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A company requires that all Amazon EC2 instances launched in its AWS account must have termination protection enabled. The SysOps administrator needs to automatically remediate any instance launched without termination protection. The solution should use AWS managed services without custom scripts. Which AWS service should be used?
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A
Best answer
Configure AWS Config with a managed rule 'ec2-termination-protection-check' and set an auto-remediation action using an AWS Systems Manager Automation document that enables termination protection on the instance.
AWS Config can evaluate resources against a rule and automatically remediate non-compliant resources using Systems Manager Automation. This meets the requirement without custom scripts.
B
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Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to automatically apply termination protection to all launched instances.
Auto Scaling manages scaling policies and instance lifecycle, but it does not have a feature to automatically enable termination protection on every instance launched outside of Auto Scaling groups.
C
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Enable AWS Trusted Advisor to send notifications when instances lack termination protection, and have administrators manually fix them.
Trusted Advisor can identify non-compliant resources but does not provide automated remediation. The requirement mandates automatic remediation.
D
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Create an IAM policy that denies the RunInstances action unless termination protection is enabled.
IAM policies cannot enforce instance configuration at launch; the ec2:DisableApiTermination parameter is available, but the RunInstances API does not support condition keys that require termination protection. This approach is not feasible.
Common exam trap
Common exam trap: NAT rules depend on direction and matching traffic
NAT is not only about the public address. The inside/outside interface roles and the ACL or rule that matches traffic are just as important.
Technical deep dive
How to think about this question
NAT questions usually test address translation, overload/PAT behaviour, static mappings and whether the right traffic is being translated. Read the interface direction and address terms carefully.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
- PAT allows many inside hosts to share one public address using ports.
- Inside local and inside global describe the private and translated addresses.
- NAT ACLs identify traffic for translation, not always security filtering.
TExam Day Tips
- Identify inside and outside interfaces first.
- Check whether the scenario needs static NAT, dynamic NAT or PAT.
- Do not confuse NAT matching ACLs with normal packet-filtering intent.
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Question 1
A company uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver content to a global audience. The origin is an Application Load Balancer in us-east-1. The SysOps administrator wants to reduce costs by minimizing the number of requests that reach the origin server. Which action should the administrator take?
Question 2
A company runs a batch processing application on Amazon EC2 that runs for 2 hours every night. The workload can tolerate interruptions. Which EC2 purchasing option provides the lowest cost for this use case?
Question 3
A SysOps administrator needs to monitor the CPU utilization of an Amazon RDS DB instance and receive an alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 consecutive minutes. Which AWS service should be used to create this alarm?
Question 4
A company runs a critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application uses session stickiness (sticky sessions) to maintain user sessions. The SysOps administrator notices that when instances are replaced during a scale-in or failure event, users lose their session data. The administrator needs to preserve session data across instance failures without losing stickiness benefits. What should the administrator do?
Question 5
A company runs a production web application on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application experiences a predictable and steady workload 24/7. The SysOps administrator wants to minimize compute costs for this instance while ensuring it remains available during the expected workload. Which EC2 purchasing option should the administrator use?
Question 6
A company has a VPC with public and private subnets. The private subnets host application servers that need to make outbound HTTPS connections to the internet. The SysOps administrator must implement a solution that provides outbound internet connectivity while preventing inbound connections from the internet. Additionally, the solution must allow the company to control which domains the application servers can access. Which solution should the administrator implement?
FAQ
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What does this SOA-C02 question test?
Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Configure AWS Config with a managed rule 'ec2-termination-protection-check' and set an auto-remediation action using an AWS Systems Manager Automation document that enables termination protection on the instance. — AWS Config can use managed rules to detect non-compliant resources. The 'ec2-instance-termination-protection-enabled' managed rule checks if EC2 instances have termination protection enabled. When a non-compliant resource is detected, AWS Config can trigger an AWS Systems Manager Automation document to auto-remediate by enabling termination protection. EC2 Auto Scaling does not provide this evaluation or remediation. AWS Trusted Advisor only provides recommendations, not enforcement. IAM does not enforce resource configuration.
What should I do if I get this SOA-C02 question wrong?
Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.
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