Amazon Web Services DOP-C02 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Exam Practice Test
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Questions and Answers
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company needs a solution to improve the company's management of AWS resources in a production account.
The company wants to use AWS CloudFormation to manage all manually created infrastructure. The company must have the ability to strictly control who can make manual changes to AWS infrastructure. The solution must ensure that users can deploy new infrastructure only by making changes to a CloudFormation template that is stored in an AWS CodeConnections compatible Git provider.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort? (Select THREE).
A company has developed a serverless web application that is hosted on AWS. The application consists of Amazon S3. Amazon API Gateway, several AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The company is using AWS CodeCommit to store the source code. The source code is a combination of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) templates and Python code.
A security audit and penetration test reveal that user names and passwords for authentication to the database are hardcoded within CodeCommit repositories. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution to automatically detect and prevent hardcoded secrets.
What is the MOST secure solution that meets these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The company uses AWS Backup in a primary account and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key to encrypt the backups.
The company needs to automate a cross-account backup of the resources that AWS Backup backs up in the primary account. The company configures cross-account backup in the Organizations management account. The company creates a new AWS account in the organization and configures an AWS Backup backup vault in the new account. The company creates a KMS key in the new account to encrypt the backups. Finally, the company configures a new backup plan in the primary account. The destination for the new backup plan is the backup vault in the new account.
When the AWS Backup job in the primary account is invoked, the job creates backups in the primary account. However, the backups are not copied to the new account's backup vault.
Which combination of steps must the company take so that backups can be copied to the new account's backup vault? (Select TWO.)
A company is developing an application that will generate log events. The log events consist of five distinct metrics every one tenth of a second and produce a large amount of data The company needs to configure the application to write the logs to Amazon Time stream The company will configure a daily query against the Timestream table.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the FASTEST query performance? (Select THREE.)
A DevOps engineer successfully creates an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that includes managed node groups. When the DevOps engineer tries to add node groups to the cluster, the cluster returns an error that states, "NodeCreationFailure: Instances failed to join the Kubernetes cluster." The DevOps engineer confirms that the EC2 worker nodes are running and that the EKS cluster is in an active state. How should the DevOps engineer troubleshoot this issue?
A DevOps engineer needs a resilient CI/CD pipeline that builds container images, stores them in ECR, scans images for vulnerabilities, and is resilient to outages in upstream source image repositories.
Which solution meets this?
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's application uses a fleet of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances to analyze and process data. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group is a target group for an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application analyzes critical data that cannot tolerate interruption. The application also analyzes noncritical data that can withstand interruption.
The critical data analysis requires quick scalability in response to real-time application demand. The noncritical data analysis involves memory consumption. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that reduces scale-out latency for the critical data. The solution also must process the noncritical data.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is implementing a standardized security baseline across its AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company must deploy consistent IAM roles and policies across all existing and future accounts in the organization. Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The organization root has a child OU that is named Department. The Department OU has a child OU that is named Engineering. The default FullAWSAccess policy is attached to the root, the Department OU. and the Engineering OU.
The company has many AWS accounts in the Engineering OU. Each account has an administrative 1AM role with the AdmmistratorAccess 1AM policy attached. The default FullAWSAccessPolicy is also attached to each account.
A DevOps engineer plans to remove the FullAWSAccess policy from the Department OU The DevOps engineer will replace the policy with a policy that contains an Allow statement for all Amazon EC2 API operations.
What will happen to the permissions of the administrative 1AM roles as a result of this change'?
A company has an application and a CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline consists of an AWS CodePipeline pipeline and an AWS CodeBuild project. The CodeBuild project runs tests against the application as part of the build process and outputs a test report. The company must keep the test reports for 90 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is implementing governance controls for a company that requires its infrastructure to be housed within the United States. The engineer must restrict which AWS Regions can be used, and ensure an alert is sent as soon as possible if any activity outside the governance policy takes place. The controls should be automatically enabled on any new Region outside the United States (US).
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has an AWS CodeDeploy application. The application has a deployment group that uses a single tag group to identify instances for the deployment of ApplicationA. The single tag group configuration identifies instances that have Environment=Production and Name=ApplicattonA tags for the deployment of ApplicationA.
The company launches an additional Amazon EC2 instance with Department=Marketing Environment^Production. and Name=ApplicationB tags. On the next CodeDeploy deployment of ApplicationA. the additional instance has ApplicationA installed on it. A DevOps engineer needs to configure the existing deployment group to prevent ApplicationA from being installed on the additional instance
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company’s EC2 fleet must maintain up-to-date security patches and compliance reporting.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is launching an application that stores raw data in an Amazon S3 bucket. Three applications need to access the data to generate reports. The data must be redacted differently for each application before
the applications can access the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 video-sharing company stores its videos in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company needs to analyze user access patterns such as the number of users who access a specific video each month.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
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 DevOps engineer used an AWS CloudFormation custom resource to set up AD Connector. The AWS Lambda function ran and created AD Connector, but CloudFormation is not transitioning from CREATE_IN_PROGRESS to CREATE_COMPLETE. Which action should the engineer take to resolve this issue?
A company’s web app runs on EC2 with a relational database. The company wants highly available multi-Region architecture with latency-based routing for global customers.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company’s web app runs on EC2 Linux instances and needs to monitor custom metrics for API response and DB query latency across instances with least overhead.
Which solution meets this?
A company requires an RPO of 2 hours and an RTO of 10 minutes for its data and application at all times. An application uses a MySQL database and Amazon EC2 web servers. The development team needs a strategy for failover and disaster recovery.
Which combination of deployment strategies will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has developed a static website hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket. The website is deployed using AWS CloudFormation. The CloudFormation template defines an S3 bucket and a custom resource that copies content into the bucket from a source location.
The company has decided that it needs to move the website to a new location, so the existing CloudFormation stack must be deleted and re-created. However, CloudFormation reports that the stack could not be deleted cleanly.
What is the MOST likely cause and how can the DevOps engineer mitigate this problem for this and future versions of the website?
A highly regulated company has a policy that DevOps engineers should not log in to their Amazon EC2 instances except in emergencies. It a DevOps engineer does log in the security team must be notified within 15 minutes of the occurrence.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
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 has deployed a new platform that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The new platform hosts web applications that users frequently update. The application developers build the Docker images for the applications and deploy the Docker images manually to the platform.
The platform usage has increased to more than 500 users every day. Frequent updates, building the updated Docker images for the applications, and deploying the Docker images on the platform manually have all become difficult to manage.
The company needs to receive an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if Docker image scanning returns any HIGH or CRITICAL findings for operating system or programming language package vulnerabilities.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps engineer is designing an application that integrates with a legacy REST API. The application has an AWS Lambda function that reads records from an Amazon Kinesis data stream. The Lambda function sends the records to the legacy REST API.
Approximately 10% of the records that the Lambda function sends from the Kinesis data stream have data errors and must be processed manually. The Lambda function event source configuration has an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) dead-letter queue as an on-failure destination. The DevOps engineer has configured the Lambda function to process records in batches and has implemented retries in case of failure.
During testing the DevOps engineer notices that the dead-letter queue contains many records that have no data errors and that already have been processed by the legacy REST API. The DevOps engineer needs to configure the Lambda function's event source options to reduce the number of errorless records that are sent to the dead-letter queue.
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 DevOps engineer manages a large commercial website that runs on Amazon EC2. The website uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to collect and process web togs. The DevOps engineer manages the Kinesis consumer application, which also runs on Amazon EC2.
Sudden increases of data cause the Kinesis consumer application to (all behind and the Kinesis data streams drop records before the records can be processed. The DevOps engineer must implement a solution to improve stream handling.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company uses Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions to implement an API. The company uses a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline to build and deploy the API. The pipeline contains a source stage, build stage, and deployment stage.
The company deploys the API without performing smoke tests. Soon after the deployment, the company observes multiple issues with the API. A security audit finds security vulnerabilities in the production code.
The company wants to prevent these issues from happening in the future.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps engineer manages a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The engineer needs to implement a deployment strategy that:
Launches a second fleet of instances with the same capacity as the original fleet.
Maintains the original fleet unchanged while the second fleet is launched.
Transitions traffic to the second fleet when the second fleet is fully deployed.
Terminates the original fleet automatically 1 hour after transition.
Which solution will satisfy these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage many AWS accounts. The company has enabled all features for the organization. The company uses AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy configurations to the accounts. The company uses AWS Config to monitor an Amazon S3 bucket. The company needs to ensure that all object uploads to the S3 bucket use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage several AWS accounts that the company's developers use. The company requires all data to be encrypted in transit.
Multiple Amazon S3 buckets that were created in developer accounts allow unencrypted connections. A DevOps engineer must enforce encryption of data in transit for all existing S3 buckets that are created in accounts in the organization.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has microservices running in AWS Lambda that read data from Amazon DynamoDB. The Lambda code is manually deployed by developers after successful testing The company now needs the tests and deployments be automated and run in the cloud Additionally, traffic to the new versions of each microservice should be incrementally shifted over time after deployment.
What solution meets all the requirements, ensuring the MOST developer velocity?
A company runs several applications in the same AWS account. The applications send logs to Amazon CloudWatch.
A data analytics team needs to collect performance metrics and custom metrics from the applications. The analytics team needs to transform the metrics data before storing the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The analytics team must automatically collect any new metrics that are added to the CloudWatch namespace.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that immediately terminates Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups when cryptocurrency mining activity is detected.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
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 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 developed an AWS Lambda function that handles orders received through an API. The company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy the Lambda function as the final stage of a CI/CD pipeline.
A DevOps engineer has noticed there are intermittent failures of the ordering API for a few seconds after deployment. After some investigation the DevOps engineer believes the failures are due to database changes not having fully propagated before the Lambda function is invoked
How should the DevOps engineer overcome this?
A company that runs many workloads on AWS has an Amazon EBS spend that has increased over time. The DevOps team notices there are many unattached
EBS volumes. Although there are workloads where volumes are detached, volumes over 14 days old are stale and no longer needed. A DevOps engineer has been tasked with creating automation that deletes unattached EBS volumes that have been unattached for 14 days.
Which solution will accomplish this?
A company is developing a microservices-based application on AWS. The application consists of AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services that need to be deployed frequently.
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a consistent deployment solution across all components of the application. The solution must automate the deployments, minimize downtime during updates, and manage configuration data for the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST deployment effort?
A company builds an application that uses an Application Load Balancer in front of Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The
application is stateless. The Auto Scaling group uses a custom AMI that is fully prebuilt. The EC2 instances do not have a custom bootstrapping process.
The AMI that the Auto Scaling group uses was recently deleted. The Auto Scaling group's scaling activities show failures because the AMI ID does not exist.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization includes workload accounts that contain enterprise applications. The company centrally manages users from an operations account. No users can be created in the workload accounts. The company recently added an operations team and must provide the operations team members with administrator access to each workload account.
Which combination of actions will provide this access? (Choose three.)
A DevOps engineer notices that all Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group are failing to respond to user requests. The EC2 instances are also failing target group HTTP health checks
Upon inspection, the engineer notices the application process was not running in any EC2 instances. There are a significant number of out of memory messages in the system logs. The engineer needs to improve the resilience of the application to cope with a potential application memory leak. Monitoring and notifications should be enabled to alert when there is an issue
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
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 company recently migrated its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that uses Amazon EC2 instances. The company configured the application to automatically scale based on CPU utilization.
The application produces memory errors when it experiences heavy loads. The application also does not scale out enough to handle the increased load. The company needs to collect and analyze memory metrics for the application over time.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company needs to ensure that flow logs remain configured for all existing and new VPCs in its AWS account. The company uses an AWS CloudFormation stack to manage its VPCs. The company needs a solution that will work for any VPCs that any IAM user creates.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is developing an application that uses AWS Lambda functions. A DevOps engineer must create an AWS CloudFormation template that defines a deployment configuration for gradual traffic shifting to new Lambda function versions.
Which CloudFormation resource configuration will meet this requirement?
A DevOps engineer is planning to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to manage infrastructure as code (IaC) for a microservices-based application. The DevOps engineer must create reusable components for common infrastructure patterns and must apply the same cost allocation tags across different microservices.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a data ingestion application that runs across multiple AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company needs to monitor the application and consolidate access to the application. Currently the company is running the application on Amazon EC2 instances from several Auto Scaling groups. The EC2 instances have no access to the internet because the data is sensitive Engineers have deployed the necessary VPC endpoints. The EC2 instances run a custom AMI that is built specifically tor the application.
To maintain and troubleshoot the application, system administrators need the ability to log in to the EC2 instances. This access must be automated and controlled centrally. The company's security team must receive a notification whenever the instances are accessed.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer updates an AWS CloudFormation stack to add a nested stack that includes several Amazon EC2 instances. When the DevOps engineer attempts to deploy the updated stack, the nested stack fails to deploy. What should the DevOps engineer do to determine the cause of the failure?
A company has a search application that has a web interface. The company uses Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancers (ALBs), and Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 3. The company uses prebaked AMIs. The application starts in 1 minute. The application queries an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster. The application is deployed to multiple Availability Zones. Because of compliance requirements, the application needs to have a disaster recovery (DR) environment in a separate AWS Region. The company wants to minimize the ongoing cost of the DR environment and requires an RTO and an RPO of under 30 minutes. The company has created an ALB in the DR Region. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an Amazon EKS cluster and must implement comprehensive logging for the control plane and nodes. The company must analyze API requests and monitor container performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A DevOps engineer manages a Java-based application that runs in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster on AWS Fargate. Auto scaling has not been configured for the application. The DevOps engineer has determined that the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) thread count is a good indicator of when to scale the application. The application serves customer traffic on port 8080 and makes JVM metrics available on port 9404. Application use has recently increased. The DevOps engineer needs to configure auto scaling for the application. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 is hosting a static website from an Amazon S3 bucket. The website is available to customers at example.com. The company uses an Amazon Route 53 weighted routing policy with a TTL of 1 day. The company has decided to replace the existing static website with a dynamic web application. The dynamic web application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.
On the day of production launch to customers, the company creates an additional Route 53 weighted DNS record entry that points to the ALB with a weight of 255 and a TTL of 1 hour. Two days later, a DevOps engineer notices that the previous static website is displayed sometimes when customers navigate to example.com.
How can the DevOps engineer ensure that the company serves only dynamic content for example.com?
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 DevOps team is merging code revisions for an application that uses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB cluster for its production database. The DevOps team uses continuous integration to periodically verify that the application works. The DevOps team needs to test the changes before the changes are deployed to the production database.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
A company has several AWS accounts. An Amazon Connect instance runs in each account. The company uses an Amazon EventBridge default event bus in each account for event handling.
A DevOps team needs to receive all the Amazon Connect events in a single DevOps account.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company updated the AWS Cloud Formation template for a critical business application. The stack update process failed due to an error in the updated template and AWS CloudFormation automatically began the stack rollback process Later a DevOps engineer discovered that the application was still unavailable and that the stack was in the UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state.
Which combination of actions should the DevOps engineer perform so that the stack rollback can complete successfully? (Select TWO.)
A company hired a penetration tester to simulate an internal security breach The tester performed port scans on the company's Amazon EC2 instances. The company's security measures did not detect the port scans.
The company needs a solution that automatically provides notification when port scans are performed on EC2 instances. The company creates and subscribes to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.
What should the company do next to meet the requirement?
A company recently launched multiple applications that use Application Load Balancers. Application response time often slows down when the applications experience problems A DevOps engineer needs to Implement a monitoring solution that alerts the company when the applications begin to perform slowly The DevOps engineer creates an Amazon Simple Notification Semce (Amazon SNS) topic and subscribe the company's email address to the topic
What should the DevOps engineer do next to meet the requirements?
A DevOps team is deploying microservices for an application on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster. The cluster uses managed node groups.
The DevOps team wants to enable auto scaling for the microservice Pods based on a specific CPU utilization percentage. The DevOps team has already installed the Kubernetes Metrics Server on the cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company wants to ensure that their EC2 instances are secure. They want to be notified if any new vulnerabilities are discovered on their instances and they also want an audit trail of all login activities on the instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements'?
A company has deployed an application in a production VPC in a single AWS account. The application is popular and is experiencing heavy usage. The company’s security team wants to add additional security, such as AWS WAF, to the application deployment. However, the application's product manager is concerned about cost and does not want to approve the change unless the security team can prove that additional security is necessary.
The security team believes that some of the application's demand might come from users that have IP addresses that are on a deny list. The security team provides the deny list to a DevOps engineer. If any of the IP addresses on the deny list access the application, the security team wants to receive automated notification in near real time so that the security team can document that the application needs additional security. The DevOps engineer creates a VPC flow log for the production VPC.
Which set of additional steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company gives its employees limited rights to AWS DevOps engineers have the ability to assume an administrator role. For tracking purposes, the security team wants to receive a near-real-time notification when the administrator role is assumed.
How should this be accomplished?
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 DevOps engineer is architecting a continuous development strategy for a company's software as a service (SaaS) web application running on AWS. For application and security reasons users subscribing to this application are distributed across multiple. Application Load Balancers (ALBs) each of which has a dedicated Auto Scaling group and fleet of Amazon EC2 instances The application does not require a build stage and when it is committed to AWS CodeCommit, the application must trigger a simultaneous deployment to all ALBs Auto Scaling groups and EC2 fleets.
Which architecture will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of configuration?
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 company needs to update its order processing application to improve resilience and availability. The application requires a stateful database and uses a single-node Amazon RDS DB instance to store customer orders and transaction history. A DevOps engineer must make the database highly available.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 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 has multiple accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company's SecOps team needs to receive an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if any account in the organization turns off the Block Public Access feature on an Amazon S3 bucket. A DevOps engineer must implement this change without affecting the operation of any AWS accounts. The implementation must ensure that individual member accounts in the organization cannot turn off the notification.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is building an application that uses an AWS Lambda function to query an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster. The Lambda function performs only read queries. Amazon EventBridge events invoke the Lambda function.
As more events invoke the Lambda function each second, the database's latency increases and the database's throughput decreases. The DevOps engineer needs to improve the performance of the application.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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 that uses electronic health records is running a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon Linux operating system. As part of patient privacy requirements, the company must ensure continuous compliance for patches for operating system and applications running on the EC2 instances.
How can the deployments of the operating system and application patches be automated using a default and custom repository?
A large company recently acquired a small company. The large company invited the small company to join the large company's existing organization in AWS Organizations as a new OU. A DevOps engineer determines that the small company needs to launch t3.small Amazon EC2 instance types for the company's application workloads. The small company needs to deploy the instances only within US-based AWS Regions. The DevOps engineer needs to use an SCP in the small company's new OU to ensure that the small company can launch only the required instance types. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline to deploy an application. The company created an AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) experiment template to test the resiliency of the application. A DevOps engineer needs to integrate the experiment into the pipeline.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
The company's DevOps engineer discovered that the errors were caused by RDS connection limits being reached. The DevOps engineer also discovered that more than 90% of the API requests are GET requests that read from the DB cluster.
How should the DevOps engineer solve this problem with the LEAST development effort?
A company has an AWS Control Tower landing zone. The company's DevOps team creates a workload OU. A development OU and a production OU are nested under the workload OU. The company grants users full access to the company's AWS accounts to deploy applications.
The DevOps team needs to allow only a specific management 1AM role to manage the 1AM roles and policies of any AWS accounts In only the production OU.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? {Select TWO.)
A company has 20 service learns Each service team is responsible for its own microservice. Each service team uses a separate AWS account for its microservice and a VPC with the 192 168 0 0/22 CIDR block. The company manages the AWS accounts with AWS Organizations.
Each service team hosts its microservice on multiple Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The microservices communicate with each other across the public internet. The company's security team has issued a new guideline that all communication between microservices must use HTTPS over private network connections and cannot traverse the public internet.
A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that fulfills these obligations and minimizes the number of changes for each service team.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company wants to use AWS development tools to replace its current bash deployment scripts. The company currently deploys a LAMP application to a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). During the deployments, the company unit tests the committed application, stops and starts services, unregisters and re-registers instances with the load balancer, and updates file permissions. The company wants to maintain the same deployment functionality through the shift to using AWS services.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company streams logs to CloudWatch Logs. Logs must be searchable for 30 days, low-latency accessible for 90 days, and occasionally retrieved after 180 days.
Which solution is MOST cost-effective?
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 company needs to adopt a multi-account strategy to deploy its applications and the associated CI/CD infrastructure. The company has created an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The company has configured AWS Control Tower and has set up a landing zone.
The company needs to use AWS Control Tower controls (guardrails) in all AWS accounts in the organization. The company must create the accounts for a multi-environment application and must ensure that all accounts are configured to an initial baseline.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 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 manages a multi-tenant environment in its VPC and has configured Amazon GuardDuty for the corresponding AWS account. The company sends all GuardDuty findings to AWS Security Hub.
Traffic from suspicious sources is generating a large number of findings. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to automatically deny traffic across the entire VPC when GuardDuty discovers a new suspicious source.
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 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 CodeCommit for source code control. Developers apply their changes to various feature branches and create pull requests to move those changes to the main branch when the changes are ready for production.
The developers should not be able to push changes directly to the main branch. The company applied the AWSCodeCommitPowerUser managed policy to the developers’ IAM role, and now these developers can push changes to the main branch directly on every repository in the AWS account.
What should the company do to restrict the developers’ ability to push changes to the main branch directly?
An online retail company based in the United States plans to expand its operations to Europe and Asia in the next six months. Its product currently runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. All data is stored in an Amazon Aurora database instance.
When the product is deployed in multiple regions, the company wants a single product catalog across all regions, but for compliance purposes, its customer information and purchases must be kept in each region.
How should the company meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of application changes?
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 administrator is responsible for managing the security of a company's Amazon CloudWatch Logs log groups. The company’s security policy states that employee IDs must not be visible in logs except by authorized personnel. Employee IDs follow the pattern of Emp-XXXXXX, where each X is a digit.
An audit discovered that employee IDs are found in a single log file. The log file is available to engineers, but the engineers are not authorized to view employee IDs. Engineers currently have an AWS IAM Identity Center permission that allows logs:* on all resources in the account.
The administrator must mask the employee ID so that new log entries that contain the employee ID are not visible to unauthorized personnel.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company has chosen AWS to host a new application. The company needs to implement a multi-account strategy. A DevOps engineer creates a new AWS account and an organization in AWS Organizations. The DevOps engineer also creates the OU structure for the organization and sets up a landing zone by using AWS Control Tower.
The DevOps engineer must implement a solution that automatically deploys resources for new accounts that users create through AWS Control Tower Account Factory. When a user creates a new account, the solution must apply AWS CloudFormation templates and SCPs that are customized for the OU or the account to automatically deploy all the resources that are attached to the account. All the OUs are enrolled in AWS Control Tower.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST automated way?
A DevOps engineer needs to implement integration tests into an existing AWS CodePipelme CI/CD workflow for an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service. The CI/CD workflow retrieves new application code from an AWS CodeCommit repository and builds a container image. The CI/CD workflow then uploads the container image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) with a new image tag version.
The integration tests must ensure that new versions of the service endpoint are reachable and that vanous API methods return successful response data The DevOps engineer has already created an ECS cluster to test the service
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead? (Select THREE.)
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 uses AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower to manage all the company's AWS accounts. The company uses the Enterprise Support plan.
A DevOps engineer is using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) to provision new accounts. When new accounts are provisioned, the DevOps engineer notices that the support plan for the new accounts is set to the Basic Support plan. The DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to provision the new accounts with the Enterprise Support plan.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has migrated its container-based applications to Amazon EKS and want to establish automated email notifications. The notifications sent to each email address are for specific activities related to EKS components. The solution will include Amazon SNS topics and an AWS Lambda function to evaluate incoming log events and publish messages to the correct SNS topic.
Which logging solution will support these requirements?
A company uses Amazon RDS for all databases in Its AWS accounts The company uses AWS Control Tower to build a landing zone that has an audit and logging account All databases must be encrypted at rest for compliance reasons. The company's security engineer needs to receive notification about any noncompliant databases that are in the company's accounts
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company runs applications in AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations The applications use Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon S3.
The company wants to detect potentially compromised EC2 instances suspicious network activity and unusual API activity in its existing AWS accounts and in any AWS accounts that the company creates in the future When the company detects one to these events the company wants to use an existing Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to send a notification to its operational support team for investigation and remediation.
Which solution will meet these requirements in accordance with AWS best practices?
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 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 a workflow that generates a file for each of the company's products and stores the files in a production environment Amazon S3 bucket. The company's users can access the S3 bucket.
Each file contains a product ID. Product IDs for products that have not been publicly announced are prefixed with a specific UUID. Product IDs are 12 characters long. IDs for products that have not been publicly announced begin with the letter P.
The company does not want information about products that have not been publicly announced to be available in the production environment S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company configured an Amazon S3 event source for 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 specific 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 new 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 'eari from the S3 bucket and to Write to the DynamoDB table. During testing, a DevOpS engineer discovers that the Lambda fund on does rot run when objects are added to the S3 bucket or when existing objects are modified.
Which solution will resolve these problems?
A company is migrating its web application to AWS. The application uses WebSocket connections for real-time updates and requires sticky sessions.
A DevOps engineer must implement a highly available architecture for the application. The application must be accessible to users worldwide with the least possible latency.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company detects unusual login attempts in many of its AWS accounts. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that sends a notification to the company's security team when multiple failed login attempts occur. The DevOps engineer has already created an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic and has subscribed the security team to the SNS topic.
Which solution will provide the notification with the LEAST operational effort?
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 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 company is using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to develop a microservices-based application. The company needs to create reusable infrastructure components for three environments: development, staging, and production. The components must include networking resources, database resources, and serverless compute resources.
The company must implement a solution that provides consistent infrastructure across environments while offering the option for environment-specific customizations. The solution also must minimize code duplication.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development overhead?
A company plans to use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor its Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs to stop EC2 instances when the average of the NetworkPacketsIn metric is less than 5 for at least 3 hours in a 12-hour time window. The company must evaluate the metric every hour. The EC2 instances must continue to run if there is missing data for the NetworkPacketsIn metric during the evaluation period.
A DevOps engineer creates a CloudWatch alarm for the NetworkPacketsIn metric. The DevOps engineer configures a threshold value of 5 and an evaluation period of 1 hour.
Which set of additional actions should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements?
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 runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company uses a series of AWS CloudFormation stacks to define the application resources. A developer performs updates by building and testing the application on a laptop and then uploading the build output and CloudFormation stack templates to Amazon S3. The developer's peers review the changes before the developer performs the CloudFormation stack update and installs a new version of the application onto the EC2 instances.
The deployment process is prone to errors and is time-consuming when the developer updates each EC2 instance with the new application. The company wants to automate as much of the application deployment process as possible while retaining a final manual approval step before the modification of the application or resources.
The company already has moved the source code for the application and the CloudFormation templates to AWS CodeCommit. The company also has created an AWS CodeBuild project to build and test the application.
Which combination of steps will meet the company’s requirements? (Choose two.)
A video-sharing company stores its videos in Amazon S3. The company has observed a sudden increase in video access requests, but the company does not know which videos are most popular. The company needs to identify the general access pattern for the video files. This pattern includes the number of users who access a certain file on a given day, as well as the numb A DevOps engineer manages a large commercial website that runs on Amazon EC2 The website uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to collect and process web togs The DevOps engineer manages the Kinesis consumer application, which also runs on Amazon EC2
Sudden increases of data cause the Kinesis consumer application to (all behind and the Kinesis data streams drop records before the records can be processed The DevOps engineer must implement a solution to improve stream handling
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency''
er of pull requests for certain files.
How can the company meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?
A company is building a new pipeline by using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild in a build account. The pipeline consists of two stages. The first stage is a CodeBuild job to build and package an AWS Lambda function. The second stage consists of deployment actions that operate on two different AWS accounts a development environment account and a production environment account. The deployment stages use the AWS Cloud Format ion action that CodePipeline invokes to deploy the infrastructure that the Lambda function requires.
A DevOps engineer creates the CodePipeline pipeline and configures the pipeline to encrypt build artifacts by using the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) AWS managed key for Amazon S3 (the aws/s3 key). The artifacts are stored in an S3 bucket When the pipeline runs, the Cloud Formation actions fail with an access denied error.
Which combination of actions must the DevOps engineer perform to resolve this error? (Select TWO.)
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 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.)