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Amazon
 
SOA-C01
AWS Certified SysOps Adm inistrator - Associate
 
 
Question: 1 
   
A SysOps Administrator is troubleshooting Amazon EC2 connectivity issues to the internet. The EC2 
instance is in a private subnet. Below is the route table that is applied to the subnet of the EC2 
instance. 
Destination – 10.2.0.0/16 
Target – local 
Status – Active 
Propagated – No 
Destination – 0.0.0.0/0 
Target – nat-xxxxxxx 
Status – Blackhole 
Propagated – No 
What has caused the connectivity issue? 
 
A. The NAT gateway no longer exists 
B. There is no route to the internet gateway. 
C. The routes are no longer propagating. 
D. There is no route rule with a destination for the internet. 
 
Answer: A     
 
Question: 2 
   
A company has adopted a security policy that requires all customer data to be encrypted at rest. 
Currently, customer data is stored on a central Amazon EFS file system and accessed by a number of 
different applications from Amazon EC2 instances. 
How can the SysOps Administrator ensure that all customer data stored on the EFS file system meets 
the new requirement? 
 
A. Update the EFS file system settings to enable server-side encryption using AES-256. 
B. Create a new encrypted EFS file system and copy the data from the unencrypted EFS file system to 
the new encrypted EFS file system. 
C. Use AWS CloudHSM to encrypt the files directly before storing them in the EFS file system. 
D. Modify the EFS file system mount options to enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) on each of the 
EC2 instances. 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 3 
   
A SysOps Administrator has implemented an Auto Scaling group with a step scaling policy. The 
 
Administrator notices that the additional instances have not been included in the aggregated 
metrics. 
Why are the additional instances missing from the aggregated metrics? 
 
A. The warm-up period has not expired 
B. The instances are still in the boot process 
C. The instances have not been attached to the Auto Scaling group 
D. The instances are included in a different set of metrics 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 4 
   
A company using AWS Organizations requires that no Amazon S3 buckets in its production accounts 
should ever be deleted. 
What is the SIMPLEST approach the SysOps Administrator can take to ensure S3 buckets in those 
accounts can never be deleted? 
 
A. Set up MFA Delete on all the S3 buckets to prevent the buckets from being ddeleted. 
B. Use service control policies to deny the s3:DeleteBucket action on all buckets in production 
accounts. 
C. Create an IAM group that has an IAM policy to deny the s3:DeleteBucket action on all buckets in 
production accounts. 
D. Use AWS Shield to deny the s3:DeleteBucket action on the AWS account instead of all S3 buckets. 
 
Answer: B     
 
Question: 5 
   
A company’s static website hosted on Amazon S3 was launched recently, and is being used by tens of 
thousands of users. Subsequently, website users are experiencing 503 service unavailable errors. 
Why are these errors occurring? 
 
A. The request rate to Amazon S3 is too high. 
B. There is an error with the Amazon RDS database. 
C. The requests to Amazon S3 do not have the proper permissions. 
D. The users are in different geographical region and Amazon Route 53 is restricting access. 
 
Answer: A     
 
Question: 6 
   
 
A SysOps Administrator is using AWS KMS with AWS-generated key material to encrypt an Amazon 
EBS volume in a company’s AWS environment. The Administrator wants to rotate the KMS keys using 
automatic key rotation, and needs to ensure that the EBS volume encrypted with the current key 
remains readable. 
What should be done to accomplish this? 
 
A. Back up the current KMS key and enable automatic key rotation. 
B. Create a new key in AWS KMS and assign the key to Amazon EBS. 
C. Enable automatic key rotation of the EBS volume key in AWS KMS. 
D. Upload ne key material to the EBS volume key in AWS KMS to enable automatic key rotation for 
the volume. 
 
Answer: C     
 
Explanation: 
References: 
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/rotate-keys.html 
 
Question: 7 
   
A company has an application running on a fleet of Microsoft Windows instances. Patches to the 
operating system need to be applied each month. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager is used to 
apply the patches on a schedule. 
When the fleet is being patched, customers complain about delayed service responses. 
 
A. Change the number of instances patched at any one time to 100%. 
B. Create a snapshot of each server in the fleet using a Systems Manager Automation document 
before starting the patch process. 
C. Configure the maintenance window to patch 10% of the instance in the patch group at a time. 
D. Create a patched Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Configure the maintenance window option to 
deploy the patched AMI on only 10% of the fleet at a time. 
 
Answer: C     
 
Reference: 
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/patching-your-windows-ec2-instances-using-aws-systemsmanager- 
patch-manager/ 
 
Question: 8 
   
An organization has decided to consolidate storage and move all of its backups and archives to 
Amazon S3. With all of the data gathered into a hierarchy under a single directory, the organization 
determines there is 70 TB data that needs to be uploaded. The organization currently has a 150- 
Mbps connection with 10 people working at the location. 
 
Which service would be the MOST efficient way to transfer this data to Amazon S3? 
 
A. AWS Snowball 
B. AWS Direct Connect 
C. AWS Storage Gateway 
D. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration 
 
Answer: A     
 
Question: 9 
   
A SysOps Administrator is writing a utility that publishes resources from an AWS Lambda function in 
AWS account A to an Amazon S3 bucket in AWS Account B. The Lambda function is able to 
successfully write new objects to the S3 bucket, but IAM users in Account B are unable to delete 
objects written to the bucket by Account A. 
Which step will fix this issue? 
 
A. Add s3:Deleteobject permission to the IAM execution role of the AWS Lambda function in Account 
A 
B. Change the bucket policy of the S3 bucket in Account B to allow s3:Deleteobject permission for 
Account A 
C. Disable server-side encryption for objects written to the S3 bucket by the Lambda function. 
D. Call the S3:PutObjectAcl API operation from the Lambda function in Account A to specify bucket 
owner, full control. 
 
Answer: D     
 
Question: 10 
   
A company’s customers are reporting increased latency while accessing static web content from 
Amazon S3. A SysOps Administrator observed a very high rate of read operations on a particular S3 
bucket. 
What will minimize latency by reducing load on the S3 bucket? 
 
A. Migrate the S3 bucket to a region that is closer to end users’ geographic locations. 
B. Use cross-regions replication to replicate all of the data to another region. 
C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin. 
D. Use Amazon ElasticCache to cache data being served from Amazon S3. 
 
Answer: C