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Deployment

The Deployment domain covers how code moves from repository to running AWS environments. Expect questions on CodePipeline stages and actions, CodeBuild buildspec.yml, CodeDeploy appspec.yml and deployment strategies, Elastic Beanstalk configuration and environments, and CloudFormation change sets and rollbacks. Scenarios ask you to pick the service or configuration that automates a described workflow.

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What to know about Deployment

Be able to map a deployment scenario to the right service and configuration file. The single most important thing: know which artifact each service consumes and produces, and where buildspec.yml versus appspec.yml belongs.

Choosing CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, or Elastic Beanstalk for a given deployment scenario

Writing buildspec.yml phases and artifacts for AWS CodeBuild builds

Using appspec.yml hooks and deployment strategies like blue/green in CodeDeploy

Configuring Elastic Beanstalk with .ebextensions and saved configurations for EC2 customization

Watch out for

Common Deployment exam traps

  • ▸Confusing CodeBuild (compiles and tests) with CodeDeploy (installs the built artifact onto instances or Lambda).
  • ▸Forgetting that CodePipeline stage actions need a runOrder and that a failed stage halts the pipeline unless retried.
  • ▸Assuming .ebextensions files run at every deploy; they run during environment creation and configuration updates, not arbitrary code pushes.

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All Deployment questions (254)

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1

Match each AWS service to its port number (if applicable).

Medium
2

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The deployment is successful, but the application health checks fail. The application runs on a single EC2 instance. What should a developer do to troubleshoot this issue?

Medium
3

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment must be as fast as possible while ensuring that at least 50% of instances remain healthy throughout. Which deployment configuration should be used?

Hard
4

A CloudFormation update may replace an RDS database. The developer wants to preview replacement risk before executing. What should be created?

Medium
5

A developer is deploying a microservices application on Amazon ECS using Fargate. The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to distribute traffic. The developer needs to perform a blue/green deployment with automatic rollback if health checks fail. What should the developer use?

Hard
6

A developer uses AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) to define a serverless application. The developer wants to run the application locally for testing. Which AWS SAM CLI command should be used?

Easy
7

A developer uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a serverless application defined with AWS SAM. The pipeline consists of Source (S3), Build (CodeBuild), and Deploy (CloudFormation) stages. The developer wants to run integration tests after the stack is deployed but before the pipeline completes. Which approach should the developer use?

Hard
8

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The application consists of an API Gateway, a Lambda function, and a DynamoDB table. The developer wants to enable canary deployments for the Lambda function. What should the developer do?

Easy
9

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment'. The deployment configuration is set to CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime. What is the most likely cause of this failure?

Medium
10

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to run a web application. They want to deploy a new version with zero downtime and roll forward if successful. They have two environments: a production environment (current version) and a staging environment (new version). After verifying the staging environment, they want to swap the URLs so that production now points to the new version. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Medium
11

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a static website to Amazon S3. The pipeline includes a deploy action that uses AWS CloudFormation to create the S3 bucket and upload files. The developer notices that the deploy action fails intermittently with a 'BucketAlreadyExists' error. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
12

An IAM policy is attached to an EC2 instance role. The instance is part of a CodeDeploy deployment group. The deployment fails because the CodeDeploy agent cannot download the revision. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
13

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage its infrastructure. The developer wants to update a stack but only if the update does not cause any resource replacement. Which CloudFormation stack update option should be used?

Hard
14

Refer to the exhibit. A developer has the above IAM policy attached. The developer is trying to push code to a CodeCommit repository and trigger a CodePipeline. The push succeeds but the pipeline does not start. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
15

A development team is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The team wants to perform a blue/green deployment. Which THREE steps are required to complete the blue/green deployment?

Easy
16

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The developer wants to perform a blue/green deployment to minimize downtime. The developer creates a new environment and deploys the new version. After verifying the new environment is healthy, the developer needs to swap the URLs so that traffic is routed to the new environment. Which AWS Elastic Beanstalk feature should the developer use?

Medium
17

A developer is using AWS CodePipeline with multiple actions in a stage. The pipeline has a build action that produces artifacts, followed by a deploy action. The developer wants to ensure that if the deploy action fails, the pipeline stops and does not continue to the next stage. How can they achieve this?

Hard
18

A developer is deploying a static website to Amazon S3 and wants to use Amazon CloudFront for content delivery. The developer wants to ensure that only CloudFront can access the S3 bucket. Which S3 bucket policy should the developer use?

Easy
19

A team uses AWS CodeBuild to run automated tests. The buildspec.yaml file contains a 'pre_build' phase that sets environment variables. During a build, the build fails with 'Error: Cannot find module 'express' when running a Node.js application. The application's package.json is in the source root. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
20

A company deploys a microservices application using AWS CloudFormation. Each microservice is deployed as a separate stack. The developer wants to pass the output values (e.g., API endpoint URLs) from one stack to another. Which CloudFormation feature should be used?

Hard
21

A company has a production environment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with a multi-container Docker platform. The application consists of a PHP web server and a Redis cache, each running in separate containers. The deployment uses a rolling update policy with a batch size of 1. Recently, during deployments, some users experience intermittent 502 Bad Gateway errors for about 30 seconds. The errors occur when the old containers are terminated and new containers are not yet ready to serve traffic. The development team wants to eliminate this downtime without increasing the deployment time significantly. The team has access to modify the Elastic Beanstalk environment configuration and the Dockerrun.aws.json file. Which action should the team take to resolve the issue?

Hard
22

A company uses CodePipeline to deploy a web application to Elastic Beanstalk. The deployment fails at the Build stage with an error 'BUILD FAILED'. Which step should the developer take first to troubleshoot?

Medium
23

A developer is using AWS CodePipeline to automate the deployment of a microservices application. The pipeline consists of a source stage (GitHub), a build stage (AWS CodeBuild), and a deploy stage (Amazon ECS). The developer wants to ensure that only approved changes are deployed to production. Which THREE actions should the developer take? (Choose THREE.)

Medium
24

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application includes an AWS Lambda function that is triggered by an S3 bucket event when an object is created. The developer wants to ensure that the Lambda function has the correct permissions to be invoked by S3. Which resource should the developer define in the SAM template?

Medium
25

A developer is using the AWS CLI to deploy a new version of a Lambda function. The developer runs the following command: aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://my-code.zip After the command completes, the developer checks the function and sees that the code has been updated but the version number is still $LATEST. The developer wants to create a new version so that the previous version is preserved. What should the developer do next?

Easy
26

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Python web application. After a successful deployment, the environment's health turns 'Severe' and the application returns HTTP 502 errors. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
27

A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with the error: 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' The application is deployed to a t2.micro instance with 1 GB of RAM. The deployment uses an in-place update with a deployment configuration that has a minimum of 1 healthy host. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

Hard
28

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with a 'ScriptMissing' error. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
29

A developer has set up an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that automatically deploys a web application through a series of stages: Source, Build, Staging, and Production. The developer wants to require a manual approval before the pipeline proceeds to the Production stage. How should the developer implement this?

Medium
30

A team uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a microservices application to Amazon ECS. The pipeline has a Source stage (GitHub), a Build stage (CodeBuild), and a Deploy stage (ECS). During a deployment, the pipeline fails at the Deploy stage with the error: 'Action execution failed: Deployment failed. The service my-service has reached the maximum number of tasks.' The service is configured with a desired count of 2 and a maximum percent of 200%. What is the most likely cause of this failure?

Hard
31

A company wants to deploy a serverless application using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. The deployment process must support automatic rollbacks if the new version fails CloudWatch alarms. Which AWS service should be used to orchestrate this deployment?

Easy
32

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The development team wants to deploy a new version of a Lambda function without downtime. The function is part of a stack. Which action should the team take?

Easy
33

A company is deploying a new web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application must be deployed with no downtime. The deployment uses AWS CodeDeploy with a Blue/Green deployment configuration. Which TWO actions should be taken to achieve zero-downtime deployment? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
34

The exhibit shows an IAM policy attached to a user who needs to deploy applications using AWS CodeDeploy. The user reports that they cannot create a deployment for the MyApplication/MyDeploymentGroup. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
35

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to perform a canary deployment for an AWS Lambda function. The deployment should first shift 10% of traffic to the new version, and then shift the remaining 90% after 5 minutes. Which deployment configuration should be used?

Medium
36

A developer is deploying a multi-container Docker application on Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. The application consists of a web server and a background worker. The web server must be scaled independently and must be accessible from the internet via an Application Load Balancer. The worker should not be accessible from the internet. Which ECS configuration should the developer use?

Hard
37

A developer is deploying a new version of an application to Amazon ECS using AWS CodeDeploy. The application uses a blue/green deployment strategy. After the deployment, traffic is automatically shifted to the new task set. However, the developer wants to test the new version with a small percentage of users before shifting all traffic. What should the developer do?

Easy
38

A developer is deploying a web application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application experiences high traffic during peak hours. The developer wants to ensure that the environment can scale out quickly without manual intervention. Which Elastic Beanstalk configuration should be used?

Easy
39

A company is deploying a new microservice using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. Which THREE steps should be included in the deployment pipeline? (Choose three.)

Medium
40

A company runs a web application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application currently runs in a single environment. The developer wants to deploy a new version with zero downtime and be able to test the new version thoroughly before it receives any production traffic. Which deployment strategy should the developer use?

Medium
41

An organization wants to deploy a microservices architecture using AWS Lambda functions. They need to manage environment variables for each function across different stages (dev, test, prod). Which approach is the MOST secure and maintainable?

Easy
42

A team uses AWS CodePipeline to automate deployments. They notice that a deployment to Amazon ECS fails because the task definition is not updated. The pipeline includes a source stage from CodeCommit, a build stage using AWS CodeBuild, and a deploy stage to Amazon ECS. What is the most likely missing step?

Easy
43

A company is using AWS CodePipeline to automate the deployment of a microservices application to Amazon ECS. The pipeline has the following stages: Source (GitHub), Build (CodeBuild), Deploy (ECS). The Deploy stage uses an ECS task definition and updates the service. Recently, the pipeline failed at the Deploy stage with the error: 'The task definition family is inactive.' The developer checks the ECS console and sees that the task definition family exists but is inactive. The developer also notices that the pipeline uses a parameter 'TASK_DEFINITION_FAMILY' with the value 'my-app'. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
44

Which THREE factors should a developer consider when choosing between a blue/green deployment and a rolling deployment for an Amazon ECS service?

Easy
45

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The application must remain fully available; only one instance should be taken offline at a time. The developer wants to configure the deployment to update instances one by one, ensuring that the deployment fails fast if any instance fails to deploy. Which deployment configuration should the developer choose?

Medium
46

A developer is setting up a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline to deploy an application to Amazon ECS. The pipeline has a source stage that pulls code from an AWS CodeCommit repository. The developer wants the pipeline to execute only when commits are pushed to the 'main' branch. How should the developer configure this?

Medium
47

A developer needs to package and deploy a serverless application with Lambda functions, API Gateway, and DynamoDB using concise syntax. Which framework is AWS-native for this purpose?

Medium
48

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application requires a database connection string that is different for each environment (development, staging, production). The developer wants to set these values without hardcoding them in the application code. Which configuration method should the developer use?

Medium
49

A developer is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy a stack that includes an Amazon S3 bucket and an AWS Lambda function. The Lambda function needs to be granted permission to read objects from the S3 bucket. Which resource should the developer define in the CloudFormation template to provide these permissions?

Medium
50

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails during the 'Install' lifecycle event. The developer checks the logs and finds that the scripts in the 'appspec.yml' file are not being executed because the instances are not in a healthy state. What could be the reason for the instances being unhealthy?

Hard
51

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application consists of an API Gateway endpoint that triggers an AWS Lambda function. The developer wants to enable canary deployments to gradually shift traffic to a new Lambda version. Which SAM resource attribute should the developer configure?

Medium
52

A company uses AWS OpsWorks for configuration management and deployment of applications on EC2 instances. The company wants to migrate to AWS Systems Manager for automation and patching. Which Systems Manager capability should be used to execute scripts and commands on EC2 instances as part of a deployment?

Hard
53

A developer is deploying a microservices application on Amazon ECS using Fargate. The developer wants to implement a blue/green deployment strategy using AWS CodeDeploy. The current production environment uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB). What is the minimum configuration required to enable blue/green deployments?

Hard
54

A company uses AWS CodeCommit for source control and AWS CodeBuild for building a Java application. They have a CodePipeline that deploys the built artifacts to an Auto Scaling group using CodeDeploy. Recently, the build stage started failing with the error: 'BUILD FAILED: Could not resolve dependencies for project'. The developer checks the buildspec.yml and sees that it uses Maven to download dependencies from a private repository. The developer also notices that the build environment is a managed Docker image. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
55

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The developer wants to define a Lambda function that is invoked by an Amazon API Gateway REST API. Which SAM resource type should the developer use to define the API?

Easy
56

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The developer wants to run database migration scripts as part of the deployment process before the new application version starts serving traffic. Which Elastic Beanstalk configuration file should the developer use to define the migration commands?

Medium
57

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The development team wants to implement a CI/CD pipeline that automatically updates a CloudFormation stack when code is pushed to a CodeCommit repository. The pipeline should also run tests before deploying. Which THREE services should be used together to achieve this? (Choose THREE.)

Hard
58

A company is implementing a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. The developer wants to ensure that the pipeline automatically deploys to production only after a manual approval step. Which TWO actions should the developer take?

Medium
59

A developer wants to deploy a static website to AWS. The website content is stored in an S3 bucket. Which combination of actions is required to host the website? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
60

A developer is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a serverless application using AWS CodePipeline. The pipeline must automatically build and deploy the application when changes are pushed to a CodeCommit repository. The application uses AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure provisioning. Which TWO actions should the developer include in the pipeline?

Medium
61

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a critical web application. The pipeline has a source stage (CodeCommit), a build stage (CodeBuild), and a deploy stage (CodeDeploy). During a recent deployment, the CodeDeploy stage failed because the target EC2 instances were not in a healthy state. The developer needs to ensure that the pipeline automatically rolls back the deployment to the last successful version if the deployment fails. What should the developer do?

Hard
62

A company is using AWS CodeBuild to compile a Java application. The build takes a long time because Maven dependencies are downloaded each time. How can the developer reduce build time?

Easy
63

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The developer wants to monitor the deployment and automatically roll back if a specified Amazon CloudWatch alarm is triggered during the deployment. Which CodeDeploy feature should the developer configure?

Medium
64

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available for deployment, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Medium
65

A developer is using AWS CodeCommit as a source repository. They want to automatically build and test code whenever a new branch is created. Which AWS service should they use to trigger the pipeline?

Easy
66

A developer is using AWS CodeBuild to build a Java application. The build fails with the error 'BUILD_CONTAINER_UNABLE_TO_PULL_IMAGE'. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
67

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application uses an in-environment Amazon RDS database instance. The developer needs to update the application code without risking data loss. The database must not be affected by environment operations such as termination or updates. What is the recommended approach?

Medium
68

A developer is deploying a Node.js application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application uses environment variables for database credentials. What is the BEST way to securely provide these credentials to the application?

Easy
69

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The development team wants to deploy a new version of the application to a separate environment for testing before switching production traffic. Which deployment strategy should be used?

Easy
70

A developer is deploying a new version of a Lambda function using the AWS CLI. The function is part of a serverless application that processes S3 events. The developer wants to ensure that the new version is production-ready and that the old version is still available for rollback. Which CLI command should the developer use to create a new version of the Lambda function?

Easy
71

Which TWO actions should a developer take to ensure that an AWS CodeDeploy deployment is successful when deploying to an Auto Scaling group? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
72

A company wants to deploy an application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application requires a relational database. What is the BEST practice for managing the database?

Easy
73

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application consists of an API Gateway REST API and multiple AWS Lambda functions. The developer wants to deploy the application to a production environment with minimal downtime. Which deployment strategy should the developer use?

Easy
74

A company uses AWS CodePipeline with a manual approval step before deployment. The developer wants to ensure that if a pipeline execution is waiting for approval and new code is pushed, the awaiting execution is canceled and a new one starts with the latest code. Which pipeline execution mode should be configured?

Hard
75

A SAM application should gradually shift Lambda traffic and roll back on errors. Which two pieces are needed?

Medium
76

Which TWO approaches can a developer use to automate the deployment of a microservices application to Amazon ECS with Fargate, ensuring that each microservice is independently deployable and can scale based on demand?

Hard
77

A developer is deploying a new version of a Lambda function using the AWS CLI. The developer wants to shift 10% of traffic to the new version and then gradually increase to 100% over 10 minutes. Which CLI command should the developer use?

Medium
78

A company uses AWS CodeBuild for building and testing their application. They have a build project that runs on a Linux environment. They want to run a build in a custom Docker image that is stored in Amazon ECR. How should they configure the build project?

Hard
79

A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment.' What is the most likely cause?

Medium
80

A developer is creating a CloudFormation template to deploy a microservices architecture. The template includes an Amazon ECS service with an Application Load Balancer. The developer wants to ensure that the load balancer is created before the ECS service. How should the developer achieve this?

Hard
81

A developer is deploying a web application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Which TWO configuration files can be used to customize the software that runs on the EC2 instances? (Select TWO.)

Medium
82

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application uses an Amazon RDS database instance that is included in the Elastic Beanstalk environment. The developer wants to update the application code without affecting the database. What is the recommended approach?

Medium
83

A company is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy a stack that includes an Amazon EC2 instance with an attached Amazon EBS volume. The developer wants to ensure that the EBS volume is deleted when the EC2 instance is terminated. The developer has set the DeletionPolicy attribute on the EBS volume resource to Delete. However, after terminating the EC2 instance through the console, the EBS volume is still present. The stack still exists. What is the most likely reason the volume was not deleted?

Easy
84

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to automate deployments of a microservices application to Amazon ECS with Fargate. The pipeline has a deploy stage that uses Amazon ECS Blue/Green deployment. The deployment fails intermittently with a 'Task failed to start' error. The developer needs to troubleshoot the issue. Which THREE steps should the developer take? (Choose three.)

Hard
85

A developer is trying to update a CloudFormation stack that includes a Lambda function. The stack rolls back with the error shown. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
86

A company uses AWS OpsWorks to manage a stack of EC2 instances. After a deployment, the application becomes unresponsive. The engineer suspects that a configuration file was not updated correctly. What is the best way to verify the deployed configuration?

Medium
87

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment is configured with a 'OneAtATime' deployment configuration. The developer notices that the deployment is taking a long time. What is the most likely reason?

Easy
88

A developer uses AWS CodePipeline with a manual approval step before deployment. The developer wants to ensure that if a new commit is pushed while a pipeline execution is waiting for approval, the waiting execution is canceled and a new one starts with the latest commit. Which pipeline execution mode should be configured?

Easy
89

A development team wants to automate the deployment of a microservices application on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The team uses AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD. Each microservice has its own source repository and Dockerfile. The team wants to build Docker images, push them to Amazon ECR, and deploy them to ECS. Which approach minimizes manual effort and follows best practices?

Hard
90

A team wants CloudFormation to prevent accidental deletion of a production DynamoDB table during stack updates. What should they configure?

Hard
91

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The developer runs 'sam deploy' and receives an error: 'Error: Failed to create changeset for the stack.' What is a common cause of this error?

Easy
92

A developer is using AWS CloudFormation to create a stack that includes an EC2 instance. The stack creation fails because the instance type is not supported in the selected Availability Zone. What should the developer do?

Easy
93

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a new version of an AWS Lambda function. The developer wants to gradually shift traffic from the old version to the new version in 10-minute increments. Which deployment configuration should the developer use?

Medium
94

A developer is deploying a new version of an AWS Lambda function using the AWS CLI. The developer wants to create a new version and update the alias to point to the new version. Which sequence of CLI commands should the developer use?

Medium
95

A developer is deploying an application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application needs to connect to an Amazon RDS database. What is the best practice for storing database credentials?

Easy
96

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application requires a highly available environment across multiple Availability Zones. The developer wants to update the application without any downtime while minimizing the number of new instances launched. Which deployment policy should the developer use?

Medium
97

A company uses AWS CodeCommit for source control. A developer needs to automate the build and test process for every commit to the 'develop' branch. The developer creates a CodeBuild project and wants to trigger it automatically. What is the most efficient way to set up this automation?

Hard
98

A developer is using AWS SAM to define a serverless application. The application includes an AWS Lambda function and an Amazon API Gateway REST API. The developer wants to configure the API Gateway stage to enable logging and set the stage name based on the SAM parameter Stage. In the SAM template, which property of the AWS::Serverless::Api resource should the developer use to set the stage name?

Medium
99

An ECS blue/green deployment with CodeDeploy and an Application Load Balancer fails because the replacement task set never receives test traffic. Which configuration should be checked?

Hard
100

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application uses an Amazon RDS database. The developer wants to ensure that the database connection string is not hard-coded in the application code. Which THREE methods can the developer use to pass the connection string securely? (Choose THREE.)

Medium
101

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to EC2 instances. The deployment fails with the error: 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' The deployment group consists of 4 EC2 instances. The deployment configuration is 'CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime'. The CodeDeploy agent logs on the failed instance show: 'Error: Script at specified location: scripts/install_dependencies.sh failed with exit code 1.' What should the developer do to resolve this issue?

Hard
102

A developer wants to deploy a serverless application using AWS CloudFormation. The application consists of an API Gateway, Lambda functions, and DynamoDB tables. The developer wants to ensure that the stack can be updated without resource interruption when possible. Which CloudFormation feature should the developer use?

Easy
103

Which THREE steps are required to set up a continuous delivery pipeline using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy? (Select THREE.)

Hard
104

A team is using AWS CodeBuild to compile and test code. The build takes longer than expected. The team wants to reduce build times by caching dependencies. Which option should the team use to cache dependencies in CodeBuild?

Medium
105

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application includes an API Gateway endpoint backed by a Lambda function. The developer wants to enable canary deployments to shift 10% of traffic to the new version for 5 minutes before routing all traffic. Which configuration should the developer add to the SAM template?

Medium
106

Which TWO strategies can be used to reduce the risk of a failed deployment when using AWS CodeDeploy? (Select TWO.)

Easy
107

A company is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application using Amazon ECS and AWS CodePipeline. The team wants to ensure zero-downtime deployments. Which THREE strategies should the team implement? (Choose THREE.)

Hard
108

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application includes an API Gateway endpoint and a Lambda function. The developer wants to ensure that the Lambda function can be invoked only by the API Gateway and not directly. Which configuration should be used?

Easy
109

Match each HTTP status code to its meaning.

Medium
110

Refer to the exhibit. A developer tried to create a CloudFormation stack that includes an EC2 instance. The stack creation failed and rolled back. What should the developer do to get more details about the failure?

Hard
111

A CodePipeline source stage should start when code is pushed to a repository, without scheduled polling. Which integration pattern should be used?

Medium
112

Which TWO are valid deployment strategies supported by AWS CodeDeploy? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
113

A developer is deploying a new version of an AWS Lambda function. The function is behind an API Gateway endpoint. The developer wants to use canary deployments to gradually shift traffic to the new version. Which TWO steps should the developer perform?

Hard
114

Drag and drop the steps to set up a custom domain for an API Gateway API in the correct order.

Medium
115

An e-commerce platform uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The deployment strategy must minimize downtime and allow immediate rollback if the new version fails health checks. Which deployment configuration meets these requirements?

Easy
116

Which TWO actions can be taken to enable automatic rollback for an AWS CloudFormation stack update that fails? (Select TWO.)

Medium
117

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 instance. The deployment fails with the error 'ScriptMissing' during the BeforeInstall lifecycle event. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
118

A developer is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy a stack that includes an Amazon EC2 instance with user data. The user data script installs software and configures the application. The developer wants to ensure that the stack creation waits for the user data script to complete before marking the stack as CREATE_COMPLETE. What should the developer do?

Medium
119

A developer is deploying a new version of a Lambda function using an AWS CodePipeline pipeline. The deployment fails during the 'Deploy' stage with an error indicating that the function's code is too large. What should the developer do to resolve this issue?

Easy
120

A company uses AWS CodeBuild to compile and test a Java application. The build process takes a long time because dependencies are downloaded every time. Which TWO actions can reduce build time? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
121

Which TWO deployment methods can be used to update an AWS Lambda function with no downtime? (Select TWO.)

Easy
122

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. The developer wants to minimize the number of instances that are taken out of service at any given time during the deployment. Which predefined deployment configuration should the developer use?

Medium
123

A developer manages a web application deployed on an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment with multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The developer needs to deploy a new version of the application with zero downtime. The new version requires a different instance type and additional software packages. Which deployment strategy should the developer use?

Medium
124

A developer is deploying a static website to Amazon S3. The website uses client-side JavaScript to make API calls to an AWS Lambda function via Amazon API Gateway. The developer wants to enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) on the API Gateway to allow the S3 website to make requests. After enabling CORS on the API Gateway and redeploying the API, the browser still reports CORS errors. The developer checks the API Gateway configuration and sees that the OPTIONS method is not defined. The developer has already enabled CORS via the API Gateway console, which should have created the OPTIONS method. However, it did not appear. What should the developer do to resolve the issue?

Medium
125

Which TWO are benefits of using AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure deployment? (Choose two.)

Easy
126

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to automate deployments. The pipeline source stage uses Amazon S3. The developer wants to automatically trigger the pipeline when a new version of the source file is uploaded. The developer has configured S3 event notifications to invoke a Lambda function that starts the pipeline. However, the pipeline is not triggering. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
127

A developer is deploying an application using AWS CloudFormation. The stack includes an Amazon RDS DB instance. To ensure secure credential management, which TWO actions should the developer take? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
128

Refer to the exhibit. A developer is troubleshooting a failed CodeDeploy deployment to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The instance logs show that the 'BeforeInstall' script failed with exit code 1. What should the developer do to resolve the issue?

Hard
129

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a new version of a web application to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. The deployment must install dependencies and run a script to start the application after the new revision is copied to the instance. The developer has created an appspec.yml file with the necessary hooks. Which of the following must the developer ensure to allow CodeDeploy to execute the scripts on the instances?

Medium
130

Which THREE are best practices for deploying applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk? (Choose THREE.)

Medium
131

A developer is using AWS CodeBuild to compile and package a Java application. The build process takes longer than expected. The developer wants to speed up the build by reusing dependencies that have not changed between builds. Which feature should the developer enable?

Easy
132

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application includes an API Gateway REST API and a Lambda function. The developer wants to set up a custom domain name for the API in the production stage. Which resource should the developer define in the SAM template to achieve this with minimal effort?

Easy
133

A company is deploying a web application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application uses an Amazon RDS database. The company wants to ensure that database credentials are not exposed in the application code or environment variables. Which TWO methods are secure ways to manage credentials? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
134

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a static website to Amazon S3. The pipeline has a source stage from CodeCommit, a build stage using CodeBuild, and a deploy stage that uses S3 deployment action. The website is served via Amazon CloudFront. After a successful pipeline run, the updated files are in S3, but CloudFront still serves old content. What is the MOST efficient solution?

Medium
135

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy with a blue/green deployment strategy for an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The deployment must automatically roll back if any of the new instances fail a health check within the first 10 minutes after deployment. Which configuration should the developer set?

Hard
136

A developer is using AWS SAM to deploy a serverless application. The developer wants to enable canary deployments for the Lambda function. Which TWO resources must be configured in the SAM template? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
137

Which TWO actions should a developer take to minimize downtime when deploying a new version of a production application running on Amazon ECS with Fargate?

Medium
138

Which THREE actions are required to set up a blue/green deployment for an Amazon ECS service using AWS CodeDeploy? (Choose three.)

Hard
139

A developer needs different configuration values for dev, test, and prod in the same SAM template. Which feature is suitable?

Medium
140

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails during the BeforeInstall lifecycle event. What should the developer do to troubleshoot the issue?

Medium
141

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The application consists of several Lambda functions and an API Gateway. The developer wants to enable gradual deployment of Lambda function versions with automatic rollback based on CloudWatch alarms. What should the developer add to the SAM template?

Hard
142

A company uses AWS CodeBuild to run tests and build artifacts for a Java application. The build process is taking longer than expected. The developer wants to speed up the build by caching dependencies. What should the developer do?

Medium
143

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available for deployment, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' The deployment group has a minimum of 2 instances and a maximum of 4. The deployment configuration is CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

Medium
144

A developer needs to deploy a new version of a Lambda function that uses environment variables for database credentials. Which AWS service should be used to securely store and retrieve the credentials?

Easy
145

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The developer needs to update the environment's configuration to use a larger instance type. What is the most efficient way to apply this change with minimal downtime?

Easy
146

A developer is troubleshooting a deployment failure in AWS CodePipeline. The deploy stage uses the above IAM policy for the service role. The pipeline fails when trying to update the Elastic Beanstalk environment. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
147

A developer is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy a stack that includes an Amazon S3 bucket with a bucket policy that grants public read access. The stack creation fails with the error 'Access Denied for bucket: bucket-policy does not allow access.' The developer has full administrative permissions in AWS. The developer verifies that the bucket policy is correctly formatted. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

Easy
148

A developer created a CloudFormation template to host a static website. After deployment, the website returns 403 Forbidden errors. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
149

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The application includes an Amazon DynamoDB table and a Lambda function that reads from the table. The developer wants to define the DynamoDB table and the Lambda function in the SAM template. Which THREE resource types should the developer include in the template? (Choose THREE.)

Easy
150

A startup is deploying a Node.js application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. They have configured the environment to use a load-balanced, auto-scaled environment with a minimum of 2 instances and a maximum of 4. The application connects to an Amazon RDS MySQL database. After a successful deployment, users report that the application is intermittently returning errors. The developer checks the Elastic Beanstalk logs and finds that the application is timing out when connecting to the database. The developer also notices that the database connection string is hardcoded in the application code. What is the most likely cause of the intermittent errors?

Easy
151

A developer wants to deploy a static website to AWS. The website consists of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. Which combination of services provides the most cost-effective and scalable solution?

Easy
152

A development team needs to deploy a containerized web application on AWS. The deployment must be automated, scalable, and minimize manual intervention. Which AWS service should the team use to orchestrate the deployment of containers across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances?

Easy
153

A company has a production environment running on AWS. The environment includes an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. The application is deployed using AWS CodeDeploy with a blue/green deployment strategy. Recently, the deployment started failing because the new instances do not pass the health checks configured on the ALB. The health check path is '/health'. The developer has verified that the application starts correctly and responds to the health check on the new instances when accessed directly via the instance's private IP. However, the health checks from the ALB are failing. The security group for the ALB allows inbound traffic on port 80 from 0.0.0.0/0, and the security group for the EC2 instances allows inbound traffic on port 80 from the ALB's security group. The VPC has both public and private subnets. The Auto Scaling group launches instances in private subnets. The ALB is in public subnets. What is the MOST likely cause of the health check failure?

Hard
154

A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with the error message 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' The developer checks the deployment logs and finds that the ApplicationStop hook failed on some instances. What is the most likely cause of this failure?

Hard
155

A developer is using AWS CodeBuild to compile and test code. The build phase fails with the error: 'BUILD_FAILED: Error: No such file or directory.' What is the most likely cause?

Easy
156

A developer is deploying a static website to Amazon S3. The developer wants to enable versioning to easily roll back to a previous version if the new deployment has issues. After enabling versioning on the bucket, the developer uploads the new files. How can the developer roll back to the previous version?

Easy
157

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Amazon ECS service using the Fargate launch type. The developer wants to ensure that the deployment rolls back automatically if the new task set fails health checks. Which configuration should the developer set?

Easy
158

A developer wants to deploy a new version of an application to an EC2 Auto Scaling group using AWS CodeDeploy. The developer wants to minimize downtime and ensure that if the deployment fails, it automatically rolls back to the previous version. Which deployment type should the developer choose?

Easy
159

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Python web application. After a recent deployment, the environment health turns 'Severe' and the application becomes unresponsive. The developer checks the logs and finds multiple '502 Bad Gateway' errors from the nginx proxy. The application was working before the deployment. What is the MOST likely cause?

Easy
160

A developer is using AWS CodeBuild to build a Java application. The build succeeds locally but fails in CodeBuild with the error 'BUILD FAILED: Unable to find a Java installation.' The buildspec.yml file includes a 'runtime-versions' section specifying Java 11. The CodeBuild project uses the 'aws/codebuild/amazonlinux2-x86_64-standard:4.0' image. What is the MOST likely cause of the failure?

Medium
161

A DevOps engineer is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application. The team wants to deploy updates to the production environment gradually and automatically roll back if health checks fail. Which AWS service and deployment configuration should the engineer use?

Hard
162

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The developer wants the deployment to automatically roll back if any of the new instances fail a health check within the first 10 minutes after deployment. Which configuration should the developer set in the CodeDeploy deployment group?

Hard
163

A company is using AWS CloudFormation to deploy and manage infrastructure. The developer wants to implement a CI/CD pipeline that automatically deploys CloudFormation stacks. The pipeline should be able to create, update, and delete stacks. Which THREE AWS services should the developer use together?

Medium
164

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a revision to an EC2/On-Premises deployment group. The deployment fails because the specified deployment configuration requires a minimum of 1 healthy host, but the deployment group has 0 instances. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
165

A developer is deploying a containerized application to Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type using AWS CodeDeploy for blue/green deployments. The application is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). What is the minimum number of ALB target groups required for a blue/green deployment?

Medium
166

A company is deploying a critical application using AWS CodeDeploy. To minimize downtime, they want to perform a blue/green deployment. Which TWO strategies should they implement?

Medium
167

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to automate releases. The pipeline includes a source stage from CodeCommit, a build stage with CodeBuild, and a deploy stage with CodeDeploy. The build stage fails intermittently due to insufficient memory. What should the developer do to resolve this?

Easy
168

A company is deploying a containerized application on Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. The deployment must ensure zero downtime. Which ECS deployment configuration should be used?

Easy
169

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The developer wants to ensure that the Lambda function's environment variables are encrypted at rest. What is the most straightforward way to achieve this?

Easy
170

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a static website to Amazon S3. The pipeline has a build stage that compiles the website and a deploy stage that syncs the build output to an S3 bucket. After a recent change, the pipeline succeeds but the website does not show the updated content. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
171

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to automate deployments. The pipeline has a source stage that pulls from Amazon S3, a build stage using AWS CodeBuild, and a deploy stage using AWS CloudFormation. The deploy stage often fails because CloudFormation change sets are not being created. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
172

A developer is deploying a Lambda function that processes images uploaded to an S3 bucket. The function is triggered by S3 events. After deployment, the function does not execute when new images are uploaded. What is the MOST likely cause?

Medium
173

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 instance. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because the deployment group did not have enough instances to successfully deploy.' What is the most likely cause?

Easy
174

A company is deploying a microservices application on Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. The application includes a service that must process messages from an Amazon SQS queue. The developer wants to ensure that the service scales based on the number of messages in the queue. Which scaling solution should the developer implement?

Medium
175

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The developer wants to set environment variables for the Lambda function that are specific to the deployment stage (e.g., dev, prod). How should the developer accomplish this?

Easy
176

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a revision to an Amazon EC2 instance. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available for deployment, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' Which TWO actions should the developer take to troubleshoot the issue? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
177

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The deployment must ensure that a minimum number of instances are always running and healthy. The developer wants to deploy to 10 instances. Which deployment configuration should the developer use?

Hard
178

Which TWO statements are true about AWS CodeDeploy deployment groups? (Choose two.)

Medium
179

A developer is deploying a serverless application using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The application consists of an API Gateway endpoint and an AWS Lambda function. The developer wants to define a stage name for the API Gateway deployment. Which section of the SAM template should the developer use?

Easy
180

A company uses AWS OpsWorks for configuration management. They want to deploy a new application version to a stack. Which lifecycle event should they use to run deployment scripts?

Hard
181

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a web application. The pipeline has a Source stage (CodeCommit), a Build stage (CodeBuild), and a Deploy stage (CodeDeploy). The developer wants to add a manual approval step before the Deploy stage. Which TWO configurations are required?

Medium
182

A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment group has a deployment configuration of CodeDeployDefault.AllAtOnce. During a deployment, some instances fail the deployment. Which THREE actions should the developer take to improve the deployment health?

Hard
183

A developer is deploying a new version of an application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The developer wants to minimize the risk of the new version causing issues in production. The application must remain available during the deployment. Which deployment policy should the developer choose?

Easy
184

A developer deploys a new version of an AWS Lambda function using the AWS CLI. After the deployment, the function starts returning errors. The developer needs to quickly revert to the previous version without redeploying. What should the developer do?

Easy
185

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment'. The deployment configuration is CodeDeployDefault.AllAtOnce. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
186

A developer is deploying a new version of a Lambda function using AWS CodeDeploy with a linear canary deployment. The function is part of a serverless application. After the deployment starts, the developer notices that the new version is receiving only 10% of traffic initially, but after 10 minutes, the traffic increases to 100%. What should the developer do to ensure a more gradual traffic shift?

Medium
187

Refer to the exhibit. A developer created this IAM policy to allow a CI/CD service to trigger CodePipeline and CodeBuild. However, the pipeline fails with an 'AccessDenied' error when trying to start the CodeBuild project. What is the likely cause?

Hard
188

A company is using AWS CodePipeline with a multi-branch strategy. The pipeline includes a source stage from AWS CodeCommit, a build stage using AWS CodeBuild, and a deploy stage using AWS CodeDeploy. The team wants to automatically deploy changes only when a pull request is merged to the 'main' branch. Which configuration should be used?

Hard
189

A developer is deploying a Node.js application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The application needs to read environment-specific configuration variables. Which configuration file should the developer use to define these variables within the Elastic Beanstalk environment?

Easy
190

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The developer has updated the application code and wants to deploy the new version with a rolling deployment strategy to minimize downtime. Which configuration should the developer use?

Medium
191

A CodeDeploy deployment to Lambda should shift 10 percent of traffic for 10 minutes before full rollout and automatically roll back on alarms. Which configuration should be used?

Hard
192

A developer is deploying a containerized application on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The application requires access to an Amazon RDS database. The developer needs to securely pass database credentials to the container. Which THREE methods can the developer use?

Hard
193

A developer needs to deploy a containerized application on AWS. The application requires persistent storage that can be shared across multiple containers running on different EC2 instances. Which AWS service should the developer use?

Easy
194

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The environment is currently running a previous version. The developer uploads a new application version and deploys it to the environment. After the deployment, the environment health status turns 'Severe' and the new version is not accessible. The developer needs to quickly revert to the previous working version. What should the developer do?

Medium
195

A development team is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails with a 'HealthCheck' error. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). What is the MOST likely cause of this error?

Medium
196

A company is deploying a new microservice on AWS Lambda behind an API Gateway. The development team wants to ensure that new versions of the Lambda function can be rolled out gradually and automatically rolled back if error rates exceed a threshold. Which deployment strategy should the team use?

Medium
197

A developer is deploying a new version of a Lambda function using the AWS CLI. Which command should the developer use to update the function code?

Easy
198

A development team uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a containerized application. They notice that after a successful deployment, the environment's health turns from Green to Red. The application logs show no errors. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
199

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails, and the rollback is triggered. However, the rollback also fails. What is a likely cause?

Medium
200

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application requires a relational database. The developer wants to ensure that the database is not accidentally deleted when the Elastic Beanstalk environment is terminated. Which approach should the developer take?

Medium
201

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Python web application. The application requires a specific version of a Python package that is not pre-installed on the Elastic Beanstalk platform. How should the developer ensure the package is installed on all environment instances?

Easy
202

A company is deploying a critical application using AWS CloudFormation. The stack creation fails due to a resource creation failure. The developer needs to troubleshoot the issue. Which TWO actions should the developer take to identify the root cause? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
203

A developer is using AWS CodeBuild to build a Java application. The buildspec.yml file currently runs unit tests. The developer wants to generate a code coverage report and publish it to the CodeBuild console for analysis. Which CodeBuild feature should be used?

Medium
204

A developer is deploying a containerized application on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The application needs to read configuration data from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. The developer wants to ensure that the ECS task definition can access the parameter without hardcoding the value. What should the developer do?

Hard
205

A developer is deploying a serverless application that includes an AWS Lambda function with a dependency on a native library (e.g., a compiled C library). The developer uses AWS SAM. The Lambda function runs correctly in the local development environment but fails with an 'Unable to import module' error when deployed. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
206

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The developer runs 'sam deploy' but receives an error that the S3 bucket does not exist. How should the developer fix this?

Medium
207

A company is deploying a critical application using AWS CloudFormation. The stack creation fails with a 'ROLLBACK_COMPLETE' status. The engineer wants to troubleshoot the failure without deleting the stack. What should the engineer do?

Hard
208

A development team uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. They want to perform a blue/green deployment to minimize downtime. What should they do to implement this?

Easy
209

Which TWO AWS services can be used to automatically deploy code to Amazon EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

Easy
210

Refer to the exhibit. A CloudFormation stack update resulted in a rollback. What is the most likely reason for the rollback?

Easy
211

An organization uses AWS Lambda functions behind an Amazon API Gateway REST API. They want to deploy a new version of the Lambda function using canary deployments. What is the recommended approach?

Hard
212

A company uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to run a web application. They want to deploy a new version with zero downtime. They have a production environment running the current version and a staging environment running the new version. After thoroughly testing the staging environment, they want to swap the URLs so that production now points to the new version. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Easy
213

Refer to the exhibit. An IAM policy is attached to a user who needs to deploy a serverless application. The user reports that they cannot upload a new version of a Lambda function using the AWS CLI. What is the MOST likely reason?

Hard
214

A developer is deploying a microservices application on Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type. The application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to route traffic. The developer wants to perform a blue/green deployment with automated traffic shifting using AWS CodeDeploy. What is the minimum number of target groups required for this deployment?

Hard
215

A developer uses AWS CodeBuild to run unit tests. The build succeeds but the tests fail. The developer wants to fail the build if tests fail. What should the developer do?

Medium
216

A developer is deploying an application on Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. The application needs to read configuration data from an Amazon S3 bucket. How should the developer securely provide the S3 bucket name to the container at runtime?

Easy
217

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to a fleet of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application must remain available during the deployment. The developer wants to update one instance at a time, ensuring that only one instance is taken offline at any moment. Which deployment configuration should the developer choose?

Medium
218

A team is using AWS CodePipeline with multiple stages: Source, Build, Test, and Deploy. The Deploy stage uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The pipeline runs successfully, but the application still serves the old version. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
219

A company is using AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. The developer wants to update a stack but needs to prevent specific resources from being replaced. What CloudFormation feature should the developer use?

Hard
220

A developer is creating a deployment pipeline using AWS CodePipeline. The pipeline includes a source stage from Amazon S3, a build stage using AWS CodeBuild, and a deploy stage using AWS CloudFormation. The developer wants to ensure that the pipeline can automatically create the CloudFormation stack if it does not exist. Which action mode should the developer use in the CloudFormation deploy action?

Easy
221

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application requires custom configuration, such as setting environment variables for the EC2 instances. Which file should the developer include in the application source bundle under the appropriate directory to achieve this?

Medium
222

A company is deploying a new microservice on AWS Lambda that processes high-resolution images and stores results in Amazon S3. The Lambda function currently uses 1024 MB of memory and has a timeout of 2 minutes. During peak load, many invocations are timing out. The function is CPU-bound during image processing. Which change is MOST likely to reduce timeouts without increasing costs unnecessarily?

Hard
223

A developer deploys a new version of an AWS Lambda function using the AWS CLI. The deployment fails with a 'ResourceConflictException' error. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
224

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy with a blue/green deployment on an Amazon ECS service running on Fargate. The developer wants to ensure that the new (green) task set is fully healthy and serving traffic before the old (blue) task set is terminated. The deployment should automatically roll back to the blue task set if the green task set fails health checks. Which configuration should the developer set in the CodeDeploy deployment group?

Hard
225

A team is using AWS CodePipeline to deploy a critical application to Amazon ECS. The pipeline has a deployment stage that uses Amazon ECS (Blue/Green) action with CodeDeploy. Recently, the deployment failed because the new task set did not become healthy within the specified timeout. The team wants to ensure that future deployments automatically roll back if the health check fails. What should the team do?

Hard
226

Refer to the exhibit. A developer attempted to update a CloudFormation stack that includes an EC2 instance. The update failed and the stack is rolling back. The event shows that the EC2 instance update failed with reason 'Resource update cancelled: stack update cancelled'. What is the most likely cause of this failure?

Medium
227

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment is set to use a 'OneAtATime' deployment configuration. The developer wants to ensure that the deployment does not cause downtime. Which TWO configurations are necessary?

Hard
228

A company is migrating a monolithic application to microservices on AWS. They want to use a blue/green deployment strategy for a new version of a service running on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The service is behind an Application Load Balancer. Which combination of actions should be taken to implement blue/green deployment with minimal downtime? (Choose the correct answer.)

Hard
229

Which THREE steps should a developer include in a CI/CD pipeline to deploy a serverless application using AWS SAM? (Choose three.)

Medium
230

A team uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The application experiences intermittent high latency. The team notices that the environment's Auto Scaling group is not scaling out quickly enough. Which configuration change should the team make to improve scaling responsiveness?

Medium
231

A company uses AWS OpsWorks for configuration management. They have a stack with multiple layers. They want to deploy a new application version to the application layer using rolling updates. What is the correct way to achieve this?

Medium
232

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy with a blue/green deployment strategy to update an application running on Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type. After the new (green) task set is created and traffic is shifted to it, users immediately report errors when trying to write data. The developer discovers that the green task set is connecting to a different database than the blue task set. The database endpoints are configured in the ECS task definition. What is the simplest way to prevent this issue in future deployments?

Hard
233

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application includes multiple Lambda functions and an API Gateway. Which THREE AWS CLI commands are part of the typical SAM deployment workflow? (Choose THREE.)

Easy
234

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM. The application consists of multiple Lambda functions and an API Gateway REST API. The developer needs to ensure that the API Gateway endpoint is created before the Lambda functions are deployed, because the functions need the endpoint URL as an environment variable. How should the developer configure the SAM template?

Hard
235

A company uses AWS OpsWorks to manage a stack of EC2 instances. The operations team needs to deploy a new configuration file to all instances in a layer. Which approach should the team use to automate this deployment?

Medium
236

A developer needs to deploy a serverless application using AWS CloudFormation. The application includes an AWS Lambda function, an Amazon API Gateway REST API, and an Amazon DynamoDB table. The developer wants to create a stack that can be updated without downtime. Which CloudFormation feature should be used?

Hard
237

A developer is deploying a microservices architecture on Amazon ECS. The services need to communicate with each other securely. The developer wants to use service discovery and ensure that traffic between services is encrypted. Which combination of services should the developer use?

Hard
238

A company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy a Node.js application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The build stage runs successfully, but the deploy stage fails with an error: 'The deployment failed because no instances were found for the environment.' What is the most likely cause?

Medium
239

A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. The deployment fails with the error 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available for deployment, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.' The developer needs to identify the root cause. Which AWS service should the developer use to view detailed error logs from the failed deployment?

Medium
240

A developer is using AWS CodeBuild to build a Docker image and push it to Amazon ECR. The build fails with a 'no basic auth credentials' error when trying to push the image. Which TWO actions should the developer take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

Medium
241

Refer to the exhibit. A developer creates this CloudFormation template and tries to deploy it. The deployment fails with 'CREATE_FAILED' for the S3 bucket resource. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
242

A company uses AWS OpsWorks for configuration management. They want to migrate to AWS Systems Manager for patching and automation. They have a fleet of EC2 instances running Amazon Linux 2. Which Systems Manager capability should they use to automate patching?

Medium
243

A developer is using AWS CodePipeline to deploy a web application. The pipeline has a source stage that pulls from CodeCommit and a deploy stage that uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The developer wants to run unit tests automatically before deploying to Elastic Beanstalk. Which action should the developer add to the pipeline?

Medium
244

A developer is using AWS CodePipeline to deploy a web application. The pipeline has stages: Source, Build, Staging Deploy, Staging Test, and Prod Deploy. The developer wants to ensure that if the Staging Test stage fails, the pipeline automatically stops and does not proceed to Prod Deploy. Which action should the developer take?

Easy
245

A development team wants to automatically deploy a web application to Amazon EC2 instances when new code is pushed to the master branch of an AWS CodeCommit repository. Which AWS service should the team use to orchestrate the build, test, and deployment phases?

Easy
246

A company is deploying a microservices architecture using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. The developer wants to implement a canary release deployment for the API. Which THREE steps should the developer take? (Choose THREE.)

Hard
247

A developer is deploying a Docker container to Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. The developer wants to ensure the container has access to an Amazon RDS database. What is the best way to securely pass the database credentials to the container?

Easy
248

A team uses AWS CodeCommit for source control and wants to automatically trigger a build and deployment when code is pushed to the master branch. Which AWS service should be used to create this automation?

Medium
249

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment fails during the 'BeforeInstall' lifecycle event. Which file should the developer check to debug the failure?

Medium
250

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a Node.js application. The developer wants to run a custom script to set environment variables before the application starts. Which configuration file and location should the developer use?

Hard
251

A developer performed a CodeDeploy deployment to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment status is Failed with code HEALTH_CONSTRAINTS. Based on the exhibit, what is the most likely cause?

Hard
252

A developer is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The deployment must follow a rolling update, deploying to exactly 50% of the instances at a time. Which built-in deployment configuration should the developer use?

Medium
253

The exhibit shows the output of the describe-instances command. An Elastic Beanstalk environment is configured to use this EC2 instance as a web server. The application is not accessible. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
254

A developer is using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a web application. The environment uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The developer wants to perform a blue/green deployment to minimize downtime. Which TWO steps should the developer take? (Choose two.)

Easy

Frequently asked questions

What does the Deployment domain cover on the DVA-C02 exam?
Be able to map a deployment scenario to the right service and configuration file. The single most important thing: know which artifact each service consumes and produces, and where buildspec.yml versus appspec.yml belongs.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 254 Deployment questions in the DVA-C02 question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
What is the best way to practise this domain?
Start with a short focused session (10 questions) to identify gaps, then work through explanations. Repeat with a longer session once the weak areas feel solid.
Can I practise only Deployment questions?
Yes — the session launcher on this page filters questions to this domain only. Choose any session length for inline explanations and scoring.
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