AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
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A company uses Amazon EC2 as its primary compute platform. A DevOps team wants to audit the company ' s EC2 instances to check whether any prohibited applications have been installed on the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
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 has a data ingestion application that runs across multiple AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company needs to monitor the application and consolidate access to the application. Currently the company is running the application on Amazon EC2 instances from several Auto Scaling groups. The EC2 instances have no access to the internet because the data is sensitive Engineers have deployed the necessary VPC endpoints. The EC2 instances run a custom AMI that is built specifically tor the application.
To maintain and troubleshoot the application, system administrators need the ability to log in to the EC2 instances. This access must be automated and controlled centrally. The company ' s security team must receive a notification whenever the instances are accessed.
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 DevOps engineer manages a Java-based application that runs in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster on AWS Fargate. Auto scaling has not been configured for the application. The DevOps engineer has determined that the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) thread count is a good indicator of when to scale the application. The application serves customer traffic on port 8080 and makes JVM metrics available on port 9404. Application use has recently increased. The DevOps engineer needs to configure auto scaling for the application. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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 is divided into teams Each team has an AWS account and all the accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. Each team must retain full administrative rights to its AWS account. Each team also must be allowed to access only AWS services that the company approves for use AWS services must gam approval through a request and approval process.
How should a DevOps engineer configure the accounts to meet these requirements?
A company recently migrated its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that uses Amazon EC2 instances. The company configured the application to automatically scale based on CPU utilization.
The application produces memory errors when it experiences heavy loads. The application also does not scale out enough to handle the increased load. The company needs to collect and analyze memory metrics for the application over time.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A DevOps engineer successfully creates an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that includes managed node groups. When the DevOps engineer tries to add node groups to the cluster, the cluster returns an error that states, " NodeCreationFailure: Instances failed to join the Kubernetes cluster. " The DevOps engineer confirms that the EC2 worker nodes are running and that the EKS cluster is in an active state. How should the DevOps engineer troubleshoot this issue?
A company is implementing AWS CodePipeline to automate its testing process The company wants to be notified when the execution state fails and used the following custom event pattern in Amazon EventBridge:
Which type of events will match this event pattern?
A company has deployed an application in a production VPC in a single AWS account. The application is popular and is experiencing heavy usage. The company’s security team wants to add additional security, such as AWS WAF, to the application deployment. However, the application ' s product manager is concerned about cost and does not want to approve the change unless the security team can prove that additional security is necessary.
The security team believes that some of the application ' s demand might come from users that have IP addresses that are on a deny list. The security team provides the deny list to a DevOps engineer. If any of the IP addresses on the deny list access the application, the security team wants to receive automated notification in near real time so that the security team can document that the application needs additional security. The DevOps engineer creates a VPC flow log for the production VPC.
Which set of additional steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company uses AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower to manage all the company ' s AWS accounts. The company uses the Enterprise Support plan.
A DevOps engineer is using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) to provision new accounts. When new accounts are provisioned, the DevOps engineer notices that the support plan for the new accounts is set to the Basic Support plan. The DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to provision the new accounts with the Enterprise Support plan.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is performing vulnerability scanning for all Amazon EC2 instances across many accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. Each account ' s VPCs are attached to a shared transit gateway. The VPCs send traffic to the internet through a central egress VPC. The company has enabled Amazon Inspector in a delegated administrator account and has enabled scanning for all member accounts.
A DevOps engineer discovers that some EC2 instances are listed in the " not scanning " tab in Amazon Inspector.
Which combination of actions should the DevOps engineer take to resolve this issue? (Choose three.)
A DevOps engineer is creating a CI/CD pipeline to build container images. The engineer needs to store container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and scan the images for common vulnerabilities. The CI/CD pipeline must be resilient to outages in upstream source container image repositories.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 grow, pod startup time has increased to several minutes. The DevOps engineer created an EventBridge rule that triggers Systems Manager automation to prefetch container images from ECR. Node groups and the cluster have tags configured.
What should the DevOps engineer do next to meet the requirements?
A DevOps engineer is building the infrastructure for an application. The application needs to run on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that includes Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances need to use an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system as a storage backend. The Amazon EFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is installed on the EKS cluster.
When the DevOps engineer starts the application, the EC2 instances do not mount the EFS file system.
Which solutions will fix the problem? (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 development team uses AWS CodeCommit for version control for applications. The development team uses AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild. and AWS CodeDeploy for CI/CD infrastructure. In CodeCommit, the development team recently merged pull requests that did not pass long-running tests in the code base. The development team needed to perform rollbacks to branches in the codebase, resulting in lost time and wasted effort.
A DevOps engineer must automate testing of pull requests in CodeCommit to ensure that reviewers more easily see the results of automated tests as part of the pull request review.
What should the DevOps engineer do to meet this requirement?
A company is building a web application on AWS. The application uses AWS CodeConnections to access a Git repository. The company sets up a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline that automatically builds and deploys the application to a staging environment when the company pushes code to the main branch. Bugs and integration issues sometimes occur in the main branch because there is no automated testing integrated into the pipeline.
The company wants to automatically run tests when code merges occur in the Git repository and to prevent deployments from reaching the staging environment if any test fails. Tests can run up to 20 minutes. Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 business has an application that consists of five independent AWS Lambda functions.
The DevOps engineer has built a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild that builds tests packages and deploys each Lambda function in sequence. The pipeline uses an Amazon EventBridge rule to ensure the pipeline starts as quickly as possible after a change is made to the application source code.
After working with the pipeline for a few months the DevOps engineer has noticed the pipeline takes too long to complete.
What should the DevOps engineer implement to BEST improve the speed of the pipeline?
A company produces builds for an open source project every day. The company hosts the open source project in a public code repository that the company supports. The company manually invokes a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline to build artifacts for the project. The company wants to make the build artifacts publicly available on a website that the company hosts in an Amazon S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company needs a solution to improve the company ' s management of AWS resources in a production account.
The company wants to use AWS CloudFormation to manage all manually created infrastructure. The company must have the ability to strictly control who can make manual changes to AWS infrastructure. The solution must ensure that users can deploy new infrastructure only by making changes to a CloudFormation template that is stored in an AWS CodeConnections compatible Git provider.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort? (Select THREE).
A company’s EC2 fleet must maintain up-to-date security patches and compliance reporting.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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 DevOps engineer needs to apply a core set of security controls to an existing set of AWS accounts. The accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations. Individual teams will administer individual accounts by using the AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy. For all accounts. AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config must be turned on in all available AWS Regions. Individual account administrators must not be able to edit or delete any of the baseline resources. However, individual account administrators must be able to edit or delete their own CloudTrail trails and AWS Config rules.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A global company uses Amazon S3 to host its product catalog website in the us-east-1 Region. The company must improve website performance for users across different geographical regions and must reduce the load on the origin server. The company must implement a highly available cross-Region solution that uses Amazon CloudFront. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?
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 an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that is configured with an Amazon S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 Region. The pipeline deploys an AWS Lambda application to the same Region. The pipeline consists of an AWS CodeBuild project build action and an AWS CloudFormation deploy action.
The CodeBuild project uses the aws cloudformation package AWS CLI command to build an artifact that contains the Lambda function code’s .zip file and the CloudFormation template. The CloudFormation deploy action references the CloudFormation template from the output artifact of the CodeBuild project’s build action.
The company wants to also deploy the Lambda application to the us-east-1 Region by using the pipeline in eu-west-1. A DevOps engineer has already updated the CodeBuild project to use the aws cloudformation package command to produce an additional output artifact for us-east-1.
Which combination of additional steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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 has configured an Amazon S3 event source on an AWS Lambda function The company needs the Lambda function to run when a new object is created or an existing object IS modified In a particular S3 bucket The Lambda function will use the S3 bucket name and the S3 object key of the incoming event to read the contents of the created or modified S3 object The Lambda function will parse the contents and save the parsed contents to an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The Lambda function ' s execution role has permissions to read from the S3 bucket and to write to the DynamoDB table, During testing, a DevOps engineer discovers that the Lambda
function does not run when objects are added to the S3 bucket or when existing objects are modified.
Which solution will resolve this problem?
A DevOps engineer at a company is migrating a statistical analysis application to AWS. The application allows data scientists to model demographic data by using RStudio. The DevOps engineer will host modeling environments for the application in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The DevOps engineer will use Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon S3 to provide backend storage.
The DevOps engineer must design and build an infrastructure as code (IaC) solution to manage the underlying resource configurations. The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The DevOps engineer must design a highly portable solution that can facilitate sharing across AWS member accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A SaaS company uses ECS (Fargate) behind an ALB and CodePipeline + CodeDeploy for blue/green deployments. They need automatic, incremental traffic shifting over time with no downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer needs to install antivirus software on all Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. The EC2 instances run the most recent Amazon Linux version. The solution must detect all instances and use an AWS Systems Manager document to install the software if missing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL global database that has two secondary AWS Regions. A DevOps engineer has configured the database parameter group to guarantee an RPO of 60 seconds. Write operations on the primary cluster are occasionally blocked because of the RPO setting.
The DevOps engineer needs to reduce the frequency of blocked write operations.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer needs to configure a blue green deployment for an existing three-tier application. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and uses an Amazon RDS database The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and are in an Auto Scaling group.
The DevOps engineer has created a launch template and an Auto Scaling group for the blue environment. The DevOps engineer also has created a launch template and an Auto Scaling group for the green environment. Each Auto Scaling group deploys to a matching blue or green target group. The target group also specifies which software blue or green gets loaded on the EC2 instances. The ALB can be configured to send traffic to the blue environments target group or the green environments target group. An Amazon Route 53 record for www example com points to the ALB.
The deployment must move traffic all at once between the software on the blue environment ' s EC2 instances to the newly deployed software on the green environments EC2 instances
What should the DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
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 DevOps team incorporates automatic load and stress testing capabilities into a CI/CD pipeline by using AWS CodeBuild. The DevOps team uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster in a testing environment to perform load testing. The DevOps team set the minimum capacity for the testing DB cluster to 1. The DevOps team uses 10 DB clusters in a production environment. The DevOps team has set all the DB clusters to automatically scale up to a maximum capacity of 15 Aurora Replicas.
When the DevOps team performs load testing, the configuration of the Aurora DB cluster in the testing environment prevents the cluster from scaling rapidly enough to meet the transient demand, which causes load testing to fail.
The DevOps team must configure the DB cluster in the testing environment to meet the load-testing demand.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company deploys an API by using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) that targets an AWS Lambda function. The API takes a list of tasks as an input and typically processes the tasks in 40 seconds. The API is CPU intensive and performs writes to an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL DB cluster. The API also performs frequent large-scale Amazon S3 object PUT requests to the same prefix of an S3 bucket.
The API usage and the number of input tasks is increasing significantly. The increased demand is causing the API response time to increase, and some API requests fail because the database connection quota is being exceeded. A DevOps engineer must improve the performance of the API.
Which combination of solutions will meet this requirement? (Select THREE.)
A company has an application that includes AWS Lambda functions. The Lambda functions run Python code that is stored in an AWS CodeCommit repository. The company has recently experienced failures in the production environment because of an error in the Python code. An engineer has written unit tests for the Lambda functions to help avoid releasing any future defects into the production environment.
The company ' s DevOps team needs to implement a solution to integrate the unit tests into an existing AWS CodePipeline pipeline. The solution must produce reports about the unit tests for the company to view.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A global company manages multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Control Tower. The company hosts internal applications and public applications.
Each application team in the company has its own AWS account for application hosting. The accounts are consolidated in an organization in AWS Organizations. One of the AWS Control Tower member accounts serves as a centralized DevOps account with CI/CD pipelines that application teams use to deploy applications to their respective target AWS accounts. An 1AM role for deployment exists in the centralized DevOps account.
An application team is attempting to deploy its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster in an application AWS account. An 1AM role for deployment exists in the application AWS account. The deployment is through an AWS CodeBuild project that is set up in the centralized DevOps account. The CodeBuild project uses an 1AM service role for CodeBuild. The deployment is failing with an Unauthorized error during attempts to connect to the cross-account EKS cluster from CodeBuild.
Which solution will resolve this error?
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 uses Amazon Redshift as its data warehouse solution. The company wants to create a dashboard to view changes to the Redshift users and the queries the users perform.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement? (Select TWO.)
A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to implement a governance strategy with the following requirements:
AWS resource access is restricted to the same two Regions for all accounts.
AWS services are limited to a specific group of authorized services for all accounts.
Authentication is provided by Active Directory .
Access permissions are organized by job function and are identical in each account.
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 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?
A company runs a microservices application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Users recently reported significant delays while accessing an account summary feature, particularly during peak business hours.
A DevOps engineer used Amazon CloudWatch metrics and logs to troubleshoot the issue. The logs indicated normal CPU and memory utilization on the EKS nodes. The DevOps engineer was not able to identify where the delays occurred within the microservices architecture.
The DevOps engineer needs to increase the observability of the application to pinpoint where the delays are occurring.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses a single AWS account lo test applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company has turned on AWS Config in the AWS account and has activated the restricted-ssh AWS Config managed rule.
The company needs an automated monitoring solution that will provide a customized notification in real time if any security group in the account is not compliant with the restricted-ssh rule. The customized notification must contain the name and ID of the noncompliant security group.
A DevOps engineer creates an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic in the account and subscribes the appropriate personnel to the topic.
What should me DevOps engineer do next to meet these requirements?
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 is migrating from its on-premises data center to AWS. The company currently uses a custom on-premises CI/CD pipeline solution to build and package software.
The company wants its software packages and dependent public repositories to be available in AWS CodeArtifact to facilitate the creation of application-specific pipelines.
Which combination of steps should the company take to update the CI/CD pipeline solution and to configure CodeArtifact with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company runs applications in AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations The applications use Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon S3.
The company wants to detect potentially compromised EC2 instances suspicious network activity and unusual API activity in its existing AWS accounts and in any AWS accounts that the company creates in the future When the company detects one to these events the company wants to use an existing Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to send a notification to its operational support team for investigation and remediation.
Which solution will meet these requirements in accordance with AWS best practices?
A company wants governance where only specific Regions and services can be used, with centralized AD authentication and job-function-based roles.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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 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 DevOps engineer updates an AWS CloudFormation stack to add a nested stack that includes several Amazon EC2 instances. When the DevOps engineer attempts to deploy the updated stack, the nested stack fails to deploy. What should the DevOps engineer do to determine the cause of the failure?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company has enabled AWS Config in all accounts. The company requires developers to create AWS CloudFormation stacks in a new AWS account to test features for a new application that the developers are building.
The company wants to ensure that the developers can use only approved Amazon EC2 instance types for the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has an AWS Cloud Format ion slack that is deployed in a single AWS account. The company has configured the stack to send event notifications to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.
A DevOps engineer must implement an automated solution that applies a tag to the specific Cloud Formation stack instance only after a successful stack update occurs. The DevOps engineer has created an AWS Lambda function that applies and updates this tag (or the specific slack instance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The company recently acquired another company that has standalone AWS accounts. The acquiring company ' s DevOps team needs to consolidate the administration of the AWS accounts for both companies and retain full administrative control of the accounts. The DevOps team also needs to collect and group findings across all the accounts to implement and maintain a security posture.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps team take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A development team manually builds an artifact locally and then places it in an Amazon S3 bucket. The application has a local cache that must be cleared when a deployment occurs. The team runs a command to do this downloads the artifact from Amazon S3 and unzips the artifact to complete the deployment.
A DevOps team wants to migrate to a CI/CD process and build in checks to stop and roll back the deployment when a failure occurs. This requires the team to track the progression of the deployment.
Which combination of actions will accomplish this? (Select THREE)
A company must encrypt all AMIs that the company shares across accounts. A DevOps engineer has access to a source account where an unencrypted custom AMI has been built. The DevOps engineer also has access to a target account where an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group will launch EC2 instances from the AMI. The DevOps engineer must share the AMI with the target account.
The company has created an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the source account.
Which additional steps should the DevOps engineer perform to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)
A company needs to adopt a multi-account strategy to deploy its applications and the associated CI/CD infrastructure. The company has created an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The company has configured AWS Control Tower and has set up a landing zone.
The company needs to use AWS Control Tower controls (guardrails) in all AWS accounts in the organization. The company must create the accounts for a multi-environment application and must ensure that all accounts are configured to an initial baseline.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has implemented a new microservices-based application on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. After each deployment, the company wants to validate the critical user journeys and API endpoints before routing traffic to the new application version.
The company must implement an automated solution to detect issues in the new deployment and to initiate a rollback if necessary.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead ?
A company uses a CI/CD pipeline to deploy its workload in the ap-southeast-2 Region. The company receives images through a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and processes the images in AWS Fargate tasks on an Amazon ECS cluster. An Amazon ECR repository stores the images as Docker images. The company uses Route 53 for DNS. The company saves the images in an S3 bucket and metadata in DynamoDB. The company wants to expand to eu-west-2 with high availability and resilience.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the FEWEST configuration changes? (Select THREE).
A DevOps engineer needs to design a cloud-based solution to standardize deployment artifacts for AWS Cloud deployments and on-premises deployments. There is currently no routing traffic between the on-premises data center and the AWS environment.
The solution must be able to consume downstream packages from public repositories and must be highly available. Data must be encrypted in transit and at rest. The solution must store the deployment artifacts in object storage and deploy the deployment artifacts into Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The deployment artifacts must be encrypted in transit if the deployment artifacts travel across the public internet.
The DevOps engineer needs to deploy this solution in less than two weeks.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is working on a data archival project that requires the migration of on-premises data to an Amazon S3 bucket. The DevOps engineer develops a script that incrementally archives on-premises data that is older than 1 month to Amazon S3. Data that is transferred to Amazon S3 is deleted from the on-premises location The script uses the S3 PutObject operation.
During a code review the DevOps engineer notices that the script does not verity whether the data was successfully copied to Amazon S3. The DevOps engineer must update the script to ensure that data is not corrupted during transmission. The script must use MD5 checksums to verify data integrity before the on-premises data is deleted.
Which solutions for the script will meet these requirements ' ? (Select TWO.)
A cloud team uses AWS Organizations and AWS IAM Identity Center to manage a company ' s AWS accounts. The company recently established a research team. The research team requires the ability to fully manage the resources in its account. The research team must not be able to create IAM users.
The cloud team creates a Research Administrator permission set in IAM Identity Center for the research team. The permission set has the AdministratorAccess AWS managed policy attached. The cloud team must ensure that no one on the research team can create IAM users.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A space exploration company receives telemetry data from multiple satellites. Small packets of data are received through Amazon API Gateway and are placed directly into an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) standard queue. A custom application is subscribed to the queue and transforms the data into a standard format.
Because of inconsistencies in the data that the satellites produce, the application is occasionally unable to transform the data. In these cases, the messages remain in the SQS queue. A DevOps engineer must develop a solution that retains the failed messages and makes them available to scientists for review and future processing.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 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 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 DevOps engineer wants to find a solution to migrate an application from on premises to AWS The application is running on Linux and needs to run on specific versions of Apache Tomcat HAProxy and Varnish Cache to function properly. The application ' s operating system-level parameters require tuning The solution must include a way to automate the deployment of new application versions. The infrastructure should be scalable and faulty servers should be replaced automatically.
Which solution should the DevOps engineer use?
A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The company configures the Auto Scaling group by using an EC2 launch template that references a custom AMI that has the CodeDeploy agent installed. The company updates the AMI weekly, and all EC2 instances are replaced with new instances that are launched from the updated AMI. The company requires each EC2 instance to be tagged with an application tag that identifies the application that is deployed on the instance. Currently, the company manually tags the EC2 instances.
To deploy the application, the company creates a CodeDeploy application and a deployment group. The company sets a custom resource tag in the deployment group and configures the deployment group to target the Auto Scaling group. The company must ensure that each instance in the Auto Scaling group is tagged with the appropriate application tag.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 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 uses AWS Organizations with CloudTrail trusted access. All events across accounts and Regions must be logged and retained in an audit account, and failed login attempts should trigger real-time notifications.
Which solution meets 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 DevOps engineer needs to implement integration tests into an existing AWS CodePipelme CI/CD workflow for an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service. The CI/CD workflow retrieves new application code from an AWS CodeCommit repository and builds a container image. The CI/CD workflow then uploads the container image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) with a new image tag version.
The integration tests must ensure that new versions of the service endpoint are reachable and that vanous API methods return successful response data The DevOps engineer has already created an ECS cluster to test the service
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead? (Select THREE.)
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage its AWS accounts. The organization root has a child OU that is named Department. The Department OU has a child OU that is named Engineering. The default FullAWSAccess policy is attached to the root, the Department OU. and the Engineering OU.
The company has many AWS accounts in the Engineering OU. Each account has an administrative 1AM role with the AdmmistratorAccess 1AM policy attached. The default FullAWSAccessPolicy is also attached to each account.
A DevOps engineer plans to remove the FullAWSAccess policy from the Department OU The DevOps engineer will replace the policy with a policy that contains an Allow statement for all Amazon EC2 API operations.
What will happen to the permissions of the administrative 1AM roles as a result of this change ' ?
A DevOps engineer needs to configure an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that publishes container images to an 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 connected to AWS CodeConnections. An existing deployment pipeline must run in response to new container image publications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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 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 uses AWS and has a VPC that contains critical compute infrastructure with predictable traffic patterns. The company has configured VPC flow logs that are published to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
The company ' s DevOps team needs to configure a monitoring solution for the VPC flow logs to identify anomalies in network traffic to the VPC over time. If the monitoring solution detects an anomaly, the company needs the ability to initiate a response to the anomaly.
How should the DevOps team configure the monitoring solution to meet these requirements?
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 runs an application for multiple environments in a single AWS account. An AWS CodePipeline pipeline uses a development Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster to test an image from an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. The pipeline promotes the image to a production ECS cluster.
The company needs to move the production cluster into a separate AWS account in the same AWS Region. The production cluster must be able to download the images over a private connection.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company has enabled all features for the organization. The member accounts under one OU contain S3 buckets that store sensitive data.
A DevOps engineer wants to ensure that only IAM principals from within the organization can access the S3 buckets in the OU.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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 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 company runs several applications in the same AWS account. The applications send logs to Amazon CloudWatch.
A data analytics team needs to collect performance metrics and custom metrics from the applications. The analytics team needs to transform the metrics data before storing the data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The analytics team must automatically collect any new metrics that are added to the CloudWatch namespace.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is experiencing failures in its AWS CodeDeploy deployments for a critical application. The application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances. A DevOps engineer must analyze the failed deployments to identify the root cause of the failures.
Which solution will provide the appropriate information to troubleshoot the deployment issues?
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 wants to ensure that their EC2 instances are secure. They want to be notified if any new vulnerabilities are discovered on their instances and they also want an audit trail of all login activities on the instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements ' ?
A healthcare services company is concerned about the growing costs of software licensing for an application for monitoring patient wellness. The company wants to create an audit process to ensure that the application is running exclusively on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. A DevOps engineer must create a workflow to audit the application to ensure compliance.
What steps should the engineer take to meet this requirement with the LEAST administrative overhead?
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 builds a container image in an AWS CodeBuild project by running Docker commands. After the container image is built, the CodeBuild project uploads the container image to an Amazon S3 bucket. The CodeBuild project has an 1AM service role that has permissions to access the S3 bucket.
A DevOps engineer needs to replace the S3 bucket with an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository to store the container images. The DevOps engineer creates an ECR private image repository in the same AWS Region of the CodeBuild project. The DevOps engineer adjusts the 1AM service role with the permissions that are necessary to work with the new ECR repository. The DevOps engineer also places new repository information into the docker build command and the docker push command that are used in the buildspec.yml file.
When the CodeBuild project runs a build job, the job fails when the job tries to access the ECR repository.
Which solution will resolve the issue of failed access to the ECR repository?
A company has a single developer writing code for an automated deployment pipeline. The developer is storing source code in an Amazon S3 bucket for each project. The company wants to add more developers to the team but is concerned about code conflicts and lost work The company also wants to build a test environment to deploy newer versions of code for testing and allow developers to automatically deploy to both environments when code is changed in the repository.
What is the MOST efficient way to meet these requirements?
A company is hosting a static website from an Amazon S3 bucket. The website is available to customers at example.com. The company uses an Amazon Route 53 weighted routing policy with a TTL of 1 day. The company has decided to replace the existing static website with a dynamic web application. The dynamic web application uses an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.
On the day of production launch to customers, the company creates an additional Route 53 weighted DNS record entry that points to the ALB with a weight of 255 and a TTL of 1 hour. Two days later, a DevOps engineer notices that the previous static website is displayed sometimes when customers navigate to example.com.
How can the DevOps engineer ensure that the company serves only dynamic content for example.com?
A DevOps engineer is setting up a container-based architecture. The engineer has decided to use AWS CloudFormation to automatically provision an Amazon ECS cluster and an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to launch the EC2 container instances. After successfully creating the CloudFormation stack, the engineer noticed that, even though the ECS cluster and the EC2 instances were created successfully and the stack finished the creation, the EC2 instances were associating with a different cluster.
How should the DevOps engineer update the CloudFormation template to resolve this issue?
A company ' s application has an API that retrieves workload metrics. The company needs to audit, analyze, and visualize these metrics from the application to detect issues at scale.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE).
A company ' s organization in AWS Organizations has a single OU. The company runs Amazon EC2 instances in the OU accounts. The company needs to limit the use of each EC2 instance ' s credentials to the specific EC2 instance that the credential is assigned to. A DevOps engineer must configure security for the EC2 instances.
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 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 has containerized all of its in-house quality control applications. The company is running Jenkins on Amazon EC2 instances, which require patching and upgrading. The compliance officer has requested a DevOps engineer begin encrypting build artifacts since they contain company intellectual property.
What should the DevOps engineer do to accomplish this in the MOST maintainable manner?
A company builds an application that uses an Application Load Balancer in front of Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The
application is stateless. The Auto Scaling group uses a custom AMI that is fully prebuilt. The EC2 instances do not have a custom bootstrapping process.
The AMI that the Auto Scaling group uses was recently deleted. The Auto Scaling group ' s scaling activities show failures because the AMI ID does not exist.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A DevOps engineer notices that all Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group are failing to respond to user requests. The EC2 instances are also failing target group HTTP health checks
Upon inspection, the engineer notices the application process was not running in any EC2 instances. There are a significant number of out of memory messages in the system logs. The engineer needs to improve the resilience of the application to cope with a potential application memory leak. Monitoring and notifications should be enabled to alert when there is an issue
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has its AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. AWS Config is manually configured in each AWS account. The company needs to implement a solution to centrally configure AWS Config for all accounts in the organization The solution also must record resource changes to a central account.
Which combination of actions should a DevOps engineer perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company manages multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The company ' s security policy states that AWS account root user credentials for member accounts must not be used. The company monitors access to the root user credentials.
A recent alert shows that the root user in a member account launched an Amazon EC2 instance. A DevOps engineer must create an SCP at the organization ' s root level that will prevent the root user in member accounts from making any AWS service API calls.
Which SCP will meet these requirements?
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A DevOps engineer has automated a web service deployment by using AWS CodePipeline with the following steps:
1) An AWS CodeBuild project compiles the deployment artifact and runs unit tests.
2) An AWS CodeDeploy deployment group deploys the web service to Amazon EC2 instances in the staging environment.
3) A CodeDeploy deployment group deploys the web service to EC2 instances in the production environment.
The quality assurance (QA) team requests permission to inspect the build artifact before the deployment to the production environment occurs. The QA team wants to run an internal penetration testing tool to conduct manual tests. The tool will be invoked by a REST API call.
Which combination of actions should the DevOps engineer take to fulfill this request? (Choose two.)
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 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 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 recently deployed its web application on AWS. The company is preparing for a large-scale sales event and must ensure that the web application can scale to meet the demand
The application ' s frontend infrastructure includes an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has an Amazon S3 bucket as an origin. The backend infrastructure includes an Amazon API Gateway API. several AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon Aurora DB cluster
The company ' s DevOps engineer conducts a load test and identifies that the Lambda functions can fulfill the peak number of requests However, the DevOps engineer notices request latency during the initial burst of requests Most of the requests to the Lambda functions produce queries to the database A large portion of the invocation time is used to establish database connections
Which combination of steps will provide the application with the required scalability? (Select TWO)
A company sends its AWS Network Firewall flow logs to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company then analyzes the flow logs by using Amazon Athena. The company needs to transform the flow logs and add additional data before the flow logs are delivered to the existing S3 bucket. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application that uses an Amazon S3 bucket to store images. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) strategy for the S3 objects. The DevOps engineer enables two-way replication between the S3 buckets.
The company must be able to fail over to a second S3 bucket that is in a second AWS Region. When an image is added to either S3 bucket, the image must be replicated to the other S3 bucket within 15 minutes .
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way? ( Select THREE. )
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 is building a web and mobile application that uses a serverless architecture powered by AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway The company wants to fully automate the backend Lambda deployment based on code that is pushed to the appropriate environment branch in an AWS CodeCommit repository
The deployment must have the following:
• Separate environment pipelines for testing and production
• Automatic deployment that occurs for test environments only
Which steps should be taken to meet these requirements ' ?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store proprietary information. The development team creates buckets for new projects on a daily basis. The security team wants to ensure that all existing and future buckets have encryption logging and versioning enabled. Additionally, no buckets should ever be publicly read or write accessible.
What should a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company runs a data processing pipeline on AWS every day. The pipeline downloads data from an Amazon S3 bucket to Amazon EC2 instances. The company runs a batch analysis process on the downloaded data by manually running a custom Python script. The batch process usually takes 10 to 30 minutes to complete the analysis.
A DevOps engineer wants to modernize the data processing pipeline. The DevOps engineer needs to set up a new event-driven pipeline that sends notifications to company management when the batch process is finished.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has deployed an application in a single AWS Region. The application backend uses Amazon DynamoDB tables and Amazon S3 buckets.
The company wants to deploy the application in a secondary Region. The company must ensure that the data in the DynamoDB tables and the S3 buckets persists across both Regions. The data must also immediately propagate across Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
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 manages AWS accounts for application teams in AWS Control Tower. Individual application teams are responsible for securing their respective AWS accounts.
A DevOps engineer needs to enable Amazon GuardDuty for all AWS accounts in which the application teams have not already enabled GuardDuty. The DevOps engineer is using AWS CloudFormation StackSets from the AWS Control Tower management account.
How should the DevOps engineer configure the CloudFormation template to prevent failure during the StackSets deployment?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. When the application starts up. the application needs to process data from an Amazon S3 bucket before the application can start to serve requests.
The size of the data that is stored in the S3 bucket is growing. When the Auto Scaling group adds new instances, the application now takes several minutes to download and process the data before the application can serve requests. The company must reduce the time that elapses before new EC2 instances are ready to serve requests.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to reduce the application startup time?
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 ' s security policies require the use of security hardened AMIS in production environments. A DevOps engineer has used EC2 Image Builder to create a pipeline that builds the AMIs on a recurring schedule.
The DevOps engineer needs to update the launch templates of the companys Auto Scaling groups. The Auto Scaling groups must use the newest AMIS during the launch of Amazon EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A DevOps engineer is implementing governance controls for a company that requires its infrastructure to be housed within the United States. The engineer must restrict which AWS Regions can be used, and ensure an alert is sent as soon as possible if any activity outside the governance policy takes place. The controls should be automatically enabled on any new Region outside the United States (US).
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company detects unusual login attempts in many of its AWS accounts. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that sends a notification to the company ' s security team when multiple failed login attempts occur. The DevOps engineer has already created an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic and has subscribed the security team to the SNS topic.
Which solution will provide the notification with the LEAST operational effort?
A company has several AWS accounts. An Amazon Connect instance runs in each account. The company uses an Amazon EventBridge default event bus in each account for event handling.
A DevOps team needs to receive all the Amazon Connect events in a single DevOps account.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company wants to migrate its content sharing web application hosted on Amazon EC2 to a serverless architecture. The company currently deploys changes to its application by creating a new Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances and a new Elastic Load Balancer, and then shifting the traffic away using an Amazon Route 53 weighted routing policy.
For its new serverless application, the company is planning to use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The company will need to update its deployment processes to work with the new application. It will also need to retain the ability to test new features on a small number of users before rolling the features out to the entire user base.
Which deployment strategy will meet these requirements?
A company’s web app publishes JSON logs with transaction status to CloudWatch Logs. The company wants a dashboard showing the number of successful transactions with the least operational overhead.
Which solution meets this?
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations for its multi-account environment. A DevOps engineer is developing an AWS CodeArtifact based strategy for application package management across the organization. Each application team at the company has its own account in the organization. Each application team also has limited access to a centralized shared services account.
Each application team needs full access to download, publish, and grant access to its own packages. Some common library packages that the application teams use must also be shared with the entire organization.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead? (Select THREE.)
A company wants to improve its security practices by enforcing least privilege across all projects. Developers must be able to access Amazon EC2 resources but not Amazon RDS resources. Database administrators must have access only to Amazon RDS resources.
Every employee has a unique IAM user. There are already pre-existing IAM policies for developer and database administrator job functions. All AWS resources are already tagged with appropriate project tags. All the IAM users are tagged with the appropriate project and job function.
The company must ensure that each employee can access only the project that the employee is working on.
Which solution will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has an application that stores data that includes personally Identifiable Information (Pll) In an Amazon S3 bucket All data Is encrypted with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed keys. All AWS resources are deployed from an AWS Cloud Formation template.
A DevOps engineer needs to set up a development environment for the application in a different AWS account The data in the development environment ' s S3 bucket needs to be updated once a week from the production environment ' s S3 bucket.
The company must not move Pll from the production environment without anonymizmg the Pll first The data in each environment must be encrypted with different KMS customer managed keys.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )
A company wants to use AWS development tools to replace its current bash deployment scripts. The company currently deploys a LAMP application to a group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). During the deployments, the company unit tests the committed application, stops and starts services, unregisters and re-registers instances with the load balancer, and updates file permissions. The company wants to maintain the same deployment functionality through the shift to using AWS services.
Which solution will meet these requirements?