to have the same login ID for multiple IAM users on the same accountQuestion 2 of 50 3. To retain full administrative privileges of the underlying EC2 instances, which services should be used? (Choose two) Amazon Elastic Map Reduce Elastic Load Balancing Amazon Elasticache Amazon Relational Database service AWS Elastic BeanstalkQuestion 3 of 50 4. How can the domain’s zone apex, for example ‘myzoneapexdomain com’, be pointed toward an Elastic Load Balancer? By using an Amazon Route 53 Alias record By using an AAAA record By using an A record By using an Amazon Route 53 CNAME recordQuestion 4 of 50 5. What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder? It is a specialized file conversion network that uploads your files to AWS It is a file-sharing entity of AWS It is a service that lets you convert video files stored in your Amazon Simple Storage Service It is a service that lets you stream videos from AWSQuestion 5 of 50 6. A user has created an ELB with three instances. How many security groups will ELB create by default? 5 2 1 3Question 6 of 50 7. A user has launched ten instances from the same AMI ID using Auto Scaling. The user is trying to see the average CPU utilization across all instances over the last two weeks under the CloudWatch console. How can the user achieve this? View the Auto Scaling CPU metrics Aggregate the data over the instance AMI ID Use the CloudWatchanalyser to find the average data across instancesQuestion 7 of 50 8. What would happen after a scale down policy action if an instance is under termination protection? The instance will remain as is The instance will not be terminated but will be excluded from the autoscaling group The instance will be kicked from ELB and the autoscaling group The instance will be terminatedQuestion 8 of 50 9. A user is trying to pre-warm a blank EBS volume attached to a Linux instance. Which of the following steps should be performed by the user? Contact AWS support to pre-warm Unmount the volume before pre-warming Format the device There is no need to pre-warm an EBS volumeQuestion 9 of 50 10. An organization is deploying a new web application. The project manager asks you to provide a multi-region deployment of a web-facing application where a controlled portion of the traffic is being processed by an alternate region. Which configuration would achieve that goal? Elastic Load Balancing with health checks enabled Route53 record sets with latency based routing policy Auto Scaling with scheduled scaling actions set Route53 record sets with weighted routing policyQuestion 10 of 50 11. An application is generating a log file every 5 minutes. The log file is not critical but may be required only for verification in case of some major issue. The file should be accessible over the internet whenever required. Which of the following options is the best possible storage solution? AWS RRS AWS Glacier AWS RDS AWS S3Question 11 of 50 12. The finance team wants to visualize the pattern of an organization’s AWS spending. The AWS tool that helps with this requirement is . AWS Cost Manager AWS Cost Explorer AWS CloudWatch AWS Consolidated Billing Question 12 of 50 13. A user has configured CloudWatch monitoring on an EBS backed EC2 instance. If the user has not attached any additional device, which of the following metrics will always show a 0 value? DiskReadBytes CPUUtilization NetworkIn NetworkOutQuestion 13 of 50 14. A user is trying to configure the CloudWatch billing alarm. Which of the below mentioned steps should the user perform for first time alarm creation in the AWS Account Management section? Enable Receiving Billing Alerts Enable CloudWatch Billing Threshold Enable Receiving Billing Reports Enable AWS billing utilityQuestion 14 of 50 15. A user is trying to aggregate all the CloudWatch metric data from the last week. Which of the following statistics is not available for the user as a part of data aggregation? Sum Aggregate Sample data AverageQuestion 15 of 50 16. An organization has created 50 IAM users. The organization wants each user to be able to change his or her password but not change his or her access keys. How can the organization achieve this? The root account owner has to use CLI, which forces each IAM user to change his or her password on first login The organization has to create a special password policy and attach it to each user By default, each IAM user can modify his or her password The root account owner can set the policy from the IAM console under the password policy screenQuestion 16 of 50 17. An admin is planning to monitor the ELB. Which of the below mentioned services does not help the admin capture the monitoring information about the ELB activity? ELB Access logs ELB health check CloudWatch metrics ELB API calls with CloudTrailQuestion 17 of 50 18. You are running a database on an EC2 instance, with the data stored on Elastic Block Store (EBS) for persistence. At times throughout the day, you are seeing a large variance in the database queries’ response times. Looking into the instance with the isolate command, you see a lot of wait time on the disk volume that the database’s data is stored on. What two ways can you improve the performance of the database’s storage, while maintaining the current persistence of the data? (Choose two) Move to an SSD backed instance T Use Provisioned IOPs EBS Move the database to an EBS-Optimized instance Use the ephemeral storage on an m2 4xlarge instance insteadQuestion 18 of 50 19. A user has received a message from the support team that an issue occurred one week ago between 3 AM to 4 AM, and the EC2 server was not reachable. The user is checking the CloudWatch metrics of that instance. How can the user easily find the data using the CloudWatch console? The user can find the data by giving the exact values in the Time tab under CloudWatch It is not possible to find the exact time from the console. The user has to use CLI to provide the specific time The user can find the data by giving the exact values in the Absolute tab under CloudWatch metrics The user can find the data by filtering values of the last one week for a one hour period in the Relative tab under CloudWatch metricsQuestion 19 of 50 20. For a AWS cloud project, the team lead created individual AWS accounts for each project. However, project manager asked to make sure that the AWS Infrastructure costs do not exceed the budget set per project for each month. Which of the following approaches can help ensure that you do not exceed the budget each month? Set up CloudWatch billing alerts for all AWS resources used by each project, with a notification occurring when the amount for each resource tagged to a particular project matches the budget allocated to the project Set up CloudWatch billing alerts for all AWS resources used by each account, with email notifications when it hits 50%, 80%, and 90% of its budgeted monthly spending Set up auto scaling with CloudWatch alarms using SNS to notify you when you are running too many instances in a given account Consolidate your accounts so you have a single bill for all accounts and projectsQuestion 20 of 50 21. A user has configured an Auto Scaling group with ELB. The user has enabled detailed CloudWatch monitoring on Elastic Load balancing. Which of the following statements will help the user better understand this functionality? ELB sends data to CloudWatch only every minute and does not charge the user ELB is not supported by CloudWatch It is not possible to setup detailed monitoring for ELB ELB will send data every minute and will charge the user extraQuestion 21 of 50 22. A user has configured an Auto Scaling group with ELB. The user has enabled detailed CloudWatch monitoring on Auto Scaling. Which of the following statements will help the user better understand the functionality? Auto Scaling only sends data every minute and does not charge the user It is not possible to setup detailed monitoring for Auto Scaling Detailed monitoring will send data every minute without additional charges In this case, Auto Scaling will send data every minute and will charge the user extraQuestion 22 of 50 23. is not the right option to grant permission for S3. User Access Policy S3 Object Access Policy S3 Bucket Access Policy S3 ACL Question 23 of 50 24. What will happen to the instances if the user deletes the ELB by mistake? ELB will ask the user whether to delete the instances The instances will be terminated The instances will keep running ELB cannot be deleted if it has running instances registered with itQuestion 24 of 50 25. A user has configured ELB with three instances. The user wants to achieve High Availability, as well as redundancy, with ELB. Which of the following AWS services will help the user achieve this for ELB? Route 53 AWS EMR Auto Scaling AWS Mechanical TurkQuestion 25 of 50 26. If the primary instance fails, what will happen to an RDS (Relational Database Service) multi-Availability Zone deployment? A new DB instance is created in the standby availability zone The canonical name record (CNAME) is changed from primary to standby The RDS (Relational Database Service) DB instance reboots The IP of the primary DB instance is switched to the standby OB instanceQuestion 26 of 50 27. In which area should the instance type definition be changed if we change the instance type for instances running in the application tier using Auto Scaling? Auto Scaling group Auto Scaling launch configuration Auto Scaling policy Auto Scaling tagsQuestion 27 of 50 28. For each AWS account, what is the maximum number of EBS volumes that can be created? 5000 1000 10000 100Question 28 of 50 29. An organization wants to move to Cloud. It is looking for a secure encrypted database storage option. Which of the following AWS functionalities will help them to achieve this? AWS EBS encryption AWS MFA with EBS Multi-tier encryption with Redshift AWS S3 server side storageQuestion 29 of 50 30. A user has enabled detailed CloudWatch metric monitoring on an Auto Scaling group. Which of the following metrics will help the user identify the total number of instances in an Auto Scaling group, including pending, terminating, and running instances? GroupSumInstances GroupInstancesCount GroupTotalInstances It is not possible to obtain a count of all the three metrics together. The user has to find the individual number of running, terminating, and pending instances and sum them.Question 30 of 50 31. A user has setup a billing alarm using CloudWatch for $200. The usage of AWS exceeded $200 after some days. The user wants to increase the limit from $200 to $400. What should the user do? Create a new alarm for the additional $200 amount It is not possible to modify the alarm once it has crossed the usage limit Update the alarm to set the limit at $400 instead of $200 Create a new alarm of $400 and link it with the first alarmQuestion 31 of 50 32. Which of the below mentioned actions is not supported by the CloudWatch alarm for an EC2 instance? Notify the Auto Scaling group to scale down Send an SMS using SNS Notify the Auto Scaling launch config to scale up Stop the EC2 instanceQuestion 32 of 50 33. A user is trying to understand AWS SNS. To which of the following end points is SNS unable to send a notification? Email JSON AWS SQS AWS SES HTTPQuestion 33 of 50 34. What is a placement group? A collection of Auto Scaling groups in the same Region A collection of authorized Cloud Front edge locations for a distribution A feature that allows EC2 instances to interact with each other via nigh bandwidth, low latency connections A collection of Elastic Load Balancers in the same Region or Availability ZoneQuestion 34 of 50 35. Which of the following services will help the admin set up notifications on RDS? AWS SNS AWS Cloudwatch AWS Cloudtrail AWS SESQuestion 35 of 50 36. Which of the following statements are true and should be considered by the sysadmin who is managing buckets, objects, and folders with AWS S3? Folders can have a policy The folders support only ACL Both the object and bucket can have an Access Policy but the folder cannot have a policy Both the object and bucket can have ACL but folders cannot have ACLQuestion 36 of 50 37. What are the steps to delete an Auto Scaling group from CLI? Terminate the instances with the ec2-terminate-instance command Terminate the Auto Scaling instances with the as-terminate-instance command There is no need to change the capacity. Run the as-delete-group command, and it will reset all values to 0 Set the minimum size and desired capacity to 0Question 37 of 50 38. A user has configured the Auto Scaling group with a minimum capacity of 3 and a maximum capacity of 5. When the user configures the AS group, how many instances will Auto Scaling launch? 0 5 3 2Question 38 of 50 39. Which of the following parameters is not required to setup a scheduled scaling activity using Auto Scaling? Recurrence value Auto Scaling group name Maximum size End timeQuestion 39 of 50 40. A user has deployed an application on his private cloud. The user is using his own monitoring tool. He wants to configure it so that whenever there is an error, the monitoring tool will notify him via SMS. Which of the following AWS services will help in this scenario? AWS SNS AWS SES AWS SMS None because the user infrastructure is in the private cloudQuestion 40 of 50 41. __________ requires a custom CloudWatch metric to monitor. Memory Utilization of an EC2 instance CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance Disk usage activity of an EC2 instance Data transfer of an EC2 instanceQuestion 41 of 50 42. How can we share the stored data on an encrypted EBS volume with another AWS account? If both the accounts are using the same encryption key, then the user can share the volume directly Take a snapshot and share the snapshot with a friend Copy the data to an unencrypted volume and then share Create an AMI from the volume and share the AMIQuestion 42 of 50 43. Which of the following options will not save some costs on the AWS services? Delete the unutilized EBS volumes once the instance is terminated Delete the AWS ELB after the instances are terminated Delete the AutoScaling launch configuration after the instances are terminated Release the elastic IP if not required once the instance is terminatedQuestion 43 of 50 44. What happens to the data when an EC2 EBS-backed (EBS root) instance is stopped? Data Is automatically saved in an EBS volume Data will be deleted and will no longer be accessible Data is unavailable until the instance is restarted Data Is automatically saved as an E8S snapshotQuestion 44 of 50 45. What are the characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two) S3 allows you to store virtually unlimited amounts of data S3 allows you to store objects of virtually unlimited size S3 should be used to host a relational database S3 offers Provisioned IOPS Objects are directly accessible via a URLQuestion 45 of 50 46. A user runs the command “dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdfbs=1M” on a fresh blank EBS volume attached to a Linux instance. Which of the following activities is the user performing with the command given above? Pre-warming the EBS volume Formatting the EBS volume Mounting the device to the instance Creating a file system on the EBS volumeQuestion 46 of 50 47. You use S3 to store critical data for your company. Several users within your group currently have lull permissions to your S3 buckets. You need to come up with a solution that does not impact your users and also protects against the accidental deletion of objects. Which two options will address this issue? (Choose two) Enable versioning on your S3 Buckets Configure your S3 Buckets with MFA delete Enable object life cycle policies and configure the data older than three months to be archived in Glacier Create a Bucket policy and only allow read only permissions to all users at the bucket levelQuestion 47 of 50 48. You receive a frantic call from a new DBA who accidentally dropped a table containing all your customers. Which Amazon RDS feature will allow you to reliably restore your database to within five minutes of when the mistake was made? RDS snapshots Multi-AZ RDS RDS automated backup RDS read replicasQuestion 48 of 50 49. You are running a web-application on AWS consisting of the following components: An Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), an Auto-Scaling Group of EC2 instances running Linux/PHP/Apache, and Relational DataBase Service (RDS) MySQL. Which security measures fall into AWS’s responsibility? Protect the EC2 instances against unsolicited access by enforcing the principle of least privilege access Protect against IP spoofing or packet sniffing Install the latest security patches on ELB, RDS, and EC2 instances Assure all communication between EC2 instances and ELB is encryptedQuestion 49 of 50 50. AWS Cloud formation can be used for automatic deployment requirements. Which of the following components are required as a part of the template? Template version Parameters Outputs ResourcesQuestion 50 of 50 Loading…