A company uses AWS Control Tower and Organizations for a multi-account environment. It needs to create new accounts and ensure they receive a consistent baseline configuration.
Which solution meets the requirement with the least overhead?
A company hosts a security auditing application in an AWS account. The auditing application uses an IAM role to access other AWS accounts. All the accounts are in the same organization in AWS Organizations.
A recent security audit revealed that users in the audited AWS accounts could modify or delete the auditing application ' s IAM role. The company needs to prevent any modification to the auditing application ' s IAM role by any entity other than a trusted administrator IAM role.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy application environments. A deployment failed due to manual modifications in stack resources. The DevOps engineer wants to detect manual modifications and alert the DevOps lead with the least effort.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An ecommerce company uses a large number of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) backed Amazon EC2 instances. To decrease manual work across all the instances, a DevOps engineer is tasked with automating restart actions when EC2 instance retirement events are scheduled.
How can this be accomplished?
A company has deployed a new platform that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The new platform hosts web applications that users frequently update. The application developers build the Docker images for the applications and deploy the Docker images manually to the platform.
The platform usage has increased to more than 500 users every day. Frequent updates, building the updated Docker images for the applications, and deploying the Docker images on the platform manually have all become difficult to manage.
The company needs to receive an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if Docker image scanning returns any HIGH or CRITICAL findings for operating system or programming language package vulnerabilities.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps team manages infrastructure for an application. The application uses long-running processes to process items from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The application is deployed to an Auto Scaling group.
The application recently experienced an issue where items were taking significantly longer to process. The queue exceeded the expected size, which prevented various business processes from functioning properly. The application records all logs to a third-party tool.
The team is currently subscribed to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that the team uses for alerts. The team needs to be alerted if the queue exceeds the expected size.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage several AWS accounts that the company ' s developers use. The company requires all data to be encrypted in transit.
Multiple Amazon S3 buckets that were created in developer accounts allow unencrypted connections. A DevOps engineer must enforce encryption of data in transit for all existing S3 buckets that are created in accounts in the organization.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has many AWS accounts. During AWS account creation the company uses automation to create an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group in every AWS Region that the company operates in. The automaton configures new resources in the accounts to publish logs to the provisioned log groups in their Region.
The company has created a logging account to centralize the logging from all the other accounts. A DevOps engineer needs to aggregate the log groups from all the accounts to an existing Amazon S3 bucket in the logging account.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient manner?
A company uses an AWS CodeCommit repository to store its source code and corresponding unit tests. The company has configured an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that includes an AWS CodeBuild project that runs when code is merged to the main branch of the repository.
The company wants the CodeBuild project to run the unit tests. If the unit tests pass, the CodeBuild project must tag the most recent commit.
How should the company configure the CodeBuild project to meet these requirements?
A developer is maintaining a fleet of 50 Amazon EC2 Linux servers. The servers are part of an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group, and also use Elastic Load Balancing for load balancing.
Occasionally, some application servers are being terminated after failing ELB HTTP health checks. The developer would like to perform a root cause analysis on the issue, but before being able to access application logs, the server is terminated.
How can log collection be automated?
A company has developed an AWS Lambda function that handles orders received through an API. The company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy the Lambda function as the final stage of a CI/CD pipeline.
A DevOps engineer has noticed there are intermittent failures of the ordering API for a few seconds after deployment. After some investigation the DevOps engineer believes the failures are due to database changes not having fully propagated before the Lambda function is invoked
How should the DevOps engineer overcome this?
A DevOps team is merging code revisions for an application that uses an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB cluster for its production database. The DevOps team uses continuous integration to periodically verify that the application works. The DevOps team needs to test the changes before the changes are deployed to the production database.
Which solution will meet these requirements ' ?
A company used a lift-and-shift strategy to migrate a workload to AWS. The company has an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. Each EC2 instance runs a web application, a database, and a Redis cache.
Users are experiencing large variations in the web application ' s response times. Requests to the web application go to a single EC2 instance that is under significant load. The company wants to separate the application components to improve availability and performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has microservices running in AWS Lambda that read data from Amazon DynamoDB. The Lambda code is manually deployed by developers after successful testing The company now needs the tests and deployments be automated and run in the cloud Additionally, traffic to the new versions of each microservice should be incrementally shifted over time after deployment.
What solution meets all the requirements, ensuring the MOST developer velocity?
A company uses an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to deploy its web applications on containers. The web applications contain confidential data that cannot be decrypted without specific credentials.
A DevOps engineer has stored the credentials in AWS Secrets Manager. The secrets are encrypted by an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. A Kubernetes service account for a third-party tool makes the secrets available to the applications. The service account assumes an IAM role that the company created to access the secrets.
The service account receives an Access Denied (403 Forbidden) error while trying to retrieve the secrets from Secrets Manager.
What is the root cause of this issue?
A company runs an application in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service that is associated with an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) target group. A DevOps engineer updates the service to include a new task definition version. The DevOps engineer notices that the deployment does not finish running. New tasks enter a stopped state soon after the tasks launch. The task definition references an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group.
Which issues are most likely the cause of the failing deployment? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps engineer needs to configure an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that publishes container images to an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. The pipeline must wait for the previous run to finish and must run when new Git tags are pushed to a Git repository that is connected to AWS CodeConnections. An existing deployment pipeline needs to run in response to the publication of new container images.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is storing 100 GB of log data in csv format in an Amazon S3 bucket SQL developers want to query this data and generate graphs to visualize it. The SQL developers also need an efficient automated way to store metadata from the csv file.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort? (Select THREE.)
A company runs an Amazon EKS cluster and must implement comprehensive logging for the control plane and nodes. The company must analyze API requests and monitor container performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is running a custom-built application that processes records. All the components run on Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Each record ' s processing is a multistep sequential action that is compute-intensive. Each step is always completed in 5 minutes or less.
A limitation of the current system is that if any steps fail, the application has to reprocess the record from the beginning The company wants to update the architecture so that the application must reprocess only the failed steps.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
A company is building a new pipeline by using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild in a build account. The pipeline consists of two stages. The first stage is a CodeBuild job to build and package an AWS Lambda function. The second stage consists of deployment actions that operate on two different AWS accounts a development environment account and a production environment account. The deployment stages use the AWS Cloud Format ion action that CodePipeline invokes to deploy the infrastructure that the Lambda function requires.
A DevOps engineer creates the CodePipeline pipeline and configures the pipeline to encrypt build artifacts by using the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) AWS managed key for Amazon S3 (the aws/s3 key). The artifacts are stored in an S3 bucket When the pipeline runs, the Cloud Formation actions fail with an access denied error.
Which combination of actions must the DevOps engineer perform to resolve this error? (Select TWO.)
A company has multiple AWS accounts. The company uses AWS IAM Identity Center that is integrated with a third-party SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP) .
The attributes for access control feature is enabled in IAM Identity Center. The attribute mapping list maps the department key from the IdP to the ${path:enterprise.department} attribute. All existing Amazon EC2 instances have a d1 , d2 , or d3 department tag that corresponds to three of the company’s departments.
A DevOps engineer must create policies based on the matching attributes. The policies must grant each user access to only the EC2 instances that are tagged with the user’s respective department name.
Which condition key should the DevOps engineer include in the custom permissions policies to meet these requirements?
A company has an application and a CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline consists of an AWS CodePipeline pipeline and an AWS CodeBuild project. The CodeBuild project runs tests against the application as part of the build process and outputs a test report. The company must keep the test reports for 90 days.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company recently migrated its legacy application from on-premises to AWS. The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer which is behind Amazon API Gateway. The company wants to ensure users experience minimal disruptions during any deployment of a new version of the application. The company also wants to ensure it can quickly roll back updates if there is an issue.
Which solution will meet these requirements with MINIMAL changes to the application?
A DevOps engineer manages an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that builds and deploys a web application on AWS. The pipeline has a source stage, a build stage, and a deploy stage. When deployed properly, the web application responds with a 200 OK HTTP response code when the URL of the home page is requested. The home page recently returned a 503 HTTP response code after CodePipeline deployed the application. The DevOps engineer needs to add an automated test into the pipeline. The automated test must ensure that the application returns a 200 OK HTTP response code after the application is deployed. The pipeline must fail if the response code is not present during the test. The DevOps engineer has added a CheckURL stage after the deploy stage in the pipeline. What should the DevOps engineer do next to implement the automated test?
A company has developed a web application that conducts seasonal sales on public holidays. The web application is deployed on AWS and uses AWS services for storage, database, computing, and encryption. During seasonal sales, the company expects high network traffic from many users. The company must receive insights regarding any unexpected behavior during the sale. A DevOps team wants to review the insights upon detecting anomalous behaviors during the sale. The DevOps team wants to receive recommended actions to resolve the anomalous behaviors. The recommendations must be provided on the provisioned infrastructure to address issues that might occur in the future.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company has an application that runs on AWS Lambda and sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. An Amazon Kinesis data stream is subscribed to the log groups in CloudWatch Logs. A single consumer Lambda function processes the logs from the data stream and stores the logs in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company ' s DevOps team has noticed high latency during the processing and ingestion of some logs.
Which combination of steps will reduce the latency? (Select THREE.)
A company is storing 100 GB of log data in .csv format in an Amazon S3 bucket. SQL developers want to query this data and generate graphs to visualize it. The SQL developers also need an efficient, automated way to store metadata from the .csv file. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort? (Select THREE.)
A DevOps engineer at a company is supporting an AWS environment in which all users use AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On). The company wants to immediately disable credentials of any new IAM user and wants the security team to receive a notification.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. A DevOps engineer must ensure that all users who access the AWS Management Console are authenticated through the company ' s corporate identity provider (IdP).
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS Secrets Manager to store a set of sensitive API keys that an AWS Lambda function uses. When the Lambda function is invoked, the Lambda function retrieves the API keys and makes an API call to an external service. The Secrets Manager secret is encrypted with the default AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key.
A DevOps engineer needs to update the infrastructure to ensure that only the Lambda function ' s execution role can access the values in Secrets Manager. The solution must apply the principle of least privilege.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps engineer needs to back up sensitive Amazon S3 objects that are stored within an S3 bucket with a private bucket policy using S3 cross-Region replication functionality. The objects need to be copied to a target bucket in a different AWS Region and account.
Which combination of actions should be performed to enable this replication? (Choose three.)
A developer is creating a proof of concept for a new software as a service (SaaS) application. The application is in a shared development AWS account that is part of an organization in AWS Organizations .
The developer needs to create service-linked IAM roles for the AWS services that are being considered for the proof of concept. The solution needs to give the developer the ability to create and configure the service-linked roles only .
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company ' s application is currently deployed to a single AWS Region. Recently, the company opened a new office on a different continent. The users in the new office are experiencing high latency. The company ' s application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and uses Amazon DynamoDB as the database layer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. A DevOps engineer is tasked with minimizing application response times and improving availability for users in both Regions.
Which combination of actions should be taken to address the latency issues? (Choose three.)
A company is running an application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The company needs to implement comprehensive logging for the control plane and the nodes. The company must analyze API requests to the Kubernetes control plane and must monitor container performance on the nodes.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company provides an application to customers. The application has an Amazon API Gateway REST API that invokes an AWS Lambda function. On initialization, the Lambda function loads a large amount of data from an Amazon DynamoDB table. The data load process results in long cold-start times of 8-10 seconds. The DynamoDB table has DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) configured.
Customers report that the application intermittently takes a long time to respond to requests. The application receives thousands of requests throughout the day. In the middle of the day, the application experiences 10 times more requests than at any other time of the day. Near the end of the day, the application ' s request volume decreases to 10% of its normal total.
A DevOps engineer needs to reduce the latency of the Lambda function at all times of the day.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an AWS CodeArtifact repository to store Python packages that the company developed internally. A DevOps engineer needs to use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a Python package that is stored in the CodeArtifact repository. A BeforeInstall lifecycle event hook will install the package.
The DevOps engineer needs to grant the EC2 instance access to the CodeArtifact repository.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company is using AWS CodePipeline to automate its release pipeline. AWS CodeDeploy is being used in the pipeline to deploy an application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using the blue/green deployment model. The company wants to implement scripts to test the green version of the application before shifting traffic. These scripts will complete in 5 minutes or less. If errors are discovered during these tests, the application must be rolled back.
Which strategy will meet these requirements?
A company has an AWS CodeDeploy application. The application has a deployment group that uses a single tag group to identify instances for the deployment of ApplicationA. The single tag group configuration identifies instances that have Environment=Production and Name=ApplicattonA tags for the deployment of ApplicationA.
The company launches an additional Amazon EC2 instance with Department=Marketing Environment^Production. and Name=ApplicationB tags. On the next CodeDeploy deployment of ApplicationA. the additional instance has ApplicationA installed on it. A DevOps engineer needs to configure the existing deployment group to prevent ApplicationA from being installed on the additional instance
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is launching an application. The application must use only approved AWS services. The account that runs the application was created less than 1 year ago and is assigned to an AWS Organizations OU.
The company needs to create a new Organizations account structure. The account structure must have an appropriate SCP that supports the use of only services that are currently active in the AWS account.
The company will use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer in the solution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A development team uses AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeBuild to develop and deploy an application. Changes to the code are submitted by pull requests. The development team reviews and merges the pull requests, and then the pipeline builds and tests the application.
Over time, the number of pull requests has increased. The pipeline is frequently blocked because of failing tests. To prevent this blockage, the development team wants to run the unit and integration tests on each pull request before it is merged.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has multiple accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company ' s SecOps team needs to receive an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if any account in the organization turns off the Block Public Access feature on an Amazon S3 bucket. A DevOps engineer must implement this change without affecting the operation of any AWS accounts. The implementation must ensure that individual member accounts in the organization cannot turn off the notification.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a mission-critical application on AWS that uses automatic scaling The company wants the deployment lilecycle to meet the following parameters.
• The application must be deployed one instance at a time to ensure the remaining fleet continues to serve traffic
• The application is CPU intensive and must be closely monitored
• The deployment must automatically roll back if the CPU utilization of the deployment instance exceeds 85%.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an AWS account named PipelineAccount. The account manages a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. The account uses an IAM role named CodePipeline_Service_Role and produces an artifact that is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company uses a customer managed AWS KMS key to encrypt objects in the S3 bucket.
A DevOps engineer wants to configure the pipeline to use an AWS CodeDeploy application in an AWS account named CodeDeployAccount to deploy the produced artifact.
The DevOps engineer updates the KMS key policy to grant the CodeDeployAccount account permission to use the key. The DevOps engineer configures an IAM role named DevOps_Role in the CodeDeployAccount account that has access to the CodeDeploy resources that the pipeline requires. The DevOps engineer updates an Amazon EC2 instance role that operates within the CodeDeployAccount account to allow access to the S3 bucket and the KMS key that is in the PipelineAccount account.
Which additional steps will meet these requirements?
A company has a guideline that every Amazon EC2 instance must be launched from an AMI that the company ' s security team produces Every month the security team sends an email message with the latest approved AMIs to all the development teams.
The development teams use AWS CloudFormation to deploy their applications. When developers launch a new service they have to search their email for the latest AMIs that the security department sent. A DevOps engineer wants to automate the process that the security team uses to provide the AMI IDs to the development teams.
What is the MOST scalable solution that meets these requirements?
A company has an RPO of 24 hours and an RTO of 10 minutes for a critical web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS account. The company wants to set up AWS Backup for its AWS environment.
A DevOps engineer configures AWS Organizations for AWS Backup. The DevOps engineer creates a new centralized AWS account to store the backups. Each EC2 instance has four Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST securely?
A company wants to deploy a workload on several hundred Amazon EC2 instances. The company will provision the EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group by using a launch template.
The workload will pull files from an Amazon S3 bucket, process the data, and put the results into a different S3 bucket. The EC2 instances must have least-privilege permissions and must use temporary security credentials.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is migrating its container-based workloads to an AWS Organizations multi-account environment. The environment consists of application workload accounts that the company uses to deploy and run the containerized workloads. The company has also provisioned a shared services account tor shared workloads in the organization.
The company must follow strict compliance regulations. All container images must receive security scanning before they are deployed to any environment. Images can be consumed by downstream deployment mechanisms after the images pass a scan with no critical vulnerabilities. Pre-scan and post-scan images must be isolated from one another so that a deployment can never use pre-scan images.
A DevOps engineer needs to create a strategy to centralize this process.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead? (Select TWO.)
An online retail company based in the United States plans to expand its operations to Europe and Asia in the next six months. Its product currently runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. All data is stored in an Amazon Aurora database instance.
When the product is deployed in multiple regions, the company wants a single product catalog across all regions, but for compliance purposes, its customer information and purchases must be kept in each region.
How should the company meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of application changes?
A company ' s developers use Amazon EC2 instances as remote workstations. The company is concerned that users can create or modify EC2 security groups to allow unrestricted inbound access.
A DevOps engineer needs to develop a solution to detect when users create unrestricted security group rules. The solution must detect changes to security group rules in near real time, remove unrestricted rules, and send email notifications to the security team. The DevOps engineer has created an AWS Lambda function that checks for security group ID from input, removes rules that grant unrestricted access, and sends notifications through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).
What should the DevOps engineer do next to meet the requirements?
A company deploys an application to Amazon EC2 instances. The application runs Amazon Linux 2 and uses AWS CodeDeploy. The application has the following file structure for its code repository:
appspec.yml
config/config.txt application/web
The appspec yml file has the following contents in the files section
files:
- source: config/config.txt
destination: /usr/local/src/config.txt
- source: /
destination: /var/www/html
The appspec.yml file has the following contents in the files section:
What will the result be for the deployment of the config.txt file?
A company needs to increase the security of the container images that run in its production environment. The company wants to integrate operating system scanning and programming language package vulnerability scanning for the containers in its CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline is an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that includes an AWS CodeBuild project, AWS CodeDeploy actions, and an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository.
A DevOps engineer needs to add an image scan to the CI/CD pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline must deploy only images without CRITICAL and HIGH findings into production.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company deploys its corporate infrastructure on AWS across multiple AWS Regions and Availability Zones. The infrastructure is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances and connects with AWS loT Greengrass devices. The company deploys additional resources on on-premises servers that are located in the corporate headquarters.
The company wants to reduce the overhead involved in maintaining and updating its resources. The company ' s DevOps team plans to use AWS Systems Manager to implement automated management and application of patches. The DevOps team confirms that Systems Manager is available in the Regions that the resources are deployed m Systems Manager also is available in a Region near the corporate headquarters.
Which combination of steps must the DevOps team take to implement automated patch and configuration management across the company ' s EC2 instances loT devices and on-premises infrastructure? (Select THREE.)
A company has a web application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The company is deploying the application into multiple AWS Regions. The application consists of dynamic content such as WebSocket-based real-time product updates. The company uses Amazon Route 53 to manage all DNS records. Which solution will provide multi-Region access to the application with the LEAST latency?
A company ' s application uses a fleet of Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances to analyze and process data. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group is a target group for an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application analyzes critical data that cannot tolerate interruption. The application also analyzes noncritical data that can withstand interruption.
The critical data analysis requires quick scalability in response to real-time application demand. The noncritical data analysis involves memory consumption. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that reduces scale-out latency for the critical data. The solution also must process the noncritical data.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps engineer uses AWS CodeBuild to frequently produce software packages. The CodeBuild project builds large Docker images that the DevOps engineer can use across multiple builds. The DevOps engineer wants to improve build performance and minimize costs. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is migrating its on-premises Windows applications and Linux applications to AWS. The company will use automation to launch Amazon EC2 instances to mirror the on-premises configurations. The migrated applications require access to shared storage that uses SMB for Windows and NFS for Linux.
The company is also creating a pilot light disaster recovery (DR) environment in another AWS Region. The company will use automation to launch and configure the EC2 instances in the DR Region. The company needs to replicate the storage to the DR Region.
Which storage solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer needs a resilient CI/CD pipeline that builds container images, stores them in ECR, scans images for vulnerabilities, and is resilient to outages in upstream source image repositories.
Which solution meets this?
A company has a web application that publishes logs that contain metadata for transactions, with a status of success or failure for each log. The logs are in JSON format. The application publishes the logs to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group.
The company wants to create a dashboard that displays the number of successful transactions.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is using an Amazon Aurora cluster as the data store for its application. The Aurora cluster is configured with a single DB instance. The application performs read and write operations on the database by using the cluster ' s instance endpoint.
The company has scheduled an update to be applied to the cluster during an upcoming maintenance window. The cluster must remain available with the least possible interruption during the maintenance window.
What should a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company has proprietary data available by using an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company needs to ensure that the distribution is accessible by only users from the corporate office that have a known set of IP address ranges. An AWS WAF web ACL is associated with the distribution and has a default action set to Count.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has developed a static website hosted on an Amazon S3 bucket. The website is deployed using AWS CloudFormation. The CloudFormation template defines an S3 bucket and a custom resource that copies content into the bucket from a source location.
The company has decided that it needs to move the website to a new location, so the existing CloudFormation stack must be deleted and re-created. However, CloudFormation reports that the stack could not be deleted cleanly.
What is the MOST likely cause and how can the DevOps engineer mitigate this problem for this and future versions of the website?
A company is implementing a standardized security baseline across its AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company must deploy consistent IAM roles and policies across all existing and future accounts in the organization. Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The company uses AWS Backup in a primary account and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key to encrypt the backups.
The company needs to automate a cross-account backup of the resources that AWS Backup backs up in the primary account. The company configures cross-account backup in the Organizations management account. The company creates a new AWS account in the organization and configures an AWS Backup backup vault in the new account. The company creates a KMS key in the new account to encrypt the backups. Finally, the company configures a new backup plan in the primary account. The destination for the new backup plan is the backup vault in the new account.
When the AWS Backup job in the primary account is invoked, the job creates backups in the primary account. However, the backups are not copied to the new account ' s backup vault.
Which combination of steps must the company take so that backups can be copied to the new account ' s backup vault? (Select TWO.)
A company has a search application that has a web interface. The company uses Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancers (ALBs), and Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 3. The company uses prebaked AMIs. The application starts in 1 minute. The application queries an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster. The application is deployed to multiple Availability Zones. Because of compliance requirements, the application needs to have a disaster recovery (DR) environment in a separate AWS Region. The company wants to minimize the ongoing cost of the DR environment and requires an RTO and an RPO of under 30 minutes. The company has created an ALB in the DR Region. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has migrated its container-based applications to Amazon EKS and want to establish automated email notifications. The notifications sent to each email address are for specific activities related to EKS components. The solution will include Amazon SNS topics and an AWS Lambda function to evaluate incoming log events and publish messages to the correct SNS topic.
Which logging solution will support these requirements?
A security team is concerned that a developer can unintentionally attach an Elastic IP address to an Amazon EC2 instance in production. No developer should be allowed to attach an Elastic IP address to an instance. The security team must be notified if any production server has an Elastic IP address at any time
How can this task be automated ' ?
A company uses AWS Control Tower to deploy multiple AWS accounts. A security team must automate Control Tower guardrails applied to all accounts in an OU, with version control and rollback capabilities.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company is using AWS to run digital workloads. Each application team in the company has its own AWS account for application hosting. The accounts are consolidated in an organization in AWS Organizations.
The company wants to enforce security standards across the entire organization. To avoid noncompliance because of security misconfiguration, the company has enforced the use of AWS CloudFormation. A production support team can modify resources in the production environment by using the AWS Management Console to troubleshoot and resolve application-related issues.
A DevOps engineer must implement a solution to identify in near real time any AWS service misconfiguration that results in noncompliance. The solution must automatically remediate the issue within 15 minutes of identification. The solution also must track noncompliant resources and events in a centralized dashboard with accurate timestamps.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development overhead?
A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy applications to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. During a recent deployment, several EC2 instances failed to update successfully. A DevOps engineer must investigate the root cause of the failures and must determine which specific deployment lifecycle events encountered errors.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to access and analyze the detailed deployment logs for troubleshooting?
A company uses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with an Amazon EC2 launch type. The company requires all log data to be centralized on Amazon CloudWatch. The company ' s ECS tasks include a LogConfiguration object that specifies a value of awslogs for the log driver name.
The company ' s ECS tasks failed to deploy. An error message indicates that a missing permission causes the failure. The company confirmed that the IAM role used to launch container instances includes the logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, and logs:PutLogEvents permissions.
Which solution will fix the problem?
A company uses AWS CodeArtifact to centrally store Python packages. The CodeArtifact repository is configured with the following repository policy.
" Version " : ”2012-10-17”,
" Statement”: [
{
" Action " : [
" codeartifact:DescribePackageVersion " , " codeartifact:DescribeRepository " ,
" codeartifact:GetPackageVersionReadme " , " codeartifact:GetRepositoryEndpoint " , " codeartifact:ListPackageVersionAssets " , ' ’codeartifact: ListPackageVersionDependencies " , " codeartifact:ListPackageVersions " , ' ’codeartifact :ListPackages " ,
' ’codeartifact: ReadFromRepository "
],
" Effect " : " Allow " ,
" Resource " : " * " ,
" Principal " :
" Condition " : {
" StringEquals " : {
" aws:PrincipalOrglD " : [ " o-xxxxxxxxxxx "
]
}
}
}
]
A development team is building a new project in an account that is in an organization in AWS Organizations. The development team wants to use a Python library that has already been stored in the CodeArtifact repository in the organization. The development team uses AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild to build the new application. The CodeBuild job that the development team uses to build the application is configured to run in a VPC Because of compliance requirements the VPC has no internet connectivity.
The development team creates the VPC endpoints for CodeArtifact and updates the CodeBuild buildspec yaml file. However, the development team cannot download the Python library from the repository.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer take so that the development team can use Code Artifact? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS Lambda functions in the primary operating AWS Region of its AWS account. The company manually created the Lambda functions.
The company needs to use a Python-based AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) application to manage the Lambda functions.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company ' s DevOps team has developed an AWS Lambda function that calls the Organizations API to create new AWS accounts.
The Lambda function runs in the organization ' s management account. The DevOps team needs to move the Lambda function from the management account to a dedicated AWS account. The DevOps team must ensure that the Lambda function has the ability to create new AWS accounts only in Organizations before the team deploys the Lambda function to the new account.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a CI/CD pipeline that uses AWS CodeBuild to run a test suite. The test suite contains many test cases and takes a long time to finish running. The DevOps engineer wants to reduce the duration to run the tests. However, the DevOps engineer still wants to generate a single test report for all the test cases.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A large enterprise is deploying a web application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance and Amazon DynamoDB. There are separate environments tor development testing and production.
What is the MOST secure and flexible way to obtain password credentials during deployment?
A DevOps engineer is working on a project that is hosted on Amazon Linux and has failed a security review. The DevOps manager has been asked to review the company buildspec. yaml die for an AWS CodeBuild project and provide recommendations. The buildspec. yaml file is configured as follows:
What changes should be recommended to comply with AWS security best practices? (Select THREE.)
A company uses Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as its primary database for applications. The company needs to ensure high availability within and across AWS Regions.
An Amazon Route 53 CNAME record is configured for the database endpoint. The applications connect to the database endpoint. The company must redirect application traffic to a standby database during a failover event. The company must maintain an RPO of less than 1 minute and an RTO of less than 10 minutes .
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has application code in an AWS CodeConnections compatible Git repository. The company wants to configure unit tests to run when pull requests are opened. The company wants to ensure that the test status is visible in pull requests when the tests are completed. The company wants to save output data files that the tests generate to an Amazon S3 bucket after the tests are finished. Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company hosts applications in its AWS account Each application logs to an individual Amazon CloudWatch log group. The company’s CloudWatch costs for ingestion are increasing
A DevOps engineer needs to Identify which applications are the source of the increased logging costs.
Which solution Will meet these requirements?
A company recently created a new AWS Control Tower landing zone in a new organization in AWS Organizations. The landing zone must be able to demonstrate compliance with the Center tor Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks tor AWS Foundations.
The company ' s security team wants to use AWS Security Hub to view compliance across all accounts Only the security team can be allowed to view aggregated Security Hub Findings. In addition specific users must be able to view findings from their own accounts within the organization All accounts must be enrolled m Security Hub after the accounts are created.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements in the MOST automated way? (Select THREE.)
A company uses AWS WAF to protect its cloud infrastructure. A DevOps engineer needs to give an operations team the ability to analyze log messages from AWS WAR. The operations team needs to be able to create alarms for specific patterns in the log output.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an AWS Control Tower landing zone. The company ' s DevOps team creates a workload OU. A development OU and a production OU are nested under the workload OU. The company grants users full access to the company ' s AWS accounts to deploy applications.
The DevOps team needs to allow only a specific management 1AM role to manage the 1AM roles and policies of any AWS accounts In only the production OU.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? {Select TWO.)
A DevOps team supports an application that runs on a large number of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The DevOps team uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy the EC2 instances. The application recently experienced an issue. A single instance returned errors to a large percentage of requests. The EC2 instance responded as healthy to both Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing health checks. The DevOps team collects application logs in Amazon CloudWatch by using the embedded metric format. The DevOps team needs to receive an alert if any EC2 instance is responsible for more than half of all errors. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A DevOps engineer manages a company ' s Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The cluster runs on several Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The DevOps
engineer must implement a solution that logs and reviews all stopped tasks for errors.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses a trunk-based development branching strategy. The company has two AWS CodePipeline pipelines that are integrated with a Git provider. The pull_request pipeline has a branch filter that matches the feature branches. The main_branch pipeline has a branch filter that matches the main branch.
When pull requests are merged into the main branch, the pull requests are deployed by using the main_branch pipeline. The company ' s developers need test results for all submitted pull requests as quickly as possible from the pull_request pipeline. The company wants to ensure that the main_branch pipeline ' s test results finish and that each deployment is complete before the next pipeline execution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company requires that its internally facing web application be highly available. The architecture is made up of one Amazon EC2 web server instance and one NAT instance that provides outbound internet access for updates and accessing public data.
Which combination of architecture adjustments should the company implement to achieve high availability? (Choose two.)
A company hired a penetration tester to simulate an internal security breach The tester performed port scans on the company ' s Amazon EC2 instances. The company ' s security measures did not detect the port scans.
The company needs a solution that automatically provides notification when port scans are performed on EC2 instances. The company creates and subscribes to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.
What should the company do next to meet the requirement?
A company discovers that its production environment and disaster recovery (DR) environment are deployed to the same AWS Region. All the production applications run on Amazon EC2 instances and are deployed by AWS CloudFormation. The applications use an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volume for application storage. No application data resides on the EC2 instances. A DevOps engineer copies the required AMIs to a new DR Region. The DevOps engineer also updates the CloudFormation code to accept a Region as a parameter. The storage needs to have an RPO of 10 minutes in the DR Region. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A production account has a requirement that any Amazon EC2 instance that has been logged in to manually must be terminated within 24 hours. All applications in the production account are using Auto Scaling groups with the Amazon CloudWatch Logs agent configured.
How can this process be automated?
A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager documents to bootstrap physical laptops for developers The bootstrap code Is stored in GitHub A DevOps engineer has already created a Systems Manager activation, installed the Systems Manager agent with the registration code, and installed an activation ID on all the laptops.
Which set of steps should be taken next?
A DevOps team uses AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application. The application is a REST API that uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon API Gateway Recent deployments have introduced errors that have affected many customers.
The DevOps team needs a solution that reverts to the most recent stable version of the application when an error is detected. The solution must affect the fewest customers possible.
Which solution Will meet these requirements With the MOST operational efficiency?
A DevOps engineer is working on a member account in an organization in AWS Organizations with all features enabled. The account has sensitive data stored in Amazon S3 buckets.
The DevOps engineer must ensure that all public access to S3 buckets in the account is blocked. If the account-level public access settings change in the future, the changes must be reverted automatically so that all public access is blocked again.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A DevOps engineer used an AWS Cloud Formation custom resource to set up AD Connector. The AWS Lambda function ran and created AD Connector, but Cloud Formation is not transitioning from CREATE_IN_PROGRESS to CREATE_COMPLETE.
Which action should the engineer take to resolve this issue?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization includes workload accounts that contain enterprise applications. The company centrally manages users from an operations account. No users can be created in the workload accounts. The company recently added an operations team and must provide the operations team members with administrator access to each workload account.
Which combination of actions will provide this access? (Choose three.)
A company needs to update its order processing application to improve resilience and availability. The application requires a stateful database and uses a single-node Amazon RDS DB instance to store customer orders and transaction history. A DevOps engineer must make the database highly available.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company’s web app runs on EC2 Linux instances and needs to monitor custom metrics for API response and DB query latency across instances with least overhead.
Which solution meets this?
A company has configured Amazon RDS storage autoscaling for its RDS DB instances. A DevOps team needs to visualize the autoscaling events on an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has chosen AWS to host a new application. The company needs to implement a multi-account strategy. A DevOps engineer creates a new AWS account and an organization in AWS Organizations. The DevOps engineer also creates the OU structure for the organization and sets up a landing zone by using AWS Control Tower.
The DevOps engineer must implement a solution that automatically deploys resources for new accounts that users create through AWS Control Tower Account Factory. When a user creates a new account, the solution must apply AWS CloudFormation templates and SCPs that are customized for the OU or the account to automatically deploy all the resources that are attached to the account. All the OUs are enrolled in AWS Control Tower.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST automated way?
A company has an application that is using a MySQL-compatible Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ DB cluster as the database. A cross-Region read replica has been created for disaster recovery purposes. A DevOps engineer wants to automate the promotion of the replica so it becomes the primary database instance in the event of a failure.
Which solution will accomplish this?
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to install antivirus software on all the Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. The EC2 instances run the most recent version of Amazon Linux .
The solution must detect all instances and must use an AWS Systems Manager document to install the software if the software is not present.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is implementing a well-architected design for its globally accessible API stack. The design needs to ensure both high reliability and fast response times for users located in North America and Europe.
The API stack contains the following three tiers:
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Lambda
Amazon DynamoDB
Which solution will meet the requirements?
A DevOps engineer manages an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that builds and deploys a web application on AWS. The pipeline has a source stage, a build stage, and a deploy stage. When deployed properly, the web application responds with a 200 OK HTTP response code when the URL of the home page is requested.
The home page recently returned a 503 HTTP response code after CodePipeline deployed the application. The DevOps engineer needs to add an automated test into the pipeline. The automated test must ensure that the application returns a 200 OK HTTP response code after the application is deployed. The pipeline must fail if the response code is not present during the test.
The DevOps engineer has added a CheckURL stage after the deploy stage in the pipeline.
What should the DevOps engineer do next to implement the automated test?
A company uses an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster to host its machine learning (ML) application. As the ML model and the container image size grow, the time that new pods take to start up has increased to several minutes.
A DevOps engineer needs to reduce the startup time to seconds. The solution must also reduce the startup time to seconds when the pod runs on nodes that were recently added to the cluster.
The DevOps engineer creates an Amazon EventBridge rule that invokes an automation in AWS Systems Manager. The automation prefetches the container images from an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository when new images are pushed to the repository. The DevOps engineer also configures tags to be applied to the cluster and the node groups.
What should the DevOps engineer do next to meet the requirements?
A DevOps administrator is configuring a repository to store a company ' s container images. The administrator needs to configure a lifecycle rule that automatically deletes container images that have a specific tag and that are older than 15 days. Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company has a mobile application that makes HTTP API calls to an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB routes requests to an AWS Lambda function. Many different versions of the application are in use at any given time, including versions that are in testing by a subset of users. The version of the application is defined in the user-agent header that is sent with all requests to the API.
After a series of recent changes to the API, the company has observed issues with the application. The company needs to gather a metric for each API operation by response code for each version of the application that is in use. A DevOps engineer has modified the Lambda function to extract the API operation name, version information from the user-agent header and response code.
Which additional set of actions should the DevOps engineer take to gather the required metrics?
A company deploys a web application on Amazon EC2 instances that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company stores the application code in an AWS CodeConnections compatible Git repository.
When the company merges code to the main branch, an AWS CodeBuild project is initiated. The CodeBuild project compiles the code, stores the packaged code in AWS CodeArtifact, and invokes AWS Systems Manager Run Command to deploy the packaged code to the EC2 instances.
Previous deployments have resulted in defects, EC2 instances that were not running the latest version of the packaged code, and inconsistencies between instances. A DevOps engineer needs to improve the reliability of the deployment solution.
Which combination of actions will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company is developing a web application and is using AWS CodeBuild for its CI/CD pipeline. The company must generate multiple artifacts from a single build process. The company also needs the ability to determine which build generated each artifact. The artifacts must be stored in an Amazon S3 bucket for further processing and deployment. Builds occur frequently and are based on a large Git repository. The company needs to optimize build times. Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that immediately terminates Amazon EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups when cryptocurrency mining activity is detected.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?
A company is migrating its product development teams from an on-premises data center to a hybrid environment. The new environment will add four AWS Regions and will give the developers the ability to use the Region that is geographically closest to them.
All the development teams use a shared set of Linux applications. The on-premises data center stores the applications on a NetApp ONTAP storage device. The storage volume is mounted read-only on the development on-premises VMs. The company updates the applications on the shared volume once a week.
A DevOps engineer needs to replicate the data to all the new Regions. The DevOps engineer must ensure that the data is always up to date with deduplication. The data also must not be dependent on the availability of the on-premises storage device.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a workload on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs a control that requires the use of Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) on all EC2 instances in the AWS account. If an EC2 instance does not prevent the use of Instance Metadata Service Version 1 (IMDSv1), the EC2 instance must be terminated.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service by using the AWS Fargate launch type. The application consumes messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The application can take several minutes to process each message from the queue. When the application processes a message, the application reads a file from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the data in the file. The application writes the processed output to a second S3 bucket. The company uses Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor processing errors and to ensure that the application processes messages successfully.
The SQS queue typically receives a low volume of messages. However, occasionally the queue receives higher volumes of messages. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to reduce the processing time of message bursts.
Which solution will meet this requirement in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Recently an issue occurred that prevented EC2 instances from launching successfully and it took several hours for the support team to discover the issue. The support team wants to be notified by email whenever an EC2 instance does not start successfully.
Which action will accomplish this?
A company is developing a mobile app that requires extensive automated testing across multiple device types. The company is using AWS CodePipeline for its CI/CD pipeline. The company must implement a scalable testing solution that can handle increased test loads as the app grows. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?
A company updated the AWS Cloud Formation template for a critical business application. The stack update process failed due to an error in the updated template and AWS CloudFormation automatically began the stack rollback process Later a DevOps engineer discovered that the application was still unavailable and that the stack was in the UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state.
Which combination of actions should the DevOps engineer perform so that the stack rollback can complete successfully? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to use a grid system for a proprietary enterprise m-memory data store on top of AWS. This system can run in multiple server nodes in any Linux-based distribution. The system must be able to reconfigure the entire cluster every time a node is added or removed. When adding or removing nodes an /etc./cluster/nodes config file must be updated listing the IP addresses of the current node members of that cluster.
The company wants to automate the task of adding new nodes to a cluster.
What can a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
The security team depends on AWS CloudTrail to detect sensitive security issues in the company ' s AWS account. The DevOps engineer needs a solution to auto-remediate CloudTrail being turned off in an AWS account.
What solution ensures the LEAST amount of downtime for the CloudTrail log deliveries?
A company has multiple member accounts that are part of an organization in AWS Organizations. The security team needs to review every Amazon EC2 security group and their inbound and outbound rules. The security team wants to programmatically retrieve this information from the member accounts using an AWS Lambda function in the management account of the organization.
Which combination of access changes will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A company ' s application development team uses Linux-based Amazon EC2 instances as bastion hosts. Inbound SSH access to the bastion hosts is restricted to specific IP addresses, as defined in the associated security groups. The company ' s security team wants to receive a notification if the security group rules are modified to allow SSH access from any IP address.
What should a DevOps engineer do to meet this requirement?
A software team is using AWS CodePipeline to automate its Java application release pipeline The pipeline consists of a source stage, then a build stage, and then a deploy stage. Each stage contains a single action that has a runOrder value of 1.
The team wants to integrate unit tests into the existing release pipeline. The team needs a solution that deploys only the code changes that pass all unit tests.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is researching the least expensive way to implement an image batch processing cluster on AWS. The application cannot run in Docker containers and must run on Amazon EC2. The batch job stores checkpoint data on an NFS volume and can tolerate interruptions. Configuring the cluster software from a generic EC2 Linux image takes 30 minutes.
What is the MOST cost-effective solution?