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Amazon SOA-C02 Exam Questions
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- Topic 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation: In this topic, AWS system administrators gain expertise in leveraging AWS monitoring and logging services to implement metrics, alarms, and filters effectively. Additionally, it covers remediation techniques using monitoring and availability metrics to resolve operational issues. This topic evaluates the ability to maintain system health and respond to anomalies promptly, ensuring robust system operations.
- Topic 2: Reliability and Business Continuity: This topic equips AWS system administrators with the skills to implement scalability, elasticity, and high availability in cloud environments. It also emphasizes designing resilient systems and robust backup and restore strategies.
- Topic 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation: AWS system administrators are introduced to provisioning and maintaining cloud resources efficiently while automating manual or repetitive tasks. This topic highlights the practical application of automation to streamline operations, reduce errors, and optimize workflows. It assesses the ability to maintain operational efficiency in dynamic cloud environments.
- Topic 4: Security and Compliance: This topic delves into implementing and managing security and compliance policies to safeguard AWS environments. System administrators learn about data and infrastructure protection strategies, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. It evaluates expertise in maintaining secure and compliant cloud operations, crucial for minimizing risks and ensuring trust.
- Topic 5: Networking and Content Delivery: In this topic, AWS system administrators develop skills to implement networking features and connectivity solutions. It includes configuring domains, DNS services, and content delivery mechanisms, along with troubleshooting network connectivity issues. The focus here is on ensuring seamless communication and efficient content delivery within cloud systems.
- Topic 6: Cost and Performance Optimization: This topic focuses on cost optimization strategies to manage and reduce operational expenses effectively. It also covers performance optimization techniques to ensure cloud resources operate efficiently under varying workloads. AWS system administrators are assessed on their ability to deliver cost-effective and high-performance solutions tailored to organizational needs.
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The company wants to improve the security and high availability of a two-tier web application that was rehosted to AWS, currently in a single Availability Zone.
Options (Select TWO):
To improve security and availability, the best approach is to configure Multi-AZ for both the web and database tiers.
Multi-AZ Auto Scaling for Web Tier: Deploying the web-tier instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple AZs with an internet-facing ALB provides high availability and fault tolerance.
RDS Multi-AZ for SQL Server: Migrating the SQL Server to RDS with Multi-AZ deployment ensures database redundancy and failover without additional management overhead.
Placing the web tier in multiple Regions would add unnecessary complexity, and migrating the database to DynamoDB is not suitable for applications requiring SQL Server's relational capabilities.
A company requires that all activity in its AWS account be logged using AWS CloudTrail. Additionally, a SysOps administrator must know when CloudTrail log files are modified or deleted.
How should the SysOps administrator meet these requirements?
CloudTrail Log File Integrity Validation:
AWS CloudTrail provides a feature for log file integrity validation to ensure logs have not been modified or deleted.
Steps to Enable and Validate:
Enable Log File Integrity Validation:
Go to the CloudTrail Console.
Select or create a trail.
In the trail settings, enable Log file validation.
Use the AWS CLI for Validation:
Use the following CLI command:
aws cloudtrail validate-logs --trail-name <trail-name>
This command validates the digest files generated by CloudTrail against the log files.
Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
B: Using the AWS CloudTrail Processing Library is unnecessary for validation.
C: CloudTrail Insights is designed to identify unusual activity, not monitor log modifications.
D: Amazon CloudWatch Logs cannot directly monitor CloudTrail logs for integrity.
A company observes that a newly created Amazon CloudWatch alarm is not transitioning out of the INSUFFICIENT_DATA state. The alarm was created to track the mem_used_percent metric from an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in a public subnet.
A review of the EC2 instance shows that the unified CloudWatch agent is installed and is running. However, the metric is not available in CloudWatch. A SysOps administrator needs to implement a solution to resolve this problem
Which solution will meet these requirements?
Objective:
Ensure the mem_used_percent metric from the EC2 instance is available in Amazon CloudWatch.
Root Cause:
The unified CloudWatch agent requires IAM permissions to publish custom metrics to CloudWatch.
If an IAM instance profile is not attached or is missing necessary permissions, the metric will not appear in CloudWatch.
Solution Implementation:
Step 1: Create an IAM role with the required permissions:
Use the AmazonCloudWatchAgentServerPolicy managed policy, which grants permissions for the CloudWatch agent to send metrics.
Step 2: Create an IAM instance profile for the role.
Step 3: Attach the instance profile to the EC2 instance.
Step 4: Restart the unified CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instance to apply the changes:
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sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a stop
sudo /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a start
AWS Reference:
Unified CloudWatch Agent Configuration: CloudWatch Agent Permissions
Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
Option A: Enabling detailed monitoring only collects predefined metrics; it does not affect custom metrics like mem_used_percent.
Option C: The subnet (public or private) does not affect the collection of metrics by the CloudWatch agent.
Option D: Using IAM user credentials is not a best practice for EC2 instances; instance profiles are the recommended method.
A company runs a multi-tier web application with two Amazon EC2 instances in one Availability Zone in the us-east-1 Region. A SysOps administrator must migrate one of the EC2 instances to a new Availability Zone
Which solution will accomplish this?
Amazon EC2 and Availability Zones:
EC2 instances are tied to a specific Availability Zone within a region. Moving an instance directly is not possible.
Creating an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) allows the instance to be recreated in another Availability Zone.
Steps to Migrate an EC2 Instance to a New Availability Zone:
Create an AMI:
Open the EC2 Console.
Select the EC2 instance you want to migrate.
Choose Actions > Image and templates > Create Image.
Configure the AMI creation settings and create the image.
Launch a New Instance:
Navigate to the AMI section in the EC2 Console.
Select the newly created AMI.
Click Launch Instance from Image.
Specify the new Availability Zone during the instance configuration.
Terminate the Original Instance:
After validating that the new instance is functioning correctly, terminate the original instance to avoid additional costs.
Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
A: Directly copying an instance to another AZ is not supported.
C: There is no AWS CLI command to move an EC2 instance between AZs.
D: Stopping and modifying the AZ of an existing instance is not possible.
A company is using Amazon S3 to set up a temporary static website that is public. A SysOps administrator creates an S3 bucket by using the default settings. The SysOps administrator updates the S3 bucket properties to configure static website hosting. The SysOps administrator then uploads objects that contain content for index.html and error.html.
When the SysOps administrator navigates to the website URL. the SysOps administrator receives an HTTP Status Code 403: Forbidden (Access Denied) error.
What should the SysOps administrator do to resolve this error?
Objective:
Resolve the HTTP 403 (Access Denied) error for the public S3 static website.
Root Cause:
By default, S3 buckets are private, and public access is blocked due to the Block Public Access settings.
Additionally, a bucket policy is needed to allow public access to the objects.
Solution Implementation:
Step 1: Turn off Block Public Access:
Navigate to the Permissions tab of the S3 bucket in the AWS Management Console.
Turn off the Block Public Access settings by disabling the following:
Block public access to buckets and objects via ACLs.
Block public access to buckets and objects via bucket policies.
Step 2: Add a Bucket Policy for Public Access:
Add a policy allowing GetObject for public access:
{
'Version': '2012-10-17',
'Statement': [
{
'Effect': 'Allow',
'Principal': '*',
'Action': 's3:GetObject',
'Resource': 'arn:aws:s3:::<bucket-name>/*'
}
]
}
Step 3: Test Access:
Confirm that the website is accessible via the public URL.
AWS Reference:
Block Public Access Settings: S3 Block Public Access
Bucket Policies for Static Websites: Bucket Policy Examples
Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
Option A: Route 53 is not required to resolve the 403 error; the issue is with S3 bucket permissions.
Option C: Editing file permissions alone will not work; bucket permissions must also allow public access.
Option D: PutObject permissions are unnecessary for serving a static website.
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