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Cloud computing is necessary for organizations of all sizes, from large enterprises to small startups. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud provider with the largest customer share. An AWS SysOps Administrator operates and maintains the AWS infrastructure while handling cybersecurity, which is a high-demand skill.

This course provides in-depth coverage of core AWS Services, including EC2, Auto Scaling, ELB, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, and more. You’ll learn AWS best practices for security, compliance, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting through practical hands-on labs for key topics. You’ll test your knowledge by attempting quizzes and two full-length sample AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate practice exams at the end. 

By the end of the course, you’ll have gained practical experience through real-world examples and hands-on labs in administering systems and applications running on AWS to ace the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Exam Prep

Your organization uses RDS for its database needs. You want to ensure that database backups are automated and retained for a specified duration.

What AWS feature allows you to automate and retain backups of RDS databases for a specified duration?

Your organization uses RDS for its database needs. You want to ensure that database backups are automated and retained for a specified duration.
What AWS feature allows you to automate and retain backups of RDS databases for a specified duration?

Grant administrators access to the AWS KMS key used to encrypt the log files.

Enable CloudTrail log file integrity validation when the trail is created or updated.

Turn on S3 server access logging for the bucket storing the log files.

Configure the S3 bucket to replicate the log files to another bucket.

A company is using AWS CloudTrail and wants to ensure that SysOps Administrators can easily verify that the log files haven’t been deleted or changed. Which action should a SysOps Administrator take to meet this requirement?

A company is using AWS CloudTrail and wants to ensure that SysOps Administrators can easily verify that the log files haven’t been deleted or changed. Which action should a SysOps Administrator take to meet this requirement?

Your team manages a multitier application with EC2 instances, RDS databases, and S3 buckets. Automating the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components is essential.

What service allows you to define your IAC and automate the deployment and management of AWS resources?

Your team manages a multitier application with EC2 instances, RDS databases, and S3 buckets. Automating the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components is essential.
What service allows you to define your IAC and automate the deployment and management of AWS resources?

A company is building a serverless mobile app, and you need a managed authentication service. What AWS service should you use for user authentication in your mobile app?

A company is building a serverless mobile app, and you need a managed authentication service. What AWS service should you use for user authentication in your mobile app?

A gaming application is experiencing high read-and-write latencies in the application’s database. To improve performance, you want to implement an in-memory cache. 

Which AWS service should you use for this purpose?


A gaming application is experiencing high read-and-write latencies in the application’s database. To improve performance, you want to implement an in-memory cache.
Which AWS service should you use for this purpose?

Assign an Elastic IP address to the Lambda function and configure a route to the VPC's internet gateway.

Connect the Lambda function to a private subnet with a route to the VPC's virtual private gateway.

Provision Lambda function in a public subnet (a subnet with a route to the internet gateway).

Connect the Lambda function to a private subnet with a route to a NAT gateway in a public subnet of the VPC.

**(Select all that apply.)** A company needs to ensure that an AWS Lambda function can access resources in a VPC in its account and, at the same time, be able to access third-party APIs over the internet. What is the most appropriate action for a SysOps Administrator to take to meet these requirements? 

(Select all that apply.) A company needs to ensure that an AWS Lambda function can access resources in a VPC in its account and, at the same time, be able to access third-party APIs over the internet. What is the most appropriate action for a SysOps Administrator to take to meet these requirements?

**(Select all that apply.)** Your organization manages an application stack consisting of EC2 instances, RDS databases, and ELBs. You need to ensure that the entire stack can automatically recover in case of an instance or database failure.

Which AWS services or features can you use to achieve high availability for both EC2 instances and RDS databases? 

(Select all that apply.) Your organization manages an application stack consisting of EC2 instances, RDS databases, and ELBs. You need to ensure that the entire stack can automatically recover in case of an instance or database failure.
Which AWS services or features can you use to achieve high availability for both EC2 instances and RDS databases?

Your organization uses RDS for its relational databases. You want to implement a disaster recovery plan to ensure data durability and availability in case of a regional failure.

Which RDS feature can you use to create standby database instances in a different AWS Region to support disaster recovery?

Your organization uses RDS for its relational databases. You want to implement a disaster recovery plan to ensure data durability and availability in case of a regional failure.
Which RDS feature can you use to create standby database instances in a different AWS Region to support disaster recovery?

1. Associate an IP 6 gateway with your VPC and subnets.
2. Update the route tables and security group rules.
3. Enable enhanced networking in your EC2 instance.
4. Assign IP 6 addresses to the EC2 instance.
5. Configure the instance to use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) 6.

1. Attach an egress-only internet gateway to the VPC and subnets.
2. Update the route tables.
3. Update the security group rules.
4. Change the instance type to a larger instance i.e., `c1.xlarge`. 
5. Assign IP 6 addresses to the EC2 instance.
6. Configure the instance to use DHCP 6.

1. Associate an IP 6 CIDR block with the VPC and subnets.
2. Update the route tables.
3. Update the security group rules.
4. Change the instance type to m4.large.
5. Assign IP 6 addresses to the EC2 instance.

1. Associate an IP 6 CIDR block with the VPC and subnets.
2. Update the route tables.
3. Update the security group rules.
4. Change the instance type to c1.xlarge.
5. Assign IP 6 addresses to the EC2 instance.

A leading tech consultancy firm has an AWS VPC with one public subnet and a recently deployed blockchain application running on an `m3.large` EC2 instance. As of now, the VPC only supports IP 4 addresses. Your manager has tasked you to ensure that the application can support IP 6 addresses. 

Which steps should you take to meet this requirement?

A leading tech consultancy firm has an AWS VPC with one public subnet and a recently deployed blockchain application running on an <code>m3.large</code> EC2 instance. As of now, the VPC only supports IP 4 addresses. Your manager has tasked you to ensure that the application can support IP 6 addresses.
Which steps should you take to meet this requirement?

Your team manages an application that serves static web content stored in S3 buckets. You want to reduce latency for users by serving content from edge locations.

What AWS service can you enable to distribute and serve static web content from edge locations to reduce latency for users?

Your team manages an application that serves static web content stored in S3 buckets. You want to reduce latency for users by serving content from edge locations.
What AWS service can you enable to distribute and serve static web content from edge locations to reduce latency for users?

A company is running a MySQL RDS database that needs to be accessible to applications running on EC2 instances in a private subnet. The database should only allow connections from the EC2 instances, not the internet.

Which service should be used to control network access to the RDS database?

A company is running a MySQL RDS database that needs to be accessible to applications running on EC2 instances in a private subnet. The database should only allow connections from the EC2 instances, not the internet.
Which service should be used to control network access to the RDS database?

A company is migrating its on-site Oracle database to AWS. It needs a managed RDS that can automate tasks like backups, software patching, failover, and read scaling.

Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

A company is migrating its on-site Oracle database to AWS. It needs a managed RDS that can automate tasks like backups, software patching, failover, and read scaling.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Your organization runs a highly dynamic application that requires scaling of the database to handle varying workloads. You’re using Amazon DynamoDB for your database needs.

Which feature of DynamoDB allows you to automatically and elastically scale your database to accommodate varying workloads?

Your organization runs a highly dynamic application that requires scaling of the database to handle varying workloads. You’re using Amazon DynamoDB for your database needs.
Which feature of DynamoDB allows you to automatically and elastically scale your database to accommodate varying workloads?

A company utilizes Amazon Route 53 to register the domain name for an online timesheet application, `www.example-timesheet.com`, deployed on ECS. A new version of the timesheet application is ready for deployment, containing bug fixes and new features. The DevOps team has launched a separate ECS instance for the new version and wants to direct a small set of traffic to the new version for production verification tests. Once verified, all traffic from the domain `www.example-timesheet.com`, will be routed to the new ECS instance.

Which routing policy is the best suited to smoothly deploy the new application version?

A company utilizes Amazon Route 53 to register the domain name for an online timesheet application, <code>www.example-timesheet.com</code>, deployed on ECS. A new version of the timesheet application is ready for deployment, containing bug fixes and new features. The DevOps team has launched a separate ECS instance for the new version and wants to direct a small set of traffic to the new version for production verification tests. Once verified, all traffic from the domain <code>www.example-timesheet.com</code>, will be routed to the new ECS instance.
Which routing policy is the best suited to smoothly deploy the new application version?

A company runs a production MySQL database on a single RDS instance. It's facing issues with high load and wants to horizontally scale the database to handle more concurrent read queries.

Which RDS capability will you recommend to scale read operations?

A company runs a production MySQL database on a single RDS instance. It’s facing issues with high load and wants to horizontally scale the database to handle more concurrent read queries.
Which RDS capability will you recommend to scale read operations?

A company has multiple applications and workloads running on AWS, managed by different teams. The SysOps Administrator has been tasked with configuring alerts to notify teams when resource utilizations exceed the company-defined thresholds.

Which AWS service is the most suitable for the administrator to use?

A company has multiple applications and workloads running on AWS, managed by different teams. The SysOps Administrator has been tasked with configuring alerts to notify teams when resource utilizations exceed the company-defined thresholds.
Which AWS service is the most suitable for the administrator to use?

Your organization manages a fleet of EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. You want to centrally manage access and permissions for these instances.

What AWS service can you use to centralize access control for EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts?

Your organization manages a fleet of EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts. You want to centrally manage access and permissions for these instances.
What AWS service can you use to centralize access control for EC2 instances across multiple AWS accounts?

Set up a CloudWatch alarm to track AWS CloudTrail events for the EC2 instance and use scaling policies to scale accordingly.

Configure a CloudWatch alarm to monitor metrics for EC2 instance CPU usage and use scaling policies to scale accordingly.

Establish an SNS topic to observe CloudWatch metrics for EC2 instance CPU load, and use scaling policies to scale accordingly.

Create a scheduled assessment check on the EC2 instance using Amazon Inspector to identify deviations in CPU utilization, and use scaling policies to scale accordingly.

A company hosts a web application on an ASG with one EC2 instance and no scaling policies. Users have reported intermittent unresponsiveness to the web application. Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU utilization reaches 100% during these periods. The SysOps Administrator needs to implement a solution to resolve this issue.

Which solution will meet this requirement?

A company hosts a web application on an ASG with one EC2 instance and no scaling policies. Users have reported intermittent unresponsiveness to the web application. Amazon CloudWatch metrics show that the CPU utilization reaches 100% during these periods. The SysOps Administrator needs to implement a solution to resolve this issue.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Your team manages an application that requires long-term archival storage. The application generates large volumes of data that need to be stored cost-effectively and accessed infrequently.

What AWS storage service is suitable for cost-effective, long-term archival storage of infrequently accessed data?

Your team manages an application that requires long-term archival storage. The application generates large volumes of data that need to be stored cost-effectively and accessed infrequently.
What AWS storage service is suitable for cost-effective, long-term archival storage of infrequently accessed data?

Your organization uses AWS Lambda for serverless computing tasks. You want to securely store sensitive configuration information that Lambda functions can access.

What AWS service can you use to securely store and manage sensitive configuration information that Lambda functions can access at runtime?

Your organization uses AWS Lambda for serverless computing tasks. You want to securely store sensitive configuration information that Lambda functions can access.
What AWS service can you use to securely store and manage sensitive configuration information that Lambda functions can access at runtime?

Your organization needs to ensure that multiple EC2 instances running in an ASG have access to a shared file system for data synchronization that supports the NFS 4.1 protocol. Which AWS service allows multiple EC2 instances in an ASG to share a common file system for data synchronization?

Your organization needs to ensure that multiple EC2 instances running in an ASG have access to a shared file system for data synchronization that supports the NFS 4.1 protocol. Which AWS service allows multiple EC2 instances in an ASG to share a common file system for data synchronization?

A healthcare company is running a MySQL RDS database containing sensitive patient records. It needs to encrypt this data at rest and in transit according to industry regulations.

Which AWS service will allow encrypting the RDS database?

A healthcare company is running a MySQL RDS database containing sensitive patient records. It needs to encrypt this data at rest and in transit according to industry regulations.
Which AWS service will allow encrypting the RDS database?

Your organization uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk for deploying web applications. You want to ensure that the applications can scale horizontally based on traffic.

Which AWS service can you use to automatically scale Elastic Beanstalk applications horizontally based on traffic?



Your organization uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk for deploying web applications. You want to ensure that the applications can scale horizontally based on traffic.
Which AWS service can you use to automatically scale Elastic Beanstalk applications horizontally based on traffic?

Your organization needs to collect and analyze logs from multiple AWS services for security and compliance purposes. You want to centralize log storage and analysis.

What AWS service can you use to centralize and analyze logs from multiple AWS services? 

Your organization needs to collect and analyze logs from multiple AWS services for security and compliance purposes. You want to centralize log storage and analysis.
What AWS service can you use to centralize and analyze logs from multiple AWS services?

Your organization needs a fully managed data warehousing service for complex analytical queries on large datasets. Which AWS service should you use?

Your organization needs a fully managed data warehousing service for complex analytical queries on large datasets. Which AWS service should you use?

Your organization hosts a critical web application and wants to ensure high availability. You decide to use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS failover.

Which routing policy in Amazon Route 53 can you use to configure DNS failover for your web application?

Your organization hosts a critical web application and wants to ensure high availability. You decide to use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS failover.
Which routing policy in Amazon Route 53 can you use to configure DNS failover for your web application?

Implement AWS Lambda functions to scale instances.

Utilize Amazon CloudWatch alarms to trigger auto scaling policies.

Manually adjust instance counts based on traffic predictions.

Rely on AWS Trusted Advisor to handle scaling.

Your organization manages a web application with varying traffic patterns. During peak hours, the application experiences high demand, while off-peak hours see reduced traffic.

How can you ensure that your web application can automatically scale up during peak hours and down during off-peak hours to optimize costs and performance? 

Your organization manages a web application with varying traffic patterns. During peak hours, the application experiences high demand, while off-peak hours see reduced traffic.
How can you ensure that your web application can automatically scale up during peak hours and down during off-peak hours to optimize costs and performance?

Your organization is building a recommendation engine that requires graph-based data modeling for user interactions. You want to choose an AWS database service for this purpose.

Which database service is the most suitable for graph data?

Your organization is building a recommendation engine that requires graph-based data modeling for user interactions. You want to choose an AWS database service for this purpose.
Which database service is the most suitable for graph data?

A global bank has deployed multiple instances of its application in different AWS Regions. You want to use Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to the nearest regional endpoint for low-latency access.

Which routing policy in Amazon Route 53 should you choose?

A global bank has deployed multiple instances of its application in different AWS Regions. You want to use Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to the nearest regional endpoint for low-latency access.
Which routing policy in Amazon Route 53 should you choose?

Your organization needs to securely connect its on-site data center to AWS resources within a VPC. You want to establish a dedicated network connection for this purpose.

Which AWS service should you use to establish this connection?

Your organization needs to securely connect its on-site data center to AWS resources within a VPC. You want to establish a dedicated network connection for this purpose.
Which AWS service should you use to establish this connection?

Set up an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for each production EC2 instance to monitor `Status Check Failed: System`. Configure the alarm to recover the EC2 instance and send a notification to an SNS topic.

On each production, the EC2 instance implements a script that monitors system health by sending periodic heartbeat notifications to a central monitoring server. If an EC2 instance fails to send a heartbeat, execute a script on the monitoring server to stop and restart the EC2 instance and notify an SNS topic.

On each production, the EC2 instance employs a script that sends network pings to a highly available endpoint through a cron job. If the script detects a network response timeout, invoke a command to reboot the EC2 instance.

Configure an Amazon CloudWatch agent on each production EC2 instance to collect and transmit logs to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Create a CloudWatch alarm based on a metric filter that tracks errors. Configure the alarm to invoke an AWS Lambda function responsible for rebooting the EC2 instance and sending a notification email.

A company relies on AWS EC2 instances for running critical production workloads. A SysOps Administrator recently encountered a situation where a production EC2 instance failed a system health check. The administrator manually restored the instance to its normal state.

How can you set up automatic recovery for EC2 instances in case they fail system health checks?

A company relies on AWS EC2 instances for running critical production workloads. A SysOps Administrator recently encountered a situation where a production EC2 instance failed a system health check. The administrator manually restored the instance to its normal state.
How can you set up automatic recovery for EC2 instances in case they fail system health checks?

A financial services company wants to control access to its production MySQL RDS database running sensitive customer data. Database credentials shouldn’t be shared across the entire engineering team.

Which service should be used to restrict and audit database user access?

A financial services company wants to control access to its production MySQL RDS database running sensitive customer data. Database credentials shouldn’t be shared across the entire engineering team.
Which service should be used to restrict and audit database user access?

A game development company wants to use AWS as its cloud provider. The application requires a scalable and fully managed NoSQL database service with low-latency performance for storing user data. 

Which AWS service is the best fit for this requirement?

A game development company wants to use AWS as its cloud provider. The application requires a scalable and fully managed NoSQL database service with low-latency performance for storing user data.
Which AWS service is the best fit for this requirement?

Your organization manages a fleet of EC2 instances and needs to ensure that critical security patches are applied promptly. What AWS SSM feature can you use to automate this process?

Your organization manages a fleet of EC2 instances and needs to ensure that critical security patches are applied promptly. What AWS SSM feature can you use to automate this process?

Your organization operates a web application that requires SSL/TLS encryption for secure data transmission. You want to offload SSL/TLS termination to improve performance.

What AWS service can you use to offload SSL/TLS termination and improve the performance of your web application?

Your organization operates a web application that requires SSL/TLS encryption for secure data transmission. You want to offload SSL/TLS termination to improve performance.
What AWS service can you use to offload SSL/TLS termination and improve the performance of your web application?

An organization operates a large fleet of EC2 instances that require efficient software patch management. What AWS service should it use to automate the installation of software patches and updates to its EC2 instances?

An organization operates a large fleet of EC2 instances that require efficient software patch management. What AWS service should it use to automate the installation of software patches and updates to its EC2 instances?

Your organization wants to grant temporary access to AWS resources for third-party developers without sharing long-term credentials. What AWS service can you use to provide short-term, temporary security credentials?




Your organization wants to grant temporary access to AWS resources for third-party developers without sharing long-term credentials. What AWS service can you use to provide short-term, temporary security credentials?

Your company's application relies on Amazon S3 for storing and distributing large media files. You want to optimize data transfer latency for users who download files from S3.

What S3 feature can you enable to improve latency for the users?

Your company’s application relies on Amazon S3 for storing and distributing large media files. You want to optimize data transfer latency for users who download files from S3.
What S3 feature can you enable to improve latency for the users?

Configure the cache behavior of the CloudFront distribution to forward the `User-Agent` header.

Update the CloudFront distribution origin settings and add a `User-Agent` header to the list of origin custom headers.

Update the CloudFront distribution origin settings and add a `User-Device` header to the list of origin custom headers.

Activate the dual-stack setting on the ALB.

A housing company is hosting a website on a set of Amazon EC2 instances behind an ALB. It has integrated CloudFront for content distribution and configured the ALB as the origin for CloudFront. Additionally, it has set up a CNAME record in Route 53 to route all traffic through the CloudFront distribution. Users have reported receiving the desktop version of the website when using mobile phones.

Which action can help the SysOps Administrator resolve the issue?

A housing company is hosting a website on a set of Amazon EC2 instances behind an ALB. It has integrated CloudFront for content distribution and configured the ALB as the origin for CloudFront. Additionally, it has set up a CNAME record in Route 53 to route all traffic through the CloudFront distribution. Users have reported receiving the desktop version of the website when using mobile phones.
Which action can help the SysOps Administrator resolve the issue?

Implement an SCP in the organization to include the new IAM roles in each account.

Utilize AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy a template to each account to create the new IAM roles.

Execute an AWS CloudFormation stack at the organizational level.

Use AWS Config to create an organizational rule for adding the new IAM roles to each account.

A company leverages AWS Organizations to create and manage multiple AWS accounts. The organization aims to deploy new IAM roles across all of its accounts.

Which approach should a SysOps Administrator take to effectively deploy the new IAM roles across the organization’s accounts?

A company leverages AWS Organizations to create and manage multiple AWS accounts. The organization aims to deploy new IAM roles across all of its accounts.
Which approach should a SysOps Administrator take to effectively deploy the new IAM roles across the organization’s accounts?

Your organization needs to automate the provisioning of an AWS infrastructure that includes EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, and an S3 bucket. Which AWS service allows you to define and provision this IaC?



Your organization needs to automate the provisioning of an AWS infrastructure that includes EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, and an S3 bucket. Which AWS service allows you to define and provision this IaC?

Configure AWS Auto Scaling scheduled actions for all ASGs in the development environment.

Use AWS Lambda along with CloudWatch Events.

Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to provision resources in the development environment.

Use CloudWatch to schedule the start and stop times of EC2 instances.

Your organization is looking to optimize costs for AWS EC2 instances in ASGs used in a development environment. You want to ensure that instances are only running during working hours.

What AWS service can you use to schedule the start and stop times of EC2 instances automatically to optimize costs in a development environment?

Your organization is looking to optimize costs for AWS EC2 instances in ASGs used in a development environment. You want to ensure that instances are only running during working hours.
What AWS service can you use to schedule the start and stop times of EC2 instances automatically to optimize costs in a development environment?

Your organization uses S3 to store backup files. You want to ensure that these backup files are retained for a specific duration and can’t be deleted or modified before that time.

What AWS service can you use to implement a retention policy for S3 objects?



Your organization uses S3 to store backup files. You want to ensure that these backup files are retained for a specific duration and can’t be deleted or modified before that time.
What AWS service can you use to implement a retention policy for S3 objects?

Flush the contents of ElastiCache for Memcached

Increase the `ConnectionOverhead` parameter value

Increase the number of nodes in the cluster

Increase the size of the nodes in the cluster

Decrease the number of nodes in the cluster

A company has an application that utilizes AWS ElastiCache for Memcached to cache query responses to improve latency. Unfortunately, users of the application are reporting slow response times. The SysOps Administrator observes that the CloudWatch metrics for Memcached evictions are unusually high.

Which two actions should the SysOps Administrator take to address this issue? 

A company has an application that utilizes AWS ElastiCache for Memcached to cache query responses to improve latency. Unfortunately, users of the application are reporting slow response times. The SysOps Administrator observes that the CloudWatch metrics for Memcached evictions are unusually high.
Which two actions should the SysOps Administrator take to address this issue?

In the cache behavior settings of your distribution, configure it to forward only the necessary query string parameters for which your origin will provide unique objects.



Adjust the viewer protocol policy of your web distribution to utilize HTTPS exclusively for serving media content.

Implement signed URLs for your CloudFront web distribution.

Always include the accept-encoding header to compress all content for each request.

Increase the cache TTL for the CloudFront distribution.

A leading national bank has recently migrated its on-site infrastructure to AWS. However, the SysOps Administrator has noticed that the cache hit ratio for the CloudFront web distribution is currently below 15%. 

To enhance the cache hit ratio for the distribution, which two actions should be taken? 

A leading national bank has recently migrated its on-site infrastructure to AWS. However, the SysOps Administrator has noticed that the cache hit ratio for the CloudFront web distribution is currently below 15%.
To enhance the cache hit ratio for the distribution, which two actions should be taken?

The EFS mount target is established in a private subnet.

The EFS mount target is established in a public subnet.

Route tables haven't been configured to route traffic to an EFS VPC endpoint in the new AZ.

The security group for the mount target doesn't permit inbound NFS connections from the security group used by the EC2 instances.

A company operates an application on a fleet of EC2 instances for processing financial transactions. These EC2 instances share data through an EFS. The company intends to expand the application to a new AZ, creating new subnets and a mount target in the process. However, newly launched EC2 instances in the new subnets are unable to mount the file system.

What can be the reason for this issue?

A company operates an application on a fleet of EC2 instances for processing financial transactions. These EC2 instances share data through an EFS. The company intends to expand the application to a new AZ, creating new subnets and a mount target in the process. However, newly launched EC2 instances in the new subnets are unable to mount the file system.
What can be the reason for this issue?

A video sharing platform has a large amount of data stored in its Amazon S3 buckets. The company wants you to automate the process of moving objects to different storage classes based on their age.

Which AWS feature should you use?

A video sharing platform has a large amount of data stored in its Amazon S3 buckets. The company wants you to automate the process of moving objects to different storage classes based on their age.
Which AWS feature should you use?

Your organization relies on AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing tasks. Ensuring that the Lambda functions have appropriate permissions to access other AWS resources securely is crucial.

What AWS service can you use to grant permissions to Lambda functions without the need for credentials or manual access management?

Your organization relies on AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing tasks. Ensuring that the Lambda functions have appropriate permissions to access other AWS resources securely is crucial.
What AWS service can you use to grant permissions to Lambda functions without the need for credentials or manual access management?

Create a CloudWatch alarm for the `VolumeIdleTime` metric with an action to take a snapshot of the EBS volume.

Set up the AWS Data Pipeline to capture a snapshot of the EBS volume on a recurring schedule.



Configure an Amazon DLM policy to create a snapshot of the EBS volume on a recurring schedule.

Implement an AWS DataSync task to create a snapshot of the EBS volume on a recurring schedule.

A company operates a custom database on an EC2 instance, storing its data on an EBS volume. The SysOps Administrator needs to establish a backup strategy for the EBS volume.

What should the SysOps Administrator do to meet this requirement?

A company operates a custom database on an EC2 instance, storing its data on an EBS volume. The SysOps Administrator needs to establish a backup strategy for the EBS volume.
What should the SysOps Administrator do to meet this requirement?

Deploy the Oracle database on an EC2 instance. Set up an EC2 instance to host the application and then configure a NAT instance.

Transfer the Oracle database to Amazon RDS. Deploy the application on a separate EC2 instance and establish a NAT gateway for better availability and higher bandwidth.

Migrate the Oracle database to Amazon RDS. Launch the application on a dedicated EC2 instance and configure a NAT instance.

Host the Oracle database on an EC2 instance. Deploy the application on a separate EC2 instance and implement an egress-only internet gateway.

A financial startup is transitioning to a hybrid cloud infrastructure with AWS Cloud and plans to migrate its online payments system to the cloud. The application must support IP 6 addresses and use an Oracle database in a real application clusters (RAC) configuration. You have to allow the application to initiate outgoing traffic to the internet while blocking any incoming connections from the internet. 

Which option is the most suitable approach for migrating the application to AWS while meeting these requirements? 

A financial startup is transitioning to a hybrid cloud infrastructure with AWS Cloud and plans to migrate its online payments system to the cloud. The application must support IP 6 addresses and use an Oracle database in a real application clusters (RAC) configuration. You have to allow the application to initiate outgoing traffic to the internet while blocking any incoming connections from the internet.
Which option is the most suitable approach for migrating the application to AWS while meeting these requirements?

Your company’s website experiences high traffic during special promotions, and you want to ensure low-latency access for global customers. What AWS service can you use to distribute website content globally, reducing latency by caching static assets closer to end users?

Your company’s website experiences high traffic during special promotions, and you want to ensure low-latency access for global customers. What AWS service can you use to distribute website content globally, reducing latency by caching static assets closer to end users?

A start-up is deploying a web application across multiple EC2 instances and wants to ensure that incoming HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across these instances. What AWS service should you use for this purpose?

A start-up is deploying a web application across multiple EC2 instances and wants to ensure that incoming HTTP traffic is distributed evenly across these instances. What AWS service should you use for this purpose?

Your team is responsible for maintaining an S3 bucket that stores sensitive customer data. Ensuring data security and compliance is a top priority.

Which AWS service can you use to define fine-grained access control policies for the S3 bucket and enable logging of all S3 bucket activity?



Your team is responsible for maintaining an S3 bucket that stores sensitive customer data. Ensuring data security and compliance is a top priority.
Which AWS service can you use to define fine-grained access control policies for the S3 bucket and enable logging of all S3 bucket activity?

You want to ensure that your EC2 instances in a VPC can securely access the internet for updates and patches. At the same time, it’s crucial that you restrict access from the internet to your instances. 

What AWS service should you use to achieve this?

You want to ensure that your EC2 instances in a VPC can securely access the internet for updates and patches. At the same time, it’s crucial that you restrict access from the internet to your instances.
What AWS service should you use to achieve this?

A healthcare company uses AWS as its cloud provider. For compliance reasons, the organization needs to monitor and detect security threats and anomalies within your AWS environment. 

Which AWS service can help you achieve this?


A healthcare company uses AWS as its cloud provider. For compliance reasons, the organization needs to monitor and detect security threats and anomalies within your AWS environment.
Which AWS service can help you achieve this?

A university needs to run a long-term, production-grade web server that requires a consistent level of computing capacity. You want to minimize costs while ensuring high availability.

Which AWS EC2 instance purchasing option is most suitable in this scenario?

A university needs to run a long-term, production-grade web server that requires a consistent level of computing capacity. You want to minimize costs while ensuring high availability.
Which AWS EC2 instance purchasing option is most suitable in this scenario?

Your organization uses EC2 instances for various computing tasks. You want to control which AWS resources the EC2 instances can access.

What AWS service can you use to control access permissions for EC2 instances?

Your organization uses EC2 instances for various computing tasks. You want to control which AWS resources the EC2 instances can access.
What AWS service can you use to control access permissions for EC2 instances?

A sports company needs to analyze large datasets stored in S3 using SQL queries without the need to set up and manage complex data warehouses. What AWS service should you use for this purpose?


A sports company needs to analyze large datasets stored in S3 using SQL queries without the need to set up and manage complex data warehouses. What AWS service should you use for this purpose?

Set up AWS CloudTrail for database backup tracking.

Enable RDS event notifications for backup status alerts.

Configure S3 bucket policies for backup encryption.


Enable RDS backup encryption with AWS KMS keys.

Your organization uses Amazon RDS for its databases. You want to ensure that your database backups are encrypted and comply with data security regulations.

How can you ensure that automated RDS database backups are encrypted?

Your organization uses Amazon RDS for its databases. You want to ensure that your database backups are encrypted and comply with data security regulations.
How can you ensure that automated RDS database backups are encrypted?

Establish a backup plan in AWS Backup. Assign resources by resource ID, including all existing EC2 and EFS resources in the account. Edit the backup plan daily to include any new resources. Schedule the backup plan to run every day with a lifecycle policy to expire backups after 30 days.

Create a backup plan in AWS Backup and choose to assign resources by tags. Apply an SCP for the production account OU that prevents instance and file system creation unless the correct tags are applied. Schedule the backup plan to run every day and configure a lifecycle policy to expire backups after 30 days.

Configure a backup policy in Amazon DLM. Assign all resources by resource ID, including all existing EC2 and EFS resources in the account. Edit the lifecycle policy daily to include any new resources. Schedule the lifecycle policy to create snapshots every day, with a retention period of 30 days.

Create a backup policy in AWS SSM. Assign all resources by tags, ensuring all existing EC2 and EFS resources are tagged correctly. Apply an SCP that prevents resource creation unless the correct tags are applied. Schedule the lifecycle policy to create snapshots every day, with a retention period of 30 days.

The company employs AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. In the production account, a SysOps Administrator must ensure that all data is backed up daily for all current and future EC2 instances and EFSs. The backups should be retained for 30 days.

Which solution requires the least effort to meet these requirements?

The company employs AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. In the production account, a SysOps Administrator must ensure that all data is backed up daily for all current and future EC2 instances and EFSs. The backups should be retained for 30 days.
Which solution requires the least effort to meet these requirements?

Your company has recently migrated its web application to AWS. As of now, the application is deployed on a set of two EC2 instances. 

Which AWS service can help you achieve high availability and scalability for your web application?

Your company has recently migrated its web application to AWS. As of now, the application is deployed on a set of two EC2 instances.
Which AWS service can help you achieve high availability and scalability for your web application?

Activate all AWS-generated cost allocation tags for the account.

Apply user-defined tags to the instances using the tag editor, and activate these tags for cost allocation.

A company operates a large number of EC2 instances for various internal departments. It needs to track the costs of its existing AWS resources by department.

What should a SysOps Administrator do to meet this requirement?

A company operates a large number of EC2 instances for various internal departments. It needs to track the costs of its existing AWS resources by department.
What should a SysOps Administrator do to meet this requirement?

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AWS SysOps Administrator Practice Exams

Practice Exam II