Free Amazon SOA-C02 Sample Questions

Question 1

A SysOps administrator creates two VPCs, VPC1 and VPC2, in a company’s AWS accountThe SysOps administrator deploys a Linux Amazon EC2 instance in VPC1 and deploys anAmazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in VPC2. The DB instance is deployed in a privatesubnet. An application that runs on the EC2 instance needs to connect to the database.What should the SysOps administrator do to give the EC2 instance the ability to connect tothe database?

A. Enter the DB instance connection string into the VPC1 route table.
B. Configure VPC peering between the two VPCs.
C. Add the same IPv4 CIDR range for both VPCs.
D. Connect to the DB instance by using the DB instance’s public IP address. 

Answer: B

Question 2

A company has a policy that requires all Amazon EC2 instances to have a specific set oftags. If an EC2 instance does not have the required tags, the noncompliant instance shouldbe terminated.What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to send all EC2instance state changes to an AWS Lambda function to determine if each instance iscompliant. Terminate any noncompliant instances.
B. Create an IAM policy that enforces all EC2 instance tag requirements. If the requiredtags are not in place for an instance, the policy will terminate noncompliant instance.
C. Create an AWS Lambda function to determine if each EC2 instance is compliant andterminate an instance if it is noncompliant. Schedule the Lambda function to invoke every 5minutes.
D. Create an AWS Config rule to check if the required tags are present. If an EC2 instanceis noncompliant, invoke an AWS Systems Manager Automation document to terminate theinstance.

Answer: D

Question 3

A company has a compliance requirement that no security groups can allow SSH ports tobe open to all IP addresses. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution that willnotify the company's SysOps team when a security group rule violates this requirement.The solution also must remediate the security group rule automatically.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule that invokes anAWS Lambda function when a security group changes. Configure the Lambda function toevaluate the security group for compliance, remove all inbound security group rules on allports, and notify the SysOps team if the security group is noncompliant.
B. Create an AWS CloudTrail metric filter for security group changes. Create an AmazonCloudWatch alarm to notify the SysOps team through an Amazon Simple NotificationService (Amazon SNS) topic when (he metric is greater than 0. Subscribe an AWS Lambdafunction to the SNS topic to remediate the security group rule by removing the rule.
C. Activate the AWS Config restricted-ssh managed rule. Add automatic remediation to theAWS Config rule by using the AWS Systems Manager Automation AWSDisablePublicAccessForSecurityGroup runbook. Create an Amazon EventBridge (AmazonCloudWatch Events) rule to notify the SysOps team when the rule is noncompliant.
D. Create an AWS CloudTrail metric filter for security group changes. Create an AmazonCloudWatch alarm for when the metric is greater than 0. Add an AWS Systems Manageraction to the CloudWatch alarm to suspend the security group by using the SystemsManager Automation AWS-DisablePublicAccessForSecurityGroup runbook when the alarmis in ALARM state. Add an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as asecond target to notify the SysOps team.

Answer: C

Question 4

A company has an application that is deployed 10 two AWS Regions in an active-passiveconfiguration. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application LoadBalancer (ALB) in each Region. The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groupin each Region. The application uses an Amazon Route 53 hosted zone (or DNS. ASysOps administrator needs to configure automatic failover to the secondary Region.What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements?

A. Configure Route 53 alias records that point to each ALB. Choose a failover routingpolicy. Set Evaluate Target Health to Yes.
B. Configure CNAME records that point to each ALB. Choose a failover routing policy. SetEvaluate Target Health to Yes.
C. Configure Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) health checks for the Auto Scaling group. Add atarget group to the ALB in the primary Region. Include the EC2 instances in the secondaryRegion astargets.
D. Configure EC2 health checks for the Auto Scaling group. Add a target group to the ALBin the primary Region. Include the EC2 instances in the secondary Region as targets.

Answer: A

Question 5

A company stores its data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is required to classifythe data and find any sensitive personal information in its S3 files.Which solution will meet these requirements? 

A. Create an AWS Config rule to discover sensitive personal information in the S3 files andmark them as noncompliant.
B. Create an S3 event-driven artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) pipeline toclassify sensitive personal information by using Amazon Recognition.
C. Enable Amazon GuardDuty. Configure S3 protection to monitor all data inside AmazonS3.  
D. Enable Amazon Macie. Create a discovery job that uses the managed data identifier. 

Answer: D