Amazon SOA-C01 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Exam Exam Practice Test Questions

• Question 1

  A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability tor an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server and a secondary passive server. Route 53 should route traffic to the primary server if the associated health check returns 2xx or 3xx HTTP codes. AH other traffic should be directed to the secondary passive server. The failover record type, set ID, and routing policy have been set appropriately for both primary and secondary servers.Which next step should be taken to configure Route 53?

  • Create an A record for each server. Associate the records with the Route 53 HTTP health check.
  • Create an A record for each server. Associate the records with the Route 53 TCP health check.
  • Create an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the records with the Route 53 HTTP health check.
  • Create an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the records with the Route 53 TCP health check.

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• Question 2

  A SysOps Administrator is responsible for a large fleet of EC2 instances and must know whether anyinstances will be affected by upcoming hardware maintenance.Which option would provide this information with the LEAST administrative overhead?

  • Monitor AWS CloudTrail for StopInstances API calls related to upcoming maintenance.
  • Review the Personal Health Dashboard for any scheduled maintenance.
  • From the AWS Management Console, list any instances with failed system status checks.
  • Deploy a third-party monitoring solution to provide real-time EC2 instance monitoring.

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• Question 3

  A SysOps Administrator receives reports of an Auto Scaling group failing to scale when the nodes running Amazon Linux in the cluster are constrained by high memory utilization.What should the Administrator do to enable scaling to better adapt to the high memory utilization?

  • Create a custom script that pipes memory utilization to Amazon S3, then, scale with an AWS Lambda-powered event
  • Install the Amazon CloudWatch memory monitoring scripts, and create a custom metric based on the script's results
  • Increase the minimum size of the cluster to meet memory and application load demands
  • Deploy an Application Load Balancer to more evenly distribute traffic among nodes

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• Question 4

  A company uses multiple accounts for its applications. Account A manages the company's Amazon Route 53 domains and hosted zones. Account B uses a load balancer fronting the company's web servers.How can the company use Route 53 to point to the load balancer in the MOST cost-effective and efficient manner?

  • Create an Amazon EC2 proxy in Account A that forwards requests to Account B.
  • Create a load balancer in Account A that points to the load balancer in Account B.
  • Create a CNAME record in Account A pointing to an alias record to the load balancer in Account B.
  • Create an alias record in Account A pointing to the load balancer in Account B.

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• Question 5

  A SysOps Administrator is troubleshooting an AWS CloudFormation template whereby multiple Amazon EC2 instances are being created. The template is working in us-east-1, but it is failing in us-west-2 with the error code:AMI [ami-12345678] does not exist.How should the Administrator ensure that the AWS CloudFormation template is working in every region?

  • Copy the source region's Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to the destination region and assign it the same ID.
  • Edit the AWS CloudFormation template to specify the region code as part of the fully qualified AMI ID.
  • Edit the AWS CloudFormation template to offer a drop-down list of all AMIs to the user by using the AWS: :EC2: :AMI: :ImageID control.
  • Modify the AWS CloudFormation template by including the AMI IDs in the ''Mappings'' section. Refer to the proper mapping within the template for the proper AMI ID.

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