AWS-SysOps Exam - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

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Q1. - (Topic 3) 

A user has launched an EC2 instance store backed instance in the US-East-1a zone. The user created AMI #1 and copied it to the Europe region. After that, the user made a few updates to the application running in the US-East-1a zone. The user makes an AMI#2 after the changes. If the user launches a new instance in Europe from the AMI #1 copy, which of the below mentioned statements is true? 

A. The new instance will have the changes made after the AMI copy as AWS just copies the reference of the original AMI during the copying. Thus, the copied AMI will have all the updated data 

B. The new instance will have the changes made after the AMI copy since AWS keeps updating the AMI 

C. It is not possible to copy the instance store backed AMI from one region to another 

D. The new instance in the EU region will not have the changes made after the AMI copy 

Answer:

Explanation: 

Within EC2, when the user copies an AMI, the new AMI is fully independent of the source AMI; there is no link to the original (source. AMI. The user can modify the source AMI without affecting the new AMI and vice a versa. Therefore, in this case even if the source AMI is modified, the copied AMI of the EU region will not have the changes. Thus, after copy the user needs to copy the new source AMI to the destination region to get those changes. 

Q2. - (Topic 3) 

A user has created a subnet in VPC and launched an EC2 instance within it. The user has not selected the option to assign the IP address while launching the instance. The user has 3 elastic IPs and is trying to assign one of the Elastic IPs to the VPC instance from the console. The console does not show any instance in the IP assignment screen. What is a possible reason that the instance is unavailable in the assigned IP console? 

A. The IP address may be attached to one of the instances 

B. The IP address belongs to a different zone than the subnet zone 

C. The user has not created an internet gateway 

D. The IP addresses belong to EC2 Classic; so they cannot be assigned to VPC 

Answer:

Explanation: 

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC. is a virtual network dedicated to the user’s AWS account. A user can create a subnet with VPC and launch instances inside that subnet. When the user is launching an instance he needs toselect an option which attaches a public IP to the instance. If the user has not selected the option to attach the public IP then it will only have a private IP when launched. If the user wants to connect to an instance from the internet he should create an elastic IP with VPC. If the elastic IP is a part of EC2 Classic it cannot be assigned to a VPC instance. 

Q3. - (Topic 3) 

A user is using the AWS EC2. The user wants to make so that when there is an issue in the EC2 server, such as instance status failed, it should start a new instance in the user’s private cloud. Which AWS service helps to achieve this automation? 

A. AWS CloudWatch + Cloudformation 

B. AWS CloudWatch + AWS AutoScaling + AWS ELB 

C. AWS CloudWatch + AWS VPC 

D. AWS CloudWatch + AWS SNS 

Answer:

Explanation: 

Amazon SNS can deliver notifications by SMS text message or email to the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS. queues or to any HTTP endpoint. The user can configure a web service (HTTP End point. in his data centre which receives data and launches an instance in the private cloud. The user should configure the CloudWatch alarm to send a notification to SNS when the “StatusCheckFailed” metric is true for the EC2 instance. The SNS topic can be configured to send a notification to the user’s HTTP end point which launches an instance in the private cloud. 

Q4. - (Topic 1) 

You are managing a legacy application Inside VPC with hard coded IP addresses in its configuration. 

Which two mechanisms will allow the application to failover to new instances without the need for reconfiguration? Choose 2 answers 

A. Create an ELB to reroute traffic to a failover instance 

B. Create a secondary ENI that can be moved to a failover instance 

C. Use Route53 health checks to fail traffic over to a failover instance 

D. Assign a secondary private IP address to the primary ENIO that can be moved to a failover instance 

Answer: A,D 

Q5. - (Topic 1) 

You are currently hosting multiple applications in a VPC and have logged numerous port scans coming in from a specific IP address block. Your security team has requested that all access from the offending IP address block be denied for the next 24 hours. 

Which of the following is the best method to quickly and temporarily deny access from the specified IP address block? 

A. Create an AD policy to modify Windows Firewall settings on all hosts in the VPC to deny access from the IP address block 

B. Modify the Network ACLs associated with all public subnets in the VPC to deny access from the IP address block 

C. Add a rule to all of the VPC 5 Security Groups to deny access from the IP address block 

D. Modify the Windows Firewall settings on all Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that your organization uses in that VPC to deny access from the IP address block 

Answer:

Explanation: Reference: 

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_SecurityGroups.html 

Q6. - (Topic 1) 

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 5 minutes of when the mistake was made? 

A. Multi-AZ RDS 

B. RDS snapshots 

C. RDS read replicas 

D. RDS automated backup 

Answer:

Explanation: Reference: 

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overview.BackingUpAndRestoringAmazonRDSInstances.html 

Q7. - (Topic 3) 

A sys admin has enabled logging on ELB. Which of the below mentioned fields will not be a part of the log file name? 

A. Load Balancer IP 

B. EC2 instance IP 

C. S3 bucket name 

D. Random string 

Answer:

Explanation: 

Elastic Load Balancing access logs capture detailed information for all the requests made to the load balancer. Elastic Load Balancing publishes a log file from each load balancer node at the interval that the user has specified. The load balancer can deliver multiple logs for the same period. Elastic Load Balancing creates log file names in the following format: “{Bucket}/{Prefix}/AWSLogs/{AWS AccountID}/elasticloadbalancing/{Region}/{Year}/{Month}/{Day}/{AWS Account ID}_elasticloadbalancing_{Region}_{Load Balancer Name}_{End Time}_{Load Balancer IP}_{Random String}.log“ 

Q8. - (Topic 1) 

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 to have a sluggish experience. 

Which two answer choices independently describe a behavior that could be the cause of the sluggish user experience? Choose 2 answers 

A. ELB's normal behavior sends requests from the same user to the same backend instance 

B. ELB's behavior when sticky sessions are enabled causes ELB to send requests in the same session to the same backend instance 

C. A faulty browser is not honoring the TTL of the ELB DNS name. 

D. The web application uses long polling such as comet or websockets. Thereby keeping a connection open to a web server tor a long time 

E. The web application uses long polling such as comet or websockets. Thereby keeping a connection open to a web server for a long time. 

Answer: B,D 

Q9. - (Topic 1) 

If you want to launch Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instances and assign each Instance a predetermined private IP address you should: 

A. Assign a group or sequential Elastic IP address to the instances 

B. Launch the instances in a Placement Group 

C. Launch the instances in the Amazon virtual Private Cloud (VPC). 

D. Use standard EC2 instances since each instance gets a private Domain Name Service (DNS) already 

E. Launch the Instance from a private Amazon Machine image (Mil) 

Answer:

Explanation: Reference: 

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-ip-addressing.html 

Q10. - (Topic 3) 

In AWS, which security aspects are the customer’s responsibility? Choose 4 answers 

A. Controlling physical access to compute resources 

B. Patch management on the EC2 instance s operating system 

C. Encryption of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volumes 

D. Life-cycle management of IAM credentials 

E. Decommissioning storage devices 

F. Security Group and ACL (Access Control List) settings 

Answer: B,C,E,F