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Scenario guide

How to approach troubleshooting scenario questions

These questions describe a network symptom and ask you to identify the root cause or the correct fix. They appear across all certification exams and reward systematic thinking over memorisation. The best candidates follow a consistent troubleshooting framework even under time pressure.

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Troubleshooting Scenario Questions questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Practice set

Practice scenarios

Question 1easymulti select
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A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting a Lambda function that is timing out. Which TWO actions should the engineer take to diagnose the issue?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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A company uses Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ deployment. The database instance fails and AWS automatically fails over to the standby. After the failover, the application cannot connect to the database. The engineer checks the RDS console and sees that the instance status is Available. What is the MOST likely cause of the connectivity issue?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A Lambda function is unable to write logs to CloudWatch Logs. The IAM policy attached to the function's execution role is shown above. What is the issue?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```json
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "logs:PutLogEvents",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:123456789012:log-group:/aws/lambda/my-function:*"
    }
  ]
}
```
Question 4hardmulti select
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A company is using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to monitor its web application endpoints. The canaries are failing intermittently with timeout errors. The DevOps team needs to troubleshoot the root cause. Which THREE actions should they take? (Select THREE.)

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A company's application running on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) is returning intermittent 504 errors. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group with a health check grace period of 300 seconds. What should the DevOps engineer check first to troubleshoot the issue?

Question 6easymultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that is not triggering as expected. The alarm monitors an SQS queue's ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible metric with a threshold of 100 for 1 evaluation period. The queue has had over 100 messages for the past 30 minutes, but the alarm remains in OK state. What is the most likely cause?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting an issue where an EC2 instance cannot access an S3 bucket. The instance has an IAM role attached with a policy that allows s3:GetObject. The S3 bucket policy explicitly denies access to the instance's role. What is the result?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer is troubleshooting a production issue where an application's response time has increased. The application is deployed on Amazon ECS with Fargate. The engineer wants to identify which microservice is causing the latency. Which AWS service should be used?

Question 9easymulti select
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A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. A stack update fails with a 'ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS' status. The DevOps engineer needs to investigate the failure. Which TWO actions should the engineer take?

Question 10hardmulti select
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A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure. A stack update fails with the error: 'UPDATE_ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS'. The DevOps engineer needs to investigate the cause. Which THREE steps should the engineer take? (Choose THREE.)

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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A DevOps engineer creates the IAM policy above for an instance role. The role is attached to an EC2 instance that runs an application. The application starts and stops EC2 instances and reads a database password from Systems Manager Parameter Store. However, the application fails to retrieve the parameter. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:GetParameter",
        "ssm:GetParameters"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:us-east-1:123456789012:parameter/MyApp/DBPassword"
    }
  ]
}
Question 12mediummulti select
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A DevOps engineer is designing a monitoring solution for a multi-tier web application hosted on AWS. The application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), EC2 instances, and an RDS database. The engineer needs to capture and analyze HTTP request logs from the ALB to understand client behavior and troubleshoot errors. Which THREE steps are necessary to achieve this?

Question 13easymultiple choice
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A company experiences an unexpected spike in network traffic to a web application hosted on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The DevOps team needs to investigate the source IP addresses generating the traffic. Which AWS service should they use to capture the traffic?

Question 14hardmulti select
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A company uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. The application is experiencing intermittent HTTP 503 errors. The DevOps team needs to diagnose the cause. Which THREE of the following should the team investigate? (Choose THREE.)

Question 15easymultiple choice
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A company uses Amazon RDS for MySQL with Multi-AZ deployment. The application experiences increased latency during peak hours. The DevOps engineer investigates and notices that the Read Replicas are not being utilized effectively. The application is configured to use the primary database endpoint. The engineer wants to offload read traffic to the Read Replicas without changing the application code. What is the BEST solution?

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