Free AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Practice Test

A SysOps administrator needs to monitor the memory utilization of EC2 instances running a production application. The default CloudWatch metrics are not providing this information. What is the MOST efficient solution to collect and monitor memory metrics?

A company's application running on EC2 instances is experiencing intermittent performance issues. The SysOps administrator needs to set up automated remediation when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. What combination of services should be used?

An organization needs to aggregate logs from multiple AWS accounts into a central S3 bucket for compliance auditing. The logs include CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and application logs from CloudWatch Logs. What is the MOST secure and scalable approach?

A SysOps administrator notices that CloudWatch Logs for several EC2 instances stopped being received 3 days ago. The CloudWatch agent is installed and was working previously. What is the MOST likely cause and solution?

A company needs to implement a disaster recovery solution for a critical MySQL database running on Amazon RDS. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 1 hour. The solution must be cost-effective. What is the BEST approach?

An application consists of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The SysOps team needs to ensure the application can handle the failure of an entire Availability Zone. What configuration is required?

A company needs to test their disaster recovery procedures for an application deployed using AWS CloudFormation. The test should verify that the application can be recovered in a different region without affecting the production environment. What is the BEST approach?

A SysOps administrator needs to deploy a new version of an application to EC2 instances managed by an Auto Scaling group. The deployment must minimize downtime and allow for quick rollback if issues occur. What is the MOST appropriate strategy?

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure across multiple environments (dev, staging, production). The SysOps administrator needs to ensure that production resources have specific tags and encryption settings that differ from other environments. What is the BEST way to achieve this?

An organization needs to automate the patching of 500 EC2 instances running various operating systems (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Windows). The patching should occur during a maintenance window with different schedules for different instance groups. What AWS service should be used?

A SysOps administrator is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure. The stack creation fails with a rollback, but the error message is unclear. What is the BEST way to troubleshoot the root cause of the failure?

A company's security policy requires that all data stored in S3 buckets must be encrypted at rest. A SysOps administrator needs to enforce this policy across all existing and new S3 buckets in the AWS account. What is the MOST effective solution?

A SysOps administrator needs to rotate access keys for an IAM user that is used by a legacy application. The application cannot be updated immediately to use the new key. What is the BEST approach to rotate the keys without causing application downtime?

An organization must ensure that all API calls made within their AWS account are logged and retained for 7 years for compliance purposes. The logs must be tamper-proof and stored cost-effectively. What solution meets these requirements?

A web application running on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer is experiencing intermittent connection timeouts from users. The SysOps administrator needs to identify whether the issue is with the ALB or the backend instances. What is the BEST initial troubleshooting step?

A company needs to connect their on-premises data center to AWS. The connection must be private, have predictable network performance, and support up to 10 Gbps bandwidth. Which solution should the SysOps administrator implement?

An application deployed in a VPC needs to access S3 and DynamoDB without traversing the internet. The SysOps administrator must implement a solution that doesn't require changes to route tables for multiple subnets. What is the MOST appropriate solution?

A company uses Amazon Route 53 for DNS management. They need to implement a routing policy that directs users to the AWS region with the lowest network latency. If that region becomes unavailable, traffic should automatically route to the next best region. What Route 53 routing configuration should be used?

A SysOps administrator notices that an application's CloudWatch dashboard shows consistently high EC2 CPU utilization (90-95%) throughout the day, but the application performance is acceptable. The team wants to reduce costs. What is the MOST appropriate action?

A company has multiple development teams creating various AWS resources. The finance team needs to track costs by project and department. What is the MOST effective way to implement this cost allocation strategy?