Amazon Web Services DOP-C02 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Exam Practice Test
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Questions and Answers
A DevOps engineer uses AWS Control Tower to deploy multiple AWS accounts to support business, technical, and administrative units in a company. A security team needs the DevOps engineer to automate AWS Control Tower guardrails for the company. The guardrails must be applied to all accounts in an OU of the company’s organization in AWS Organizations.
The security team needs a solution that has version control features. The security team must be able to review and roll back versions when necessary. The security team will manage the solution in the security team’s OU. The security team wants to specify the types of guardrails that are allowed. The security team wants to allow only new guardrails that the security team approves.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A DevOps engineer is creating an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy a web service. The web service will run on Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The DevOps engineer must ensure that the service can accept requests from clients that have IPv6 addresses.
What should the DevOps engineer do with the CloudFormation template so that IPv6 clients can access the web service?
A company has set up AWS CodeArtifact repositories with public upstream repositories The company ' s development team consumes open source dependencies from the repositories in the company ' s internal network.
The company ' s security team recently discovered a critical vulnerability in the most recent version of a package that the development team consumes. The security team has produced a patched version to fix the vulnerability. The company needs to prevent the vulnerable version from being downloaded. The company also needs to allow the security team to publish the patched version.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? {Select TWO.)
A company is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for an application by using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild. The company needs a solution to run unit tests and automatically generate code coverage reports before any code is deployed to production. The CI/CD pipeline execution must fail if the code coverage is less than 80%.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store proprietary information. The development team creates buckets for new projects on a daily basis. The security team wants to ensure that all existing and future buckets have encryption logging and versioning enabled. Additionally, no buckets should ever be publicly read or write accessible.
What should a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company uses S3 to store images and requires multi-Region DR with two-way replication and ≤15-minute latency.
Which steps meet the requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company manages a large fleet of Amazon EC2 Linux instances in its production AWS account by using AWS Systems Manager . The EC2 instances must comply with a list of compliance requirements.
The company ' s DevOps engineers wrote Chef cookbooks to detect and remediate configuration deviations. The company does not want to manage a Chef server and agent infrastructure.
The DevOps engineers need to set up the Chef cookbooks to run periodically on the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is reviewing its 1AM policies. One policy written by the DevOps engineer has been (lagged as too permissive. The policy is used by an AWS Lambda function that issues a stop command to Amazon EC2 instances tagged with Environment: NonProduccion over the weekend. The current policy is:
What changes should the engineer make to achieve a policy ot least permission? (Select THREE.)
A large enterprise is deploying a web application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance and Amazon DynamoDB. There are separate environments tor development testing and production.
What is the MOST secure and flexible way to obtain password credentials during deployment?
A company uses Amazon Redshift as its data warehouse solution. The company wants to create a dashboard to view changes to the Redshift users and the queries the users perform.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company is developing a web application and is using AWS CodeBuild for its CI/CD pipeline. The company must generate multiple artifacts from a single build process. The company also needs the ability to determine which build generated each artifact. The artifacts must be stored in an Amazon S3 bucket for further processing and deployment. Builds occur frequently and are based on a large Git repository. The company needs to optimize build times. Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company uses Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as its primary database and must ensure cross-Region high availability with RPO < 1 min and RTO < 10 min.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company containerized its Java app and uses CodePipeline. They want to scan images in ECR for vulnerabilities and reject images with critical vulnerabilities in a manual approval stage.
Which solution meets these?
A company runs a large number of Amazon EC2 instances across public and private subnets in a VPC. A DevOps engineer needs to monitor the EC2 instances for suspicious activity and block traffic from the instances if suspicious activity is identified.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company must encrypt all AMIs that the company shares across accounts. A DevOps engineer has access to a source account where an unencrypted custom AMI has been built. The DevOps engineer also has access to a target account where an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group will launch EC2 instances from the AMI. The DevOps engineer must share the AMI with the target account.
The company has created an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the source account.
Which additional steps should the DevOps engineer perform to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)
A company has implemented a new microservices-based application on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. After each deployment, the company wants to validate the critical user journeys and API endpoints before routing traffic to the new application version.
The company must implement an automated solution to detect issues in the new deployment and to initiate a rollback if necessary.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead ?
A company runs an application for multiple environments in a single AWS account. An AWS CodePipeline pipeline uses a development Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster to test an image from an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. The pipeline promotes the image to a production ECS cluster.
The company needs to move the production cluster into a separate AWS account in the same AWS Region. The production cluster must be able to download the images over a private connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses containers for its applications The company learns that some container Images are missing required security configurations
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to create a standard base image The solution must publish the base image weekly to the us-west-2 Region, us-east-2 Region, and eu-central-1 Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has deployed a new REST API by using Amazon API Gateway. The company uses the API to access confidential data. The API must be accessed from only specific VPCs in the company. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has multiple member accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The security team needs to review every Amazon EC2 security group and their inbound and outbound rules. The security team wants to programmatically retrieve this information from the member accounts using an AWS Lambda function in the management account of the organization.
Which combination of access changes will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A global company manages multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Control Tower. The company hosts internal applications and public applications.
Each application team in the company has its own AWS account for application hosting. The accounts are consolidated in an organization in AWS Organizations. One of the AWS Control Tower member accounts serves as a centralized DevOps account with CI/CD pipelines that application teams use to deploy applications to their respective target AWS accounts. An 1AM role for deployment exists in the centralized DevOps account.
An application team is attempting to deploy its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster in an application AWS account. An 1AM role for deployment exists in the application AWS account. The deployment is through an AWS CodeBuild project that is set up in the centralized DevOps account. The CodeBuild project uses an 1AM service role for CodeBuild. The deployment is failing with an Unauthorized error during attempts to connect to the cross-account EKS cluster from CodeBuild.
Which solution will resolve this error?
A company uses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with an Amazon EC2 launch type. The company requires all log data to be centralized on Amazon CloudWatch. The company ' s ECS tasks include a LogConfiguration object that specifies a value of awslogs for the log driver name.
The company ' s ECS tasks failed to deploy. An error message indicates that a missing permission causes the failure. The company confirmed that the IAM role used to launch container instances includes the logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, and logs:PutLogEvents permissions.
Which solution will fix the problem?
A company uses AWS WAF to protect its cloud infrastructure. A DevOps engineer needs to give an operations team the ability to analyze log messages from AWS WAR. The operations team needs to be able to create alarms for specific patterns in the log output.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has a single AWS account that runs hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. New EC2 instances are launched and terminated each hour in the account. The account also includes existing EC2 instances that have been running for longer than a week.
The company ' s security policy requires all running EC2 instances to use an EC2 instance profile. If an EC2 instance does not have an instance profile attached, the EC2 instance must use a default instance profile that has no IAM permissions assigned.
A DevOps engineer reviews the account and discovers EC2 instances that are running without an instance profile. During the review, the DevOps engineer also observes that new EC2 instances are being launched without an instance profile.
Which solution will ensure that an instance profile is attached to all existing and future EC2 instances in the Region?
A company is experiencing failures in its AWS CodeDeploy deployments for a critical application. The application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances. A DevOps engineer must analyze the failed deployments to identify the root cause of the failures.
Which solution will provide the appropriate information to troubleshoot the deployment issues?
A DevOps engineer is using AWS CodeDeploy across a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The associated CodeDeploy deployment group, which is integrated with EC2 Auto Scaling, is configured to perform in-place deployments with codeDeployDefault.oneAtATime During an ongoing new deployment, the engineer discovers that, although the overall deployment finished successfully, two out of five instances have the previous application revision deployed. The other three instances have the newest application revision
What is likely causing this issue?
A company uses machine learning on transactional data that a development team uploads from multiple sources to an Amazon S3 bucket. The development team finds duplicate objects in the S3 bucket across multiple prefixes. The duplications are increasing the company ' s storage costs.
The company wants to implement an automated solution to identify and remove duplicate objects from the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A DevOps engineer needs to apply a core set of security controls to an existing set of AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. Individual teams will administer individual accounts by using the AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy. For all accounts. AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config must be turned on in all available AWS Regions. Individual account administrators must not be able to edit or delete any of the baseline resources. However, individual account administrators must be able to edit or delete their own CloudTrail trails and AWS Config rules.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company uses an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to host its machine learning (ML) application. As the ML model and the container image size grow, the time that new pods take to start up has increased to several minutes.
A DevOps engineer needs to reduce the startup time to seconds. The solution must also reduce the startup time to seconds when the pod runs on nodes that were recently added to the cluster.
The DevOps engineer creates an Amazon EventBridge rule that invokes an automation in AWS Systems Manager. The automation prefetches the container images from an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository when new images are pushed to the repository. The DevOps engineer also configures tags to be applied to the cluster and the node groups.
What should the DevOps engineer do next to meet the requirements?
A company ' s application teams use AWS CodeCommit repositories for their applications. The application teams have repositories in multiple AWS
accounts. All accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations.
Each application team uses AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) configured with an external IdP to assume a developer IAM role. The developer role allows the application teams to use Git to work with the code in the repositories.
A security audit reveals that the application teams can modify the main branch in any repository. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that
allows the application teams to modify the main branch of only the repositories that they manage.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company ' s DevOps engineer is creating an AWS Lambda function to process notifications from an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. The Lambda function will process the notification messages and will write the contents of the notification messages to an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance.
During testing a database administrator accidentally shut down the DB instance. While the database was down the company lost several of the SNS notification messages that were delivered during that time.
The DevOps engineer needs to prevent the loss of notification messages in the future
Which solutions will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company runs a workload on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs a control that requires the use of Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) on all EC2 instances in the AWS account. If an EC2 instance does not prevent the use of Instance Metadata Service Version 1 (IMDSv1), the EC2 instance must be terminated.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a guideline that every Amazon EC2 instance must be launched from an AMI that the company ' s security team produces Every month the security team sends an email message with the latest approved AMIs to all the development teams.
The development teams use AWS CloudFormation to deploy their applications. When developers launch a new service they have to search their email for the latest AMIs that the security department sent. A DevOps engineer wants to automate the process that the security team uses to provide the AMI IDs to the development teams.
What is the MOST scalable solution that meets these requirements?
A company has an application that uses an Amazon API Gateway REST API, AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon DynamoDB table. The application currently runs in a single AWS Region. The company wants to make the application highly available across two Regions. User traffic must be routed to the Region that provides the least latency.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company ' s automation account contains a CI/CD pipeline that creates and configures new AWS accounts.
The company has a group of internal service teams that provide services to accounts in the organization. The service teams operate out of a set of services accounts. The service teams want to receive an AWS CloudTrail event in their services accounts when the CreateAccount API call creates a new account.
How should the company share this CloudTrail event with the service accounts?
A company builds a container image in an AWS CodeBuild project by running Docker commands. After the container image is built, the CodeBuild project uploads the container image to an Amazon S3 bucket. The CodeBuild project has an 1AM service role that has permissions to access the S3 bucket.
A DevOps engineer needs to replace the S3 bucket with an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository to store the container images. The DevOps engineer creates an ECR private image repository in the same AWS Region of the CodeBuild project. The DevOps engineer adjusts the 1AM service role with the permissions that are necessary to work with the new ECR repository. The DevOps engineer also places new repository information into the docker build command and the docker push command that are used in the buildspec.yml file.
When the CodeBuild project runs a build job, the job fails when the job tries to access the ECR repository.
Which solution will resolve the issue of failed access to the ECR repository?
A DevOps engineer needs to configure an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that publishes container images to an Amazon ECR repository. The pipeline must wait for the previous run to finish and must run when new Git tags are pushed to a Git repository connected to AWS CodeConnections. An existing deployment pipeline must run in response to new container image publications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company has chosen AWS to host its new platform. The company ' s DevOps team has started building an AWS Control Tower landing zone. The DevOps team has set the identity store within AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) to external identity provider (IdP) and has configured SAML 2.0.
The DevOps team wants a robust permission model that applies the principle of least privilege. The model must allow the team to build and manage only the team ' s own resources.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
An Amazon EC2 instance is running in a VPC and needs to download an object from a restricted Amazon S3 bucket. When the DevOps engineer tries to download the object, an AccessDenied error is received,
What are the possible causes tor this error? (Select TWO,)
A development team uses AWS CodeCommit for version control for applications. The development team uses AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild. and AWS CodeDeploy for CI/CD infrastructure. In CodeCommit, the development team recently merged pull requests that did not pass long-running tests in the code base. The development team needed to perform rollbacks to branches in the codebase, resulting in lost time and wasted effort.
A DevOps engineer must automate testing of pull requests in CodeCommit to ensure that reviewers more easily see the results of automated tests as part of the pull request review.
What should the DevOps engineer do to meet this requirement?
A company has an AWS Cloud Format ion slack that is deployed in a single AWS account. The company has configured the stack to send event notifications to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.
A DevOps engineer must implement an automated solution that applies a tag to the specific Cloud Formation stack instance only after a successful stack update occurs. The DevOps engineer has created an AWS Lambda function that applies and updates this tag (or the specific slack instance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is deploying a new version of a company ' s application in an AWS CodeDeploy deployment group associated with its Amazon EC2 instances. After some time, the deployment fails. The engineer realizes that all the events associated with the specific deployment ID are in a Skipped status and code was not deployed in the instances associated with the deployment group.
What are valid reasons for this failure? (Select TWO.).
A DevOps engineer is building a continuous deployment pipeline for a serverless application that uses AWS Lambda functions. The company wants to reduce the customer impact of an unsuccessful deployment. The company also wants to monitor for issues.
Which deploy stage configuration will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that is using a MySQL-compatible Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ DB cluster as the database. A cross-Region read replica has been created for disaster recovery purposes. A DevOps engineer wants to automate the promotion of the replica so it becomes the primary database instance in the event of a failure.
Which solution will accomplish this?
A DevOps engineer is setting up a container-based architecture. The engineer has decided to use AWS CloudFormation to automatically provision an Amazon ECS cluster and an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to launch the EC2 container instances. After successfully creating the CloudFormation stack, the engineer noticed that, even though the ECS cluster and the EC2 instances were created successfully and the stack finished the creation, the EC2 instances were associating with a different cluster.
How should the DevOps engineer update the CloudFormation template to resolve this issue?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company recently acquired another company that has standalone AWS accounts. The acquiring company ' s DevOps team needs to consolidate the administration of the AWS accounts for both companies and retain full administrative control of the accounts. The DevOps team also needs to collect and group findings across all the accounts to implement and maintain a security posture.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps team take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A media company has several thousand Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. The company is using Slack and a shared email inbox for team communications and important updates. A DevOps engineer needs to send all AWS-scheduled EC2 maintenance notifications to the Slack channel and the shared inbox. The solution must include the instances ' Name and Owner tags.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is creating a CI/CD pipeline to build container images. The engineer needs to store container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and scan the images for common vulnerabilities. The CI/CD pipeline must be resilient to outages in upstream source container image repositories.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company hosts a web application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The company deploys the application across multiple Availability Zones.
Application users are reporting intermittent performance issues with the application.
The company enables basic Amazon CloudWatch monitoring for the EC2 instances. The company identifies and implements a fix for the performance issues. After resolving the issues, the company wants to implement a monitoring solution that will quickly alert the company about future performance issues.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to install antivirus software on all the Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. The EC2 instances run the most recent version of Amazon Linux .
The solution must detect all instances and must use an AWS Systems Manager document to install the software if the software is not present.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An AWS CodePipeline pipeline has implemented a code release process. The pipeline is integrated with AWS CodeDeploy to deploy versions of an application to multiple Amazon EC2 instances for each CodePipeline stage.
During a recent deployment the pipeline failed due to a CodeDeploy issue. The DevOps team wants to improve monitoring and notifications during deployment to decrease resolution times.
What should the DevOps engineer do to create notifications. When issues are discovered?
A company is divided into teams Each team has an AWS account and all the accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. Each team must retain full administrative rights to its AWS account. Each team also must be allowed to access only AWS services that the company approves for use AWS services must gam approval through a request and approval process.
How should a DevOps engineer configure the accounts to meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) for all images of the company ' s containerized infrastructure. The company uses the pull through cache functionality with the /external prefix to avoid throttling when the company retrieves images from external image registries. The company uses AWS Organizations for its accounts.
Every image in the registry must be encrypted with a specific, pre-provisioned AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key. The company ' s internally created images already comply with this policy. However, cached external images use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3).
The company must remove the noncompliant cache repositories. The company must also implement a secure solution to ensure that all new pull through cache repositories are automatically encrypted with the required KMS key.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Control Tower and Organizations for a multi-account environment. It needs to create new accounts and ensure they receive a consistent baseline configuration.
Which solution meets the requirement with the least overhead?
A DevOps team operates an integration service that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The DevOps team uses Amazon Route 53 to manage the integration service ' s domain name by using a simple routing record. The integration service is stateful and uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for data storage and state storage. The integration service does not support load balancing between multiple nodes. The DevOps team deploys the integration service on a new EC2 instance as a warm standby to reduce the mean time to recovery. The DevOps team wants the integration service to automatically fail over to the standby EC2 instance. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s application has an API that retrieves workload metrics. The company needs to audit, analyze, and visualize these metrics from the application to detect issues at scale.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE).
A rapidly growing company wants to scale for developer demand for AWS development environments. Development environments are created manually in the AWS Management Console. The networking team uses AWS CloudFormation to manage the networking infrastructure, exporting stack output values for the Amazon VPC and all subnets. The development environments have common standards, such as Application Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, security groups, and Amazon DynamoDB tables.
To keep up with demand, the DevOps engineer wants to automate the creation of development environments. Because the infrastructure required to support the application is expected to grow, there must be a way to easily update the deployed infrastructure. CloudFormation will be used to create a template for the development environments.
Which approach will meet these requirements and quickly provide consistent AWS environments for developers?
A company has a stateless web application that is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in a target group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Amazon Route 53 manages the application domain.
The company updates the application UI and develops a beta version of the application. The company wants to test the beta version on 10% of its traffic.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST number of configuration changes?
A company manages environments for its application in multiple AWS accounts. Each environment account is in a different OU in AWS Organizations.
A DevOps team is responsible for the application deployment process across the environments. The deployment process uses an AWS CodePipeline pipeline in a Shared Services account. The DevOps team members are in the same user group. The team members have administrative access to all accounts through AWS IAM Identity Center.
A recent deployment problem in the development environment required the DevOps team to perform manual steps. The deployment to the production environment then resulted in an incident that caused the pipeline to fail, blocking new deployments for several hours.
A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that only the pipeline can perform deployments in the production environment. The DevOps engineer must have access to the environment in case of an emergency.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company runs its container workloads in AWS App Runner. A DevOps engineer manages the company ' s container repository in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).
The DevOps engineer must implement a solution that continuously monitors the container repository. The solution must create a new container image when the solution detects an operating system vulnerability or language package vulnerability.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer needs to configure a blue green deployment for an existing three-tier application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon RDS database The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are in an Auto Scaling group.
The DevOps engineer has created a launch template and an Auto Scaling group for the blue environment. The DevOps engineer also has created a launch template and an Auto Scaling group for the green environment. Each Auto Scaling group deploys to a matching blue or green target group. The target group also specifies which software blue or green gets loaded on the EC2 instances. The ALB can be configured to send traffic to the blue environments target group or the green environments target group. An Amazon Route 53 record for www example com points to the ALB.
The deployment must move traffic all at once between the software on the blue environment ' s EC2 instances to the newly deployed software on the green environments EC2 instances
What should the DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Storage Gateway in file gateway mode in front of an Amazon S3 bucket that is used by multiple resources. In the morning when business begins, users do not see the objects processed by a third party the previous evening. When a DevOps engineer looks directly at the S3 bucket, the data is there, but it is missing in Storage Gateway.
Which solution ensures that all the updated third-party files are available in the morning?
A company is refactoring applications to use AWS. The company identifies an internal web application that needs to make Amazon S3 API calls in a specific AWS account.
The company wants to use its existing identity provider (IdP) auth.company.com for authentication. The IdP supports only OpenID Connect (OIDC). A DevOps engineer needs to secure the web application ' s access to the AWS account.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A SaaS company uses ECS (Fargate) behind an ALB and CodePipeline + CodeDeploy for blue/green deployments. They need automatic, incremental traffic shifting over time with no downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is launching an application. The application must use only approved AWS services. The account that runs the application was created less than 1 year ago and is assigned to an AWS Organizations OU.
The company needs to create a new Organizations account structure. The account structure must have an appropriate SCP that supports the use of only services that are currently active in the AWS account.
The company will use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer in the solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company requires its developers to tag all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes in an account to indicate a desired backup frequency. This requirement Includes EBS volumes that do not require backups. The company uses custom tags named Backup_Frequency that have values of none, dally, or weekly that correspond to the desired backup frequency. An audit finds that developers are occasionally not tagging the EBS volumes.
A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that all EBS volumes always have the Backup_Frequency tag so that the company can perform backups at least weekly unless a different value is specified.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A production account has a requirement that any Amazon EC2 instance that has been logged in to manually must be terminated within 24 hours. All applications in the production account are using Auto Scaling groups with the Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent configured.
How can this process be automated?
A company uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL global database that has two secondary AWS Regions. A DevOps engineer has configured the database parameter group to guarantee an RPO of 60 seconds. Write operations on the primary cluster are occasionally blocked because of the RPO setting.
The DevOps engineer needs to reduce the frequency of blocked write operations.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company deployed an Amazon CloudFront distribution that accepts requests and routes to an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API. During a recent security audit, the company discovered that requests from the internet could reach the HTTP API without using the CloudFront distribution.
A DevOps engineer must ensure that connections to the HTTP API use the CloudFront distribution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is examining its disaster recovery capability and wants the ability to switch over its daily operations to a secondary AWS Region. The company uses AWS CodeCommit as a source control tool in the primary Region.
A DevOps engineer must provide the capability for the company to develop code in the secondary Region. If the company needs to use the secondary Region, developers can add an additional remote URL to their local Git configuration.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an application that runs on AWS Lambda and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. An Amazon Kinesis data stream is subscribed to the log groups in CloudWatch Logs. A single consumer Lambda function processes the logs from the data stream and stores the logs in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company ' s DevOps team has noticed high latency during the processing and ingestion of some logs.
Which combination of steps will reduce the latency? (Select THREE.)
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company has enabled AWS Config in all accounts. The company requires developers to create AWS CloudFormation stacks in a new AWS account to test features for a new application that the developers are building.
The company wants to ensure that the developers can use only approved Amazon EC2 instance types for the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A security team is concerned that a developer can unintentionally attach an Elastic IP address to an Amazon EC2 instance in production. No developer should be allowed to attach an Elastic IP address to an instance. The security team must be notified if any production server has an Elastic IP address at any time
How can this task be automated ' ?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application processes a high volume of messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.
A DevOps engineer noticed that the application took several hours to process a group of messages from the SQS queue. The average CPU utilization of the Auto Scaling group did not cross the threshold of a target tracking scaling policy when processing the messages. The application that processes the SQS queue publishes logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
The DevOps engineer needs to ensure that the queue is processed quickly.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A DevOps engineer is setting up an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) blue/green deployment for an application by using AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. During the deployment window, the application must be highly available and CodeDeploy must shift 10% of traffic to a new version of the application every minute until all traffic is shifted.
Which configuration should the DevOps engineer add in the CloudFormation template to meet these requirements?
A software team is using AWS CodePipeline to automate its Java application release pipeline The pipeline consists of a source stage, then a build stage, and then a deploy stage. Each stage contains a single action that has a runOrder value of 1.
The team wants to integrate unit tests into the existing release pipeline. The team needs a solution that deploys only the code changes that pass all unit tests.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a web application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The company is deploying the application into multiple AWS Regions. The application consists of dynamic content such as WebSocket-based real-time product updates. The company uses Amazon Route 53 to manage all DNS records. Which solution will provide multi-Region access to the application with the LEAST latency?
A company operates sensitive workloads across the AWS accounts that are in the company ' s organization in AWS Organizations The company uses an IP address range to delegate IP addresses for Amazon VPC CIDR blocks and all non-cloud hardware.
The company needs a solution that prevents principals that are outside the company ' s IP address range from performing AWS actions In the organization ' s accounts
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has application code in an AWS CodeConnections compatible Git repository. The company wants to configure unit tests to run when pull requests are opened. The company wants to ensure that the test status is visible in pull requests when the tests are completed. The company wants to save output data files that the tests generate to an Amazon S3 bucket after the tests are finished. Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company deploys updates to its Amazon API Gateway API several times a week by using an AWS CodePipeline pipeline. As part of the update process the company exports the JavaScript SDK for the API from the API. Gateway console and uploads the SDK to an Amazon S3 bucket
The company has configured an Amazon CloudFront distribution that uses the S3 bucket as an origin Web client then download the SDK by using the CloudFront distribution ' s endpoint. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to make the new SDK available automatically during new API deployments.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses a trunk-based development branching strategy. The company has two AWS CodePipeline pipelines that are integrated with a Git provider. The pull_request pipeline has a branch filter that matches the feature branches. The main_branch pipeline has a branch filter that matches the main branch.
When pull requests are merged into the main branch, the pull requests are deployed by using the main_branch pipeline. The company ' s developers need test results for all submitted pull requests as quickly as possible from the pull_request pipeline. The company wants to ensure that the main_branch pipeline ' s test results finish and that each deployment is complete before the next pipeline execution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as its primary database. They need high availability within and across AWS Regions, with an RPO < 1 min and RTO < 10 min. Route 53 CNAME is used for the DB endpoint and must redirect to standby during failover.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company has many AWS accounts. During AWS account creation the company uses automation to create an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group in every AWS Region that the company operates in. The automaton configures new resources in the accounts to publish logs to the provisioned log groups in their Region.
The company has created a logging account to centralize the logging from all the other accounts. A DevOps engineer needs to aggregate the log groups from all the accounts to an existing Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient manner?
A DevOps engineer is building the infrastructure for an application. The application needs to run on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that includes Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances need to use an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system as a storage backend. The Amazon EFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is installed on the EKS cluster.
When the DevOps engineer starts the application, the EC2 instances do not mount the EFS file system.
Which solutions will fix the problem? (Select THREE.)
A company has deployed an application in a single AWS Region. The application backend uses Amazon DynamoDB tables and Amazon S3 buckets.
The company wants to deploy the application in a secondary Region. The company must ensure that the data in the DynamoDB tables and the S3 buckets persists across both Regions. The data must also immediately propagate across Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A cloud team uses AWS Organizations and AWS IAM Identity Center to manage a company ' s AWS accounts. The company recently established a research team. The research team requires the ability to fully manage the resources in its account. The research team must not be able to create IAM users.
The cloud team creates a Research Administrator permission set in IAM Identity Center for the research team. The permission set has the AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy attached. The cloud team must ensure that no one on the research team can create IAM users.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations with many OUs that contain many AWS accounts. The organization has a dedicated delegated administrator AWS account.
The company needs the accounts in one OU to have server-side encryption enforced for all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues that are created or updated on an AWS CloudFormation stack.
Which solution will enforce this policy before a CloudFormation stack operation in the accounts of this OU?
A company has an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that is configured with an Amazon S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 Region. The pipeline deploys an AWS Lambda application to the same Region. The pipeline consists of an AWS CodeBuild project build action and an AWS CloudFormation deploy action.
The CodeBuild project uses the aws cloudformation package AWS CLI command to build an artifact that contains the Lambda function code’s .zip file and the CloudFormation template. The CloudFormation deploy action references the CloudFormation template from the output artifact of the CodeBuild project’s build action.
The company wants to also deploy the Lambda application to the us-east-1 Region by using the pipeline in eu-west-1. A DevOps engineer has already updated the CodeBuild project to use the aws cloudformation package command to produce an additional output artifact for us-east-1.
Which combination of additional steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A DevOps engineer is supporting early-stage development for a developer platform running on Amazon EKS. Recently, the platform has experienced an increased rate of container restart failures. The DevOps engineer wants diagnostic information to isolate and resolve issues.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is using AWS Organizations to create separate AWS accounts for each of its departments The company needs to automate the following tasks
• Update the Linux AMIs with new patches periodically and generate a golden image
• Install a new version to Chef agents in the golden image, is available
• Provide the newly generated AMIs to the department ' s accounts
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST management overhead ' ?
A company has multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) that is integrated with AWS Toolkit for Microsoft Azure DevOps. The attributes for access control feature is enabled in IAM Identity Center.
The attribute mapping list contains two entries. The department key is mapped to ${path:enterprise.department}. The costCenter key is mapped to ${path:enterprise.costCenter}.
All existing Amazon EC2 instances have a department tag that corresponds to three company departments (d1, d2, d3). A DevOps engineer must create policies based on the matching attributes. The policies must minimize administrative effort and must grant each Azure AD user access to only the EC2 instances that are tagged with the user’s respective department name.
Which condition key should the DevOps engineer include in the custom permissions policies to meet these requirements?
A company ' s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application writes to a log file that records the username, date, time: and source IP address of the login. The log is published to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs
The company is performing a root cause analysis for an event that occurred on the previous day The company needs to know the number of logins for a specific user from the past 7 days
Which solution will provide this information ' ?
A company uses AWS and has a VPC that contains critical compute infrastructure with predictable traffic patterns. The company has configured VPC flow logs that are published to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
The company ' s DevOps team needs to configure a monitoring solution for the VPC flow logs to identify anomalies in network traffic to the VPC over time. If the monitoring solution detects an anomaly, the company needs the ability to initiate a response to the anomaly.
How should the DevOps team configure the monitoring solution to meet these requirements?
A company has its AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. AWS Config is manually configured in each AWS account. The company needs to implement a solution to centrally configure AWS Config for all accounts in the organization The solution also must record resource changes to a central account.
Which combination of actions should a DevOps engineer perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company is developing a new application. The application uses AWS Lambda functions for its compute tier. The company must use a canary deployment for any changes to the Lambda functions. Automated rollback must occur if any failures are reported.
The company’s DevOps team needs to create the infrastructure as code (IaC) and the CI/CD pipeline for this solution.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A company runs applications on Windows and Linux Amazon EC2 instances The instances run across multiple Availability Zones In an AWS Region. The company uses Auto Scaling groups for each application.
The company needs a durable storage solution for the instances. The solution must use SMB for Windows and must use NFS for Linux. The solution must also have sub-millisecond latencies. All instances will read and write the data.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A DevOps engineer has created an AWS CloudFormation template that deploys an application on Amazon EC2 instances The EC2 instances run Amazon Linux The application is deployed to the EC2 instances by using shell scripts that contain user data. The EC2 instances have an 1AM instance profile that has an 1AM role with the AmazonSSMManagedlnstanceCore managed policy attached
The DevOps engineer has modified the user data in the CloudFormation template to install a new version of the application. The engineer has also applied the stack update. However, the application was not updated on the running EC2 instances. The engineer needs to ensure that the changes to the application are installed on the running EC2 instances.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. The company stores application code in a private GitHub repository. The company needs to deploy the application components to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Amazon EC2, and AWS Lambda. The pipeline must support manual approval actions.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company requires that its internally facing web application be highly available. The architecture is made up of one Amazon EC2 web server instance and one NAT instance that provides outbound internet access for updates and accessing public data.
Which combination of architecture adjustments should the company implement to achieve high availability? (Choose two.)
A DevOps engineer has automated a web service deployment by using AWS CodePipeline with the following steps:
1) An AWS CodeBuild project compiles the deployment artifact and runs unit tests.
2) An AWS CodeDeploy deployment group deploys the web service to Amazon EC2 instances in the staging environment.
3) A CodeDeploy deployment group deploys the web service to EC2 instances in the production environment.
The quality assurance (QA) team requests permission to inspect the build artifact before the deployment to the production environment occurs. The QA team wants to run an internal penetration testing tool to conduct manual tests. The tool will be invoked by a REST API call.
Which combination of actions should the DevOps engineer take to fulfill this request? (Choose two.)
A company is using an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company ' s development team wants to use AWS Lambda functions to meet resiliency requirements and is rewriting all applications to work with Lambda functions that are deployed in a VPC. The development team is using Amazon Elastic Pile System (Amazon EFS) as shared storage in Account A in the organization.
The company wants to continue to use Amazon EPS with Lambda Company policy requires all serverless projects to be deployed in Account B.
A DevOps engineer needs to reconfigure an existing EFS file system to allow Lambda functions to access the data through an existing EPS access point.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A DevOps engineer is using AWS CodeDeploy to release a new version. The deployment fails during the AlIowTraffic lifecycle event, but a cause for the failure is not indicated in the deployment logs.
What would cause this?
A company uses AWS CodePipeline pipelines to automate releases of its application A typical pipeline consists of three stages build, test, and deployment. The company has been using a separate AWS CodeBuild project to run scripts for each stage. However, the company now wants to use AWS CodeDeploy to handle the deployment stage of the pipelines.
The company has packaged the application as an RPM package and must deploy the application to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in an EC2 Auto Scaling group and are launched from a common AMI.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. A DevOps engineer must ensure that all users who access the AWS Management Console are authenticated through the company ' s corporate identity provider (IdP).
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A software engineering team is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a new version of an application. The team wants to ensure that if any issues arise during the deployment, the process can automatically roll back to the previous version.
During the deployment process, a health check confirms the application ' s stability. If the health check fails, the deployment must revert automatically.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has configured an Amazon S3 event source on an AWS Lambda function The company needs the Lambda function to run when a new object is created or an existing object IS modified In a particular S3 bucket The Lambda function will use the S3 bucket name and the S3 object key of the incoming event to read the contents of the created or modified S3 object The Lambda function will parse the contents and save the parsed contents to an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The Lambda function ' s execution role has permissions to read from the S3 bucket and to write to the DynamoDB table, During testing, a DevOps engineer discovers that the Lambda
function does not run when objects are added to the S3 bucket or when existing objects are modified.
Which solution will resolve this problem?
A company runs an application on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service by using the AWS Fargate launch type. The application consumes messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The application can take several minutes to process each message from the queue. When the application processes a message, the application reads a file from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the data in the file. The application writes the processed output to a second S3 bucket. The company uses Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor processing errors and to ensure that the application processes messages successfully.
The SQS queue typically receives a low volume of messages. However, occasionally the queue receives higher volumes of messages. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to reduce the processing time of message bursts.
Which solution will meet this requirement in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company runs a web application that extends across multiple Availability Zones. The company uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for routing. AWS Fargate (or the application and Amazon Aurora for the application data The company uses AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy the application The company stores all Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository in the same AWS account and AWS Region.
A DevOps engineer needs to establish a disaster recovery (DR) process in another Region. The solution must meet an RPO of 8 hours and an RTO of 2 hours The company sometimes needs more than 2 hours to build the Docker images from the Dockerfile
Which solution will meet the RTO and RPO requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses a single AWS account lo test applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company has turned on AWS Config in the AWS account and has activated the restricted-ssh AWS Config managed rule.
The company needs an automated monitoring solution that will provide a customized notification in real time if any security group in the account is not compliant with the restricted-ssh rule. The customized notification must contain the name and ID of the noncompliant security group.
A DevOps engineer creates an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic in the account and subscribes the appropriate personnel to the topic.
What should me DevOps engineer do next to meet these requirements?
A company has enabled all features for its organization in AWS Organizations. The organization contains 10 AWS accounts. The company has turned on AWS CloudTrail in all the accounts. The company expects the number of AWS accounts in the organization to increase to 500 during the next year. The company plans to use multiple OUs for these accounts.
The company has enabled AWS Config in each existing AWS account in the organization. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that enables AWS Config automatically for all future AWS accounts that are created in the organization.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company wants governance where only specific Regions and services can be used, with centralized AD authentication and job-function-based roles.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company uses Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as its primary database for applications. The company needs to ensure high availability within and across AWS Regions.
An Amazon Route 53 CNAME record is configured for the database endpoint. The applications connect to the database endpoint. The company must redirect application traffic to a standby database during a failover event. The company must maintain an RPO of less than 1 minute and an RTO of less than 10 minutes .
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company manages multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations with OUS for the different business divisions, The company is updating their corporate network to use new IP address ranges. The company has 10 Amazon S3 buckets in different AWS accounts. The S3 buckets store reports for the different divisions. The S3 bucket configurations allow only private corporate network IP addresses to access the S3 buckets.
A DevOps engineer needs to change the range of IP addresses that have permission to access the contents of the S3 buckets The DevOps engineer also needs to revoke the permissions of two OUS in the company
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company’s web app publishes JSON logs with transaction status to CloudWatch Logs. The company wants a dashboard showing the number of successful transactions with the least operational overhead.
Which solution meets this?
A DevOps team uses AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application. The application is a REST API that uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon API Gateway Recent deployments have introduced errors that have affected many customers.
The DevOps team needs a solution that reverts to the most recent stable version of the application when an error is detected. The solution must affect the fewest customers possible.
Which solution Will meet these requirements With the MOST operational efficiency?
A developer is maintaining a fleet of 50 Amazon EC2 Linux servers. The servers are part of an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group, and also use Elastic Load Balancing for load balancing.
Occasionally, some application servers are being terminated after failing ELB HTTP health checks. The developer would like to perform a root cause analysis on the issue, but before being able to access application logs, the server is terminated.
How can log collection be automated?
A company has deployed an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster with Amazon EC2 node groups. The company ' s DevOps team uses the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and recently installed a supported EKS cluster Autoscaler.
The DevOps team needs to implement a solution to collect metrics and logs of the EKS cluster to establish a baseline for performance. The DevOps team will create an initial set of thresholds for specific metrics and will update the thresholds over time as the cluster is used. The DevOps team must receive an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) email notification if the initial set of thresholds is exceeded or if the EKS cluster Autoscaler is not functioning properly.
The solution must collect cluster, node, and pod metrics. The solution also must capture logs in Amazon CloudWatch.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps team take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company uses Amazon ECS with the Amazon EC2 launch type. The company requires all log data to be centralized on Amazon CloudWatch. The company’s ECS tasks failed to deploy. An error message indicates that a missing permission causes the failure. The IAM role used includes logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, and logs:PutLogEvents.
Which solution will fix the problem?
A company uses AWS Organizations with CloudTrail trusted access. All events across accounts and Regions must be logged and retained in an audit account, and failed login attempts should trigger real- time notifications.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A developer is using the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to create a prototype for an AWS Lambda function. The AWS SAM template contains an AWS::Serverless::Function resource that has the CodeUri property pointing to an Amazon S3 location. The developer wants to identify the correct commands for deployment before creating a CI/CD pipeline.
The developer creates an archive of the Lambda function code named package.zip, uploads the .zip file archive to the S3 location specified in the CodeUri property, and runs the sam deploy command to deploy the Lambda function. The developer updates the Lambda function code and uses the same steps to deploy the new version. The sam deploy command fails and returns an error of " no changes to deploy. "
Which solutions will deploy the new version? (Select TWO.)
A company needs to increase the security of the container images that run in its production environment. The company wants to integrate operating system scanning and programming language package vulnerability scanning for the containers in its CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline is an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that includes an AWS CodeBuild project, AWS CodeDeploy actions, and an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository.
A DevOps engineer needs to add an image scan to the CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline must deploy only images without CRITICAL and HIGH findings into production.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company sends its AWS Network Firewall flow logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company then analyzes the flow logs by using Amazon Athena. The company needs to transform the flow logs and add additional data before the flow logs are delivered to the existing S3 bucket. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs hundreds of EC2 instances with new instances launched/terminated hourly. Security requires all running instances to have an instance profile attached. A default profile exists and must be attached automatically to any instance missing one.
Which solution meets this requirement?
A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to automate software deployment. The deployment must meet these requirements:
• A number of instances must be available to serve traffic during the deployment Traffic must be balanced across those instances, and the instances must automatically heal in the event of failure.
• A new fleet of instances must be launched for deploying a new revision automatically, with no manual provisioning.
• Traffic must be rerouted to the new environment to half of the new instances at a time. The deployment should succeed if traffic is rerouted to at least half of the instances; otherwise, it should fail.
• Before routing traffic to the new fleet of instances, the temporary files generated during the deployment process must be deleted.
• At the end of a successful deployment, the original instances in the deployment group must be deleted immediately to reduce costs.
How can a DevOps engineer meet these requirements?
A company ' s application is currently deployed to a single AWS Region. Recently, the company opened a new office on a different continent. The users in the new office are experiencing high latency. The company ' s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and uses Amazon DynamoDB as the database layer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. A DevOps engineer is tasked with minimizing application response times and improving availability for users in both Regions.
Which combination of actions should be taken to address the latency issues? (Choose three.)
A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager documents to bootstrap physical laptops for developers The bootstrap code Is stored in GitHub A DevOps engineer has already created a Systems Manager activation, installed the Systems Manager agent with the registration code, and installed an activation ID on all the laptops.
Which set of steps should be taken next?
A company uses AWS CloudFormation stacks to deploy updates to its application. The stacks consist of different resources. The resources include AWS Auto Scaling groups, Amazon EC2 instances, Application Load Balancers (ALBs), and other resources that are necessary to launch and maintain independent stacks. Changes to application resources outside of CloudFormation stack updates are not allowed.
The company recently attempted to update the application stack by using the AWS CLI. The stack failed to update and produced the following error message: " ERROR: both the deployment and the CloudFormation stack rollback failed. The deployment failed because the following resource(s) failed to update: [AutoScalingGroup]. "
The stack remains in a status of UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED. *
Which solution will resolve this issue?
A company builds a container image in an AWS CodeBuild project by running Docker commands. After the container image is built, the CodeBuild project uploads the container image to an Amazon S3 bucket. The CodeBuild project has an IAM service role that has permissions to access the S3 bucket.
A DevOps engineer needs to replace the S3 bucket with an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository to store the container images. The
DevOps engineer creates an ECR private image repository in the same AWS Region of the CodeBuild project. The DevOps engineer adjusts the IAM service role with the permissions that are necessary to work with the new ECR repository. The DevOps engineer also places new repository information into the docker build command and the docker push command that are used in the buildspec.yml file.
When the CodeBuild project runs a build job, the job fails when the job tries to access the ECR repository.
Which solution will resolve the issue of failed access to the ECR repository?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled to manage a fleet of AWS accounts. The company expects to create many new accounts for an upcoming project.
The company wants to ensure that the new accounts will not have default VPCs and that users can develop only in specific AWS Regions. The company must monitor the new accounts for compliance with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark framework.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort? (Select TWO.)
A company has a web application that runs on AWS. The web tier uses an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) deployment with the Fargate launch type behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Amazon Route 53. The application uses an Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) database. The company stores container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). New image versions are pushed regularly.
The company needs to implement a multi-Region recovery strategy with automatic failover to a secondary Region.
Which solution will meet these requirements?



