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Deployment practice questions

Deployment (19%) covers provisioning and automating cloud resources, migrating workloads and data, and releasing application changes. Expect scenario questions on AWS-native tooling: CloudFormation and StackSets, ECS canary/blue-green rollouts, CodeDeploy, DataSync and Snowball for transfers, plus CI/CD integration with Kubernetes. You must choose the right service for stated constraints like bandwidth, timeline, and rollback behavior.

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What the exam tests

What to know about Deployment

Be able to map a deployment scenario to the correct AWS service and configuration: pick the right data-transfer method for the bandwidth and deadline, use StackSets for multi-account resources, and configure canary traffic shifting with rollback alarms that actually fire.

Selecting AWS transfer services (DataSync, Snowball, S3 Transfer Acceleration) against bandwidth and deadline constraints

CloudFormation StackSets for deploying shared resources across multiple AWS accounts and regions

Canary and blue-green deployments on ECS/CodeDeploy with traffic shifting and automatic rollback on error thresholds

CI/CD integration such as Jenkins Kubernetes plugin deploying containers to a cluster

Watch out for

Common Deployment exam traps

▸Assuming a direct network upload over limited bandwidth will finish in time instead of using Snowball or DataSync for large datasets
▸Confusing CloudFormation StackSets with nested stacks when the requirement is cross-account deployment
▸Setting canary traffic shift and rollback alarms incorrectly, so error-rate thresholds never trigger an automatic rollback

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Deployment questions

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A cloud architect is creating a Terraform configuration to deploy resources in AWS. The architect needs to store the state file in a remote backend that supports state locking and encryption at rest. Which backend should the architect configure?

Trap 1: Local file system with Terraform Cloud

A local file system stores state on the architect's machine, providing no remote sharing, no locking for concurrent runs and no server-side encryption at rest. It is tempting for simple single-operator setups, but it would be correct only for local experimentation, not a team AWS deployment requiring remote locking and encryption.

Trap 2: Azure Blob Storage with a lease blob for locking

Azure Blob is for Azure, not AWS.

Trap 3: Google Cloud Storage with object versioning

Google Cloud Storage's gcs backend supports encryption at rest but does not provide native state locking, relying instead on object versioning for consistency. It is tempting because versioning appears to guard concurrent writes, but it would be correct for Terraform managing GCP resources where locking is handled differently.

Deployment practice questions

What to know about Deployment

Common Deployment exam traps

Deployment questions

A cloud architect is creating a Terraform configuration to deploy resources in AWS. The architect needs to store the state file in a remote backend that supports state locking and encryption at rest. Which backend should the architect configure?

A cloud engineer is deploying a Lambda function that processes events from an SQS queue. The function must be able to handle a burst of up to 1000 concurrent invocations. Which configuration should the engineer set to ensure the function can scale to meet this demand?

A data scientist is migrating a 10 TB on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which TWO AWS services should the data scientist use together to achieve this? (Select TWO.)

A cloud administrator is automating the deployment of a web application on AWS. The administrator wants to define the infrastructure as code using a declarative language that supports drift detection. Which tool should the administrator use?

A company must migrate 50 TB of data from an on-premises NFS server to Amazon S3 within one week. The network bandwidth averages 50 Mbps. The administrator is evaluating AWS DataSync and AWS Snowball. Which service should the administrator choose?

An organization uses Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. The state file must be stored securely with locking to prevent concurrent modifications. Which backend configuration should the team use?

A DevOps team is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a cloud-native application. They require a deployment strategy that supports traffic shifting in small increments and automatic rollback based on health checks. Which TWO strategies meet these requirements?

An organization is moving 100 TB of archival data from on-premises to Google Cloud Storage. The network bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbps, and the migration must complete within two weeks. Which THREE methods should the team consider?

A company is adopting a blue/green deployment strategy for their web application running on AWS. They have two identical environments (blue and green) behind an Application Load Balancer. What must they change to switch traffic from blue to green?

An organization uses Azure DevOps for CI/CD. They need to deploy a Bicep template that creates resources in multiple Azure regions. The deployment must be idempotent and handle dependencies between resources. Which Azure DevOps task should they use?

A cloud architect is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application deployed on a managed Kubernetes service. The pipeline should include stages for source, build, test, deploy, and verify. Which TWO of the following are typical pipeline stages? (Select TWO.)

A company is migrating on-premises storage to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) using Storage Transfer Service. The source is an on-premises NAS with 100 TB of data. Which THREE considerations are relevant for this migration? (Select THREE.)

A cloud engineer is managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform and wants to store the state file remotely to enable team collaboration. Which storage option should the engineer configure in the backend block?

A cloud engineer is creating an Ansible playbook to provision cloud resources on AWS. Ansible is agentless; it connects to managed nodes via SSH. Which component defines the desired state of cloud resources in Ansible?

An organization uses a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins. The pipeline includes stages: source, build, test, deploy, and verify. During the deploy stage, the team wants to automatically roll back if the verify stage fails. Which Jenkins feature supports this?

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