AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
Last Update Jun 5, 2026
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An AWS CloudFormation template creates an Amazon RDS instance. This template is used to build up development environments as needed and then delete the stack when the environment is no longer required. The RDS-persisted data must be retained for further use, even after the CloudFormation stack is deleted.
How can this be achieved in a reliable and efficient way?
A company has a new security policy that requires all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to be encrypted at rest. The company needs to use a custom key policy to manage access to the encryption keys. The company must rotate the keys once each year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company has an AWS CloudFormation template that includes an AWS::EC2::Instance resource and a custom resource (Lambda function). The Lambda function fails because it runs before the EC2 instance is launched.
Which solution will resolve this issue?
A company hosts a production MySQL database on an Amazon Aurora single-node DB cluster. The database is queried heavily for reporting purposes. The DB cluster is experiencing periods of performance degradation because of high CPU utilization and maximum connections errors. A CloudOps engineer needs to improve the stability of the database.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Systems Manager to automate common operational tasks across its AWS resources. The company wants to automatically collect software inventory of all its Amazon EC2 instances every day. The solution must store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket for auditing purposes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company needs to enforce tagging requirements for Amazon DynamoDB tables in its AWS accounts. A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution to identify and remediate all DynamoDB tables that do not have the appropriate tags.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An ecommerce company runs a microservices application on Amazon ECS. Customers sometimes experience high latency when they attempt to complete a purchase through the application. A CloudOps engineer needs a solution to track individual transactions across multiple services to identify where latency is occurring. The solution must require minimal code changes and must provide a visual representation of service dependencies.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores critical files in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 AWS Region. To comply with disaster recovery requirements, all new objects in the bucket must automatically replicate to a bucket in the us-west-2 Region.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A CloudOps engineer is responsible for a company ' s disaster recovery procedures. The company has a source Amazon S3 bucket in a production account, and it wants to replicate objects from the source to a destination S3 bucket in a nonproduction account. The CloudOps engineer configures S3 cross-Region, cross-account replication to copy the source S3 bucket to the destination S3 bucket. When the CloudOps engineer attempts to access objects in the destination S3 bucket, they receive an Access Denied error.
Which solution will resolve this problem?
A CloudOps engineer is maintaining a web application that uses an Amazon CloudFront web distribution, an Application Load Balancer (ALB), Amazon RDS, and Amazon EC2 in a VPC. All services have logging enabled. The CloudOps engineer needs to investigate HTTP Layer 7 status codes from the web application.
Which log sources contain the status codes? (Select TWO.)
A company runs custom statistical analysis software on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. The software is highly sensitive to network latency between nodes, although network throughput is not a limitation.
Which solution will minimize network latency?
A company is running an ecommerce application on AWS. The application maintains many open but idle connections to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. During times of peak usage, the database produces the following error message: " Too many connections. " The database clients are also experiencing errors.
Which solution will resolve these errors?
A company’s application servers in AWS account 111122223333 use a security group sg-1234abcd. They need to access a database hosted in account 444455556666. The VPCs are connected using a VPC peering connection (pcx-b04deed9).
A CloudOps engineer must configure the database’s security group to allow new connections only from the application servers.
What should the engineer do?
A company hosts a static website in an Amazon S3 bucket, accessed globally via Amazon CloudFront. The Cache-Control max-age header is set to 1 hour, and Maximum TTL is set to 5 minutes. The CloudOps engineer observes that CloudFront is not caching objects for the expected duration.
What is the reason for this issue?
A company runs thousands of Amazon EC2 instances that are based on the Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to record commands and output from any user that needs an interactive session on one of the EC2 instances. The solution must log the data to a durable storage location. The solution also must provide automated notifications and alarms that are based on the log data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company moves workloads from public subnets to private subnets to improve security. During testing, the company discovers that servers in the private subnets cannot reach an external API. The VPC has a CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16. The VPC contains two public subnets and two private subnets. The VPC has one internet gateway and has a NAT gateway in each of the private subnets.
The company must ensure that workloads that run in the private subnets can reach the external API.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company uses an IAM policy to ensure that all AWS resources are deployed and managed by AWS CloudFormation. A CloudOps engineer must periodically audit all AWS resources and provide a list of resources that do not match the expected configuration.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST effort?
A company stores critical data in Amazon S3 buckets. A CloudOps engineer must build a solution to record all S3 API activity.
Which action will meet this requirement?
A CloudOps engineer creates an AWS CloudFormation template to define an application stack that can be deployed in multiple AWS Regions. The CloudOps engineer also creates an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard by using the AWS Management Console. Each deployment of the application requires its own CloudWatch dashboard.
How can the CloudOps engineer automate the creation of the CloudWatch dashboard each time the application is deployed?
A company is implementing security and compliance by using AWS Trusted Advisor. The company’s CloudOps team is validating the list of Trusted Advisor checks that it can access.
Which factor will affect the quantity of available Trusted Advisor checks?
A company has a workload that is sending log data to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. One of the fields includes a measure of application latency. A CloudOps engineer needs to monitor the p90 statistic of this field over time.
What should the CloudOps engineer do to meet this requirement?
A company needs to copy an Amazon Aurora database from one AWS account to a second account that uses a second AWS Region. A CloudOps engineer must automate this process to occur every day.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A CloudOps engineer launches an Amazon EC2 Linux instance in a public subnet. When the instance is running, the CloudOps engineer obtains the public IP address and attempts to remotely connect to the instance multiple times. However, the CloudOps engineer always receives a timeout error.
Which action will allow the CloudOps engineer to remotely connect to the instance?
A company runs a critical application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application uses an Auto Scaling group to scale based on traffic to the application. To comply with regulations, the company must patch all EC2 instances with the latest security patches every day without any downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company runs a web application on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company notices that random periods of increased traffic cause a degradation in the application’s performance.
A CloudOps engineer must scale the application to meet the increased traffic.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company recently acquired another corporation and all of that corporation’s AWS accounts. A financial analyst needs the cost data from these accounts. A CloudOps engineer uses Cost Explorer to generate cost and usage reports. The CloudOps engineer notices that “No Tagkey” represents 20% of the monthly cost.
What should the CloudOps engineer do to tag the “No Tagkey” resources?
A company runs an application on hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances in three Availability Zones. The application calls a third-party API over the public internet. A CloudOps engineer must provide the third party with a list of static IP addresses so that the third party can allow traffic from the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 for object storage. A CloudOps engineer notices that the company’s Amazon S3 usage has doubled every month across all the company’s S3 buckets for the previous year. The company stores and consumes data in the same AWS Region where the data is generated. The company never accesses data that is older than 30 days. The CloudOps engineer needs to optimize Amazon S3 costs for the company.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A global gaming company is preparing to launch a new game on AWS. The game runs in multiple AWS Regions on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The instances are in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region. The company plans to use Amazon Route 53 for DNS services. The DNS configuration must direct users to the Region that is closest to them and must provide automated failover.
Which combination of steps should a CloudOps engineer take to configure Route 53 to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. A CloudOps engineer needs to implement a solution that provides a central storage location for errors that the application logs to disk. The solution must also provide an alert when the application logs an error.
What should the CloudOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
An application uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster that includes one Aurora Replica. The application’s read performance degrades when there are more than 200 user connections. The number of user connections is approximately 180 on a consistent basis. Occasionally, the number of user connections increases rapidly to more than 200.
A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution that will scale the application automatically as user demand increases or decreases.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances from custom AMIs in two AWS Regions. All instances are registered with AWS Systems Manager. The company discovers a critical zero-day OS exploit but does not know which instances are affected.
A CloudOps engineer must deploy operating system patches with the LEAST operational overhead.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company hosts a database on an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. The database is not encrypted. The company’s new security policy requires all AWS resources to be encrypted at rest and in transit.
What should a CloudOps engineer do to encrypt the database?
A global company runs a critical primary workload in the us-east-1 Region. The company wants to ensure business continuity with minimal downtime in case of a workload failure. The company wants to replicate the workload to a second AWS Region.
A CloudOps engineer needs a solution that achieves a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 10 minutes and a zero recovery point objective (RPO) to meet service level agreements.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a microservice that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A CloudOps engineer must use Amazon Route 53 to create a record that maps the ALB URL to example.com.
Which type of Route 53 record will meet this requirement?
A company is storing backups in an Amazon S3 bucket. The backups must not be deleted for at least 3 months after the backups are created.
What should a CloudOps engineer do to meet this requirement?
A company has an AWS Lambda function in Account A. The Lambda function needs to read the objects in an Amazon S3 bucket in Account B. A CloudOps engineer must create corresponding IAM roles in both accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a MySQL database. The EC2 instance has a General Purpose SSD (gp3) Amazon EBS volume attached. The company wants to perform load testing using a new MySQL database created from an EBS snapshot of the production instance. The new database must perform as similarly as possible to production.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the LEAST amount of time?
A CloudOps engineer launches two Amazon EC2 instances and creates a single public subnet for testing purposes in the same Availability Zone. The CloudOps engineer wants Amazon Route 53 to respond with a public IP address only if a test webpage on an instance is running. However, even when the test webpage is unavailable, Route 53 still responds with the public IP addresses from both instances.
How can the CloudOps engineer resolve this issue?
A company uses memory-optimized Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) to run an application. The company launched the EC2 instances from an AWS-provided Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AMI.
A CloudOps engineer must monitor RAM utilization in 5-minute intervals. The CloudOps engineer must ensure that the EC2 instances scale in and out appropriately based on incoming load.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company’s Amazon EC2 instance with high CPU utilization is a t3.large instance running a test web app. The company determines the app would run better on a compute-optimized large instance.
What should the CloudOps engineer do?
A company hosts a static website on an Amazon S3 bucket behind an Amazon CloudFront distribution. When the company deploys a new version of the website, users sometimes do not see the new content until the next day.
A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution to display updates to the website as quickly as possible.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
To comply with regulations, a SysOps administrator needs to back up an Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to an Amazon S3 bucket. If the SysOps administrator restores the AMI from the bucket in the future, the AMI must use the same AMI image ID as the original AMI.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. The application stores data on an Amazon RDS for MySQL Single-AZ DB instance. Requests to the DB instance from the application include reads and writes.
A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution that provides failover for the DB instance. The solution must minimize application downtime.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon ElastiCache (Redis OSS) to cache application data. A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution to increase the resilience of the cache and minimize the recovery time objective (RTO).
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs applications that generate log files. The company stores the log files in Amazon S3. A CloudOps engineer must automatically process the log files whenever new files upload to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company has an application that processes events sequentially by using an Amazon SQS FIFO queue. The company needs a solution that automatically sends notifications to the SQS queue when new objects are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. The solution must maintain message ordering.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). During rolling updates, application initialization and cold starts cause 30-second latency spikes. A CloudOps engineer needs to keep latency flat by pre-initializing capacity. The CloudOps engineer must reuse instances across waves without extending the maintenance window.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An ecommerce company uses Amazon ElastiCache (Redis OSS) for caching product queries. The CloudOps engineer observes a large number of cache evictions in Amazon CloudWatch metrics and needs to reduce evictions while retaining popular data in cache.
Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
A company needs to monitor its website ' s availability to end users. The company needs a solution to provide an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if the website ' s uptime decreases to less than 99%. The monitoring must provide an accurate view of the user experience on the website.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company’s ecommerce application is running on Amazon EC2 instances that are behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Auto Scaling group. Customers report that the website is occasionally down. When the website is down, it returns an HTTP 500 (server error) status code to customer browsers.
The Auto Scaling group’s health check is configured for EC2 status checks, and the instances appear healthy.
Which solution will resolve the problem?
An environment consists of 100 Amazon EC2 Windows instances. The Amazon CloudWatch agent is deployed and running on all EC2 instances with a baseline configuration file to capture log files. There is a new requirement to capture DHCP log files that exist on 50 of the instances.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to meet this new requirement?
A company has a production application that runs on large compute optimized Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group has a desired capacity of 2, a maximum capacity of 2, and a minimum capacity of 1.
The application is CPU-bound. The EC2 instances show consistent CPU utilization of 90% or greater during peak usage periods. These peak usage periods are unpredictable and cause performance issues and latency issues.
Which solution will automate the resolution of these issues?
A company runs a high performance computing (HPC) data-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances in one Availability Zone within a development environment. The application uses a dataset that the company stores on an Amazon S3 general purpose bucket in the same AWS Region as the EC2 instances.
A SysOps administrator must improve the application ' s performance for retrieval of objects from Amazon S3.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company deploys AWS infrastructure in a VPC that has an internet gateway. The VPC has public subnets and private subnets. An Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance is deployed in a private subnet. An AWS Lambda function uses the same private subnet and connects to the DB instance to query data.
A developer modifies the Lambda function to require the function to publish messages to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. After these changes, the Lambda function times out when it tries to publish messages to the SQS queue.
Which solutions will resolve this issue? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS CloudFormation stacks to manage its infrastructure. The company’s developers commit infrastructure changes to the company’s Git repository. The company wants to automate updates to the CloudFormation stacks when developers commit changes. The company requires change set generation before deployment and notification of pending changes for approval. The solution must also minimize infrastructure maintenance overhead.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to manage public SSL/TLS certificates. A CloudOps engineer needs to send an email notification when a certificate has less than 14 days until expiration.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A CloudOps engineer is creating two AWS CloudFormation templates. The first template will create a VPC with associated resources, such as subnets, route tables, and an internet gateway. The second template will deploy application resources within the VPC that was created by the first template. The second template should refer to the resources created by the first template.
How can this be accomplished with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?
A company runs a three-tier web application on AWS. The application includes web servers, application servers, and database servers. The application servers process requests from the web servers. The company wants to ensure high availability of the application. Therefore, the company needs to monitor the health of the application servers and route traffic only to healthy instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company runs a website on Amazon EC2 instances. Users can upload images to an Amazon S3 bucket and publish the images to the website. The company wants to deploy a serverless image-processing application that uses an AWS Lambda function to resize the uploaded images.
The company ' s development team has created the Lambda function. A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution to invoke the Lambda function when users upload new images to the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A CloudOps engineer has successfully deployed a VPC with an AWS CloudFormation template. The CloudOps engineer wants to deploy the same template across multiple accounts that are managed through AWS Organizations.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company hosts an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket in the ap-southeast-2 Region. Users from the eu-west-2 Region access the S3 bucket through the internet. The users from eu-west-2 need faster transfers to and from the S3 bucket for large files.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A finance company uses AWS Secrets Manager to store Amazon RDS credentials that are periodically rotated. A database team must receive a notification when the credentials are rotated to ensure compliance with security policies. The database team creates an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for the notifications.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company requires the rotation of administrative credentials for production workloads on a regular basis. A CloudOps engineer must implement this policy for an Amazon RDS DB instance ' s master user password.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?
A company ' s application is hosted by an internet provider at app.example.com. The company wants to access the application by using www.company.com, which the company owns and manages with Amazon Route 53.
Which Route 53 record should be created to address this requirement?