DOP-C02 Practice Exam Questions with Answers AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification

Question # 6

A company has deployed a new platform that runs on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The new platform hosts web applications that users frequently update. The application developers build the Docker images for the applications and deploy the Docker images manually to the platform.

The platform usage has increased to more than 500 users every day. Frequent updates, building the updated Docker images for the applications, and deploying the Docker images on the platform manually have all become difficult to manage.

The company needs to receive an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification if Docker image scanning returns any HIGH or CRITICAL findings for operating system or programming language package vulnerabilities.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Create an AWS CodeCommit repository to store the Dockerfile and Kubernetes deployment files. Create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. Use an Amazon S3 event to invoke the pipeline when a newer version of the Dockerfile is committed. Add a stop to the pipeline to initiate the AWS CodeBuild project.

Create an AWS CodeCommit repository to store the Dockerfile and Kubernetes deployment files. Create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. Use an Amazon EvenlBridge event to invoke the pipeline when a newer version of the Dockerfile is committed. Add a step to the pipeline to initiate the AWS CodeBuild project.

Create an AWS CodeBuild project that builds the Docker images and stores the Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Turn on basic scanning for the ECR repository. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that monitors Amazon GuardDuty events. Configure the EventBridge rule to send an event to an SNS topic when the finding-severity-counts parameter is more than 0 at a CRITICAL or HIGH level.

Create an AWS CodeBuild project that builds the Docker images and stores the Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Turn on enhanced scanning for the ECR repository. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that monitors ECR image scan events. Configure the EventBridge rule to send an event to an SNS topic when the finding-severity-counts parameter is more than 0 at a CRITICAL or HIGH level.

Create an AWS CodeBuild project that scans the Dockerfile. Configure the project to build the Docker images and store the Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository if the scan is successful. Configure an SNS topic to provide notification if the scan returns any vulnerabilities.

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B, D

Explanation:

? Step 1: Automate Docker Image Deployment using AWS CodePipeline

The first challenge is the manual process of building and deploying Docker images. To address this, you can use AWS CodePipeline to automate the process. AWS CodePipeline integrates with CodeCommit (for source code and Dockerfile storage) and CodeBuild (to build Docker images and store them in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)).

Action: Create an AWS CodeCommit repository to store the Dockerfile and Kubernetes deployment files. Then, create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline that triggers on new commits via an Amazon EventBridge event.

Why: This automation significantly reduces the manual effort of building and deploying Docker images when updates are made to the codebase.

[Reference: AWS documentation on AWS CodePipeline and CodeCommit Integration., This corresponds to Option B: Create an AWS CodeCommit repository to store the Dockerfile and Kubernetes deployment files. Create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. Use an Amazon EventBridge event to invoke the pipeline when a newer version of the Dockerfile is committed. Add a step to the pipeline to initiate the AWS CodeBuild project., ? Step 2: Enabling Enhanced Scanning on Amazon ECR and Monitoring VulnerabilitiesTo scan for vulnerabilities in Docker images, Amazon ECR provides both basic and enhanced scanning options. Enhanced scanning offers deeper and more frequent scans, and integrates with Amazon EventBridge to send notifications based on findings., Action: Turn on enhanced scanning for the Amazon ECR repository where the Docker images are stored. Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor image scan events and trigger an Amazon SNS notification if any HIGH or CRITICAL vulnerabilities are found., Why: Enhanced scanning provides a detailed analysis of operating system and programming language package vulnerabilities, which can trigger notifications in real-time., Reference: AWS documentation on Enhanced Scanning for Amazon ECR., This corresponds to Option D: Create an AWS CodeBuild project that builds the Docker images and stores the Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Turn on enhanced scanning for the ECR repository. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that monitors ECR image scan events. Configure the EventBridge rule to send an event to an SNS topic when the finding-severity-counts parameter is more than 0 at a CRITICAL or HIGH level., , , , ]

Question # 7

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?

Ensure that the EKS cluster's VPC subnets do not overlap with the 172.17.0.0/16 CIDR range.

Use kubectl to update the kubeconfig file to use the credentials that created the cluster.

Run the AWSSupport-TroubleshootEKSWorkerNode runbook.

Create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider for the cluster.

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Question # 8

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?

Create an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Subscribe the log group to the data stream. Configure Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to detect log anomalies in the data stream. Create anAWS Lambda function to use as the output of the data stream. Configure the Lambda function to write to the default Amazon EventBridge event bus in the event of an anomaly finding.

Create an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream that delivers events to an Amazon S3 bucket. Subscribe the log group to the delivery stream. Configure Amazon Lookout for Metrics to monitor the data in the S3 bucket for anomalies. Create an AWS Lambda function to run in response to Lookout for Metrics anomaly findings. Configure the Lambda function to publish to the default Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Create an AWS Lambda function to detect anomalies. Configure the Lambda function to publish an event to the default Amazon EventBridge event bus if the Lambda function detects an anomaly. Subscribe the Lambda function to the log group.

Create an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Subscribe the log group to the data stream. Create an AWS Lambda function to detect log anomalies. Configure the Lambda function to write to the default Amazon EventBridge event bus if the Lambda function detects an anomaly. Set the Lambda function as the processor for the data stream.

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Question # 9

A company wants to set up a continuous delivery pipeline. The company stores application code in a private GitHub repository. The company needs to deploy the application components to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Amazon EC2, and AWS Lambda. The pipeline must support manual approval actions.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Use AWS CodePipeline with Amazon ECS. Amazon EC2, and Lambda as deploy providers.

Use AWS CodePipeline with AWS CodeDeploy as the deploy provider.

Use AWS CodePipeline with AWS Elastic Beanstalk as the deploy provider.

Use AWS CodeDeploy with GitHub integration to deploy the application.

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Question # 10

A company is using AWS CodePipeline to automate its release pipeline. AWS CodeDeploy is being used in the pipeline to deploy an application to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using the blue/green deployment model. The company wants to implement scripts to test the green version of the application before shifting traffic. These scripts will complete in 5 minutes or less. If errors are discovered during these tests, the application must be rolled back.

Which strategy will meet these requirements?

Add a stage to the CodePipeline pipeline between the source and deploy stages. Use AWS CodeBuild to create a runtime environment and build commands in the buildspec file to invoke test scripts. If errors are found, use the aws deploy stop-deployment command to stop the deployment.

Add a stage to the CodePipeline pipeline between the source and deploy stages. Use this stage to invoke an AWS Lambda function that will run the test scripts. If errors are found, use the aws deploy stop-deployment command to stop the deployment.

Add a hooks section to the CodeDeploy AppSpec file. Use the AfterAllowTestTraffic lifecycle event to invoke an AWS Lambda function to run the test scripts. If errors are found, exit the Lambda function with an error to initiate rollback.

Add a hooks section to the CodeDeploy AppSpec file. Use the AfterAllowTraffic lifecycle event to invoke the test scripts. If errors are found, use the aws deploy stop-deployment CLI command to stop the deployment.

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Question # 11

A development team wants to use AWS CloudFormation stacks to deploy an application. However, the developer IAM role does not have the required permissions to provision the resources that are specified in the AWS CloudFormation template. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution that allows the developers to deploy the stacks. The solution must follow the principle of least privilege.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create an IAM policy that allows the developers to provision the required resources. Attach the policy to the developer IAM role.

Create an IAM policy that allows full access to AWS CloudFormation. Attach the policy to the developer IAM role.

Create an AWS CloudFormation service role that has the required permissions. Grant the developer IAM role a cloudformation:* action. Use the new service role during stack deployments.

Create an AWS CloudFormation service role that has the required permissions. Grant the developer IAM role the iam:PassRole permission. Use the new service role during stack deployments.

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Question # 12

A company runs hundreds of EC2 instances with new instances launched/terminated hourly. Security requires all running instances to have an instance profile attached. A default profile exists and must be attached automatically to any instance missing one.

Which solution meets this requirement?

EventBridge rule for RunInstances API calls, invoke Lambda to attach default profile.

AWS Config with ec2-instance-profile-attached managed rule, automatic remediation using Systems Manager Automation runbook to attach profile.

EventBridge rule for StartInstances API calls, invoke Systems Manager Automation runbook to attach profile.

AWS Config iam-role-managed-policy-check managed rule, automatic remediation with Lambda to attach profile.

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Question # 13

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?

Create an SCP that allows the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies. Create an OU for the account. Move the account into the new OU. Attach the new SCP to the new OU. Detach the default FullAWSAccess SCP from the new OU.

Create an SCP that denies the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies. Create an OU for the account. Move the account into the new OIJ. Attach the new SCP to the new OU.

Create an SCP that allows the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies. Attach the new SCP to the organization's root.

Create an SCP that allows the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies. Create an OU for the account. Move the account into the new OU. Attach the new SCP to the management account. Detach the default FullAWSAccess SCP from the new OU.

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Explanation:

To meet the requirements of creating a new Organizations account structure with an appropriate SCP that supports the use of only services that are currently active in the AWS account, the company should use the following solution:

Create an SCP that allows the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies. IAM Access Analyzer is a service that helps identify potential resource-access risks by analyzing resource-based policies in the AWS environment. IAM Access Analyzer can also generate IAM policies based on access activity in the AWS CloudTrail logs. By using IAM Access Analyzer, the company can create an SCP that grants only the permissions that are required for the application to run, and denies all other services. This way, the company can enforce the use of only approved AWS services and reduce the risk of unauthorized access12

Create an OU for the account. Move the account into the new OU. An OU is a container for accounts within an organization that enables you to group accounts that have similar business or security requirements. By creating an OU for the account, the company can apply policies and manage settings for the account as a group. The company should move the account into the new OU to make it subject to the policies attached to the OU3

Attach the new SCP to the new OU. Detach the default FullAWSAccess SCP from the new OU. An SCP is a type of policy that specifies the maximum permissions for an organization or organizational unit (OU). By attaching the new SCP to the new OU, the company can restrict the services that are available to all accounts in that OU, including the account that runs the application. The company should also detach the default FullAWSAccess SCP from the new OU, because this policy allows all actions on all AWS services and might override or conflict with the new SCP45

The other options are not correct because they do not meet the requirements or follow best practices. Creating an SCP that denies the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies is not a good option because it might not cover all possible services that are not approved or required for the application. A deny policy is also more difficult to maintain and update than an allow policy. Creating an SCP that allows the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies and attaching it to the organization’s root is not a good option because it might affect other accounts and OUs in the organization that have different service requirements or approvals. Creating an SCP that allows the services that IAM Access Analyzer identifies and attaching it to the management account is not a valid option because SCPs cannot be attached directly to accounts, only to OUs or roots.

1: Using AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer - AWS Identity and Access Management

2: Generate a policy based on access activity - AWS Identity and Access Management

3: Organizing your accounts into OUs - AWS Organizations

4: Service control policies - AWS Organizations

5: How SCPs work - AWS Organizations

Question # 14

A company hired a penetration tester to simulate an internal security breach The tester performed port scans on the company's Amazon EC2 instances. The company's security measures did not detect the port scans.

The company needs a solution that automatically provides notification when port scans are performed on EC2 instances. The company creates and subscribes to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

What should the company do next to meet the requirement?

Ensure that Amazon GuardDuty is enabled Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for detected EC2 and port scan findings. Connect the alarm to the SNS topic.

Ensure that Amazon Inspector is enabled Create an Amazon EventBridge event for detected network reachability findings that indicate port scans Connect the event to the SNS topic.

Ensure that Amazon Inspector is enabled. Create an Amazon EventBridge event for detected CVEs that cause open port vulnerabilities. Connect the event to the SNS topic

Ensure that AWS CloudTrail is enabled Create an AWS Lambda function to analyze the CloudTrail logs for unusual amounts of traffic from an IP address range Connect the Lambda function to the SNS topic.

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Question # 15

A DevOps engineer is building a continuous deployment pipeline for a serverless application that uses AWS Lambda functions. The company wants to reduce the customer impact of an unsuccessful deployment. The company also wants to monitor for issues.

Which deploy stage configuration will meet these requirements?

Use an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template to define the serverless application. Use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy the Lambda functions with the Canary10Percent15Minutes Deployment Preference Type. Use Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor the health of the functions.

Use AWS CloudFormation to publish a new stack update, and include Amazon CloudWatch alarms on all resources. Set up an AWS CodePipeline approval action for a developer to verify and approve the AWS CloudFormation change set.

Use AWS CloudFormation to publish a new version on every stack update, and include Amazon CloudWatch alarms on all resources. Use the RoutingConfig property of the AWS::Lambda::Alias resource to update the traffic routing during the stack update.

Use AWS CodeBuild to add sample event payloads for testing to the Lambda functions. Publish a new version of the functions, and include Amazon CloudWatch alarms. Update the production alias to point to the new version. Configure rollbacks to occur when an alarm is in the ALARM state.

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Question # 16

A company requires an RPO of 2 hours and an RTO of 10 minutes for its data and application at all times. An application uses a MySQL database and Amazon EC2 web servers. The development team needs a strategy for failover and disaster recovery.

Which combination of deployment strategies will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Create an Amazon Aurora cluster in one Availability Zone across multiple Regions as the data store Use Aurora's automatic recovery capabilities in the event of a disaster

Create an Amazon Aurora global database in two Regions as the data store. In the event of a failure promote the secondary Region as the primary for the application.

Create an Amazon Aurora multi-master cluster across multiple Regions as the data store. Use a Network Load Balancer to balance the database traffic in different Regions.

Set up the application in two Regions and use Amazon Route 53 failover-based routing that points to the Application Load Balancers in both Regions. Use hearth checks to determine the availability in a given Region. Use Auto Scaling groups in each Region to adjust capacity based on demand.

Set up the application m two Regions and use a multi-Region Auto Scaling group behind Application Load Balancers to manage the capacity based on demand. In the event of a disaster adjust the Auto Scaling group's desired instance count to increase baseline capacity in the failover Region.

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Question # 17

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?

Add the new ALB as an origin in the CloudFront distribution. Configure origin failover functionality. Copy the AMI to the DR Region. Create a launch template and an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 0 in the DR Region. Create a new OpenSearch Service cluster in the DR Region. Set up cross-cluster replication for the cluster.

Create a new CloudFront distribution in the DR Region and add the new ALB as an origin. Use Amazon Route 53 DNS for Regional failover. Copy the AMI to the DR Region. Create a launch template and an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 0 in the DR Region. Reconfigure the OpenSearch Service cluster as a Multi-AZ with Standby deployment. Ensure that the standby nodes are in the DR Region.

Create a new CloudFront distribution in the DR Region and add the new ALB as an origin. Use Amazon Route 53 DNS for Regional failover. Copy the AMI to the DR Region. Create a launch template and an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 3 in the DR Region. Reconfigure the OpenSearch Service cluster as a Multi-AZ with Standby deployment. Ensure that the standby nodes are in the DR Region.

Add the new ALB as an origin in the CloudFront distribution. Configure origin failover functionality. Copy the AMI to the DR Region. Create a launch template and an Auto Scaling group with a desired capacity of 3 in the DR Region. Create a new OpenSearch Service cluster in the DR Region. Set up cross-cluster replication for the cluster.

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Question # 18

A company has multiple development teams in different business units that work in a shared single AWS account All Amazon EC2 resources that are created in the account must include tags that specify who created the resources. The tagging must occur within the first hour of resource creation.

A DevOps engineer needs to add tags to the created resources that Include the user ID that created the resource and the cost center ID The DevOps engineer configures an AWS Lambda Function with the cost center mappings to tag the resources. The DevOps engineer also sets up AWS CloudTrail in the AWS account. An Amazon S3 bucket stores the CloudTrail event logs

Which solution will meet the tagging requirements?

Create an S3 event notification on the S3 bucket to invoke the Lambda function for s3. ObJectTagging:Put events. Enable bucket versioning on the S3 bucket.

Enable server access logging on the S3 bucket. Create an S3 event notification on the S3 bucket for s3. ObjectTaggIng.• events

Create a recurring hourly Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule that invokes the Larnbda function. Modify the Lambda function to read the logs from the S3 bucket

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that uses Amazon EC2 as the event source. Configure the rule to match events delivered by CloudTraiI. Configure the rule to target the Lambda function

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Option A is incorrect because S3 event notifications do not support s3.ObjectTagging:Put events. S3 event notifications only support events related to object creation, deletion, replication, and restore. Moreover, enabling bucket versioning on the S3 bucket is not relevant to the tagging requirements, as it only keeps multiple versions of objects in the bucket.

Option B is incorrect because enabling server access logging on the S3 bucket does not help with tagging the resources. Server access logging only records requests for access to the bucket or its objects. It does not capture the user ID or the cost center ID of the resources. Furthermore, creating an S3 event notification on the S3 bucket for s3.ObjectTagging:Put events is not possible, as explained in option A.

Option C is incorrect because creating a recurring hourly Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule that invokes the Lambda function is not efficient or timely. The Lambda function would have to read the logs from the S3 bucket every hour and tag the resources accordingly, which could incur unnecessary costs and delays. A better solution would be to trigger the Lambda function as soon as a resource is created, rather than waiting for an hourly schedule.

Option D is correct because creating an Amazon EventBridge rule that uses Amazon EC2 as the event source and matches events delivered by CloudTrail is a valid way to tag the resources. CloudTrail records all API calls made to AWS services, including EC2, and delivers them as events to EventBridge. The EventBridge rule can filter the events based on the user ID and the resource type, and then target the Lambda function to tag the resources with the cost center ID. This solution meets the tagging requirements in a timely and efficient manner.

[References:, S3 event notifications, Server access logging, Amazon EventBridge rules, AWS CloudTrail, , , , , ]

Question # 19

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?

Run the AWS-UpdateCloudfomationStack AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook when Systems Manager detects an UPDATE_COMPLETE event for the instance status of the Cloud Formation stack. Configure the runbook to invoke the Lambda function.

Create a custom AWS Config rule that produces a compliance change event if the CloudFormation stack has an UPDATE_COMPLETE instance status. Configure AWS Config to directly invoke the Lambda function to automatically remediate the change event.

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that matches the UPDATE COMPLETE event pattern for the instance status of the CloudFormation stack. Configure the rule to invoke the Lambda function.

Adjust the configuration of the CloudFormation stack to send notifications for only an UPDATE COMPLETE instance status event to the SNS topic. Subscribe the Lambda function to the SNS topic.

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Question # 20

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.)

For the critical data, modify the existing Auto Scaling group. Create a warm pool instance in the stopped state. Define the warm pool size. Create a new version of the launch template that has detailed monitoring enabled. use Spot Instances.

For the critical data. modify the existing Auto Scaling group. Create a lifecycle hook to ensure that bootstrap scripts are completed successfully. Ensure that the application on the instances is ready to accept traffic before the instances are registered. Create a new version of the launch template that has detailed monitoring enabled.

For the noncritical data, create a second Auto Scaling group that uses a launch template. Configure the launch template to install the unified Amazon CloudWatch agent and to configure the CloudWatch agent with a custom memory utilization metric. Use Spot Instances. Add the new Auto Scaling group as the target group for the ALB. Modify the application to use two target groups for critical data and noncritical data.

For the noncritical data, create a second Auto Scaling group. Choose the predefined memory utilization metric type for the target tracking scaling policy. Use Spot Instances. Add the new Auto Scaling group as the target group for the ALB. Modify the application to use two target groups for critical data and noncritical data.

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Question # 21

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?

Use CloudWatch metrics to create a custom expression that Identifies the CloudWatch log groups that have the most data being written to them.

Use CloudWatch Logs Insights to create a set of queries for the application log groups to Identify the number of logs written for a period of time

Use AWS Cost Explorer to generate a cost report that details the cost for CloudWatch usage

Use AWS CloudTrail to filter for CreateLogStream events for each application

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Explanation:

The correct answer is C.

A comprehensive and detailed explanation is:

Option A is incorrect because using CloudWatch metrics to create a custom expression that identifies the CloudWatch log groups that have the most data being written to them is not a valid solution. CloudWatch metrics do not provide information about the size or volume of data being ingested by CloudWatch logs. CloudWatch metrics only provide information about the number of events, bytes, and errors that occur within a log group or stream. Moreover, creating a custom expression with CloudWatch metrics would require using the search_web tool, which is not necessary for this use case.

Option B is incorrect because using CloudWatch Logs Insights to create a set of queries for the application log groups to identify the number of logs written for a period of time is not a valid solution. CloudWatch Logs Insights can help analyze and filter log events based on patterns and expressions, but it does not provide information about the cost or billing of CloudWatch logs. CloudWatch Logs Insights also charges based on the amount of data scanned by each query, which could increase the logging costs further.

Option C is correct because using AWS Cost Explorer to generate a cost report that details the cost for CloudWatch usage is a valid solution. AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that helps visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. AWS Cost Explorer can generate custom reports that show the breakdown of costs by service, region, account, tag, or any other dimension. AWS Cost Explorer can also filter and group costs by usage type, which can help identify the specific CloudWatch log groups that are the source of the increased logging costs.

Option D is incorrect because using AWS CloudTrail to filter for CreateLogStream events for each application is not a valid solution. AWS CloudTrail is a service that records API calls and account activity for AWS services, including CloudWatch logs. However, AWS CloudTrail does not provide information about the cost or billing of CloudWatch logs. Filtering for CreateLogStream events would only show when a new log stream was created within a log group, but not how much data was ingested or stored by that log stream.

[References:, CloudWatch Metrics, CloudWatch Logs Insights, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS CloudTrail, , , , , ]

Question # 22

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.)

Create a domain in each application team's account. Grant each application team's account lull read access and write access to the application team's domain

Create a domain in the shared services account Grant the organization read access and CreateRepository access.

Create a repository in each application team's account. Grant each application team's account lull read access and write access to its own repository.

Create a repository in the shared services account. Grant the organization read access to the repository in the shared services account. Set the repository as the upstream repository in each application team's repository.

For teams that require shared packages, create resource-based policies that allow read access to the repository from other application teams' accounts.

Set the other application teams' repositories as upstream repositories.

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B, D, E

Explanation:

? Step 1: Creating a Centralized Domain in the Shared Services Account

To manage application package dependencies across multiple accounts, the most efficient solution is to create a centralized domain in the shared services account. This allows all application teams to access and manage package repositories within the same domain, ensuring consistency and centralization.

Action: Create a domain in the shared services account.

Why: A single, centralized domain reduces the need for redundant management in each application team's account.

[Reference: AWS documentation on AWS CodeArtifact domains and repositories., This corresponds to Option B: Create a domain in the shared services account. Grant the organization read access and CreateRepository access., ? Step 2: Sharing Repositories Across Teams with Upstream ConfigurationsTo share common library packages across the organization, each application team's repository can point to the shared services repository as an upstream repository. This enables teams to access shared packages without managing them individually in each team's account., Action: Create a repository in the shared services account and set it as the upstream repository for each application team., Why: Upstream repositories allow package sharing while maintaining individual team repositories for managing their own packages., Reference: AWS documentation on Upstream repositories in CodeArtifact., This corresponds to Option D: Create a repository in the shared services account. Grant the organization read access to the repository in the shared services account. Set the repository as the upstream repository in each application team's repository., ? Step 3: Using Resource-Based Policies for Cross-Account AccessFor teams that need to share their packages with other application teams, resource-based policies can be applied to grant the necessary permissions. These policies allow cross-account access without having to manage permissions at the individual account level., Action: Create resource-based policies that allow read access to the repositories across application teams., Why: This simplifies management by centralizing permissions in the shared services account while allowing cross-team collaboration., Reference: AWS documentation on CodeArtifact resource-based policies., This corresponds to Option E: For teams that require shared packages, create resource-based policies that allow read access to the repository from other application teams' accounts., , , , ]

Question # 23

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.)

Configure a delegated administrator account for AWS Config. Enable trusted access for AWS Config in the organization.

Configure a delegated administrator account for AWS Config. Create a service-linked role for AWS Config in the organization’s management account.

Create an AWS CloudFormation template to create an AWS Config aggregator. Configure a CloudFormation stack set to deploy the template to all accounts in the organization.

Create an AWS Config organization aggregator in the organization's management account. Configure data collection from all AWS accounts in the organization and from all AWS Regions.

Create an AWS Config organization aggregator in the delegated administrator account. Configure data collection from all AWS accounts in the organization and from all AWS Regions.

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Question # 24

A company uses AWS Storage Gateway in file gateway mode in front of an Amazon S3 bucket that is used by multiple resources. In the morning when business begins, users do not see the objects processed by a third party the previous evening. When a DevOps engineer looks directly at the S3 bucket, the data is there, but it is missing in Storage Gateway.

Which solution ensures that all the updated third-party files are available in the morning?

Configure a nightly Amazon EventBridge event to invoke an AWS Lambda function to run the RefreshCache command for Storage Gateway.

Instruct the third party to put data into the S3 bucket using AWS Transfer for SFTP.

Modify Storage Gateway to run in volume gateway mode.

Use S3 Same-Region Replication to replicate any changes made directly in the S3 bucket to Storage Gateway.

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Question # 25

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).

Configure an Amazon EventBridge schedule to invoke an AWS Lambda function that calls the API to retrieve workload metrics. Store the workload metric data in an Amazon S3 bucket.

Configure an Amazon EventBridge schedule to invoke an AWS Lambda function that calls the API to retrieve workload metrics. Store the workload metric data in an Amazon DynamoDB table that has a DynamoDB stream enabled.

Create an AWS Glue crawler to catalog the workload metric data in the Amazon S3 bucket. Create views in Amazon Athena for the cataloged data.

Connect an AWS Glue crawler to the Amazon DynamoDB stream to catalog the workload metric data. Create views in Amazon Athena for the cataloged data.

Create Amazon QuickSight datasets from the Amazon Athena views. Create a QuickSight analysis to visualize the workload metric data as a dashboard.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that has custom widgets that invoke AWS Lambda functions. Configure the Lambda functions to query the workload metrics data from the Amazon Athena views.

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Question # 26

A company is developing a web application's infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation The database engineering team maintains the database resources in a Cloud Formation template, and the software development team maintains the web application resources in a separate CloudFormation template. As the scope of the application grows, the software development team needs to use resources maintained by the database engineering team However, both teams have their own review and lifecycle management processes that they want to keep. Both teams also require resource-level change-set reviews. The software development team would like to deploy changes to this template using their Cl/CD pipeline.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create a stack export from the database CloudFormation template and import those references into the web application CloudFormation template

Create a CloudFormation nested stack to make cross-stack resource references and parameters available in both stacks.

Create a CloudFormation stack set to make cross-stack resource references and parameters available in both stacks.

Create input parameters in the web application CloudFormation template and pass resource names and IDs from the database stack.

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Question # 27

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.)

Modify the CloudFormation template to include a parameter for the Lambda function code’s zip file location. Create a new CloudFormation deploy action for us-east-1 in the pipeline. Configure the new deploy action to pass in the us-east-1 artifact location as a parameter override.

Create a new CloudFormation deploy action for us-east-1 in the pipeline. Configure the new deploy action to use the CloudFormation template from the us-east-1 output artifact.

Create an S3 bucket in us-east-1. Configure the S3 bucket policy to allow CodePipeline to have read and write access.

Create an S3 bucket in us-east-1. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) from the S3 bucket in eu-west-1 to the S3 bucket in us-east-1.

Modify the pipeline to include the S3 bucket for us-east-1 as an artifact store. Create a new CloudFormation deploy action for us-east-1 in the pipeline. Configure the new deploy action to use the CloudFormation template from the us-east-1 output artifact.

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Question # 28

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?

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to send notifications to the security team whenever a user logs in to an EC2 instance Use EC2 Instance Connect to log in to the instances. Deploy Auto Scaling groups by using AWS Cloud Formation Use the cfn-init helper script to deploy appropriate VPC routes for external access Rebuild the custom AMI so that the custom AMI includes AWS Systems Manager Agent.

Deploy a NAT gateway and a bastion host that has internet access Create a security group that allows incoming traffic on all the EC2 instances from the bastion host Install AWS Systems Manager Agent on all the EC2 instances Use Auto Scaling group lifecycle hooks for monitoring and auditing access Use Systems Manager Session Manager to log in to the instances Send logs to a log group m Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Export data to Amazon S3 for aud

Use EC2 Image Builder to rebuild the custom AMI Include the most recent version of AWS Systems Manager Agent in the Image Configure the Auto Scaling group to attach the AmazonSSMManagedinstanceCore role to all the EC2 instances Use Systems Manager Session Manager to log in to the instances Enable logging of session details to Amazon S3 Create an S3 event notification for new file uploads to send a message to the security team through an Ama

Use AWS Systems Manager Automation to build Systems Manager Agent into the custom AMI Configure AWS Configure to attach an SCP to the root organization account to allow the EC2 instances to connect to Systems Manager Use Systems Manager Session Manager to log in to the instances Enable logging of session details to Amazon S3 Create an S3 event notification for new file uploads to send a message to the security team through an Amazon Simple

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Question # 29

A company deploys an application on on-premises devices in the company's on-premises data center. The company uses an AWS Direct Connect connection between the data center and the company's AWS account. During initial setup of the on-premises devices and during application updates, the application needs to retrieve configuration files from an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system. All traffic from the on-premises devices to Amazon EFS must remain private and encrypted. The on-premises devices must follow the principle of least privilege for AWS access. The company's DevOps team needs the ability to revoke access from a single device without affecting the access of the other devices. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Create an IAM user that has an access key and a secret key for each device. Attach the AmazonElasticFileSystemFullAccess policy to all IAM users. Configure the AWS CLI on the on-premises devices to use the IAM user's access key and secret key.

Generate certificates for each on-premises device in AWS Private Certificate Authority. Create a trust anchor in IAM Roles Anywhere that references an AWS Private CA. Create an IAM role that trusts IAM Roles Anywhere. Attach the AmazonElasticFileSystemClientReadWriteAccess to the role. Create an IAM Roles Anywhere profile for the IAM role. Configure the AWS CLI on the on-premises devices to use the aws_signing_helper command to obtain crede

Create an IAM user that has an access key and a secret key for all devices. Attach the AmazonElasticFileSystemClientReadWriteAccess policy to the IAM user. Configure the AWS CLI on the on-premises devices to use the IAM user's access key and secret key.

Use the amazon-efs-utils package to mount the EFS file system.

Use the native Linux NFS client to mount the EFS file system.

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Question # 30

A company wants to use AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure deployment. The company has strict tagging and resource requirements and wants to limit the deployment to two Regions. Developers will need to deploy multiple versions of the same application.

Which solution ensures resources are deployed in accordance with company policy?

Create AWS Trusted Advisor checks to find and remediate unapproved CloudFormation StackSets.

Create a Cloud Formation drift detection operation to find and remediate unapproved CloudFormation StackSets.

Create CloudFormation StackSets with approved CloudFormation templates.

Create AWS Service Catalog products with approved CloudFormation templates.

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Question # 31

A development team is using AWS CodeCommit to version control application code and AWS CodePipeline to orchestrate software deployments. The team has decided to use a remote main branch as the trigger for the pipeline to integrate code changes. A developer has pushed code changes to the CodeCommit repository, but noticed that the pipeline had no reaction, even after 10 minutes.

Which of the following actions should be taken to troubleshoot this issue?

Check that an Amazon EventBridge rule has been created for the main branch to trigger the pipeline.

Check that the CodePipeline service role has permission to access the CodeCommit repository.

Check that the developer’s IAM role has permission to push to the CodeCommit repository.

Check to see if the pipeline failed to start because of CodeCommit errors in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

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Question # 32

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.)

Create an AWS Organizations SCP that denies access to all non-global services in non-US Regions. Attach the policy to the root of the organization.

Configure AWS CloudTrail to send logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and enable it for all Regions. Use a CloudWatch Logs metric filter to send an alert on any service activity in non-US Regions.

Use an AWS Lambda function that checks for AWS service activity and deploy it to all Regions. Write an Amazon EventBridge rule that runs the Lambda function every hour, sending an alert if activity is found in a non-US Region.

Use an AWS Lambda function to query Amazon Inspector to look for service activity in non-US Regions and send alerts if any activity is found.

Write an SCP using the aws: RequestedRegion condition key limiting access to US Regions. Apply the policy to all users, groups, and roles

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Question # 33

A company manages environments for its application in multiple AWS accounts. Each environment account is in a different OU in AWS Organizations.

A DevOps team is responsible for the application deployment process across the environments. The deployment process uses an AWS CodePipeline pipeline in a Shared Services account. The DevOps team members are in the same user group. The team members have administrative access to all accounts through AWS IAM Identity Center.

A recent deployment problem in the development environment required the DevOps team to perform manual steps. The deployment to the production environment then resulted in an incident that caused the pipeline to fail, blocking new deployments for several hours.

A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that only the pipeline can perform deployments in the production environment. The DevOps engineer must have access to the environment in case of an emergency.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

Update the DevOps group to have the ReadOnlyAccess permission set for the production accounts. Configure the DevOps engineer user with a new permission set that has AdministratorAccess permissions and that allows the user to assume the pipeline role. Add an SCP that denies modification of resources by any entity other than the pipeline role.

Create an SCP that denies all write actions for the DevOps team members on the production OU. Configure a new user in IAM Identity Center for the DevOps engineer with a new permission set that has AdministratorAccess permissions. Add an SCP that denies modification of resources by any entity other than the pipeline role.

Update the DevOps group to be able to assume the pipeline role for the production accounts. Configure a new user in IAM Identity Center for the DevOps engineer with a new permission set that has AdministratorAccess permissions. Add an SCP that denies modification of resources by any entity other than the DevOps engineer.

Create an SCP that denies all write actions for the DevOps team members on the production OU. Use a specific tag to tag the resources that CodePipeline provisions. Add an SCP that denies modification of tagged resources by any entity other than the DevOps engineer.

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Question # 34

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?

Create a private ECR repo, scan images on push, replicate images from upstream repos with a replication rule.

Create a public ECR repo to cache images from upstream repos, create a private repo to store images, scan images on push.

Create a public ECR repo, configure a pull-through cache rule, create a private repo to store images, enable basic scanning.

Create a private ECR repo, enable basic scanning, create a pull-through cache rule.

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Question # 35

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?

Configure a CodePipeline V2 type pipeline that uses QUEUED mode. Add a trigger filter to the pipeline definition that includes all tags. Configure an EventBridge rule that matches container image pushes to start the existing deployment pipeline.

Configure a CodePipeline V2 type pipeline that uses SUPERSEDED mode. Add a trigger filter to the pipeline definition that includes all branches. Configure an EventBridge rule that matches container image pushes to start the existing deployment pipeline.

Configure a CodePipeline V1 type pipeline that uses SUPERSEDED mode. Add a trigger filter to the pipeline definition that includes all tags. Add a stage at the end of the pipeline to invoke the existing deployment pipeline.

Configure a CodePipeline V1 type pipeline that uses QUEUED mode. Add a trigger filter to the pipeline definition that includes all branches. Add a stage at the end of the pipeline to invoke the existing deployment pipeline.

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Question # 36

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)

Allow developers to check the code into a code repository Using Amazon EventBridge on every pull into the mam branch invoke an AWS Lambda function to build the artifact and store it in Amazon S3.

Create a custom script to clear the cache Specify the script in the Beforelnstall lifecycle hook in the AppSpec file.

Create user data for each Amazon EC2 instance that contains the clear cache script Once deployed test the application If it is not successful deploy it again.

Set up AWS CodePipeline to deploy the application Allow developers to check the code into a code repository as a source tor the pipeline.

Use AWS CodeBuild to build the artifact and place it in Amazon S3 Use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy the artifact to Amazon EC2 instances.

Use AWS Systems Manager to fetch the artifact from Amazon S3 and deploy it to all the instances.

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Question # 37

A company is developing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The application requires monitoring of custom performance metrics. The company must collect metrics for API response times and database query latency across multiple instances. Which solution will generate the custom metrics with the LEAST operational overhead?

Install the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the instances. Configure the agent to collect the custom metrics. Instrument the application to send the metrics to the agent.

Use Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to scrape the custom metrics from the application. Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent to forward the metrics to CloudWatch.

Create a custom AWS Lambda function that polls the application endpoints and database at regular intervals. Program the Lambda function to calculate the custom metrics and to send the metrics to Amazon CloudWatch by using PutMetricData API calls.

Implement custom logging in the application code to record the custom metrics. Use Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights to extract and analyze the metrics.

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Question # 38

A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Recently an issue occurred that prevented EC2 instances from launching successfully and it took several hours for the support team to discover the issue. The support team wants to be notified by email whenever an EC2 instance does not start successfully.

Which action will accomplish this?

Add a health check to the Auto Scaling group to invoke an AWS Lambda function whenever an instance status is impaired.

Configure the Auto Scaling group to send a notification to an Amazon SNS topic whenever a failed instance launch occurs.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that invokes an AWS Lambda function when a failed Attachinstances Auto Scaling API call is made.

Create a status check alarm on Amazon EC2 to send a notification to an Amazon SNS topic whenever a status check fail occurs.

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Question # 39

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?

Create a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Configure the VPC flow log to capture accepted traffic and to send the data to the log group. Create an Amazon CloudWatch metric filter for IP addresses on the deny list. Create a CloudWatch alarm with the metric filter as input. Set the period to 5 minutes and the datapoints to alarm to 1. Use an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to send alarm notices to the security team.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket for log files. Configure the VPC flow log to capture all traffic and to send the data to the S3 bucket. Configure Amazon Athena to return all log files in the S3 bucket for IP addresses on the deny list. Configure Amazon QuickSight to accept data from Athena and to publish the data as a dashboard that the security team can access. Create a threshold alert of 1 for successful access. Configure the alert to automati

Create an Amazon S3 bucket for log files. Configure the VPC flow log to capture accepted traffic and to send the data to the S3 bucket. Configure an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster and domain for the log files. Create an AWS Lambda function to retrieve the logs from the S3 bucket, format the logs, and load the logs into the OpenSearch Service cluster. Schedule the Lambda function to run every 5 minutes. Configure an alert and condition in

Create a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Create an Amazon S3 bucket to hold query results. Configure the VPC flow log to capture all traffic and to send the data to the log group. Deploy an Amazon Athena CloudWatch connector in AWS Lambda. Connect the connector to the log group. Configure Athena to periodically query for all accepted traffic from the IP addresses on the deny list and to store the results in the S3 bucket. Configure an

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Question # 40

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?

Install CloudWatch agent on instances, configure it to collect custom metrics, and instrument app to send metrics to agent.

Use Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to scrape metrics, use CloudWatch agent to forward metrics to CloudWatch.

Create Lambda to poll app endpoints and DB, calculate metrics, send to CloudWatch via PutMetricData.

Implement custom logging in app; use CloudWatch Logs Insights to extract and analyze metrics.

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Question # 41

A company has an application that is using a MySQL-compatible Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ DB cluster as the database. A cross-Region read replica has been created for disaster recovery purposes. A DevOps engineer wants to automate the promotion of the replica so it becomes the primary database instance in the event of a failure.

Which solution will accomplish this?

Configure a latency-based Amazon Route 53 CNAME with health checks so it points to both the primary and replica endpoints. Subscribe an Amazon SNS topic to Amazon RDS failure notifications from AWS CloudTrail and use that topic to invoke an AWS Lambda function that will promote the replica instance as the primary.

Create an Aurora custom endpoint to point to the primary database instance. Configure the application to use this endpoint. Configure AWS CloudTrail to run an AWS Lambda function to promote the replica instance and modify the custom endpoint to point to the newly promoted instance.

Create an AWS Lambda function to modify the application's AWS CloudFormation template to promote the replica, apply the template to update the stack, and point the application to the newly promoted instance. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to invoke this Lambda function after the failure event occurs.

Store the Aurora endpoint in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Create an Amazon EventBridge event that detects the database failure and runs an AWS Lambda function to promote the replica instance and update the endpoint URL stored in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Code the application to reload the endpoint from Parameter Store if a database connection fails.

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Question # 42

An online retail company based in the United States plans to expand its operations to Europe and Asia in the next six months. Its product currently runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. All data is stored in an Amazon Aurora database instance.

When the product is deployed in multiple regions, the company wants a single product catalog across all regions, but for compliance purposes, its customer information and purchases must be kept in each region.

How should the company meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of application changes?

Use Amazon Redshift for the product catalog and Amazon DynamoDB tables for the customer information and purchases.

Use Amazon DynamoDB global tables for the product catalog and regional tables for the customer information and purchases.

Use Aurora with read replicas for the product catalog and additional local Aurora instances in each region for the customer information and purchases.

Use Aurora for the product catalog and Amazon DynamoDB global tables for the customer information and purchases.

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Question # 43

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.)

In the source account, copy the unencrypted AMI to an encrypted AMI. Specify the KMS key in the copy action.

In the source account, copy the unencrypted AMI to an encrypted AMI. Specify the default Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) encryption key in the copy action.

In the source account, create a KMS grant that delegates permissions to the Auto Scaling group service-linked role in the target account.

In the source account, modify the key policy to give the target account permissions to create a grant. In the target account, create a KMS grant that delegates permissions to the Auto Scaling group service-linked role.

In the source account, share the unencrypted AMI with the target account.

In the source account, share the encrypted AMI with the target account.

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Question # 44

A company has a file-reading application that saves files to a database running on Amazon EC2 instances. Regulations require daily file deletions from EC2 instances and deletion of database records older than 60 days. Database record deletion must occur after file deletion. The company needs email notifications for any deletion script failures.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?

Use AWS Systems Manager State Manager to automatically invoke an Automation document at the specified time daily. Configure the Automation document to run deletion scripts sequentially via run command. Create an EventBridge rule to send failure notifications to Amazon SNS.

Use AWS Systems Manager State Manager to automatically invoke an Automation document at the specified time daily. Configure the Automation document to run deletion scripts sequentially. Add a conditional check for errors as the last step and send failure notifications via Amazon SES.

Create an EventBridge rule to invoke a Lambda function at the specified time. Configure the Lambda function to run deletion scripts sequentially and send failure notifications via SNS.

Create an EventBridge rule to invoke a Lambda function at the specified time. Configure the Lambda function to run deletion scripts sequentially and send failure notifications via SES.

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Question # 45

The security team depends on AWS CloudTrail to detect sensitive security issues in the company's AWS account. The DevOps engineer needs a solution to auto-remediate CloudTrail being turned off in an AWS account.

What solution ensures the LEAST amount of downtime for the CloudTrail log deliveries?

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule for the CloudTrail StopLogging event. Create an AWS Lambda (unction that uses the AWS SDK to call StartLogging on the ARN of the resource in which StopLogging was called. Add the Lambda function ARN as a target to the EventBridge rule.

Deploy the AWS-managed CloudTrail-enabled AWS Config rule set with a periodic interval to 1 hour. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule tor AWS Config rules compliance change. Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the AWS SDK to call StartLogging on the ARN of the resource in which StopLoggmg was called. Add the Lambda function ARN as a target to the EventBridge rule.

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule for a scheduled event every 5 minutes. Create an AWS Lambda function that uses the AWS SDK to call StartLogging on a CloudTrail trail in the AWS account. Add the Lambda function ARN as a target to the EventBridge rule.

Launch a t2 nano instance with a script running every 5 minutes that uses the AWS SDK to query CloudTrail in the current account. If the CloudTrail trail is disabled have the script re-enable the trail.

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Question # 46

A company's application development team uses Linux-based Amazon EC2 instances as bastion hosts. Inbound SSH access to the bastion hosts is restricted to specific IP addresses, as defined in the associated security groups. The company's security team wants to receive a notification if the security group rules are modified to allow SSH access from any IP address.

What should a DevOps engineer do to meet this requirement?

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule with a source of aws.cloudtrail and the event name AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress. Define an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as the target.

Enable Amazon GuardDuty and check the findings for security groups in AWS Security Hub. Configure an Amazon EventBridge rule with a custom pattern that matches GuardDuty events with an output of NON_COMPLIANT. Define an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as the target.

Create an AWS Config rule by using the restricted-ssh managed rule to check whether security groups disallow unrestricted incoming SSH traffic. Configure automatic remediation to publish a message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

Enable Amazon Inspector. Include the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures-1.1 rules package to check the security groups that are associated with the bastion hosts. Configure Amazon Inspector to publish a message to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

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Question # 47

A company is migrating its on-premises Windows applications and Linux applications to AWS. The company will use automation to launch Amazon EC2 instances to mirror the on-premises configurations. The migrated applications require access to shared storage that uses SMB for Windows and NFS for Linux.

The company is also creating a pilot light disaster recovery (DR) environment in another AWS Region. The company will use automation to launch and configure the EC2 instances in the DR Region. The company needs to replicate the storage to the DR Region.

Which storage solution will meet these requirements?

Use Amazon S3 for the application storage. Create an S3 bucket in the primary Region and an S3 bucket in the DR Region. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) from the primary Region to the DR Region.

Use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for the application storage. Create a backup plan in AWS Backup that creates snapshots of the EBS volumes that are in the primary Region and replicates the snapshots to the DR Region.

Use a Volume Gateway in AWS Storage Gateway for the application storage. Configure Cross-Region Replication (CRR) of the Volume Gateway from the primary Region to the DR Region.

Use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for the application storage. Create an FSx for ONTAP instance in the DR Region. Configure NetApp SnapMirror replication from the primary Region to the DR Region.

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To meet the requirements of migrating its on-premises Windows and Linux applications to AWS and creating a pilot light DR environment in another AWS Region, the company should use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for the application storage. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed service that provides highly reliable, scalable, high-performing, and feature-rich file storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system. FSx for ONTAP supports multiple protocols, including SMB for Windows and NFS for Linux, so the company can access the shared storage from both types of applications. FSx for ONTAP also supports NetApp SnapMirror replication, which enables the company to replicate the storage to the DR Region. NetApp SnapMirror replication is efficient, secure, and incremental, and it preserves the data deduplication and compression benefits of FSx for ONTAP. The company can use automation to launch and configure the EC2 instances in the DR Region and then use NetApp SnapMirror to restore the data from the primary Region.

The other options are not correct because they do not meet the requirements or follow best practices. Using Amazon S3 for the application storage is not a good option because S3 is an object storage service that does not support SMB or NFS protocols natively. The company would need to use additional services or software to mount S3 buckets as file systems, which would add complexity and cost. Using Amazon EBS for the application storage is also not a good option because EBS is a block storage service that does not support SMB or NFS protocols natively. The company would need to set up and manage file servers on EC2 instances to provide shared access to the EBS volumes, which would add overhead and maintenance. Using a Volume Gateway in AWS Storage Gateway for the application storage is not a valid option because Volume Gateway does not support SMB protocol. Volume Gateway only supports iSCSI protocol, which means that only Linux applications can access the shared storage.

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Question # 48

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The organization includes workload accounts that contain enterprise applications. The company centrally manages users from an operations account. No users can be created in the workload accounts. The company recently added an operations team and must provide the operations team members with administrator access to each workload account.

Which combination of actions will provide this access? (Choose three.)

Create a SysAdmin role in the operations account. Attach the AdministratorAccess policy to the role. Modify the trust relationship to allow the sts:AssumeRole action from the workload accounts.

Create a SysAdmin role in each workload account. Attach the AdministratorAccess policy to the role. Modify the trust relationship to allow the sts:AssumeRole action from the operations account.

Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool in the operations account. Attach the SysAdmin role as an authenticated role.

In the operations account, create an IAM user for each operations team member.

In the operations account, create an IAM user group that is named SysAdmins. Add an IAM policy that allows the sts:AssumeRole action for the SysAdmin role in each workload account. Add all operations team members to the group.

Create an Amazon Cognito user pool in the operations account. Create an Amazon Cognito user for each operations team member.

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Question # 49

A company needs a strategy for failover and disaster recovery of its data and application. The application uses a MySQL database and Amazon EC2 instances. The company requires a maximum RPO of 2 hours and a maximum RTO of 10 minutes for its data and application at all times.

Which combination of deployment strategies will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Create an Amazon Aurora Single-AZ cluster in multiple AWS Regions as the data store. Use Aurora's automatic recovery capabilities in the event of a disaster.

Create an Amazon Aurora cluster in multiple AWS Regions as the data store. Use a Network Load Balancer to balance the database traffic in different Regions.

Set up the application in two AWS Regions. Use Amazon Route 53 failover routing that points to Application Load Balancers in both Regions. Use health checks and Auto Scaling groups in each Region.

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B, E

Explanation:

To meet the requirements of failover and disaster recovery, the company should use the following deployment strategies:

Create an Amazon Aurora global database in two AWS Regions as the data store. In the event of a failure, promote the secondary Region to the primary for the application. Update the application to use the Aurora cluster endpoint in the secondary Region. This strategy can provide a low RPO and RTO for the data, as Aurora global database replicates data with minimal latency across Regions and allows fast and easy failover12. The company can use the Amazon Aurora cluster endpoint to connect to the current primary DB cluster without needing to change any application code1.

Set up the application in two AWS Regions. Configure AWS Global Accelerator to point to Application Load Balancers (ALBs) in both Regions. Add both ALBs to a single endpoint group. Use health checks and Auto Scaling groups in each Region. This strategy can provide high availability and performance for the application, as AWS Global Accelerator uses the AWS global network to route traffic to the closest healthy endpoint3. The company can also use static IP addresses that are assigned by Global Accelerator as a fixed entry point for their application1. By using health checks and Auto Scaling groups, the company can ensure that their application can scale up or down based on demand and handle any instance failures4.

The other options are incorrect because:

Creating an Amazon Aurora Single-AZ cluster in multiple AWS Regions as the data store would not provide a fast failover or disaster recovery solution, as the company would need to manually restore data from backups or snapshots in another Region in case of a failure.

Creating an Amazon Aurora cluster in multiple AWS Regions as the data store and using a Network Load Balancer to balance the database traffic in different Regions would not work, as Network Load Balancers do not support cross-Region routing. Moreover, this strategy would not provide a consistent view of the data across Regions, as Aurora clusters do not replicate data automatically between Regions unless they are part of a global database.

Setting up the application in two AWS Regions and using Amazon Route 53 failover routing that points to Application Load Balancers in both Regions would not provide a low RTO, as Route 53 failover routing relies on DNS resolution, which can take time to propagate changes across different DNS servers and clients. Moreover, this strategy would not provide deterministic routing, as Route 53 failover routing depends on DNS caching behavior, which can vary depending on different factors.

Question # 50

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?

Delete all objects, including previous versions, from the S3 bucket that contains the static website content.

Update the weighted DNS record entry that points to the S3 bucket. Apply a weight of 0. Specify the domain reset option to propagate changes immediately.

Configure webpage redirect requests on the S3 bucket with a hostname that redirects to the ALB.

Remove the weighted DNS record entry that points to the S3 bucket from the example.com hosted zone. Wait for DNS propagation to become complete.

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Question # 51

A company requires its developers to tag all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes in an account to indicate a desired backup frequency. This requirement Includes EBS volumes that do not require backups. The company uses custom tags named Backup_Frequency that have values of none, dally, or weekly that correspond to the desired backup frequency. An audit finds that developers are occasionally not tagging the EBS volumes.

A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that all EBS volumes always have the Backup_Frequency tag so that the company can perform backups at least weekly unless a different value is specified.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Set up AWS Config in the account. Create a custom rule that returns a compliance failure for all Amazon EC2 resources that do not have a Backup Frequency tag applied. Configure a remediation action that uses a custom AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to apply the Backup_Frequency tag with a value of weekly.

Set up AWS Config in the account. Use a managed rule that returns a compliance failure for EC2::Volume resources that do not have a Backup Frequency tag applied. Configure a remediation action that uses a custom AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to apply the Backup_Frequency tag with a value of weekly.

Turn on AWS CloudTrail in the account. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to EBS CreateVolume events. Configure a custom AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to apply the Backup_Frequency tag with a value of weekly. Specify the runbook as the target of the rule.

Turn on AWS CloudTrail in the account. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to EBS CreateVolume events or EBS ModifyVolume events. Configure a custom AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to apply the Backup_Frequency tag with a value of weekly. Specify the runbook as the target of the rule.

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Question # 52

A company is implementing a well-architected design for its globally accessible API stack. The design needs to ensure both high reliability and fast response times for users located in North America and Europe.

The API stack contains the following three tiers:

Amazon API Gateway

AWS Lambda

Amazon DynamoDB

Which solution will meet the requirements?

Configure Amazon Route 53 to point to API Gateway APIs in North America and Europe using health checks. Configure the APIs to forward requests to a Lambda function in that Region. Configure the Lambda functions to retrieve and update the data in a DynamoDB table in the same Region as the Lambda function.

Configure Amazon Route 53 to point to API Gateway APIs in North America and Europe using latency-based routing and health checks. Configure the APIs to forward requests to a Lambda function in that Region. Configure the Lambda functions to retrieve and update the data in a DynamoDB global table.

Configure Amazon Route 53 to point to API Gateway in North America, create a disaster recovery API in Europe, and configure both APIs to forward requests to the Lambda functions in that Region. Retrieve the data from a DynamoDB global table. Deploy a Lambda function to check the North America API health every 5 minutes. In the event of a failure, update Route 53 to point to the disaster recovery API.

Configure Amazon Route 53 to point to API Gateway API in North America using latency-based routing. Configure the API to forward requests to the Lambda function in the Region nearest to the user. Configure the Lambda function to retrieve and update the data in a DynamoDB table.

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Question # 53

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The application processes a high volume of messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue.

A DevOps engineer noticed that the application took several hours to process a group of messages from the SQS queue. The average CPU utilization of the Auto Scaling group did not cross the threshold of a target tracking scaling policy when processing the messages. The application that processes the SQS queue publishes logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

The DevOps engineer needs to ensure that the queue is processed quickly.

Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Create an AWS Lambda function. Configure the Lambda function to publish a custom metric by using the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible SQS queue attribute and the GroupIn-ServiceInstances Auto Scaling group attribute to publish the queue messages for each instance. Schedule an Amazon EventBridge rule to run the Lambda function every hour. Create a target tracking scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group that uses the custom metric to scal

Create an AWS Lambda function. Configure the Lambda function to publish a custom metric by using the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible SQS queue attribute and the GroupIn-ServiceInstances Auto Scaling group attribute to publish the queue messages for each instance. Create a CloudWatch subscription filter for the application logs with the Lambda function as the target. Create a target tracking scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group that

Create a target tracking scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group. In the target tracking policy, use the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible SQS queue attribute and the GroupIn-ServiceInstances Auto Scaling group attribute to calculate how many messages are in the queue for each number of instances by using metric math. Use the calculated attribute to scale in and out.

Create an AWS Lambda function that logs the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible attribute of the SQS queue to a CloudWatch Logs log group. Schedule an Amazon EventBridge rule to run the Lambda function every 5 minutes. Create a metric filter to count the number of log events from a CloudWatch logs group. Create a target tracking scaling policy for the Auto Scaling group that uses the custom metric to scale in and out.

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Question # 54

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?

Direct the security team to use CloudFormation to create new versions of the AMIs and to list the AMI ARNs in an encrypted Amazon S3 object as part of the stack's Outputs section. Instruct the developers to use a cross-stack reference to load the encrypted S3 object and obtain the most recent AMI ARNs.

Direct the security team to use a CloudFormation stack to create an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that builds new AMIs and places the latest AMI ARNs in an encrypted Amazon S3 object as part of the pipeline output. Instruct the developers to use a cross-stack reference within their own CloudFormation template to obtain the S3 object location and the most recent AMI ARNs.

Direct the security team to use Amazon EC2 Image Builder to create new AMIs and to place the AMI ARNs as parameters in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. Instruct the developers to specify a parameter of type SSM in their CloudFormation stack to obtain the most recent AMI ARNs from Parameter Store.

Direct the security team to use Amazon EC2 Image Builder to create new AMIs and to create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic so that every development team can receive notifications. When the development teams receive a notification, instruct them to write an AWS Lambda function that will update their CloudFormation stack with the most recent AMI ARNs.

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Question # 55

A company uses Amazon RDS for all databases in Its AWS accounts The company uses AWS Control Tower to build a landing zone that has an audit and logging account All databases must be encrypted at rest for compliance reasons. The company's security engineer needs to receive notification about any noncompliant databases that are in the company's accounts

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

Use AWS Control Tower to activate the optional detective control (guardrail) to determine whether the RDS storage is encrypted Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic in the company's audit account. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to filter noncompliant events from the AWS Control Tower control (guardrail) to notify the SNS topic. Subscribe the security engineer's email address to the SNS topic

Use AWS Cloud Formation StackSets to deploy AWS Lambda functions to every account. Write the Lambda function code to determine whether the RDS storage is encrypted in the account the function is deployed to Send the findings as an Amazon CloudWatch metric to the management account Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Create a CloudWatch alarm that notifies the SNS topic when metric thresholds are met. Subscribe t

Create a custom AWS Config rule in every account to determine whether the RDS storage is encrypted Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic in the audit account Create an Amazon EventBridge rule to filter noncompliant events from the AWS Control Tower control (guardrail) to notify the SNS topic. Subscribe the security engineer's email address to the SNS topic

Launch an Amazon EC2 instance. Run an hourly cron job by using the AWS CLI to determine whether the RDS storage is encrypted in each AWS account Store the results in an RDS database. Notify the security engineer by sending email messages from the EC2 instance when noncompliance is detected

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Question # 56

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?

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that matches an AWS Config evaluation result of NON_COMPLIANT tor the restricted-ssh rule. Configure an input transformer for the EventBridge rule Configure the EventBridge rule to publish a notification to the SNS topic.

Configure AWS Config to send all evaluation results for the restricted-ssh rule to the SNS topic. Configure a filter policy on the SNS topic to send only notifications that contain the text of NON_COMPLIANT in the notification to subscribers.

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that matches an AWS Config evaluation result of NON_COMPLlANT for the restricted-ssh rule Configure the EventBridge rule to invoke AWS Systems Manager Run Command on the SNS topic to customize a notification and to publish the notification to the SNS topic

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that matches all AWS Config evaluation results of NON_COMPLIANT Configure an input transformer for the restricted-ssh rule Configure the EventBridge rule to publish a notification to the SNS topic.

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Question # 57

A company uses an AWS CodeCommit repository to store its source code and corresponding unit tests. The company has configured an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that includes an AWS CodeBuild project that runs when code is merged to the main branch of the repository.

The company wants the CodeBuild project to run the unit tests. If the unit tests pass, the CodeBuild project must tag the most recent commit.

How should the company configure the CodeBuild project to meet these requirements?

Configure the CodeBuild project to use native Git to clone the CodeCommit repository. Configure the project to run the unit tests. Configure the project to use native Git to create a tag and to push the Git tag to the repository if the code passes the unit tests.

Configure the CodeBuild project to use native Git to clone the CodeCommit repository. Configure the project to run the unit tests. Configure the project to use AWS CLI commands to create a new repository tag in the repository if the code passes the unit tests.

Configure the CodeBuild project to use AWS CLI commands to copy the code from the CodeCommit repository. Configure the project lo run the unit tests. Configure the project to use AWS CLI commands to create a new Git tag in the repository if the code passes the unit tests.

Configure the CodeBuild project to use AWS CLI commands to copy the code from the CodeCommit repository. Configure the project to run the unit tests. Configure the project to use AWS CLI commands to create a new repository tag in the repository if the code passes the unit tests.

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Question # 58

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?

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to RDS storage autoscaling events from RDS events. Create an AWS Lambda function that publishes a CloudWatch custom metric. Configure the EventBridge rule to invoke the Lambda function. Visualize the custom metric by using the CloudWatch dashboard.

Create a trail by using AWS CloudTrail with management events configured. Configure the trail to send the management events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Create a metric filter in CloudWatch Logs to match the RDS storage autoscaling events. Visualize the metric filter by using the CloudWatch dashboard.

Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to RDS storage autoscaling events (rom the RDS events. Create a CloudWatch alarm. Configure the EventBridge rule to change the status of the CloudWatch alarm. Visualize the alarm status by using the CloudWatch dashboard.

Create a trail by using AWS CloudTrail with data events configured. Configure the trail to send the data events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Create a metric filter in CloudWatch Logs to match the RDS storage autoscaling events. Visualize the metric filter by using the CloudWatch dashboard.

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Question # 59

A rapidly growing company wants to scale for developer demand for AWS development environments. Development environments are created manually in the AWS Management Console. The networking team uses AWS CloudFormation to manage the networking infrastructure, exporting stack output values for the Amazon VPC and all subnets. The development environments have common standards, such as Application Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups, security groups, and Amazon DynamoDB tables.

To keep up with demand, the DevOps engineer wants to automate the creation of development environments. Because the infrastructure required to support the application is expected to grow, there must be a way to easily update the deployed infrastructure. CloudFormation will be used to create a template for the development environments.

Which approach will meet these requirements and quickly provide consistent AWS environments for developers?

Use Fn::ImportValue intrinsic functions in the Resources section of the template to retrieve Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnet values. Use CloudFormation StackSets for the development environments, using the Count input parameter to indicate the number of environments needed. Use the UpdateStackSet command to update existing development environments.

Use nested stacks to define common infrastructure components. To access the exported values, use TemplateURL to reference the networking team’s template. To retrieve Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnet values, use Fn::ImportValue intrinsic functions in the Parameters section of the root template. Use the CreateChangeSet and ExecuteChangeSet commands to update existing development environments.

Use nested stacks to define common infrastructure components. Use Fn::ImportValue intrinsic functions with the resources of the nested stack to retrieve Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnet values. Use the CreateChangeSet and ExecuteChangeSet commands to update existing development environments.

Use Fn::ImportValue intrinsic functions in the Parameters section of the root template to retrieve Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and subnet values. Define the development resources in the order they need to be created in the CloudFormation nested stacks. Use the CreateChangeSet. and ExecuteChangeSet commands to update existing development environments.

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Question # 60

A DevOps engineer is architecting a continuous development strategy for a company's software as a service (SaaS) web application running on AWS. For application and security reasons users subscribing to this application are distributed across multiple. Application Load Balancers (ALBs) each of which has a dedicated Auto Scaling group and fleet of Amazon EC2 instances The application does not require a build stage and when it is committed to AWS CodeCommit, the application must trigger a simultaneous deployment to all ALBs Auto Scaling groups and EC2 fleets.

Which architecture will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of configuration?

Create a single AWS CodePipeline pipeline that deploys the application in parallel using unique AWS CodeDeploy applications and deployment groups created for each ALB-Auto Scaling group pair.

Create a single AWS CodePipeline pipeline that deploys the application using a single AWS CodeDeploy application and single deployment group.

Create a single AWS CodePipeline pipeline that deploys the application in parallel using a single AWS CodeDeploy application and unique deployment group for each ALB-Auto Scaling group pair.

Create an AWS CodePipeline pipeline for each ALB-Auto Scaling group pair that deploys the application using an AWS CodeDeploy application and deployment group created for the same ALB-Auto Scaling group pair.

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Question # 61

A company uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys and manual key rotation to meet regulatory compliance requirements. The security team wants to be notified when any keys have not been rotated after 90 days.

Which solution will accomplish this?

Configure AWS KMS to publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when keys are more than 90 days old.

Configure an Amazon EventBridge event to launch an AWS Lambda function to call the AWS Trusted Advisor API and publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.

Develop an AWS Config custom rule that publishes to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when keys are more than 90 days old.

Configure AWS Security Hub to publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when keys are more than 90 days old.

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Question # 62

A DevOps team manages infrastructure for an application. The application uses long-running processes to process items from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The application is deployed to an Auto Scaling group.

The application recently experienced an issue where items were taking significantly longer to process. The queue exceeded the expected size, which prevented various business processes from functioning properly. The application records all logs to a third-party tool.

The team is currently subscribed to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that the team uses for alerts. The team needs to be alerted if the queue exceeds the expected size.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

Create an Amazon CloudWatch metric alarm with a period of 1 hour and a static threshold to alarm if the average of the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayed metric is greater than the expected value. Configure the alarm to notify the SNS topic.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch metric alarm with a period of 1 hour and a static threshold to alarm if the sum of the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible metric is greater than the expected value. Configure the alarm to notify the SNS topic.

Create an AWS Lambda function that retrieves the ApproximateNumberOfMessages SQS queue attribute value and publishes it as a new CloudWatch custom metric. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that is scheduled to run every 5 minutes and that invokes the Lambda function. Configure a CloudWatch metrics alarm with a period of 1 hour and a static threshold to alarm if the sum of the new custom metric is greater than the expected value.

Create an AWS Lambda function that checks the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayed SQS queue attribute and compares the value to a defined expected size in the function. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that is scheduled to run every 5 minutes and that invokes the Lambda function. When the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayed SQS queue attribute exceeds the expected size, send a notification the SNS topic.

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Explanation:

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation From Exact Extract:

The Amazon SQS service publishes several standard CloudWatch metrics by default, includingApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible, which represents the number of messages available for retrieval from the queue (i.e., the number of messages waiting to be processed). This is the primary metric to monitor queue backlog and processing delays.

UsingApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisibleto monitor the visible messages in the queue gives a direct and near real-time indication of processing delays or backlog.

CloudWatch metrics are automatically collected and available without the need to create custom metrics or Lambda functions, which increases operational efficiency by reducing complexity and maintenance overhead.

Setting a CloudWatch alarm on this metric with a static threshold and a reasonable evaluation period (such as 1 hour) is sufficient to alert the team when the queue grows beyond an expected size.

The alarm can be directly configured to send notifications to an existing SNS topic, maintaining seamless integration with the team’s alerting mechanisms.

TheApproximateNumberOfMessagesDelayedmetric refers to messages that are delayed and not available for processing yet due to delay settings, which is not the direct backlog that causes business process delays.

Options C and D introduce unnecessary complexity by requiring Lambda functions and custom metrics or scheduled invocations, which reduce operational efficiency compared to using built-in CloudWatch metrics and alarms.

Reference from AWS Official Documentation and Study Guide:

Amazon SQS Monitoring with CloudWatch Metrics:"Amazon SQS automatically sends metrics to CloudWatch, including ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible, which shows the number of messages available for retrieval."(Source:Amazon SQS Monitoring - AWS Documentation)

Setting CloudWatch Alarms for SQS Queues:"You can create CloudWatch alarms on SQS metrics such as ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible to receive notifications when the queue size exceeds a threshold."(Source:Amazon CloudWatch Alarms - AWS Documentation)

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Exam Guide:"Efficient alerting for queue backlogs should leverage native CloudWatch metrics to minimize operational overhead."(Source: Official AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Study Guide)

Question # 63

A DevOps engineer is designing an application that integrates with a legacy REST API. The application has an AWS Lambda function that reads records from an Amazon Kinesis data stream. The Lambda function sends the records to the legacy REST API.

Approximately 10% of the records that the Lambda function sends from the Kinesis data stream have data errors and must be processed manually. The Lambda function event source configuration has an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) dead-letter queue as an on-failure destination. The DevOps engineer has configured the Lambda function to process records in batches and has implemented retries in case of failure.

During testing the DevOps engineer notices that the dead-letter queue contains many records that have no data errors and that already have been processed by the legacy REST API. The DevOps engineer needs to configure the Lambda function's event source options to reduce the number of errorless records that are sent to the dead-letter queue.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Increase the retry attempts

Configure the setting to split the batch when an error occurs

Increase the concurrent batches per shard

Decrease the maximum age of record

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Question # 64

A company has an AWS Control Tower landing zone. The company's DevOps team creates a workload OU. A development OU and a production OU are nested under the workload OU. The company grants users full access to the company's AWS accounts to deploy applications.

The DevOps team needs to allow only a specific management 1AM role to manage the 1AM roles and policies of any AWS accounts In only the production OU.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? {Select TWO.)

Create an SCP that denies full access with a condition to exclude the management 1AM role for the organization root.

Ensure that the FullAWSAccess SCP is applied at the organization root

Create an SCP that allows IAM related actions Attach the SCP to the development OU

Create an SCP that denies IAM related actions with a condition to exclude the management I AM role Attach the SCP to the workload OU

Create an SCP that denies IAM related actions with a condition to exclude the management 1AM role Attach the SCP to the production OU

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Question # 65

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.)

Invite the acquired company's AWS accounts to join the organization. Create an SCP that has full administrative privileges. Attach the SCP to the management account.

Invite the acquired company's AWS accounts to join the organization. Create the OrganizationAccountAccessRole 1AM role in the invited accounts. Grant permission to the management account to assume the role.

Use AWS Security Hub to collect and group findings across all accounts. Use Security Hub to automatically detect new accounts as the accounts are added to the organization.

Use AWS Firewall Manager to collect and group findings across all accounts. Enable all features for the organization. Designate an account in the organization as the delegated administrator account for Firewall Manager.

Use Amazon Inspector to collect and group findings across all accounts. Designate an account in the organization as the delegated administrator account for Amazon Inspector.

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Question # 66

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) The EC2 Instances are in multiple Availability Zones The application was misconfigured in a single Availability Zone, which caused a partial outage of the application.

A DevOps engineer made changes to ensure that the unhealthy EC2 instances in one Availability Zone do not affect the healthy EC2 instances in the other Availability Zones. The DevOps engineer needs to test the application's failover and shift where the ALB sends traffic During failover. the ALB must avoid sending traffic to the Availability Zone where the failure has occurred.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Turn off cross-zone load balancing on the ALB Use Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller to start a zonal shift away from the Availability Zone

Turn off cross-zone load balancing on the ALB's target group Use Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller to start a zonal shift away from the Availability Zone

Create an Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller resource set that uses the DNS hostname of the ALB Start a zonal shift for the resource set away from the Availability Zone

Create an Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller resource set that uses the ARN of the ALB's target group Create a readiness check that uses the ElbV2TargetGroupsCanServeTraffic rule

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Question # 67

A company is running a custom-built application that processes records. All the components run on Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Each record's processing is a multistep sequential action that is compute-intensive. Each step is always completed in 5 minutes or less.

A limitation of the current system is that if any steps fail, the application has to reprocess the record from the beginning The company wants to update the architecture so that the application must reprocess only the failed steps.

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Create a web application to write records to Amazon S3 Use S3 Event Notifications to publish to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic Use an EC2 instance to poll Amazon SNS and start processing Save intermediate results to Amazon S3 to pass on to the next step

Perform the processing steps by using logic in the application. Convert the application code to run in a container. Use AWS Fargate to manage the container Instances. Configure the container to invoke itself to pass the state from one step to the next.

Create a web application to pass records to an Amazon Kinesis data stream. Decouple the processing by using the Kinesis data stream and AWS Lambda functions.

Create a web application to pass records to AWS Step Functions. Decouple the processing into Step Functions tasks and AWS Lambda functions.

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Question # 68

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?

Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of the EC2 instances in each Region. Create a Route 53 A record with a latency-based routing policy. Add IP addresses of the ALBs as the value of the record.

Deploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of the EC2 instances in each Region. Deploy an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an origin group that contains the ALBs as origins. Create a Route 53 alias record that points to the CloudFront distribution's DNS address.

Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in front of the EC2 instances in each Region. Create a Route 53 A record with a multivalue answer routing policy. Add IP addresses of the NLBs as the value of the record.

Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in front of the EC2 instances in each Region. Deploy an AWS Global Accelerator standard accelerator with an endpoint group for each NLB. Create a Route 53 alias record that points to the accelerator's DNS address.

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Question # 69

An application running on a set of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group requires a configuration file to operate. The instances are created and maintained with AWS CloudFormation. A DevOps engineer wants the instances to have the latest configuration file when launched and wants changes to the configuration file to be reflected on all the instances with a minimal delay when the CloudFormation template is updated. Company policy requires that application configuration files be maintained along with AWS infrastructure configuration files m source control.

Which solution will accomplish this?

In the CloudFormaiion template add an AWS Config rule. Place the configuration file content in the rule's InputParameters property and set the Scope property to the EC2 Auto Scaling group. Add an AWS Systems Manager Resource Data Sync resource to the template to poll for updates to the configuration.

In the CloudFormation template add an EC2 launch template resource. Place the configuration file content in the launch template. Configure the cfn-mit script to run when the instance is launched and configure the cfn-hup script to poll for updates to the configuration.

In the CloudFormation template add an EC2 launch template resource. Place the configuration file content in the launch template. Add an AWS Systems Manager Resource Data Sync resource to the template to poll for updates to the configuration.

In the CloudFormation template add CloudFormation imt metadata. Place the configuration file content m the metadata. Configure the cfn-init script to run when the instance is launched and configure the cfn-hup script to poll for updates to the configuration.

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Question # 70

A DevOps engineer is planning to deploy a Ruby-based application to production. The application needs to interact with an Amazon RDS for MySQL database and should have automatic scaling and high availability. The stored data in the database is critical and should persist regardless of the state of the application stack.

The DevOps engineer needs to set up an automated deployment strategy for the application with automatic rollbacks. The solution also must alert the application team when a deployment fails.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

Deploy the application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Deploy an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance as part of the Elastic Beanstalk configuration.

Deploy the application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Deploy a separate Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance outside of Elastic Beanstalk.

Configure a notification email address that alerts the application team in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk configuration.

Configure an Amazon EventBridge rule to monitor AWS Health events. Use an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as a target to alert the application team.

Use the immutable deployment method to deploy new application versions.

Use the rolling deployment method to deploy new application versions.

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Question # 71

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?

Set up multiple CloudFront distributions. Point each distribution to another S3 bucket in a different Region. Use Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing to direct users to the nearest distribution.

Enable S3 replication between the S3 bucket in us-east-1 and the S3 bucket in the different Region.

Enable CloudFront with Origin Shield in us-east-1. Configure global edge locations. Set up cache behaviors with optimal TTLs for static content and dynamic content. Configure origin failover to an S3 bucket in a different Region. Enable S3 replication between the S3 bucket in us-east-1 and the S3 bucket in the different Region.

Enable CloudFront with Origin Shield in us-east-1. Configure Amazon ElastiCache clusters in multiple Regions to serve as a distributed caching layer between CloudFront and the S3 origin. Set up a replication script to synchronize the S3 bucket in us-east-1 to an S3 bucket in a different Region. Use Amazon EventBridge to schedule the script to run once a day.

Enable CloudFront with Origin Shield in the eu-west-1 Region. Configure Regional edge caches. Implement AWS Global Accelerator to route requests to the nearest Regional edge location. Enable S3 replication between the S3 bucket in us-east-1 and an S3 bucket in a different Region.

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Question # 72

A company has a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that run Linux in a single AWS account. The company is using an AWS Systems Manager Automation task across the EC2 instances.

During the most recent patch cycle, several EC2 instances went into an error state because of insufficient available disk space. A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that the EC2 instances have sufficient available disk space during the patching process in the future.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? {Select TWO.)

Ensure that the Amazon CloudWatch agent is installed on all EC2 instances

Create a cron job that is installed on each EC2 instance to periodically delete temporary files.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch log group for the EC2 instances. Configure a cron job that is installed on each EC2 instance to write the available disk space to a CloudWatch log stream for the relevant EC2 instance.

Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor available disk space on all EC2 instances Add the alarm as a safety control to the Systems Manager Automation task.

Create an AWS Lambda function to periodically check for sufficient available disk space on all EC2 instances by evaluating each EC2 instance's respective Amazon CloudWatch log stream.

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Question # 73

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?

Deletion has failed because the S3 bucket has an active website configuration. Modify the Cloud Formation template to remove the WebsiteConfiguration properly from the S3 bucket resource.

Deletion has failed because the S3 bucket is not empty. Modify the custom resource's AWS Lambda function code to recursively empty the bucket when RequestType is Delete.

Deletion has failed because the custom resource does not define a deletion policy. Add a DeletionPolicy property to the custom resource definition with a value of RemoveOnDeletion.

Deletion has failed because the S3 bucket is not empty. Modify the S3 bucket resource in the CloudFormation template to add a DeletionPolicy property with a value of Empty.

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Question # 74

A company uses an Amazon API Gateway regional REST API to host its application API. The REST API has a custom domain. The REST API's default endpoint is deactivated.

The company's internal teams consume the API. The company wants to use mutual TLS between the API and the internal teams as an additional layer of authentication.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to create a private certificate authority (CA). Provision a client certificate that is signed by the private CA.

Provision a client certificate that is signed by a public certificate authority (CA). Import the certificate into AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

Upload the provisioned client certificate to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the API Gateway mutual TLS to use the client certificate that is stored in the S3 bucket as the trust store.

Upload the provisioned client certificate private key to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the API Gateway mutual TLS to use the private key that is stored in the S3 bucket as the trust store.

Upload the root private certificate authority (CA) certificate to an Amazon S3 bucket. Configure the API Gateway mutual TLS to use the private CA certificate that is stored in the S3 bucket as the trust store.

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Question # 75

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.)

Check the returned response for the Versioned Compare the returned Versioned against the MD5 checksum.

Include the MD5 checksum within the Content-MD5 parameter. Check the operation call's return status to find out if an error was returned.

Include the checksum digest within the tagging parameter as a URL query parameter.

Check the returned response for the ETag. Compare the returned ETag against the MD5 checksum.

Include the checksum digest within the Metadata parameter as a name-value pair After upload use the S3 HeadObject operation to retrieve metadata from the object.

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Question # 76

An Amazon EC2 instance is running in a VPC and needs to download an object from a restricted Amazon S3 bucket. When the DevOps engineer tries to download the object, an AccessDenied error is received,

What are the possible causes tor this error? (Select TWO,)

The 53 bucket default encryption is enabled.

There is an error in the S3 bucket policy.

The object has been moved to S3 Glacier.

There is an error in the IAM role configuration.

S3 Versioning is enabled.

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Question # 77

A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager documents to bootstrap physical laptops for developers The bootstrap code Is stored in GitHub A DevOps engineer has already created a Systems Manager activation, installed the Systems Manager agent with the registration code, and installed an activation ID on all the laptops.

Which set of steps should be taken next?

Configure the Systems Manager document to use the AWS-RunShellScnpt command to copy the files from GitHub to Amazon S3, then use the aws-downloadContent plugin with a sourceType of S3

Configure the Systems Manager document to use the aws-configurePackage plugin with an install action and point to the Git repository

Configure the Systems Manager document to use the aws-downloadContent plugin with a sourceType of GitHub and sourcelnfo with the repository details.

Configure the Systems Manager document to use the aws:softwarelnventory plugin and run the script from the Git repository

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Question # 78

A company is using AWS to run digital workloads. Each application team in the company has its own AWS account for application hosting. The accounts are consolidated in an organization in AWS Organizations.

The company wants to enforce security standards across the entire organization. To avoid noncompliance because of security misconfiguration, the company has enforced the use of AWS CloudFormation. A production support team can modify resources in the production environment by using the AWS Management Console to troubleshoot and resolve application-related issues.

A DevOps engineer must implement a solution to identify in near real time any AWS service misconfiguration that results in noncompliance. The solution must automatically remediate the issue within 15 minutes of identification. The solution also must track noncompliant resources and events in a centralized dashboard with accurate timestamps.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development overhead?

Use CloudFormation drift detection to identify noncompliant resources. Use drift detection events from CloudFormation to invoke an AWS Lambda function for remediation. Configure the Lambda function to publish logs to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. Configure an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to use the log group for tracking.

Turn on AWS CloudTrail in the AWS accounts. Analyze CloudTrail logs by using Amazon Athena to identify noncompliant resources. Use AWS Step Functions to track query results on Athena for drift detection and to invoke an AWS Lambda function for remediation. For tracking, set up an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that uses Athena as the data source.

Turn on the configuration recorder in AWS Config in all the AWS accounts to identify noncompliant resources. Enable AWS Security Hub with the ~no-enable-default-standards option in all the AWS accounts. Set up AWS Config managed rules and custom rules. Set up automatic remediation by using AWS Config conformance packs. For tracking, set up a dashboard on Security Hub in a designated Security Hub administrator account.

Turn on AWS CloudTrail in the AWS accounts. Analyze CloudTrail logs by using Amazon CloudWatch Logs to identify noncompliant resources. Use CloudWatch Logs filters for drift detection. Use Amazon EventBridge to invoke the Lambda function for remediation. Stream filtered CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Set up a dashboard on OpenSearch Service for tracking.

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Explanation:

The best solution is to use AWS Config and AWS Security Hub to identify and remediate noncompliant resources across multiple AWS accounts. AWS Config enables continuous monitoring of the configuration of AWS resources and evaluates them against desired configurations. AWS Config can also automatically remediate noncompliant resources by using conformance packs, which are a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity. AWS Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of the security posture of AWS accounts and resources. AWS Security Hub can aggregate and normalize the findings from AWS Config and other AWS services, as well as from partner solutions. AWS Security Hub can also be used to create a dashboard for tracking noncompliant resources and events in a centralized location.

The other options are not optimal because they either require more development overhead, do not provide near real time detection and remediation, or do not provide a centralized dashboard for tracking.

Option A is not optimal because CloudFormation drift detection is not a near real time solution. Drift detection has to be manually initiated on each stack or resource, or scheduled using a cron expression. Drift detection also does not provide remediation actions, so a custom Lambda function has to be developed and invoked. CloudWatch Logs and dashboard can be used for tracking, but they do not provide a comprehensive view of the security posture of the AWS accounts and resources.

Option B is not optimal because CloudTrail logs analysis using Athena is not a near real time solution. Athena queries have to be manually run or scheduled using a cron expression. Athena also does not provide remediation actions, so a custom Lambda function has to be developed and invoked. Step Functions can be used to orchestrate the query and remediation workflow, but it adds more complexity and cost. QuickSight dashboard can be used for tracking, but it does not provide a comprehensive view of the security posture of the AWS accounts and resources.

Option D is not optimal because CloudTrail logs analysis using CloudWatch Logs is not a near real time solution. CloudWatch Logs filters have to be manually created or updated for each resource type and configuration change. CloudWatch Logs also does not provide remediation actions, so a custom Lambda function has to be developed and invoked. EventBridge can be used to trigger the Lambda function, but it adds more complexity and cost. OpenSearch Service dashboard can be used for tracking, but it does not provide a comprehensive view of the security posture of the AWS accounts and resources.

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Question # 79

A company needs to implement failover for its application. The application includes an Amazon CloudFront distribution and a public Application Load Balancer (ALB) in an AWS Region. The company has configured the ALB as the default origin for the distribution.

After some recent application outages, the company wants a zero-second RTO. The company deploys the application to a secondary Region in a warm standby configuration. A DevOps engineer needs to automate the failover of the application to the secondary Region so that HTTP GET requests meet the desired RTO.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create a second CloudFront distribution that has the secondary ALB as the default origin. Create Amazon Route 53 alias records that have a failover policy and Evaluate Target Health set to Yes for both CloudFront distributions. Update the application to use the new record set.

Create a new origin on the distribution for the secondary ALB. Create a new origin group. Set the original ALB as the primary origin. Configure the origin group to fail over for HTTP 5xx status codes. Update the default behavior to use the origin group.

Create Amazon Route 53 alias records that have a failover policy and Evaluate Target Health set to Yes for both ALBs. Set the TTL of both records to 0. Update the distribution's origin to use the new record set.

Create a CloudFront function that detects HTTP 5xx status codes. Configure the function to return a 307 Temporary Redirect error response to the secondary ALB if the function detects 5xx status codes. Update the distribution's default behavior to send origin responses to the function.

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Question # 80

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?

Modify the Lambda function to write the API operation name, response code, and version number as a log line to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. Configure a CloudWatch Logs metric filter that increments a metric for each API operation name. Specify response code and application version as dimensions for the metric.

Modify the Lambda function to write the API operation name, response code, and version number as a log line to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. Configure a CloudWatch Logs Insights query to populate CloudWatch metrics from the log lines. Specify response code and application version as dimensions for the metric.

Configure the ALB access logs to write to an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. Modify the Lambda function to respond to the ALB with the API operation name, response code, and version number as response metadata. Configure a CloudWatch Logs metric filter that increments a metric for each API operation name. Specify response code and application version as dimensions for the metric.

Configure AWS X-Ray integration on the Lambda function. Modify the Lambda function to create an X-Ray subsegment with the API operation name, response code, and version number. Configure X-Ray insights to extract an aggregated metric for each API operation name and to publish the metric to Amazon CloudWatch. Specify response code and application version as dimensions for the metric.

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Question # 81

A company is using an AWS CodeBuild project to build and package an application. The packages are copied to a shared Amazon S3 bucket before being deployed across multiple AWS accounts.

The buildspec.yml file contains the following:

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The DevOps engineer has noticed that anybody with an AWS account is able to download the artifacts.

What steps should the DevOps engineer take to stop this?

Modify the post_build command to use --acl public-read and configure a bucket policy that grants read access to the relevant AWS accounts only.

Configure a default ACL for the S3 bucket that defines the set of authenticated users as the relevant AWS accounts only and grants read-only access.

Create an S3 bucket policy that grants read access to the relevant AWS accounts and denies read access to the principal “*”.

Modify the post_build command to remove --acl authenticated-read and configure a bucket policy that allows read access to the relevant AWS accounts only.

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Question # 82

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?

Enable AWS Control Tower. Enroll the existing accounts in AWS Control Tower. Grant the individual account administrators access to CloudTrail and AWS Config.

Designate an AWS Config management account. Create AWS Config recorders in all accounts by using AWS CloudFormation StackSets. Deploy AWS Config rules to the organization by using the AWS Config management account. Create a CloudTrail organization trail in the organization’s management account. Deny modification or deletion of the AWS Config recorders by using an SCP.

Create an AWS CloudFormation template that defines the standard account resources. Deploy the template to all accounts from the organization's management account by using Cloud Formation StackSets Create an SCP that prevents updates or deletions to CloudTrail resources or AWS Config resources unless the principal is an administrator of the organization's management account.

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Question # 83

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?

Store the Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Implement a local Docker layer cache for CodeBuild.

Cache the Docker images in an Amazon S3 bucket that is available across multiple build hosts. Expire the cache by using an S3 Lifecycle policy.

Store the Docker images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository. Modify the CodeBuild project runtime configuration to always use the most recent image version.

Create custom AMIs that contain the cached Docker images. In the CodeBuild build, launch Amazon EC2 instances from the custom AMIs.

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Question # 84

A DevOps team operates an integration service that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The DevOps team uses Amazon Route 53 to manage the integration service's domain name by using a simple routing record. The integration service is stateful and uses Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for data storage and state storage. The integration service does not support load balancing between multiple nodes. The DevOps team deploys the integration service on a new EC2 instance as a warm standby to reduce the mean time to recovery. The DevOps team wants the integration service to automatically fail over to the standby EC2 instance. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Update the existing Route 53 DNS record's routing policy to weighted. Set the existing DNS record's weighting to 100. For the same domain, add a new DNS record that points to the standby EC2 instance. Set the new DNS record's weighting to 0. Associate an application health check with each record.

Update the existing Route 53 DNS record's routing policy to weighted. Set the existing DNS record's weighting to 99. For the same domain, add a new DNS record that points to the standby EC2 instance. Set the new DNS record's weighting to 1. Associate an application health check with each record.

Create an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Update the existing Route 53 record to point to the ALB. Create a target group for each EC2 instance. Configure an application health check on each target group. Associate both target groups with the same ALB listener. Set the primary target group's weighting to 100. Set the standby target group's weighting to 0.

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Question # 85

A DevOps engineer is setting up an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) blue/green deployment for an application by using AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. During the deployment window, the application must be highly available and CodeDeploy must shift 10% of traffic to a new version of the application every minute until all traffic is shifted.

Which configuration should the DevOps engineer add in the CloudFormation template to meet these requirements?

Add an AppSpec file with the CodeDeployDefault.ECSLineaMOPercentEverylMinutes deployment configuration.

Add the AWS::CodeDeployBlueGreen transform and the AWS::CodeDeploy::BlueGreen hook parameter with the CodeDeployDefault.ECSLinear10PercentEvery1 Minutes deployment configuration.

Add an AppSpec file with the ECSCanary10Percent5Minutes deployment configuration.

Add the AWS::CodeDeployBlueGroen transform and the AWS::CodeDeploy::BlueGreen hook parameter with the ECSCanary10Percent5Minutes deployment configuration.

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Question # 86

A company manages multiple AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations with OUS for the different business divisions, The company is updating their corporate network to use new IP address ranges. The company has 10 Amazon S3 buckets in different AWS accounts. The S3 buckets store reports for the different divisions. The S3 bucket configurations allow only private corporate network IP addresses to access the S3 buckets.

A DevOps engineer needs to change the range of IP addresses that have permission to access the contents of the S3 buckets The DevOps engineer also needs to revoke the permissions of two OUS in the company

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create a new SCP that has two statements, one that allows access to the new range of IP addresses for all the S3 buckets and one that demes access to the old range of IP addresses for all the S3 buckets. Set a permissions boundary for the OrganzauonAccountAccessRole role In the two OUS to deny access to the S3 buckets.

Create a new SCP that has a statement that allows only the new range of IP addresses to access the S3 buckets. Create another SCP that denies access to the S3 buckets. Attach the second SCP to the two OUS

On all the S3 buckets, configure resource-based policies that allow only the new range of IP addresses to access the S3 buckets. Create a new SCP that denies access to the S3 buckets. Attach the SCP to the two OUs.

On all the S3 buckets, configure resource-based policies that allow only the new range of IP addresses to access the S3 buckets. Set a permissions boundary for the OrganizationAccountAccessRole role in the two OUS to deny access to the S3 buckets.

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Explanation:

The correct answer is C.

A comprehensive and detailed explanation is:

Option A is incorrect because creating a new SCP that has two statements, one that allows access to the new range of IP addresses for all the S3 buckets and one that denies access to the old range of IP addresses for all the S3 buckets, is not a valid solution. SCPs are not resource-based policies, and they cannot specify the S3 buckets or the IP addresses as resources or conditions. SCPs can only control the actions that can be performed by the principals in the organization, not the access to specific resources. Moreover, setting a permissions boundary for the OrganizationAccountAccessRole role in the two OUs to deny access to the S3 buckets is not sufficient to revoke the permissions of the two OUs, as there might be other roles or users in those OUs that can still access the S3 buckets.

Option B is incorrect because creating a new SCP that has a statement that allows only the new range of IP addresses to access the S3 buckets is not a valid solution, for the same reason as option A. SCPs are not resource-based policies, and they cannot specify the S3 buckets or the IP addresses as resources or conditions. Creating another SCP that denies access to the S3 buckets and attaching it to the two OUs is also not a valid solution, as SCPs cannot specify the S3 buckets as resources either.

Option C is correct because it meets both requirements of changing the range of IP addresses that have permission to access the contents of the S3 buckets and revoking the permissions of two OUs in the company. On all the S3 buckets, configuring resource-based policies that allow only the new range of IP addresses to access the S3 buckets is a valid way to update the IP address ranges, as resource-based policies can specify both resources and conditions. Creating a new SCP that denies access to the S3 buckets and attaching it to the two OUs is also a valid way to revoke the permissions of those OUs, as SCPs can deny actions such as s3:PutObject or s3:GetObject on any resource.

Option D is incorrect because setting a permissions boundary for the OrganizationAccountAccessRole role in the two OUs to deny access to the S3 buckets is not sufficient to revoke the permissions of the two OUs, as there might be other roles or users in those OUs that can still access the S3 buckets. A permissions boundary is a policy that defines the maximum permissions that an IAM entity can have. However, it does not revoke any existing permissions that are granted by other policies.

[References:, AWS Organizations, S3 Bucket Policies, Service Control Policies, Permissions Boundaries, , , ]

Question # 87

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 CodeCommit repository. When code is merged to the main branch, an AWS Lambda function invokes an AWS CodeBuild project. The CodeBuild project packages 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 are not running the latest version of the packaged code, and inconsistencies between instances.

Which combination of actions should a DevOps engineer take to implement a more reliable deployment solution? (Select TWO.)

Create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline that uses the CodeCommit repository as a source provider. Create separate pipeline stages that run a CodeBuild project to build and then test the application. In the pipeline, pass the CodeBuild project output artifact to an AWS CodeDeploy action.

Create an AWS CodeDeploy application and a deployment group to deploy the packaged code to the EC2 instances. Configure the ALB for the deployment group.

Create individual Lambda functions that use AWS CodeDeploy instead of Systems Manager to run build, test, and deploy actions.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket. Modify the CodeBuild project to store the packages in the S3 bucket instead of in CodeArtifact. Use deploy actions in CodeDeploy to deploy the artifact to the EC2 instances.

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A, C

Explanation:

To implement a more reliable deployment solution, a DevOps engineer should take the following actions:

Create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline that uses the CodeCommit repository as a source provider. Configure pipeline stages that run the CodeBuild project in parallel to build and test the application. In the pipeline, pass the CodeBuild project output artifact to an AWS CodeDeploy action. This action will improve the deployment reliability by automating the entire process from code commit to deployment, reducing human errors and inconsistencies. By running the build and test stages in parallel, the pipeline can also speed up the delivery time and provide faster feedback. By using CodeDeploy as the deployment action, the pipeline can leverage the features of CodeDeploy, such as traffic shifting, health checks, rollback, and deployment configuration123

Create an AWS CodeDeploy application and a deployment group to deploy the packaged code to the EC2 instances. Configure the ALB for the deployment group. This action will improve the deployment reliability by using CodeDeploy to orchestrate the deployment across multiple EC2 instances behind an ALB. CodeDeploy can perform blue/green deployments or in-place deployments with traffic shifting, which can minimize downtime and reduce risks. CodeDeploy can also monitor the health of the instances during and after the deployment, and automatically roll back if any issues are detected. By configuring the ALB for the deployment group, CodeDeploy can register and deregister instances from the load balancer as needed, ensuring that only healthy instances receive traffic45

The other options are not correct because they do not improve the deployment reliability or follow best practices. Creating separate pipeline stages that run a CodeBuild project to build and then test the application is not a good option because it will increase the pipeline execution time and delay the feedback loop. Creating individual Lambda functions that use CodeDeploy instead of Systems Manager to run build, test, and deploy actions is not a valid option because it will add unnecessary complexity and cost to the solution. Lambda functions are not designed for long-running tasks such as building or deploying applications. Creating an Amazon S3 bucket and modifying the CodeBuild project to store the packages in the S3 bucket instead of in CodeArtifact is not a necessary option because it will not affect the deployment reliability. CodeArtifact is a secure, scalable, and cost-effective package management service that can store and share software packages for application development67

1: What is AWS CodePipeline? - AWS CodePipeline

2: Create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline

3: Deploy an application with AWS CodeDeploy - AWS CodePipeline

4: What is AWS CodeDeploy? - AWS CodeDeploy

5: Configure an Application Load Balancer for your blue/green deployments - AWS CodeDeploy

6: What is AWS Lambda? - AWS Lambda

7: What is AWS CodeArtifact? - AWS CodeArtifact

Question # 88

A company has developed a web application that conducts seasonal sales on public holidays. The web application is deployed on AWS and uses AWS services for storage, database, computing, and encryption. During seasonal sales, the company expects high network traffic from many users. The company must receive insights regarding any unexpected behavior during the sale. A DevOps team wants to review the insights upon detecting anomalous behaviors during the sale. The DevOps team wants to receive recommended actions to resolve the anomalous behaviors. The recommendations must be provided on the provisioned infrastructure to address issues that might occur in the future.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)

Enable Amazon DevOps Guru in the AWS account. Determine the coverage for DevOps Guru for all supported AWS resources in the account. Use the DevOps Guru dashboard to find the analysis, recommendations, and related metrics.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Configure Amazon DevOps Guru to send notifications about important events to the company when anomalies are identified.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket. Store Amazon CloudWatch logs, AWS CloudTrail data, and AWS Config data in the S3 bucket. Use Amazon Athena to generate insights on the data. Create a dashboard by using Amazon QuickSight.

Configure email message reports for an Amazon QuickSight dashboard. Schedule and send the email reports to the company.

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Configure Amazon Athena to send query results about important events to the company when anomalies are identified.

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Question # 89

A company is developing an application that will generate log events. The log events consist of five distinct metrics every one tenth of a second and produce a large amount of data The company needs to configure the application to write the logs to Amazon Time stream The company will configure a daily query against the Timestream table.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the FASTEST query performance? (Select THREE.)

Use batch writes to write multiple log events in a Single write operation

Write each log event as a single write operation

Treat each log as a single-measure record

Treat each log as a multi-measure record

Configure the memory store retention period to be longer than the magnetic store retention period

Configure the memory store retention period to be shorter than the magnetic store retention period

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Answer:

A, D, F

Explanation:

A comprehensive and detailed explanation is:

Option A is correct because using batch writes to write multiple log events in a single write operation is a recommended practice for optimizing the performance and cost of data ingestion in Timestream. Batch writes can reduce the number of network round trips and API calls, and can also take advantage of parallel processing by Timestream. Batch writes can also improve the compression ratio of data in the memory store and the magnetic store, which can reduce the storage costs and improve the query performance1.

Option B is incorrect because writing each log event as a single write operation is not a recommended practice for optimizing the performance and cost of data ingestion in Timestream. Writing each log event as a single write operation would increase the number of network round trips and API calls, and would also reduce the compression ratio of data in the memory store and the magnetic store. This would increase the storage costs and degrade the query performance1.

Option C is incorrect because treating each log as a single-measure record is not a recommended practice for optimizing the query performance in Timestream. Treating each log as a single-measure record would result in creating multiple records for each timestamp, which would increase the storage size and the query latency. Moreover, treating each log as a single-measure record would require using joins to query multiple measures for the same timestamp, which would add complexity and overhead to the query processing2.

Option D is correct because treating each log as a multi-measure record is a recommended practice for optimizing the query performance in Timestream. Treating each log as a multi-measure record would result in creating a single record for each timestamp, which would reduce the storage size and the query latency. Moreover, treating each log as a multi-measure record would allow querying multiple measures for the same timestamp without using joins, which would simplify and speed up the query processing2.

Option E is incorrect because configuring the memory store retention period to be longer than the magnetic store retention period is not a valid option in Timestream. The memory store retention period must always be shorter than or equal to the magnetic store retention period. This ensures that data is moved from the memory store to the magnetic store before it expires out of the memory store3.

Option F is correct because configuring the memory store retention period to be shorter than the magnetic store retention period is a valid option in Timestream. The memory store retention period determines how long data is kept in the memory store, which is optimized for fast point-in-time queries. The magnetic store retention period determines how long data is kept in the magnetic store, which is optimized for fast analytical queries. By configuring these retention periods appropriately, you can balance your storage costs and query performance according to your application needs3.

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Question # 90

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The accounts are in an OU that has a policy attached to allow all actions. The company is migrating several Git repositories to a specified AWS CodeConnections supported Git provider. The Git repositories manage AWS CloudFormation stacks for application infrastructure that the company deploys across multiple AWS Regions. The company wants a DevOps team to integrate CodeConnections into the CloudFormation stacks. The DevOps team must ensure that company staff members can integrate only with the specified Git provider. The deployment process must be highly available across Regions. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)

Add a new SCP statement to the OU that denies the CodeConnections CreatingConnections action where the provider type is not the specified Git provider.

Add a new SCP statement to the OU that allows the CodeConnections CreatingConnections action where the provider type is the specified Git provider.

Use CodeConnections to configure a single CodeConnections connection to each Git repository.

Use CodeConnections to create a CodeConnections connection from each Region where the company operates to each Git repository.

Use CodeConnections to create a CodeConnections repository link. Update each CloudFormation stack to sync from the Git repository.

For each Git repository, create a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline that has the Git repository set as the source and a CloudFormation deployment stage.

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Question # 91

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances. The company uses a series of AWS CloudFormation stacks to define the application resources. A developer performs updates by building and testing the application on a laptop and then uploading the build output and CloudFormation stack templates to Amazon S3. The developer's peers review the changes before the developer performs the CloudFormation stack update and installs a new version of the application onto the EC2 instances.

The deployment process is prone to errors and is time-consuming when the developer updates each EC2 instance with the new application. The company wants to automate as much of the application deployment process as possible while retaining a final manual approval step before the modification of the application or resources.

The company already has moved the source code for the application and the CloudFormation templates to AWS CodeCommit. The company also has created an AWS CodeBuild project to build and test the application.

Which combination of steps will meet the company’s requirements? (Choose two.)

Create an application group and a deployment group in AWS CodeDeploy. Install the CodeDeploy agent on the EC2 instances.

Create an application revision and a deployment group in AWS CodeDeploy. Create an environment in CodeDeploy. Register the EC2 instances to the CodeDeploy environment.

Use AWS CodePipeline to invoke the CodeBuild job, run the CloudFormation update, and pause for a manual approval step. After approval, start the AWS CodeDeploy deployment.

Use AWS CodePipeline to invoke the CodeBuild job, create CloudFormation change sets for each of the application stacks, and pause for a manual approval step. After approval, run the CloudFormation change sets and start the AWS CodeDeploy deployment.

Use AWS CodePipeline to invoke the CodeBuild job, create CloudFormation change sets for each of the application stacks, and pause for a manual approval step. After approval, start the AWS CodeDeploy deployment.

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Question # 92

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?

Create an OpenSearch cluster and subscription filter to send logs; create OpenSearch dashboard with queries for success.

Create a CloudWatch subscription filter with Lambda to parse logs and publish custom metrics; create CloudWatch dashboard with metric graph.

Create a CloudWatch metric filter on the log group with a pattern matching success; create CloudWatch dashboard with metric graph.

Create a Kinesis data stream subscribed to the log group; filter logs by success; send to Lambda; Lambda publishes custom metrics; dashboard uses metric graph.

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Question # 93

A company has set up AWS CodeArtifact repositories with public upstream repositories The company's development team consumes open source dependencies from the repositories in the company's internal network.

The company's security team recently discovered a critical vulnerability in the most recent version of a package that the development team consumes. The security team has produced a patched version to fix the vulnerability. The company needs to prevent the vulnerable version from being downloaded. The company also needs to allow the security team to publish the patched version.

Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? {Select TWO.)

Update the status of the affected CodeArtifact package version to unlisted

Update the status of the affected CodeArtifact package version to deleted

Update the status of the affected CodeArtifact package version to archived.

Update the CodeArtifact package origin control settings to allow direct publishing and to block upstream operations

Update the CodeArtifact package origin control settings to block direct publishing and to allow upstream operations.

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Question # 94

A company updated the AWS Cloud Formation template for a critical business application. The stack update process failed due to an error in the updated template and AWS CloudFormation automatically began the stack rollback process Later a DevOps engineer discovered that the application was still unavailable and that the stack was in the UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state.

Which combination of actions should the DevOps engineer perform so that the stack rollback can complete successfully? (Select TWO.)

Attach the AWSC loud Formation FullAccess IAM policy to the AWS CtoudFormation role.

Automatically recover the stack resources by using AWS CloudFormation drift detection.

Issue a ContinueUpdateRollback command from the AWS CloudFormation console or the AWS CLI.

Manually adjust the resources to match the expectations of the stack.

Update the existing AWS CloudFormation stack by using the original template.

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Question # 95

A company has an on-premises application that is written in Go. A DevOps engineer must move the application to AWS. The company's development team wants to enable blue/green deployments and perform A/B testing.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Deploy the application on an Amazon EC2 instance, and create an AMI of the instance. Use the AMI to create an automatic scaling launch configuration that is used in an Auto Scaling group. Use Elastic Load Balancing to distribute traffic. When changes are made to the application, a new AMI will be created, which will initiate an EC2 instance refresh.

Use Amazon Lightsail to deploy the application. Store the application in a zipped format in an Amazon S3 bucket. Use this zipped version to deploy new versions of the application to Lightsail. Use Lightsail deployment options to manage the deployment.

Use AWS CodeArtifact to store the application code. Use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy the application to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. Use Elastic Load Balancing to distribute the traffic to the EC2 instances. When making changes to the application, upload a new version to CodeArtifact and create a new CodeDeploy deployment.

Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to host the application. Store a zipped version of the application in Amazon S3. Use that location to deploy new versions of the application. Use Elastic Beanstalk to manage the deployment options.

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Question # 96

A company is examining its disaster recovery capability and wants the ability to switch over its daily operations to a secondary AWS Region. The company uses AWS CodeCommit as a source control tool in the primary Region.

A DevOps engineer must provide the capability for the company to develop code in the secondary Region. If the company needs to use the secondary Region, developers can add an additional remote URL to their local Git configuration.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Create a CodeCommit repository in the secondary Region. Create an AWS CodeBuild project to perform a Git mirror operation of the primary Region's CodeCommit repository to the secondary Region's CodeCommit repository. Create an AWS Lambda function that invokes the CodeBuild project. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to merge events in the primary Region's CodeCommit repository. Configure the EventBridge rule to invoke the Lambda

Create an Amazon S3 bucket in the secondary Region. Create an AWS Fargate task to perform a Git mirror operation of the primary Region's CodeCommit repository and copy the result to the S3 bucket. Create an AWS Lambda function that initiates the Fargate task. Create an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to merge events in the CodeCommit repository. Configure the EventBridge rule to invoke the Lambda function.

Create an AWS CodeArtifact repository in the secondary Region. Create an AWS CodePipeline pipeline that uses the primary Region's CodeCommit repository for the source action. Create a Cross-Region stage in the pipeline that packages the CodeCommit repository contents and stores the contents in the CodeArtifact repository when a pull request is merged into the CodeCommit repository.

Create an AWS Cloud9 environment and a CodeCommit repository in the secondary Region. Configure the primary Region's CodeCommit repository as a remote repository in the AWS Cloud9 environment. Connect the secondary Region's CodeCommit repository to the AWS Cloud9 environment.

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