SOA-C02 Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has an internal web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load
Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone. A SysOps administrator must make the application highly available.
Which action should the SysOps administrator take to meet this requirement?

1. A. Increase the maximum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group to meet the capacity that is required at peak usage.
2. B. Increase the minimum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group to meet the capacity that is required at peak usage.
3. C. Update the Auto Scaling group to launch new instances in a second Availability Zone in the same AWS Region.
4. D. Update the Auto Scaling group to launch new instances in an Availability Zone in a second AWS Region.

Correct Answer: C

- (Exam Topic 1)
A SysOps administrator applies the following policy to an AWS CloudFormation stack:

What is the result of this policy?

1. A. Users that assume an IAM role with a logical ID that begins with "Production" are prevented from running the update-stack command.
2. B. Users can update all resources in the stack except for resources that have a logical ID that begins with "Production".
3. C. Users can update all resources in the stack except for resources that have an attribute that begins with "Production".
4. D. Users in an IAM group with a logical ID that begins with "Production" are prevented from running the update-stack command.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 1)
A SysOps administrator configures an Amazon S3 gateway endpoint in a VPC. The private subnets inside the VPC do not nave outbound internet access. A user logs in to an Amazon EC2 instance in one of the private subnets and cannot upload a file to an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region
Which solution will solve this problem?

1. A. Update the EC2 instance role policy to allow s3:PutObjed access to the target S3 bucket.
2. B. Update the EC2 security group to allow outbound traffic to 0.0.0.070 for port 80.
3. C. Update the EC2 subnet route table to include the S3 prefix list destination routes to the S3 gateway endpoint.
4. D. Update the S3 bucket policy to allow s3 PurObject access from the private subnet CIDR block.

Correct Answer: C

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company needs to implement a managed file system to host Windows file shares for users on premises. Resources in the AWS Cloud also need access to the data on these file shares. A SysOps administrator needs to present the user file shares on premises and make the user file shares available on AWS with minimum latency.
What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements?

1. A. Set up an Amazon S3 File Gateway.
2. B. Set up an AWS Direct Connect connection.
3. C. Use AWS DataSync to automate data transfers between the existing file servers and AWS.
4. D. Set up an Amazon FSx File Gateway.

Correct Answer: D
Amazon FSx provides a fully managed file system that is optimized for Windows-based workloads and can be used to create file shares that can be accessed both on premises and in the AWS Cloud. The file shares that are created in Amazon FSx are highly available and can be accessed with low latency. Additionally, Amazon FSx supports Windows-based authentication, making it easy to integrate with existing Windows user accounts.
References:
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/
[2] https://aws.amazon.com/storage/file-storage/
[3] https://docs.aws.a

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company's customers are reporting increased latency while accessing static web content from Amazon S3 A SysOps administrator observed a very high rate of read operations on a particular S3 bucket
What will minimize latency by reducing load on the S3 bucket?

1. A. Migrate the S3 bucket to a region that is closer to end users' geographic locations
2. B. Use cross-region replication to replicate all of the data to another region
3. C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin.
4. D. Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache data being served from Amazon S3

Correct Answer: C