Q1. - (Topic 2)
A user has created numerous EBS volumes. What is the general limit for each AWS account for the maximum number of EBS volumes that can be created?
A. 10000
B. 5000
C. 100
D. 1000
Answer: B
Explanation:
A user can attach multiple EBS volumes to the same instance within the limits specified by his AWS account. Each AWS account has a limit on the number of Amazon EBS volumes that the user can create, and the total storage available. The default limit for the maximum number of volumes that can be created is 5000.
Q2. - (Topic 3)
How can software determine the public and private IP addresses of the Amazon EC2 instance that it is running on?
A. Query the local instance metadata.
B. Query the appropriate Amazon CloudWatch metric.
C. Query the local instance userdata.
D. Use ipconfig or ifconfig command.
Answer: B
Q3. - (Topic 2)
A user is trying to connect to a running EC2 instance using SSH. However, the user gets a connection time out error. Which of the below mentioned options is not a possible reason for rejection?
A. The access key to connect to the instance is wrong
B. The security group is not configured properly
C. The private key used to launch the instance is not correct
D. The instance CPU is heavily loaded
Answer: A
Explanation:
If the user is trying to connect to a Linux EC2 instance and receives the connection time out error the probable reasons are: Security group is not configured with the SSH port The private key pair is not right The user name to login is wrong The instance CPU is heavily loaded, so it does not allow more connections
Q4. - (Topic 3)
A user has created a VPC with CIDR 20.0.0.0/24. The user has used all the IPs of CIDR and wants to increase the size of the VPC. The user has two subnets: public (20.0.0.0/28. and private (20.0.1.0/28.. How can the user change the size of the VPC?
A. The user can delete all the instances of the subnet. Change the size of the subnets to 20.0.0.0/32 and 20.0.1.0/32, respectively. Then the user can increase the size of the VPC using CLI
B. It is not possible to change the size of the VPC once it has been created
C. The user can add a subnet with a higher range so that it will automatically increase the size of the VPC
D. The user can delete the subnets first and then modify the size of the VPC
Answer: B
Explanation:
Once the user has created a VPC, he cannot change the CIDR of that VPC. The user has to terminate all the instances, delete the subnets and then delete the VPC. Create a new VPC with a higher size and launch instances with the newly created VPC and subnets.
Q5. - (Topic 3)
In AWS, which security aspects are the customer’s responsibility? Choose 4 answers
A. Controlling physical access to compute resources
B. Patch management on the EC2 instance s operating system
C. Encryption of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volumes
D. Life-cycle management of IAM credentials
E. Decommissioning storage devices
F. Security Group and ACL (Access Control List) settings
Answer: B,C,E,F
Q6. - (Topic 3)
A user is using a small MySQL RDS DB. The user is experiencing high latency due to the Multi AZ feature.Which of the below mentioned options may not help the user in this situation?
A. Schedule the automated back up in non-working hours
B. Use a large or higher size instance
C. Use PIOPS
D. Take a snapshot from standby Replica
Answer: D
Explanation:
An RDS DB instance which has enabled Multi AZ deployments may experience increased write and commit latency compared to a Single AZ deployment, due to synchronous data replication. The user may also face changes in latency if deployment fails over to the standby replica. For production workloads, AWS recommends the user to use provisioned IOPS and DB instance classes (m1.large and larger. as they are optimized for provisioned IOPS to give a fast, and consistent performance. With Multi AZ feature, the user can not have option to take snapshot from replica.
Q7. - (Topic 3)
A user has created a VPC with the public and private subnets using the VPC wizard. The VPC has CIDR
20.0.0.0/16. The public subnet uses CIDR 20.0.1.0/24. The user is planning to host a web server in the public subnet (port 80. and a DB server in the private subnet (port 3306.. The user is configuring a security group for the public subnet (WebSecGrp. and the private subnet (DBSecGrp.. Which of the below mentioned entries is required in the web server security group (WebSecGrp.?
A. Configure Destination as DB Security group ID (DbSecGrp. for port 3306 Outbound
B. 80 for Destination 0.0.0.0/0 Outbound
C. Configure port 3306 for source 20.0.0.0/24 InBound
D. Configure port 80 InBound for source 20.0.0.0/16
Answer: A
Explanation:
A user can create a subnet with VPC and launch instances inside that subnet. If the user has created a public private subnet to host the web server and DB server respectively, the user should configure that the instances in the public subnet can receive inbound traffic directly from the internet. Thus, the user should configure port 80 with source 0.0.0.0/0 in InBound. The user should configure that the instance in the public subnet can send traffic to the private subnet instances on the DB port. Thus, the user should configure the DB Amazon AWS-SysOps : Practice Test
security group of the private subnet (DbSecGrp. as the destination for port 3306 in Outbound.
Q8. - (Topic 1)
Your company Is moving towards tracking web page users with a small tracking
Image loaded on each page Currently you are serving this image out of US-East, but are starting to get concerned about the time It takes to load the image for users on the west coast.
What are the two best ways to speed up serving this image?
Choose 2 answers
A. Use Route 53's Latency Based Routing and serve the image out of US-West-2 as well as US-East-1
B. Serve the image out through CloudFront
C. Serve the image out of S3 so that it isn't being served oft of your web application tier
D. Use EBS PIOPs to serve the image faster out of your EC2 instances
Answer: A,D
Q9. - (Topic 3)
A user has setup an EBS backed instance and attached 2 EBS volumes to it. The user has setup a CloudWatch alarm on each volume for the disk data. The user has stopped the EC2 instance and detached the EBS volumes. What will be the status of the alarms on the EBS volume?
A. OK
B. Insufficient Data
C. Alarm
D. The EBS cannot be detached until all the alarms are removed
Answer: B
Explanation:
Amazon CloudWatch alarm watches a single metric over a time period that the user specifies and performs one or more actions based on the value of the metric relative to a given threshold over a number of time periods. Alarms invoke actions only for sustained state changes. There are three states of the alarm: OK, Alarm and Insufficient data. In this case since the EBS is detached and inactive the state will be Insufficient.
Q10. - (Topic 3)
An organization is trying to create various IAM users. Which of the below mentioned options is not a valid IAM username?
A. John.cloud
B. john@cloud
C. John=cloud
D. john#cloud
Answer: D
Explanation:
AWS Identity and Access Management is a web service which allows organizations to manage users and user permissions for various AWS services. Whenever the organization is creating an IAM user, there should be a unique ID for each user. The names of users, groups, roles, instance profiles must be alphanumeric, including the following common characters: plus (+., equal (=., comma (,., period (.., at (@., and dash (-..
Q11. - (Topic 1)
You have identified network throughput as a bottleneck on your m1.small EC2 instance when uploading data Into Amazon S3 In the same region.
How do you remedy this situation?
A. Add an additional ENI
B. Change to a larger Instance
C. Use DirectConnect between EC2 and S3
D. Use EBS PIOPS on the local volume
Answer: B
Explanation: Reference:
https://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Amazon_EMR_Best_Practices.pdf
Q12. - (Topic 3)
A user has launched an EBS backed instance with EC2-Classic. The user stops and starts the instance. Which of the below mentioned statements is not true with respect to the stop/start action?
A. The instance gets new private and public IP addresses
B. The volume is preserved
C. The Elastic IP remains associated with the instance
D. The instance may run on a anew host computer
Answer: C
Explanation:
A user can always stop/start an EBS backed EC2 instance. When the user stops the instance, it first enters the stopping state, and then the stopped state. AWS does not charge the running cost but charges only for the EBS storage cost. If the instance is running in EC2-Classic, it receives a new private IP address; as the Elastic IP address (EIP. associated with the instance is no longer associated with that instance.
Q13. - (Topic 3)
A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets using the VPC wizard. Which of the below
mentioned statements is true in this scenario?
A. The AWS VPC will automatically create a NAT instance with the micro size
B. VPC bounds the main route table with a private subnet and a custom route table with a public subnet
C. The user has to manually create a NAT instance D. VPC bounds the main route table with a public subnet and a custom route table with a private subnet
Answer: B
Explanation:
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC. is a virtual network dedicated to the user’s AWS account. A user can create a subnet with VPC and launch instances inside that subnet. If the user has created a public private subnet, the instances in the public subnet can receive inbound traffic directly from the internet, whereas the instances in the private subnet cannot. If these subnets are created with Wizard, AWS will create a NAT instance of a smaller or higher size, respectively. The VPC has an implied router and the VPC wizard updates the main route table used with the private subnet, creates a custom route table and associates it with the public subnet.
Q14. - (Topic 3)
A user is using the AWS SQS to decouple the services. Which of the below mentioned operations is not
supported by SQS?
A. SendMessageBatch
B. DeleteMessageBatch
C. CreateQueue
D. DeleteMessageQueue
Answer: D
Explanation:
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS. is a fast, reliable, scalable, and fully managed message queuing service. SQS provides a simple and cost-effective way to decouple the components of an application. The user can perform the following set of operations using the Amazon SQS:
CreateQueue, ListQueues, DeleteQueue, SendMessage, SendMessageBatch,
ReceiveMessage, DeleteMessage, DeleteMessageBatch, ChangeMessageVisibility,
ChangeMessageVisibilityBatch, SetQueueAttributes, GetQueueAttributes, GetQueueUrl,
AddPermission and RemovePermission. Operations can be performed only by the AWS account owner or an AWS account that the account owner has delegated to.
Q15. - (Topic 2)
A user has setup a web application on EC2. The user is generating a log of the application performance at every second. There are multiple entries for each second. If the user wants to send that data to CloudWatch every minute, what should he do?
A. The user should send only the data of the 60th second as CloudWatch will map the receive data timezone with the sent data timezone
B. It is not possible to send the custom metric to CloudWatch every minute
C. Give CloudWatch the Min, Max, Sum, and SampleCount of a number of every minute
D. Calculate the average of one minute and send the data to CloudWatch
Answer: C
Explanation:
Amazon CloudWatch aggregates statistics according to the period length that the user has specified while getting data from CloudWatch. The user can publish as many data points as he wants with the same or similartime stamps. CloudWatch aggregates them by the period length when the user calls get statistics about those data points. CloudWatch records the average (sum of all items divided by the number of items. of the values received for every 1-minute period, as well as the number of samples, maximum value, and minimum value for the same time period. CloudWatch will aggregate all the data which have time stamps within a one-minute period.
Q16. - (Topic 3)
An AWS account wants to be part of the consolidated billing of his organization’s payee account. How can the owner of that account achieve this?
A. The payee account has to request AWS support to link the other accounts with his account
B. The owner of the linked account should add the payee account to his master account list from the billing console
C. The payee account will send a request to the linked account to be a part of consolidated billing
D. The owner of the linked account requests the payee account to add his account to consolidated billing
Answer: C
Explanation:
AWS consolidated billing enables the organization to consolidate payments for multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS. accounts within a single organization by making a single paying account. To add a particular account (linked. to the master (payee. account, the payee account has to request the linked account to join consolidated billing. Once the linked account accepts the request henceforth all charges incurred by the linked account will be paid by the payee account.