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A company uses AWS Organizations and has multiple accounts. The security team requires that all Amazon S3 buckets across all accounts must be encrypted at rest with AWS KMS (SSE-KMS). The SysOps administrator needs to automatically detect non-compliant buckets and remediate them by enabling SSE-KMS. The solution must work across all existing and future accounts. Which AWS service should be used?
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A
Best answer
AWS Config with a managed rule and an automatic remediation action using AWS Systems Manager Automation.
AWS Config rules can evaluate resources for compliance. Automatic remediation can invoke a Systems Manager Automation document to enable SSE-KMS on non-compliant buckets. This can be applied organization-wide using AWS Config aggregators and StackSets.
B
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AWS CloudTrail with a metric filter and Amazon CloudWatch alarm to trigger a Lambda function.
CloudTrail logs API calls but does not evaluate the current state of resources. A metric filter could detect PutBucketEncryption events, but it would not catch buckets that were already non-compliant before the rule was set up. This approach is event-driven and not state-based, and it cannot cover existing buckets across all accounts easily.
C
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AWS Trusted Advisor to check S3 bucket encryption and send notifications.
Trusted Advisor can check for S3 bucket encryption as part of its security checks, but it does not provide automatic remediation. It also may not cover all accounts in an organization seamlessly.
D
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Amazon Macie to discover sensitive data and then manually encrypt buckets.
Macie is used to discover sensitive data in S3 buckets, not to enforce encryption policies. It would not automatically enable encryption.
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Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
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How to think about this question
This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
- Use explanations to understand the rule behind the answer.
TExam Day Tips
- Underline the problem statement mentally.
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
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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?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: AWS Config with a managed rule and an automatic remediation action using AWS Systems Manager Automation. — AWS Config can be used with a managed rule (s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled) to evaluate S3 buckets for encryption. The rule can trigger automatic remediation using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents (e.g., AWS-EnableS3BucketEncryption) to enable SSE-KMS. This setup can be deployed via a StackSet or Organization Config rules to cover all accounts. CloudTrail and Trusted Advisor do not provide automatic remediation, and Macie is for data classification.
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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