A SysOps Administrator needs to control access to groups of Amazon EC2 instances. Specific tags on the EC2 instances have already been added. Which additional actions should the Administrator take to control access? (Select TWO)
A SysOps Administrator manages an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance in production. The database is accessed by several applications. The Administrator needs to ensure minimal downtime of the applications in the event the database suffers a failure. This change must not impact customer use during regular business hours.
Which action will make the database MORE highly available?
In configuring an Amazon Route 53 health check, a SysOps Administrator selects ‘Yes’ to the String Matching option in the Advanced Configuration section. In the Search String box, the Administrator types the following text: /html.
This is to ensure that the entire page is loading during the health check. Within 5 minutes of enabling the
health check, the Administrator receives an alert stating that the check failed. However, when the
Administrator navigates to the page, it loads successfully.
What is the MOST likely cause of this false alarm?
A company has a business application hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load
Balancer. Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU utilization on the EC2 instances is very high. There are also reports from users that receive HTTP 503 and 504 errors when they try to connect to the application.
Which action will resolve these issues?
Development teams are maintaining several workloads on AWS. Company management is concerned about rising costs and wants the SysOps Administrator to configure alerts so teams are notified when spending approaches preset limits.
Which AWS service will satisfy these requirements?
A SysOps administrator is running an automatically scaled application behind an Application Load Balancer. Scaling out Is triggered when the CPU Utilization instance metric is more than 75% across the Auto Scaling group. The administrator noticed aggressive scaling out. Developers suspect an application memory leak that is causing aggressive garbage collection cycles.
How can the administrator troubleshoot the application without triggering the scaling process?
A SysOps Administration team is supporting an applications that stores a configuration file in an Amazon S3 bucket Previous revisions of the configuration file must be maintained for change control and rollback
How should the S3 bucket be configured to meet these requirements?
A user accidentally deleted a file from an Amazon EBS volume. The SysOps Administrator identified a recent snapshot for the volume.
What should the Administrator do to restore the user's file from the snapshot?
A company hosts a multi-tier ecommerce web application on AWS, and has recently been alerted to suspicious application traffic The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances deployed across multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) After examining the server logs, a sysops administrator determines that the suspicious traffic is an attempted SQL injection attack.
What should the sysops administrator do to prevent similar attacks?
A company runs an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. Corporate policy requires that a daily backup of the database must be copied to a separate security account.
What is the MOST cost-effective way to meet this requirement?
An environment company has discovered that a number of Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC are marked as high risk according to a Common Vulnerabilities and Expressures (CVE) report. The Security tea, requests that all these instances be upgraded.
Who is responsible for upgrading the EC2 instances?
A SysOps Administrator is managing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The administrator wants to set an alarm for when all target instances associated with the ALB are unhealthy.
Which condition should be used with the alarm?
A SysOps Administrator has an AWS CloudFormation template of the company’s existing infrastructure in us-west-2. The Administrator attempts to use the template to launch a new stack in eu-west-1, but the stack only partially deploys, receives an error message, and then rolls back.
Why would this template fail to deploy? (Choose two.)
A sysops administrator has an AWS Lambda function that performs maintenance on various AWS resources. This function must be run nightly. Which is the MOST cost-effective solution?
A SysOps Administrator must set up notifications for whenever combined billing exceeds a certain threshold for all AWS accounts within a company. The Administrator has set up AWS Organizations and enabled Consolidated Billing.
Which additional steps must the Administrator perform to set up the billing alerts?
A SysOps Administrator is deploying a test site running on Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires both incoming and outgoing connectivity to the Internet.
Which combination of steps are required to provide internet connectivity to the EC2 instances? (Choose two.)
A company’s use of AWS Cloud services is quickly growing, so a SysOps Administrator has been asked to generate details of daily spending to share with management.
Which method should the Administrator choose to produce this data?
A SysOps Administrator is running Amazon EC2 instances in multiple AWS Regions. The Administrator wants to aggregate the CPU utilization for all instances onto an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. Each region should be present on the dashboard and represented by a single graph that contains the CPU utilization for all instances in that region.
How can the Administrator meet these requirements?
An application running on Amazon EC2 needs login credentials to access a database. The login credentials are stored in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as secure string parameters.
What is the MOST secure way to grant the application access to the credentials?
A SysOps Administrator receives an email from AWS about a production Amazon EC2 instance backed by Amazon EBS that is on a degraded host scheduled for retirement. The scheduled retirement occurs during business-critical hours.
What should be done to MINIMIZE disruption to the business?
An application team has asked a sysops administrator to provision an additional environment for an application in four additional regions. The application is running on more than 100 instances in us-east-1, using fully baked AMIs, An AWS CloudFormation template has been created to deploy resources in us-east-1.
What must the sysops administrator do to provision the application quickly?
A company wants to reduce costs across the entire company after discovering that several AWS accounts were using unauthorized services and incurring extremely high costs.
Which AWS service enables the company to reduce costs by controlling access to AWS services for all AWS accounts?
An application running on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones was deployed using an AWS CloudFormation template. A sysops administrator has patched the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version and must update all the EC2 instances to use the new AMI.
How should Ihe administrator use CloudFormation to apply the new AMI while maintaining a minimum level of active instances to ensure service continuity?
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?
A company has deployed a fleet of Amazon EC2 web servers for the upcoming release of a new product. The SysOps Administrator needs to test the Amazon CloudWatch notification settings for this deployment to ensure that a notification is sent using Amazon SNS if the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 70%.
How should the Administrator accomplish this?
A company has deployed its infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation Recently the company made manual changes to the infrastructure. A SysOps Administrator is tasked with determining what was changed and updating the CloudFormation template
Which solution will ensure all the changes are captured?
A company uses LDAP-based credentials and Has a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 identity provider. A SysOps administrator has configured various federated roles in a new AWS account to provide AWS Management Console access for groups of users that use the existing LDAP-Based credentials. Several groups want to use the AWS CLI on their workstations to automate daily tasks. To enable them to do so, the SysOps administrator has created an application that authenticates a user and generates a SAML assertion.
Which API call should be used to retrieve credentials for federated programmatic access?
A company has mandated the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all 1AM users, and requires users to make all API calls using the CLI. However, users are not prompted to enter MFA tokens, and are able to run CLI commands without MFA. In an attempt to enforce MFA. the company attached an 1AM policy to all users that denies API calls that have not been authenticated with MFA.
What additional step must be taken to ensure that API calls are authenticated using MFA?
Company A purchases company B and inherits three new AWS accounts. Company A would like to centralize billing and reserved instance benefits but wants to keep all other resources separate.
How can this be accomplished?
After a network change, application servers cannot connect to the corresponding Amazon RDS MySQL database.
What should the SysOps Administrator analyze?
A SysOps Administrator noticed that the cache hit ratio for an Amazon CloudFront distribution is less than 10%. Which collection of configuration changes will increase the cache hit ratio for the distribution? (Select two.)
A SysOps Administrator has been tasked with deploying a company’s infrastructure as code. The Administrator wants to write a single template that can be reused for multiple environments in a safe, repeatable manner.
What is the recommended way to use AWS CloudFormation to meet this requirement?
An application resides on multiple EC2 instances in public subnets in two Availability Zones. To improve security, the Information Security team has deployed an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in separate subnets and pointed the DNS at the ALB instead of the EC2 instances.
After the change, traffic is not reaching the instances, and an error is being returned from the ALB.
What steps must a SysOps Administrator take to resolve this issue and improve the security of the application? (Select TWO.)
An organization stores sensitive customer information in S3 buckets protected by bucket policies. Recently, there have been reports that unauthorized entities within the company have been trying to access the data on those S3 buckets. The chief information security officer (CISO) would like to know which buckets are being targeted and determine who is responsible for trying to access that information.
Which steps should a SysOps administrator take to meet the CISO's requirement? (Select TWO.)
An Applications team has successfully deployed an AWS CloudFormation stack consisting of 30 t2-medium Amazon EC2 instances in the us-west-2 Region. When using the same template to launch a stack in us-east-2, the launch failed and rolled back after launching only 10 EC2 instances.
What is a possible cause of this failure?
A SysOps administrator is implementing automated I/O load performance testing as part of lite continuous integraliorVcontinuous delivery (CI'CD) process for an application The application uses an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon E8S) Provisioned IOPS volume for each instance that is restored from a snapshot and requires consistent I/O performance. During the initial tests, the I/O performance results are sporadic. The SysOps administrator must ensure that the tests yield more consistent results.
Which actions could the SysOps administrator take to accomplish this goal? (Select TWO.)