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1

A company wants to establish a dedicated, low-latency, private connection between its on-premises data center and an AWS VPC. The company does not want to use the public internet. Which AWS service should be used to meet this requirement?

2

A company has two VPCs in different AWS regions (us-east-1 and eu-west-1) that are peered. Applications in both VPCs need to communicate using private IP addresses. The ping tests are successful, but the latency is significantly higher than expected. Which change is most likely to improve the latency between the VPCs?

3

A company has deployed a web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application's IP addresses are used by a third-party service to allowlist traffic. The EC2 instances are part of an Auto Scaling group that may scale up and down. The SysOps administrator needs to ensure that the third-party service always has the current IP addresses of the ALB without requiring manual updates. Which solution should the administrator implement?

4

A company has an on-premises data center connected to an AWS VPC via an AWS Direct Connect connection. The company's SysOps administrator wants to ensure that traffic from the VPC destined for the on-premises network uses the Direct Connect connection instead of the internet. Which configuration should be used?

5

A company has two VPCs in the same AWS region. VPC A hosts a web application, and VPC B hosts a database. The SysOps administrator needs to enable private IP communication between the two VPCs without using the public internet. The administrator wants a simple, low-cost solution that uses the AWS network backbone. Which AWS service should be used?

6

A company hosts a web application behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in us-east-1. Users in Europe report high latency. The SysOps administrator decides to use AWS Global Accelerator to improve performance by directing traffic to the closest edge location. However, the application logs require the original client IP addresses of users. The ALB currently provides the client IP via the X-Forwarded-For header, but the development team warns that Global Accelerator may change the source IP. Which configuration should the administrator choose to meet both performance and logging requirements?

7

A company hosts a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in two AWS regions: us-east-1 and eu-west-1. The application is behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each region. The SysOps administrator wants to direct users to the region that provides the lowest latency, automatically routing traffic away from a region if it becomes unhealthy. Which Amazon Route 53 routing policy should be used?

8

A company has three VPCs in the same AWS region: VPC A (production), VPC B (development), and VPC C (shared services). The VPCs have overlapping CIDR blocks (e.g., VPC A: 10.0.0.0/16, VPC B: 10.0.0.0/16, VPC C: 10.1.0.0/16). The SysOps administrator needs to enable private IP communication between VPC A and VPC C, and between VPC B and VPC C, but not between VPC A and VPC B. The solution must also support a growing number of VPCs in the future. Which AWS service should be used?

9

A company runs a gaming application that uses Amazon EC2 instances to handle real-time multiplayer sessions. The application requires low-latency communication with users around the world. The SysOps administrator needs to accelerate content delivery for non-cacheable, dynamic content (such as real-time game state updates) and also provide static asset delivery. The solution must support both TCP and UDP traffic. Which AWS service should be used?

10

A company has two VPCs: VPC-A (10.0.0.0/16) and VPC-B (10.1.0.0/16). The VPCs are in the same AWS region. The SysOps administrator needs to enable private IP connectivity between the two VPCs so that an EC2 instance in VPC-A can communicate with an EC2 instance in VPC-B using their private IP addresses. The administrator wants a simple, low-cost solution with high throughput. Which AWS service should be used?

11

A company has an Amazon VPC with public and private subnets. The private subnets host database instances that should not have direct internet access. However, the database instances need to download patches from an Amazon S3 bucket. The SysOps administrator needs to enable access to S3 from the private subnets without traversing the internet. Which solution should be used?

12

A company has an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the us-east-1 region. Users in Asia report high latency. The SysOps administrator wants to use AWS Global Accelerator to improve performance by directing traffic to the closest edge location. Which step is required to integrate Global Accelerator with the ALB?

13

A company has an on-premises data center connected to AWS via an AWS Direct Connect connection. The SysOps administrator needs to ensure high availability for the connectivity. Which configuration provides the highest availability for the Direct Connect connection?

14

A company has a VPC with public and private subnets. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) is deployed in the public subnets, and an Auto Scaling group of web servers is deployed in the private subnets. The web servers need to frequently make HTTPS requests to an external API. The API provider requires that all requests originate from a consistent set of static IP addresses for whitelisting. The SysOps administrator must ensure that outbound traffic from the web servers has static source IP addresses. Which solution should be implemented?

15

A company has two Amazon VPCs: VPC-A (10.0.0.0/16) and VPC-B (10.1.0.0/16) in the same AWS Region. The SysOps administrator needs to enable private IP connectivity between the two VPCs without using the public internet. The solution must be simple, low-cost, and provide high throughput. Which AWS service should the administrator use?

16

A company has multiple on-premises branch offices, each with a site-to-site VPN connection to a single VPC in AWS. The SysOps administrator needs to enable communication between the branch offices using the AWS cloud as a hub. Which configuration should be implemented to achieve this with the least operational overhead?

17

A company has a web application running on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the us-west-2 Region. Users are distributed globally and experience high latency. The SysOps administrator wants to improve latency and offload SSL termination to the edge. Which AWS service should be used with the ALB as the origin?

18

A company has two Amazon VPCs in the same AWS Region with non-overlapping CIDR blocks. The SysOps administrator needs to establish private connectivity between the two VPCs with high throughput and minimal cost. Which solution should the administrator implement?

19

A company hosts a static website on Amazon S3. Users access the website from around the world. The SysOps administrator needs to deliver content with low latency and support HTTPS with a custom domain. Which AWS service should be used?

20

A company has two Amazon VPCs (VPC-A and VPC-B) in the same AWS Region with non-overlapping CIDR blocks. The SysOps administrator needs to establish private IP connectivity between the two VPCs with high throughput and minimal cost. Which solution should the administrator implement?

21

A company runs a web application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application needs to serve HTTPS content. The SysOps administrator wants to offload SSL termination to the ALB and automatically renew the certificate before expiration. Which solution should the administrator implement?

22

A company has an on-premises data center connected to AWS via an AWS Direct Connect private virtual interface (VIF). The SysOps administrator needs to ensure that all traffic between the on-premises network and Amazon S3 in the same AWS Region stays within the AWS network and does not traverse the internet. Which solution should the administrator implement?

23

A company has a VPC with public and private subnets. The private subnets need outbound internet access to download software updates while preventing any inbound internet traffic. The SysOps administrator must minimize costs. Which solution should the administrator implement?

24

A company has an Amazon VPC with a CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16 and an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to an on-premises data center. The on-premises DNS servers host a private domain 'corp.example.com'. The SysOps administrator needs to enable EC2 instances in the VPC to resolve DNS names for 'corp.example.com' using the on-premises DNS servers. Which Route 53 feature should be configured?

25

A company has an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that routes traffic to Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets of a VPC. The SysOps administrator needs to ensure that the EC2 instances can download software updates from the internet, but they must not be directly accessible from the internet. The solution should minimize operational overhead. Which solution should the administrator implement?

26

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?

27

A company has an Amazon VPC with public and private subnets across two Availability Zones. The company hosts a web application on EC2 instances in the private subnets. The application needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket to upload and download files. The SysOps administrator must ensure that traffic to S3 does not traverse the internet and minimizes data transfer costs. Which solution should the administrator implement?

28

A company has an Amazon CloudFront distribution that delivers static content from an Amazon S3 bucket. The SysOps administrator needs to ensure that the content can only be accessed through CloudFront and not directly from the S3 bucket URL. The solution should use AWS managed services with minimal configuration. Which solution should the administrator implement?

29

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets of a VPC. The application needs to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The SysOps administrator wants to ensure that traffic to S3 does not traverse the internet and minimizes data transfer costs. Which solution should the administrator implement?

30

A company runs an application across multiple Availability Zones. The application servers are in private subnets and need outbound internet access to download software updates and patches. The SysOps administrator needs a highly available, fully managed solution to provide this outbound connectivity. Which solution should be used?

31

A company has two VPCs in the same AWS account and Region: VPC-A (10.0.0.0/16) and VPC-B (10.1.0.0/16). The SysOps administrator needs to establish connectivity between these VPCs so that resources in VPC-A can reach resources in VPC-B using private IP addresses. The solution must be highly available and not involve a third-party appliance. Which solution should the administrator implement?

32

A company runs a web application on Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets across multiple Availability Zones. The instances need to download software patches from the internet. The SysOps administrator requires a highly available, fully managed solution for outbound internet connectivity. Which solution should be implemented?

33

A company has a VPC with public and private subnets. An Application Load Balancer (ALB) is in the public subnets, and Amazon EC2 instances are in the private subnets. The SysOps administrator needs to allow the EC2 instances to access an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region without traversing the internet. Which solution should the administrator implement?

34

A company has a VPC with public and private subnets. An Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The SysOps administrator wants to ensure the traffic does not traverse the internet. Which solution should be implemented?

35

A company has multiple VPCs in the same AWS account and Region, each with overlapping CIDR blocks (10.0.0.0/16). The SysOps administrator needs to establish connectivity between all VPCs and the on-premises network via AWS Transit Gateway. Additionally, certain VPCs must be isolated from each other while still reaching on-premises. How should the administrator configure the Transit Gateway to meet these requirements?

36

A company wants to host a static website using Amazon S3. The website files are stored in an S3 bucket. The SysOps administrator needs to make the website accessible via HTTP. Which action must be performed on the S3 bucket?

37

A company has an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that routes traffic to targets in private subnets. The SysOps administrator needs to log detailed information about HTTP requests, including client IP, request path, and response time. Which ALB feature should be enabled?

38

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB terminates SSL/TLS and forwards traffic to the instances over HTTP. The SysOps administrator needs to capture the original client IP address in the instance logs. How should the administrator configure this?

39

A company uses Amazon CloudFront to deliver content from an Application Load Balancer (ALB) origin. The SysOps administrator needs to restrict access to the content so that only users from a specific geographic location can view it. Which CloudFront feature should be used?

40

A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting connectivity issues between Amazon EC2 instances in two different VPCs that are connected via a VPC peering connection. The instances can successfully send ICMP (ping) traffic, but TCP connections on port 443 (HTTPS) fail. The security groups of both instances allow all inbound and outbound traffic. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

41

A SysOps administrator has deployed an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that distributes traffic to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The administrator notices that the ALB is sending all traffic to instances in a single Availability Zone (AZ), ignoring instances in other AZs. The ALB was created with default settings. Which action should the administrator take to ensure traffic is distributed evenly across all AZs?

42

A company needs a dedicated private network connection from its on-premises data center to AWS that provides consistent network performance and high bandwidth. The connection must bypass the public internet. Which AWS service should the SysOps administrator use?

43

A company has multiple VPCs in the same AWS Region that need to communicate with each other. The SysOps administrator wants to avoid the complexity of a full mesh of VPC peering connections. Which AWS service should the administrator use to connect all VPCs with a central hub?

44

A company has a VPC with a public subnet and a private subnet. An Amazon EC2 instance in the private subnet needs to download security patches from the internet, but the instance must not be directly accessible from the internet. The SysOps administrator configured a NAT gateway in the public subnet and added a route in the private subnet's route table pointing 0.0.0.0/0 to the NAT gateway. The instance's security group allows all outbound traffic. However, the instance still cannot reach the internet. What is the most likely missing configuration?

45

Instances in a private subnet need outbound internet access for software updates. The route table sends 0.0.0.0/0 to a NAT gateway, but updates fail. Which condition should you check first?

46

A company hosts a static website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. They want to improve latency for users around the world by caching content at edge locations. Which AWS service should they use?

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Common Networking and Content Delivery exam traps

  • Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

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