Selected SOA-C02 AWS Certified Associate Questions Answers

Step-by-Step Explanation:

AWS Budgets Overview:

AWS Budgets enables you to set custom cost and usage budgets, and it provides alerts when you exceed those thresholds. It is designed for cost management with minimal operational overhead.

Recurring Cost Budget Creation:

Go to the AWS Budgets Console.

Select Create a budget.

Choose the Cost budget option.

Define whether this budget tracks actual costs or forecasted costs (you will create two budgets, one for each).

Configure the Budget Thresholds:

Set your budget thresholds for both actual costs and forecasted costs.

For example:

Actual Costs Alert: Budget = $1000, Alert at 80% usage ($800).

Forecasted Costs Alert: Budget = $1000, Alert at forecasted usage exceeding 80% ($800).

Alert Configuration:

In the budget creation process, enable Notifications and Actions.

Specify the email addresses or an Amazon SNS Topic to receive alerts.

Set up alerts for both:

Actual Cost Exceeding Budget.

Forecasted Cost Exceeding Budget.

Amazon SNS Setup:

If using an SNS topic, ensure an Amazon SNS topic is created.

Grant appropriate permissions for the Budget service to publish to the SNS topic.

Add subscribers (e.g., email addresses or endpoints) to the SNS topic.

Automation and Monitoring:

Once set up, AWS Budgets continuously monitors actual and forecasted costs.

Alerts are sent automatically when thresholds are breached, reducing manual overhead and reliance on periodic monitoring.

Why This is the Best Option (Least Operational Overhead):

AWS Budgets directly integrates with SNS, allowing real-time alerts without building custom workflows or parsing reports.

It is a native AWS service specifically designed for cost tracking, minimizing complexity and setup time.

No custom code or additional services like Lambda or Step Functions are required, reducing operational maintenance.

For routing based on the user's geographic location to comply with data residency requirements, the best solution is to use Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing policy. This policy allows you to configure DNS responses based on the geographic location of the user, ensuring that requests are directed to specific AWS Regions that align with the company’s data residency requirements. Option C is correct. The AWS Route 53 documentation provides details on implementing geolocation routing policies Amazon Route 53 Geolocation Routing.

The best combination of steps to meet this requirement is to sign in to the new account by using root user credentials and change the support plan, and to create an IAM user that has administrator privileges in the new account.

Signing in to the new account by using root user credentials will allow the SysOps administrator to access the account and change the support plan to AWS Business Support. Additionally, creating an IAM user that has administrator privileges in the new account will ensure that the SysOps administrator has the necessary access to manage the account and make changes to the support plan if necessary.

This is the most operationally efficient solution that meets the requirements, as it will allow the company to monitor the number of times that the web server returns an HTTP 404 response in real-time. The other solutions (creating a CloudWatch Logs subscription filter, an AWS Lambda function, or a script) will require additional steps and resources to monitor the number of times that the web server returns an HTTP 404 response.

A metric filter allows you to search for specific terms, phrases, or values in your log events, and then to create a metric based on the number of occurrences of those search terms. This allows you to create a CloudWatch Metric that can be used to create alarms and dashboards, which can be used to monitor the number of HTTP 404 responses returned by the web server.