Question 1

A user has created a web application with Auto Scaling. The user is regularly monitoring the application and he observed that the traffic is highest on Thursday and Friday between 8 AM to 6 PM. What is the best solution to handle scaling in this case?

Accepted Answer

Scheduling Auto Scaling to scale up and down based on the known traffic pattern is the most efficient and automated way to handle predictable traffic spikes.

Question 2

When an EC2 EBS-backed (EBS root) instance is stopped, what happens to the data on any ephemeral store volumes?

Accepted Answer

Ephemeral store volumes are temporary storage that is physically attached to the host computer. When an EC2 instance is stopped, the data on these volumes is deleted and cannot be recovered.

Question 3

A user is trying to aggregate all the CloudWatch metric data of the last 1 week. Which of the below mentioned statistics is not available for the user as a part of data aggregation?

Accepted Answer

The "Aggregate" statistic is not a standard CloudWatch statistic available for data aggregation. CloudWatch provides statistics like Sum, SampleCount, and Average.

Question 4

A media company produces new video files on-premises every day with a total size of around 100 GBS after compression All files have a size of 1 -2 GB and need to be uploaded to Amazon S3 every night in a fixed time window between 3am and 5am Current upload takes almost 3 hours, although less than half of the available bandwidth is used. What step(s) would ensure that the file uploads are able to complete in the allotted time window?

Accepted Answer

Uploading the files in parallel to S3 can help utilize the available bandwidth more efficiently, reducing the total upload time and ensuring completion within the allotted time window.

Question 5

A customer has a web application that uses cookie Based sessions to track logged in users. It is deployed on AWS using ELB and Auto Scaling. The customer observes that when load increases. Auto Scaling launches new Instances but the load on the easting Instances does not decrease, causing all existing users have a sluggish experience. Which two answer choices independently describe a behavior that could be the cause of the sluggish user experience? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Sticky sessions cause requests to be sent to the same instance, leading to uneven load distribution. Long polling or websockets keep connections open, preventing load from being balanced across new instances.

Question 6

What are characteristics of Amazon S3? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Amazon S3 allows objects to be directly accessible via a URL and provides the capability to store virtually unlimited amounts of data.

Question 7

A user has setup a CloudWatch alarm on an EC2 action when the CPU utilization is above 75%. The alarm sends a notification to SNS on the alarm state. If the user wants to simulate the alarm action how can he achieve this?

Accepted Answer

The user can set the alarm state to 'Alarm' using the AWS CLI to simulate the alarm action without actually increasing the CPU utilization.

Question 8

A user is planning to use AWS Cloud formation for his automatic deployment requirements. Which of the below mentioned components are required as a part of the template?

Accepted Answer

Resources are the only mandatory component in an AWS CloudFormation template, as they define the AWS resources to be created.

Question 9

An organization's security policy requires multiple copies of all critical data to be replicated across at least a primary and backup data center. The organization has decided to store some critical data on Amazon S3. Which option should you implement to ensure this requirement is met?

Accepted Answer

Amazon S3 automatically replicates data across multiple facilities within an AWS Region, ensuring durability and availability without additional configuration.

Question 10

A user is trying to save some cost on the AWS services. Which of the below mentioned options will not help him save cost?

Accepted Answer

Deleting the AutoScaling launch configuration does not incur costs, so it will not help in saving costs.

Question 11

An organization has created 5 IAM users. The organization wants to give them the same login ID but different passwords. How can the organization achieve this?

Accepted Answer

IAM users within the same AWS account must have unique login IDs. It is not possible to have the same login ID for multiple IAM users in the same account.

Question 12

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 mat does not impact your users and also protect against the accidental deletion of objects. Which two options will address this issue? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Versioning allows you to recover objects that were accidentally deleted. MFA delete requires users to provide an additional authentication factor when deleting objects, which helps prevent accidental deletion.

Question 13

A user has deployed an application on his private cloud. The user is using his own monitoring tool. He wants to configure that whenever there is an error, the monitoring tool should notify him via SMS. Which of the below mentioned AWS services will help in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) can be used to send SMS notifications, even if the application is deployed on a private cloud, as long as the monitoring tool can interact with AWS services.

Question 14

Your company Is moving towards tracking web page users with a small tracking Image loaded on each page Currently you are serving this image out of US-East, but are starting to get concerned about the time It takes to load the image for users on the west coast. What are the two best ways to speed up serving this image? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Route 53's Latency Based Routing can be used to serve the image from the closest region to the user, and CloudFront can be used to cache the image and serve it from edge locations around the world.

Question 15

A sys admin has created the below mentioned policy and applied to an S3 object named aws. j p g. The aws. j p g is inside a bucket named cloudacademy. What does this policy define?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A sys admin has created the below...

Question 16

A user is trying to setup a scheduled scaling activity using Auto Scaling. The user wants to setup the recurring schedule. Which of the below mentioned parameters is not required in this case?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A user is trying to setup a...

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure, including protection against IP spoofing or packet sniffing, as part of their shared responsibility model.

Question 18

An organization has created 50 IAM users. The organization has introduced a new policy which will change the access of an IAM user. How can the organization implement this effectively so that there is no need to apply the policy at the individual user level?

Accepted Answer

Using IAM groups allows the organization to manage permissions by grouping users with similar roles and applying policies to the group, which automatically applies to all users in that group.

Question 19

A user has created a subnet with VPC and launched an EC2 instance in that subnet with only default settings. Which of the below mentioned options is ready to use on the EC2 instance as soon as it is launched?

Accepted Answer

When an EC2 instance is launched in a subnet with default settings, it is automatically assigned a private IP address.

Question 20

A user has launched an EC2 instance. The user is planning to setup the CloudWatch alarm. Which of the below mentioned actions is not supported by the CloudWatch alarm?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A user has launched an EC2 instance....

Exam 13: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (SOA-C01)