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SOA-C02 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 practice test

Use this page to practise SOA-C02 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 practice test. The goal is not to memorise dumps, but to understand the concept, review the explanation and improve your exam readiness. AWS certification exams usually test architecture trade-offs: service selection, resilience, cost, security, networking and operations. Courseiva helps you practise those decisions through original scenario-based questions.

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Last reviewed: May 2026 · aligned to official blueprint

Exam guide

How to use this SOA-C02 practice test

Start with a short practice session, review each missed answer, then return to the topics that caused mistakes.

Quick answer

Routing questions usually test route selection (administrative distance, metric), how static routes are configured and when they are preferred over dynamic routing.

Administrative distance comparing routing sources.

Static route configuration: next-hop vs exit interface.

Default route propagation and the gateway of last resort.

Recursive routing table lookups.

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Sample questions from this exam

Question 1hardmulti select
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A CloudFormation stack update fails and enters UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED. Which two actions are appropriate next steps? (Choose 2.)

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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Instances in a private subnet need outbound internet access for software updates. The route table sends 0.0.0.0/0 to a NAT gateway, but updates fail. Which condition should you check first?

Question 3mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a production application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The application uses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. The SysOps administrator wants to test the application's behavior during an Availability Zone failure of the database. Which action should the administrator take to simulate a failure with minimal impact on production?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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A company runs a batch processing application on Amazon EC2 that runs for 2 hours every night. The workload can tolerate interruptions. Which EC2 purchasing option provides the lowest cost for this use case?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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A SysOps administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an Amazon RDS DB instance and receive an alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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A SysOps administrator needs to monitor the disk usage on Amazon EC2 instances running Linux. The administrator wants to collect disk utilization metrics every 5 minutes and set up an alarm when disk usage exceeds 80%. Which solution meets these requirements?

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