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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

**(Fill in the blank.)** Scaling an application by increasing the number of instances is called ________ scaling.

(Fill in the blank.) Scaling an application by increasing the number of instances is called ________ scaling.

Which load balancer type should be used when you want to serve an application using a static IP address?

Which load balancer type should be used when you want to serve an application using a static IP address?

Change health check settings in target groups

The instances in one of the AZs get a lot of traffic from your ELB, but instances in other AZs are only getting a small amount of traffic. How can you resolve this?

The instances in one of the AZs get a lot of traffic from your ELB, but instances in other AZs are only getting a small amount of traffic. How can you resolve this?

You notice an issue with a production application with five EC2 instances, where you're signed out from your application every time the page is reloaded. The application works properly on your machine. 

How can you resolve this issue efficiently?

You notice an issue with a production application with five EC2 instances, where you’re signed out from your application every time the page is reloaded. The application works properly on your machine.
How can you resolve this issue efficiently?

**(Select all that apply.)** Which load balancer types can you use to deploy multiple containers of a single application on an instance and load balance requests between containers? 

(Select all that apply.) Which load balancer types can you use to deploy multiple containers of a single application on an instance and load balance requests between containers?

Your clients want the application to scale automatically while keeping the average CPU utilization at 70%. Which scaling policy can you use to achieve this architecture most efficiently?

Your clients want the application to scale automatically while keeping the average CPU utilization at 70%. Which scaling policy can you use to achieve this architecture most efficiently?

Enable cross-zone load balancing in the ELB of your application

Use lifecycle hooks in ASG to improve the application startup speed

Increase the minimum number of instances in the ASG by ten

Your organization uses ASG to serve an HR application. You have received complaints from the HR department that the application is extremely slow when the day starts and then gradually becomes stable. 

How can you solve this issue?

Your organization uses ASG to serve an HR application. You have received complaints from the HR department that the application is extremely slow when the day starts and then gradually becomes stable.
How can you solve this issue?

Configure the ASG to monitor ELB health checks.

Manually delete instances that are unhealthy.

ELB health checks aren’t correct. Reconfigure the ELB health checks.

You have an application on an ASG that uses an ELB frontend. You notice that even though the ELB health checks have classified a few instances as unhealthy, the ASG isn’t replacing these instances. 

What should you do to solve this issue?

You have an application on an ASG that uses an ELB frontend. You notice that even though the ELB health checks have classified a few instances as unhealthy, the ASG isn’t replacing these instances.
What should you do to solve this issue?

You're required to architect an AWS application that can serve millions of requests per second. Which ELB type should you use?

You’re required to architect an AWS application that can serve millions of requests per second. Which ELB type should you use?

**(Select all that apply.)** Which protocols are supported by NLB? 

(Select all that apply.) Which protocols are supported by NLB?

**(Select all that apply.)** Which protocols are supported by ALB? 

(Select all that apply.) Which protocols are supported by ALB?

**(Select all that apply.)** You want your load balancer to serve requests to different target groups based on the hostname of the request. For example:
www.educative.com -> Target Group 1
www.educativewebsite.com -> Target Group 2

Which load balancer types can you use? 

(Select all that apply.) You want your load balancer to serve requests to different target groups based on the hostname of the request. For example:
<a href="http://www.educative.com">www.educative.com</a> -&gt; Target Group 1
<a href="http://www.educativewebsite.com">www.educativewebsite.com</a> -&gt; Target Group 2
Which load balancer types can you use?

Which load balancer type uses the GENEVE protocol on port 6081?

Which load balancer type uses the GENEVE protocol on port 6081?

Increase the minimum instance value in the ASG to add ten more instances.

Create alarms and configure step and simple scaling to scale instances based on the SQS queue length.

You have an application hosted on an ASG that processes some messages in the SQS queue. You've noticed that the clients have to wait for a very long time before their requests are processed. 

How can you improve this architecture?

You have an application hosted on an ASG that processes some messages in the SQS queue. You’ve noticed that the clients have to wait for a very long time before their requests are processed.
How can you improve this architecture?

You have an application hosted on an ASG with a minimum capacity value of two and a maximum capacity value of four. You've also configured target tracking scaling to maintain an average CPU utilization of 60%. You notice a lot of traffic on your application, and it easily scales to four instances. 

What happens if the requests keep increasing and the average CPU utilization reaches 90%?

You have an application hosted on an ASG with a minimum capacity value of two and a maximum capacity value of four. You’ve also configured target tracking scaling to maintain an average CPU utilization of 60%. You notice a lot of traffic on your application, and it easily scales to four instances.
What happens if the requests keep increasing and the average CPU utilization reaches 90%?

The IP address is preserved and can be found in the request that reaches the instance from the ALB.

The request header will have an entry ```X-Forwarded-For```, which will contain the client's IP address.

The request header will have an entry ```X-Forwarded-Proto```, which will contain the client's IP address.

The request header will have an entry ```X-Forwarded-Port```, which will contain the client's IP address.

Your application is hosted on an ASG that uses an ALB frontend. The application requires the client's IP address from the request to process their requests. 

How can your application see the client's IP address? 

Your application is hosted on an ASG that uses an ALB frontend. The application requires the client’s IP address from the request to process their requests.
How can your application see the client’s IP address?

AWS ELB and ASG quiz

AWS ELB and ASG quiz

Test your understanding of AWS ASGs and ELBs.

Introduction

Getting Started with AWS

AWS IAM

AWS EC2

AWS Load Balancers and Auto Scaling Groups

AWS Storage Services

AWS Databases

AWS ElastiCache

AWS Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFront

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Monitoring

AWS VPC

AWS Route 53

AWS Security Services and Encryption

AWS Systems Manager

Important AWS Services

AWS SysOps Administrator Practice Exams

Quiz Yourself on AWS ELB and ASG