
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Practice Tests
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You can prepare for test success with AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Practice Tests: Associate (SOA-C01) Exam. It provides a total of 1,000 practice questions that get you ready for the exam. The majority of questions are found within seven practice tests, which correspond to the seven AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C01 Exam objective domains. Additionally, you can take advantage of an extra practice exam, or utilize an online test bank as an additional study resource.
Practice tests allow you to demonstrate your knowledge and ability to:
* Deploy, manage, and operate scalable and fault-tolerant systems on the service
* Implement and control data flow as it goes to and from AWS
* Choose the right AWS service depending upon requirements
* Identify the proper use of AWS best practices during operations
* Estimate AWS costs and pinpoint cost controls
* Migrate workloads to Amazon Web Services
As someone working to deliver cloud-based solutions, you can earn an AWS Certification to demonstrate your expertise with the technology. The certification program recognizes proficiency in technical skills and knowledge related to best practices for building cloud-based applications with AWS.
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SARA PERROTT is an accredited AWS Academy instructor at Bellevue College where she is an adjunct professor. She works full-time in the cybersecurity field and is passionate about her work. She has an MS in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance and holds several industry certifications such as the CISSP and GCIH, in addition to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate certifications. You can contact Sara via her website at: https://www.saraperrott.com.
BEN PIPER is a cloud and networking consultant who has authored multiple books including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate SAA-C01 Exam, Second Edition (Sybex, 2019) and the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam (Sybex, 2019). He has created more than 20 training courses covering AWS and Cisco networking. You can contact Ben by visiting his website: https://benpiper.com
Content
Domain 1 Monitoring and Reporting 1
Domain 2 High Availability 41
Domain 3 Deployment and Provisioning 57
Domain 4 Storage and Data Management 83
Domain 5 Security and Compliance 105
Domain 6 Networking 139
Domain 7 Automation and Optimization 165
Domain 8 Practice Test 187
Appendix Answers to Practice Tests 199
Index 289
Domain 1
Monitoring and Reporting
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You are a system administrator and you need to view the metrics that are available in the Amazon EC2 instance namespace. What command can you type into the Amazon CLI?
- aws cloudwatch list-instances --namespace AWS/EC2
- aws cloudwatch list-metrics --name AWS/EC2
- aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace AWS/EC2
- aws cloudwatch list-instances --name AWS/EC2
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Where can you look up metrics that are available in Amazon CloudWatch?
- EC2 Console
- CloudWatch Console
- CloudTrail Console
- Trusted Advisor Console
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How can you access Amazon CloudWatch?
- Amazon CloudWatch Console
- AWS CLI
- CloudWatch API
- All of the above
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Which service can use Amazon CloudWatch alarms to increase or decrease capacity based on compute load (CPU utilization, etc.)?
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon S3
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- Amazon VPC
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Which of the following are valid alarm states for Amazon CloudWatch? (Choose three.)
- ALARM
- OK
- READY
- INSUFFICIENT_DATA
- OFFLINE
- WARNING
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You have been asked to create Amazon CloudWatch alarms for each of your organization's 600 servers, which all reside within the same region. Assuming you create five alarms per server, will you be able to create alarms for each of the servers?
- Yes, because the limit is 5000 alarms per region.
- Yes, because the limit is 3500 alarms per region.
- Yes, because the limit is 10,000 alarms per region.
- No, you can't create that many alarms in a single region.
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You are a system administrator at your company, and you have been asked to check why an existing Amazon CloudWatch alarm is showing INSUFFICIENT_DATA for one of your established servers. What is the best explanation for why this is occurring?
- CloudWatch is experiencing an outage.
- Not enough data is available for the metric to determine whether it should be OK or ALARM.
- The alarm has only just been started, so it doesn't have enough data to determine if the state should be OK or ALARM.
- The server is offline so no metrics are available.
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You are a system administrator at your company, and you have been asked to check why a new Amazon CloudWatch alarm is showing INSUFFICIENT_DATA for one of your established servers. What is the best explanation for why this is occurring?
- CloudWatch is experiencing an outage.
- Not enough data is available for the metric to determine whether it should be OK or ALARM.
- The alarm has only just been started, so it doesn't have enough data to determine if the state should be OK or ALARM.
- The server is offline so no metrics are available.
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Your bosses have come to you and have asked you if there is a way for them to get real-time notifications if a certain Amazon CloudWatch alarm is triggered. What should your bosses do to ensure that they can get real-time notifications? The answer should minimize administrative overhead.
- Subscribe to an SNS topic that will send an SMS text message when the Amazon CloudWatch alarm is triggered.
- Write a custom AWS Lambda function that will send an email when the Amazon CloudWatch alarm is triggered.
- Use an SQS queue to deliver messages when an Amazon CloudWatch alarm is triggered.
- Use a third-party solution to send notifications via SMS text message when an Amazon CloudWatch alarm is triggered.
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You need to set up an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that will trigger after four failed evaluations of the alarm metrics in a 5-minute period. What do you need to set the evaluation period and the data points to alarm to so that you get the desired result?
- Data points to alarm should be set to 5. Evaluation period should be set to 1 minute.
- Data points to alarm should be set to 4. Evaluation period should be set to 5 minutes.
- Data points to alarm should be set to 5. Evaluation period should be set to 5 minutes.
- Data points to alarm should be set to 4. Evaluation period should be set to 1 minute.
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Your boss has asked you to ensure that the 5-minute data points from CloudWatch are available for at least 60 days. What do you need to change within Amazon CloudWatch to ensure that you have at least 60 days' worth of 5-minute data points?
- Nothing, Amazon CloudWatch can't retain data points that long.
- Nothing. By default, Amazon CloudWatch keeps 5-minute data points for 63 days.
- Create an archive to maintain 5-minute data points for at least 60 days.
- Set Amazon CloudWatch to never delete the 5-minute data points.
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What is a namespace in Amazon CloudFront?
- A logical grouping of Amazon CloudWatch metrics
- A logical grouping of Amazon CloudWatch alerts
- A logical grouping of Amazon CloudWatch logs
- A logical grouping of report names for Amazon CloudWatch
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In which Amazon CloudWatch namespace would the metrics for EC2 be located?
- AWS/ELB
- AWS/EBS
- AWS/EC2
- AWS/Auto Scaling
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In which Amazon CloudWatch namespace would the metrics for an Application Load Balancer be located?
- AWS/ELB
- AWS/ApplicationELB
- AWS/EBS
- AWS/Auto Scaling
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You have been asked to retrieve some statistics from Amazon CloudWatch for a production server that is having issues. Your organization uses dimensions to further identify custom metrics. You know that the published dimension for the metric contains the following:
Dimensions: Server=Production, Site=Location1
Which of the following could be used to retrieve the statistics that you need?
- Server=Production
- Server=Production, Site=Location
- Server=Prod
- Server=Production, Site=Location1
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Which of these Amazon EC2 metrics require that an agent be installed on the server so that Amazon CloudWatch can gather the statistics for the system?
- Disk performance
- Network utilization
- Memory utilization
- CPU utilization
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When using Amazon CloudWatch, there are two types of health checks used for EC2 instances. Which of the following options are valid status checks? (Choose two.)
- Performance status check
- System status check
- Health status check
- Virtual machine status check
- Instance status check
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You are a system administrator for a mid-size financial institution. You are checking the health of your company's assets when you notice that CloudWatch is indicating that one of your EC2 instances has failed its instance status check. Which of the following is a possible cause?
- Exhausted memory
- Incompatible application installed
- Software license key has expired.
- Wrong OS is installed.
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You are a system administrator for a mid-size financial institution. You are checking the health of your company's assets when you notice that CloudWatch is indicating that one of your EC2 instances has failed its instance status check. Which of the following is a possible cause?
- Wrong OS is installed.
- The filesystem is NTFS.
- Corrupted filesystem
- The filesystem is ext4.
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You are a system administrator for a mid-size financial institution. You are checking the health of your company's assets when you notice that CloudWatch is indicating that one of your EC2 instances has failed its instance status check. Which of the following is a possible cause?
- IPv4 is enabled.
- Subnet is too large.
- Wrong OS is installed.
- Incorrect network configurations
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You want to check the status of your Amazon EC2 instances. What is the command that you would enter into the AWS CLI to check the status of your instances?
- aws cloudfront check-instance-status
- aws cloudfront describe-instance-status
- aws ec2 check-instance-status
- aws ec2 describe-instance-status
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You have been asked to ensure that some of your organization's junior system administrators can access Amazon CloudWatch to look at metrics. They have very limited credentials currently. Which policy can they be given that will enable them to view CloudWatch metrics without granting them additional access to the other AWS services?
- CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess
- CloudWatchMetricsAccess
- MetricsReadOnlyAccess
- AmazonEC2ReadOnly
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Your boss has asked you to ensure that your Amazon EC2...
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