CV0-004 Operations and Support — All Questions With Answers

Question 1easymultiple choice

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A cloud architect is designing a monitoring solution for a web application. Which service should they use to collect and visualize metrics such as CPU utilization and network throughput?

Question 2easymultiple choice

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A company wants to receive alerts when their cloud costs exceed a budget threshold. Which cost management feature should they use?

Question 3mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is configuring automated scaling for a web application. The scaling policy should add two instances when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for five minutes. Which type of scaling policy should they implement?

Question 4mediummultiple choice

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A systems administrator notices that an application is slow to respond. They want to analyze the latency of individual requests across microservices. Which tool should they use?

Question 5easymultiple choice

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A company uses multiple AWS accounts. The cloud team wants to allocate costs to specific business units. What should they implement?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is setting up automated patching for Linux instances in AWS. They need to define a maintenance window during which patches are applied. Which service should they use?

Question 7mediummultiple choice

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A company's disaster recovery plan requires them to restore a database to a specific point in time. Which backup strategy should they use?

Question 8hardmultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between two subnets. They suspect a security group or NACL is blocking traffic. Which tool should they use to analyze the traffic flow?

Question 9hardmultiple choice

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A cloud engineer needs to ensure that an auto-scaling group does not launch new instances immediately after a scale-in event to allow metrics to stabilize. Which feature should they configure?

Question 10easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator wants to be notified immediately via email when a critical alert is triggered. Which notification channel should they configure?

Question 11mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to reduce costs by identifying underutilized EC2 instances. Which tool should they use to get rightsizing recommendations?

Question 12hardmultiple choice

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A cloud operations team is implementing structured logging for better querying. They have decided to use JSON format. What is a key benefit of structured logging over unstructured logging?

Question 13mediummulti select

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A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan that includes testing. Which TWO activities are commonly performed as part of DR testing?

Question 14hardmulti select

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A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a performance issue in a microservices application. Which THREE tools can help with distributed tracing and latency diagnosis?

Question 15mediummulti select

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A company wants to implement automated patching for their cloud resources. Which TWO services are designed for patch management?

Question 16easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to monitor CPU utilization for a fleet of EC2 instances and receive notifications when utilization exceeds 80%. Which AWS service should be used to create a metric alarm that triggers an SNS notification?

Question 17easymultiple choice

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A company wants to centralize logs from multiple AWS services and analyze them using SQL-like queries. Which service should they use?

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is configuring an auto-scaling group and wants to add instances based on a sustained increase in CPU utilization above 80% for 5 minutes. Which scaling policy type should be used?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to perform a disaster recovery test for a critical application running in a different AWS region. The RTO is 1 hour, and the RPO is 15 minutes. Which replication strategy should be used to meet the RPO?

Question 20mediummultiple choice

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A company uses AWS and wants to optimize costs by receiving recommendations to downsize over-provisioned EC2 instances. Which tool provides rightsizing recommendations?

Question 21hardmultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a performance issue in a multi-tier application on AWS. The web tier shows high latency, but the application logs indicate no errors. The engineer wants to trace a request end-to-end across services. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 22mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to apply security patches to a fleet of EC2 instances running Windows Server. The patches must be applied during a maintenance window to minimize downtime. Which AWS service can automate patching?

Question 23easymultiple choice

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Which GCP service provides centralized log management and analysis with the ability to create log-based metrics and alerts?

Question 24mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to implement a tagging strategy for their cloud resources to track costs by department and project. Tags must be applied to resources such as virtual machines and storage buckets. Which of the following is a best practice for cost attribution using tags?

Question 25mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is configuring an alert for an Azure virtual machine. The alert should trigger when the average CPU percentage exceeds 90% for more than 10 minutes. Which Azure service should be used to create this metric alert?

Question 26hardmultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is configuring an auto-scaling group with a lifecycle hook to run a custom script when instances are launched. The script installs software and registers the instance with a load balancer. The engineer wants to ensure the instance does not receive traffic until the script completes successfully. What should the engineer do?

Question 27hardmultiple choice

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A company uses AWS and wants to implement a disaster recovery plan with an RTO of 4 hours and RPO of 1 hour. They have a primary site in us-east-1 and a DR site in us-west-2. The application data is stored in Amazon RDS for MySQL. Which strategy meets both RTO and RPO with minimal data loss?

Question 28mediummulti select

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A cloud administrator is configuring a notification channel for critical alerts. Which TWO of the following are commonly used notification channels in cloud monitoring systems? (Select TWO.)

Question 29hardmulti select

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A cloud team is planning a disaster recovery drill for their application running in a public cloud. They want to validate that the recovery process meets the defined RTO and RPO. Which THREE activities should be included in the DR drill? (Select THREE.)

Question 30mediummulti select

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A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between two subnets in a VPC. The engineer wants to capture and analyze traffic metadata to identify dropped packets. Which TWO tools can provide this information? (Select TWO.)

Question 31easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to receive real-time notifications when CPU utilization exceeds 90% on a production server. Which AWS service should be used to trigger an alert based on a metric threshold?

Question 32mediummultiple choice

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A company uses a multi-cloud environment with AWS and Azure. They want to centralize log collection and enable advanced querying for troubleshooting. Which combination of services should they use?

Question 33hardmultiple choice

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During a disaster recovery drill, a cloud engineer discovers that the RTO for a critical application is not being met. The application runs on EC2 instances with data in EBS volumes. Which change would most likely improve the RTO?

Question 34mediummultiple choice

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A cloud operations team is implementing a tagging strategy for cost attribution. They need to track costs by environment (dev, test, prod), project, and team. Which approach should they use?

Question 35mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer notices that an auto-scaling group is adding and removing instances too frequently, causing instability. Which configuration parameter should be adjusted to reduce this behavior?

Question 36hardmultiple choice

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A company wants to implement automated patching for their Windows and Linux servers in AWS. They need to schedule patching during a maintenance window and have a rollback plan. Which service should they use?

Question 37easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator wants to troubleshoot network connectivity issues between two VPCs. Which AWS feature provides detailed logs of IP traffic for analysis?

Question 38mediummultiple choice

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A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan. The application requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour. Which strategy best meets these requirements?

Question 39hardmultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is configuring auto-scaling for a web application. The scaling policy should add 2 instances when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes and remove 1 instance when CPU drops below 50% for 10 minutes. Which type of scaling policy should they use?

Question 40mediummultiple choice

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A company uses GCP and wants to implement alerting based on anomaly detection for their Compute Engine instances. Which GCP service should they use?

Question 41easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to view the console output of a VM that failed to boot. Which feature should they use to access the boot logs?

Question 42mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to optimize cloud costs by identifying underutilized EC2 instances. Which AWS service provides rightsizing recommendations?

Question 43mediummulti select

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A cloud operations team is setting up log-based alerting for security events. They want to use structured logging to facilitate querying. Which TWO practices support effective log-based alerting? (Choose TWO.)

Question 44hardmulti select

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A cloud engineer is designing an auto-scaling solution for a stateful application. The scaling policy must ensure that instances are properly drained before termination and that new instances are fully initialized before receiving traffic. Which THREE features should be used? (Choose THREE.)

Question 45hardmulti select

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A company is planning a disaster recovery testing strategy. They want to validate both RTO and RPO without impacting production. Which THREE approaches should they consider? (Choose THREE.)

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to detect unusual spikes in CPU usage across a fleet of EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to create an alarm that triggers when CPU utilization exceeds an expected baseline?

Question 47mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Azure Log Analytics to centralize logs from multiple subscriptions. The security team requires that logs be retained for seven years to meet compliance regulations. What should the administrator configure to meet this requirement?

Question 48easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer wants to receive real-time notifications when a CloudWatch Alarm enters the ALARM state. Which notification channel can be configured directly within the CloudWatch Alarm action?

Question 49hardmultiple choice

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A company uses AWS and wants to analyze cost trends and identify the top services contributing to monthly spending. Which AWS tool provides a pre-built dashboard for this purpose?

Question 50mediummultiple choice

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An organization uses GCP and wants to implement a tagging strategy to track costs by project and environment. Which GCP feature should be used to assign metadata to resources for cost attribution?

Question 51mediummultiple choice

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A company needs to back up a critical database with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which disaster recovery strategy should be implemented?

Question 52hardmultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is designing an auto-scaling policy for a web application that experiences predictable traffic spikes during business hours. The administrator wants to ensure that the application scales out before the start of business hours to avoid performance degradation. Which scaling policy type should be used?

Question 53easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer needs to apply security patches to a group of Linux VMs running in Azure. The engineer wants to automate the patching process and ensure that patches are applied during a predefined maintenance window. Which Azure service should be used?

Question 54hardmultiple choice

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A company uses AWS and wants to verify that its disaster recovery plan meets the defined RTO and RPO objectives. Which type of testing should be performed to simulate a real failover scenario without impacting production?

Question 55mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is troubleshooting network connectivity issues between two VPCs in AWS. The administrator wants to examine traffic flow logs to identify dropped packets. Which AWS feature provides detailed network traffic logs for VPCs?

Question 56easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer needs to collect and query log data from multiple GCP services in a centralized location. Which GCP service should be used for centralised log management?

Question 57mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to reduce costs by identifying underutilized EC2 instances and receiving recommendations to downsize them. Which AWS service provides rightsizing recommendations based on historical utilization metrics?

Question 58mediummulti select

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A cloud administrator is setting up auto-scaling for a web application that uses an SQS queue for incoming requests. The administrator wants to scale the number of EC2 instances based on the queue depth. Which two metrics are appropriate for this auto-scaling policy? (Choose TWO.)

Question 59hardmulti select

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A company uses AWS and wants to implement a structured logging format to simplify querying and analysis of application logs. Which three best practices should be followed when implementing structured logging? (Choose THREE.)

Question 60mediummulti select

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A cloud engineer is designing a patching strategy for a fleet of Windows servers running in AWS. The engineer needs to automate patching, define a maintenance window, and have the ability to roll back patches if issues occur. Which two AWS services or features should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose TWO.)

Question 61easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to monitor CPU utilization of a group of EC2 instances and automatically add more instances when utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which AWS service should the administrator use to define this scaling policy?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy with an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 1 hour for a critical application running on AWS. Which approach would best meet these requirements?

Question 63mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is configuring a dashboard to monitor costs across multiple projects. The company uses tags to track costs by project, environment, and team. Which AWS tool allows the engineer to create custom cost and usage reports filtered by tags?

Question 64hardmultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue where an application occasionally experiences high latency. The application runs on AWS and uses EC2, ELB, and RDS. Which combination of tools would best help trace the request flow and identify the bottleneck?

Question 65easymultiple choice

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A company wants to be notified when their monthly AWS spending exceeds $10,000. Which AWS service should they use to set up this alert?

Question 66mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to apply security patches to a fleet of 50 Linux servers running on AWS without interrupting business hours. Which approach should the administrator use to schedule patching during a maintenance window?

Question 67mediummultiple choice

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A company is using Azure VMs and wants to centralize logs from multiple applications for security analysis. The logs must be retained for 2 years. Which Azure service should they use?

Question 68hardmultiple choice

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A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application that requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The application runs on GCP Compute Engine with persistent disks. Which backup strategy best meets these requirements?

Question 69mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator notices that an Auto Scaling group is launching and terminating instances too frequently, causing instability. What should the administrator adjust to reduce this flapping behavior?

Question 70easymultiple choice

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A company uses AWS and wants to receive alerts when CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 90% for 10 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?

Question 71mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer needs to implement a solution to automatically scale an application based on the number of messages in an SQS queue. The goal is to keep the queue length short. Which Auto Scaling policy type should the engineer use?

Question 72hardmultiple choice

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A company uses GCP and wants to ensure that log entries from Compute Engine instances are automatically exported to BigQuery for analysis. The logs must include structured JSON data. Which GCP service should be configured to route logs?

Question 73mediummulti select

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A cloud administrator is configuring cost management for a multi-account AWS environment. The company wants to allocate costs by department and project. Which TWO steps should the administrator take to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Question 74hardmulti select

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A cloud engineer is planning a disaster recovery drill for a critical application that spans multiple availability zones. The drill must validate RTO and RPO without affecting production. Which THREE actions should the engineer include? (Choose three.)

Question 75easymulti select

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A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The operations team needs to be alerted when a stack update fails. Which TWO methods can be used to send notifications? (Choose two.)

Question 76easymultiple choice

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A cloud architect needs to monitor CPU utilization across a fleet of EC2 instances and receive an alert when the average CPU exceeds 80% for 10 minutes. Which AWS service should be used to collect the metric and trigger the alert?

Question 77easymultiple choice

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A company wants to track cloud spending by department and project. Which strategy should be implemented to enable cost attribution?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

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A cloud operations team is configuring auto-scaling for a web application. They want to add two instances when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for five minutes, and remove one instance when CPU drops below 30% for five minutes. Which type of scaling policy should they use?

Question 79mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to centralize logs from multiple AWS services, including VPC flow logs and application logs, to enable searching and querying. Which solution should be used?

Question 80mediummultiple choice

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An organization wants to automate patching of their EC2 instances running Windows Server. They need to schedule patching during a maintenance window and ensure minimal downtime. Which AWS service should they use?

Question 81hardmultiple choice

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A company is planning its disaster recovery strategy for a critical application. The application runs on EC2 with data in EBS volumes. The RTO is 2 hours and RPO is 15 minutes. Which approach meets these requirements most cost-effectively?

Question 82easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer needs to troubleshoot network connectivity issues between two subnets. Which feature can help capture and analyze network traffic metadata?

Question 83mediummultiple choice

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A company uses Azure and wants to set up an alert that triggers when the average CPU of a virtual machine exceeds 90% for the past 15 minutes. The alert should send an email to the operations team. Which Azure resources are needed?

Question 84mediummultiple choice

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A cloud operations team wants to analyze application performance and identify slow database queries. They need a distributed tracing solution. Which service should they use?

Question 85hardmultiple choice

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An organization is using GCP and wants to receive notifications in a Slack channel when a new VM instance is created. Which combination of GCP services should be used?

Question 86hardmultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is configuring auto-scaling for a batch processing application that uses an SQS queue. The number of jobs varies unpredictably. Which metric is most appropriate for scaling the worker instances?

Question 87easymultiple choice

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A company wants to reduce cloud costs by identifying underutilized EC2 instances. Which AWS service provides rightsizing recommendations?

Question 88mediummulti select

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A cloud operations team is designing a disaster recovery plan that includes regular testing. Which TWO activities should be part of the DR testing process? (Select TWO.)

Question 89hardmulti select

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A company uses AWS and wants to implement structured logging for their applications to improve queryability. Which THREE practices should they follow? (Select THREE.)

Question 90mediummulti select

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An organization is using Azure and wants to implement a patch management strategy with minimal disruption. Which TWO actions should they take? (Select TWO.)

Question 91easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to receive real-time notifications when CPU utilization on a critical web server exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Which cloud monitoring service should be used to create the alert?

Question 92mediummultiple choice

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A company uses a multi-cloud strategy with workloads in AWS and Azure. The cloud team wants a centralized log management solution to correlate security events across both platforms. Which approach is most suitable?

Question 93hardmultiple choice

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A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application with an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 1 minute. The application runs on AWS EC2 instances with data stored on EBS volumes. Which replication strategy best meets these requirements?

Question 94easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to reduce cloud costs by identifying underutilized EC2 instances. Which AWS service provides rightsizing recommendations?

Question 95mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is configuring an auto-scaling group for a web application. The application experiences predictable traffic spikes every weekday at 9 AM. Which scaling policy is most appropriate?

Question 96mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between two VPCs in AWS. To analyze traffic patterns and identify dropped packets, which feature should be enabled?

Question 97hardmultiple choice

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A company uses AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager to automate patching. They need to ensure that patches are applied during a specific maintenance window with minimal risk of failure. Which additional step should be taken to allow quick recovery if a patch causes issues?

Question 98easymultiple choice

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An organization wants to track cloud costs by project and environment (development, testing, production). Which strategy should be employed for cost attribution?

Question 99mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator notices that an application's latency has increased. The application is distributed across multiple microservices. Which tool can help trace requests across services to identify the bottleneck?

Question 100mediummultiple choice

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A company is planning to migrate to AWS and wants to achieve the lowest possible compute costs for a steady-state workload that will run 24/7. Which purchasing option should be recommended?

Question 101hardmultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is configuring an auto-scaling policy for a batch processing application that takes about 10 minutes to initialize before it can start processing jobs. To avoid premature termination of instances that have just started, what should the engineer configure?

Question 102easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to set up a centralized logging solution in GCP to collect logs from multiple projects. Which GCP service should be used?

Question 103mediummulti select

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A cloud operations team is preparing for a disaster recovery drill for a multi-tier application. Which TWO activities are essential for verifying the effectiveness of the DR plan? (Select TWO.)

Question 104hardmulti select

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A company uses Azure VMs and wants to automate patching with minimal downtime. The application is stateless and can tolerate instance restarts. The patch schedule must ensure that at least 2 instances remain available during the update. Which THREE actions should the administrator take? (Select THREE.)

Question 105mediummulti select

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A cloud architect is designing a monitoring solution for a serverless application. The architect needs to collect custom application metrics and set up anomaly detection alerts. Which TWO services should be used? (Select TWO.)

Question 106easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is tasked with monitoring CPU utilization across a fleet of EC2 instances. Which AWS service should be used to collect and visualize this metric?

Question 107mediummultiple choice

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A cloud operations team wants to be notified when the average CPU utilization of an auto-scaling group exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. They also want to avoid notification storms. Which alerting configuration should they use?

Question 108hardmultiple choice

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A company is migrating on-premises workloads to a public cloud. The disaster recovery plan requires an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. Which replication strategy should be used for a critical database?

Question 109mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to centralize logs from multiple AWS accounts and on-premises servers for security analysis. Which approach should be used?

Question 110easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is implementing a tagging strategy for cost allocation. Which tags should be applied to resources to track costs by business unit and environment?

Question 111hardmultiple choice

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During a scheduled DR drill, the cloud team fails over a critical application to the secondary region. After the drill, the application is failed back. The application's RTO was 2 hours, but the actual failover took 2.5 hours. Which action should be taken to improve future failover times?

Question 112mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to apply security patches to a group of Windows servers running in AWS. The patches should be applied during a maintenance window to minimize disruption. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 113mediummultiple choice

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A cloud architect is designing an auto-scaling policy for a web application. The application's traffic spikes predictably every weekday at 9 AM and decreases after 5 PM. Which scaling policy is most cost-effective?

Question 114mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a web application that is experiencing slow response times. The engineer suspects a network bottleneck. Which tool should be used to analyze network traffic patterns and identify dropped packets?

Question 115easymultiple choice

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A cloud administrator needs to ensure that log data is retained for one year to meet compliance requirements. Which action should be taken for the log group in CloudWatch Logs?

Question 116hardmultiple choice

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A company uses a hybrid cloud environment with workloads in AWS and on-premises. They want to use a single monitoring dashboard to view metrics from both environments. Which solution should they implement?

Question 117mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator is configuring an auto-scaling group for a stateless application. The scaling policy should add 2 instances when the average CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes, and remove 1 instance when CPU drops below 40% for 5 minutes. Which type of scaling policy should be used?

Question 118mediummulti select

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A cloud operations team is implementing automated patching for Linux servers using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager. They need to ensure patches are applied with minimal disruption and have a rollback plan. Which TWO actions should they take? (Select TWO.)

Question 119hardmulti select

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A company is performing a disaster recovery test for a critical application. The test reveals that the application's RTO of 1 hour is not being met due to slow database restoration. Which THREE actions could help improve the restoration time? (Select THREE.)

Question 120easymulti select

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A cloud administrator wants to set up cost monitoring and receive alerts when spending exceeds the budget. Which TWO AWS services should they use? (Select TWO.)

Question 121easymultiple choice

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A cloud architect needs to centrally manage logs from multiple AWS accounts. Which service should be used to aggregate logs into a single view?

Question 122mediummultiple choice

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A cloud engineer wants to be notified when the average CPU utilization of an auto-scaling group exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which alerting mechanism should be used?

Question 123hardmultiple choice

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A company wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy with an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 1 minute for a critical database. Which approach should be used?

Question 124mediummultiple choice

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A cloud administrator wants to analyze network traffic to troubleshoot connectivity issues between VMs. Which feature should be enabled?

Question 125mediummultiple choice

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A cloud team wants to automatically scale an application based on the number of pending messages in an SQS queue. Which scaling policy type should be used?

Question 126easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer needs to apply security patches to a fleet of Windows servers without manual intervention. Which service can automate this process?

Question 127mediummultiple choice

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A company wants to ensure that logs from their application are easily searchable and structured for analysis. Which logging format should be recommended?

Question 128hardmultiple choice

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A cloud administrator notices that an auto-scaling group is frequently adding and removing instances due to brief spikes in CPU usage. What should be adjusted to stabilize the scaling activity?

Question 129easymultiple choice

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A cloud engineer wants to view a dashboard showing cost breakdown by department. Which tool provides pre-built billing dashboards?

Question 130mediummulti select

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A cloud architect is designing a monitoring strategy to detect anomalies in application latency. Which TWO services can be used for anomaly detection?

Question 131hardmulti select

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A company wants to implement a disaster recovery plan with minimal data loss and fast recovery. Which TWO strategies best achieve an RPO of minutes and RTO of hours?

Question 132mediummulti select

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A cloud operations team needs to automate patching of Linux servers. Which TWO services can be used? (Choose TWO)

Question 133easymulti select

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A cloud engineer is required to set up cost allocation tags. Which THREE standard tag categories are commonly used for cost attribution? (Choose THREE)

Question 134hardmulti select

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A company is experiencing intermittent performance issues in a microservices application. Which TWO tools can help diagnose latency problems through distributed tracing? (Choose TWO)

Question 135mediummulti select

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A cloud administrator wants to choose an auto-scaling policy that can respond to changing demand patterns. Which TWO policy types support dynamic adjustments based on real-time metrics? (Choose TWO)

Question 136mediummulti select

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A cloud administrator is investigating a sudden increase in cost for a production environment. The administrator wants to identify the sources of the cost increase and implement a tagging strategy for cost allocation. Which TWO actions should the administrator take? (Choose two.)

Question 137hardmulti select

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A cloud engineer is configuring auto-scaling for a web application that experiences variable traffic. The application runs on virtual machines and uses a message queue for incoming requests. The scaling policy must ensure that the average CPU utilization stays around 60% and that the queue depth does not exceed 100 messages. Which THREE metrics should the engineer use for the scaling policies? (Choose three.)

Question 138easymultiple choice

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A company is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical database that requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 minute and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes. The database runs on a cloud virtual machine. Which backup strategy should the administrator implement to meet these requirements?

Question 139mediummulti select

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A cloud operations team wants to implement automated patching for their fleet of virtual machines. They need to minimize disruption during business hours and ensure that critical security patches are applied within 48 hours of release. The team also requires a rollback plan in case a patch causes issues. Which THREE actions should the team take? (Choose three.)

Question 140mediummultiple choice

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A cloud application is experiencing intermittent high latency. The operations team has enabled distributed tracing using AWS X-Ray but is unable to pinpoint the source. Which additional step should the team take to identify the root cause of the latency?