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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 Practice Test

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Q1Monitoring, Logging, and Remediationhard
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A SysOps team needs to monitor application logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs for specific error codes and automatically invoke an AWS Lambda function for remediation within 5 minutes of an error occurring. Which solution involves the least operational overhead?

ACreate a CloudWatch Logs subscription filter to stream logs directly to an AWS Lambda function.
Create a CloudWatch metric filter on the log group, create a CloudWatch alarm on the metric, and configure the alarm to post to an SNS topic that triggers the Lambda function.Correct
CUse a third-party log aggregation tool that sends webhook notifications to an API Gateway endpoint to invoke the Lambda function.
DWrite a custom script that runs on an EC2 instance to poll CloudWatch Logs every minute and invoke the Lambda function.

It uses CloudWatch metric filters and alarms to detect error codes in logs and trigger remediation via SNS and Lambda, all within a fully managed AWS pipeline. This approach requires no custom code or infrastructure to maintain, and the alarm can be configured to evaluate logs wi…Read full explanation

Q2Networking and Content Deliveryeasy
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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?

AWS Direct ConnectCorrect
BAWS Virtual Private Gateway
CAWS Transit Gateway
DVPC Peering

AWS Direct Connect is the correct service because it provides a dedicated, private, low-latency network connection from an on-premises data center to AWS, bypassing the public internet entirely. It uses industry-standard 802.1Q VLANs to create a private virtual interface (VIF) th…Read full explanation

Q3Security and Compliancemedium
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A company's security team requires that all Amazon EC2 instances in a specific AWS account must have the tag 'Environment' set to either 'Production' or 'Test'. Any instance that is launched without this tag or with an invalid value must be automatically terminated within five minutes. Which combination of AWS services can enforce this requirement with minimal manual intervention?

AWS Config with a custom rule and AWS LambdaCorrect
BAWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch Events
CAWS Service Catalog and AWS Organizations
DAmazon Inspector and AWS Systems Manager

AWS Config with a custom rule can evaluate EC2 instances for the required 'Environment' tag with valid values. When a non-compliant instance is detected, AWS Config triggers an AWS Lambda function that terminates the instance within the required five-minute window. This combinati…Read full explanation

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