SOA-C02 Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The company uses shared VPCs to provide networking resources across accounts A SysOps administrator has been able to successfully launch and manage Amazon EC2 instances in a participant account However the SysOps administrator is now receiving an InstanceLimitExceeded error when the SysOps administrator tries to launch a new EC2 instance
What should the SysOps administrator do to resolve this error')

1. A. Request an instance quota increase from the account that owns the VPC
2. B. Launch additional EC2 instances in a different AWS Region
3. C. Request an instance quota increase from the parte pant account
4. D. Launch additional EC2 instances by using a different Amazon Machine image (AMI)

Correct Answer: A

- (Exam Topic 1)
A user working in the Amazon EC2 console increased the size of an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached to an Amazon EC2 Windows instance. The change is not reflected in the file system.
What should a SysOps administrator do to resolve this issue?

1. A. Extend the file system with operating system-level tools to use the new storage capacity.
2. B. Reattach the EBS volume to the EC2 instance.
3. C. Reboot the EC2 instance that is attached to the EBS volume.
4. D. Take a snapshot of the EBS volum
5. E. Replace the original volume with a volume that is created from the snapshot.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts with consolidated billing enabled. Organization member account owners want the benefits of Reserved Instances (RIs) but do not want to share RIs with other accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Purchase RIs in individual member account
2. B. Disable Rl discount sharing in the management account.
3. C. Purchase RIs in individual member account
4. D. Disable Rl discount sharing in the member accounts.
5. E. Purchase RIs in the management accoun
6. F. Disable Rl discount sharing in the management account.
7. G. Purchase RIs in the management accoun
8. H. Disable Rl discount sharing in the member accounts.

Correct Answer: A
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-ri-consolidated-billing/
RI discounts apply to accounts in an organization's consolidated billing family depending upon whether RI sharing is turned on or off for the accounts. By default, RI sharing for all accounts in an organization is turned on. The management account of an organization can change this setting by turning off RI sharing for an account. The capacity reservation for an RI applies only to the account the RI was purchased on, no matter whether RI sharing is turned on or off.

- (Exam Topic 1)
An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on the shopping site. When viewing recent Amazon CloudWatch metrics data for the ElastiCache cluster, the SysOps administrator notices a large number of evictions.
Which of the following actions will reduce these evictions? (Choose two.)

1. A. Add an additional node to the ElastiCache cluster.
2. B. Increase the ElastiCache time to live (TTL).
3. C. Increase the individual node size inside the ElastiCache cluster.
4. D. Put an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the ElastiCache cluster.
5. E. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to decouple the ElastiCache cluster.

Correct Answer: AC
https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sysops-associate/AWS-Certified-SysOps-Administrator

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company's SysOps administrator attempts to restore an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot. However, the snapshot is missing because another system administrator accidentally deleted the snapshot. The company needs the ability to recover snapshots for a specified period of time after snapshots are deleted.
Which solution will provide this functionality?

1. A. Turn on deletion protection on individual EBS snapshots that need to be kept.
2. B. Create an 1AM policy that denies the deletion of EBS snapshots by using a condition statement for the snapshot age Apply the policy to all users
3. C. Create a Recycle Bin retention rule for EBS snapshots for the desired retention period.
4. D. Use Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) to schedule an AWS Lambda function to copy EBS snapshots to Amazon S3 Glacier.

Correct Answer: B