Exam Simulator: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question 1 of 15

1. Question

A company runs several production workloads on Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to create an automated pipeline to build and maintain a customized EC2 Image Builder image using the Create image pipeline console wizard.

Which of the following is the FIRST step to create an image pipeline workflow?

Define infrastructure configuration
Choose recipe
Specify pipeline details
Define distribution settings

Question 2 of 15

2. Question

EC2 Image Builder has two runtime stages – build and test. Each runtime stage has the build, validate and test phases with configuration defined by the component document.

Which of the following statements is happening during the build phase?

The source image is downloaded
Image Builder validates that customizations are applied successfully
The instance is turned off
An instance is launched from the image that was created

Question 3 of 15

3. Question

Assuming, you manage 500 third party resources such as YourCompany::Dashboard::Instance. You perform one daily operation on each of the resources. We’ll assume that none of the handler operations, in this case, are above the 30s threshold.

Which of the following is your monthly AWS CloudFormation bill?

$12.60
$0.60
$0.00
$15.60

Question 4 of 15

4. Question

Which of the following recommendations is NOT considered a best practice for using AWS CloudFormation more effectively and securely throughout its entire workflow?

Embed credentials in your templates
Use nested stacks to reuse common template patterns
Reuse templates to replicate stacks in multiple environments
Use IAM to control access

Question 5 of 15

5. Question

Which of the following services takes care of provisioning and configuring the resources (like Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances) for you, so you can spend less time managing those resources?

AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Question 6 of 15

6. Question

A company uses AWS CloudFormation as they are able to model and set up Amazon Web Services resources. The company wants to delete AWS CloudFormation stacks but they fail.

Which of the following is a possible fix for this issue?

Rollback the infrastructure to the original settings
Rerun the deletion with the RetainResources parameter and specify the resource that AWS CloudFormation can’t delete
Submit template or parameter value changes to AWS CloudFormation
Add a DependsOn attribute to resources that depend on other resources in your template

Question 7 of 15

7. Question

A company works with AWS CloudFormation StackSets as they want to create, update and delete stacks across multiple accounts and regions with a single operation. Upon reviewing the configuration you find out they don’t follow the recommended best practices on how to define a template or how to add stacks to a stack set.

Which of the following is a best practice approach for defining a template?

For a more conservative deployment, set Maximum Concurrent Accounts to 1, and Failure Tolerance to 0
For a faster deployment, increase the values of Maximum Concurrent Accounts and Failure Tolerance as needed
Plan your updates so you are not blocked from performing other operations on the stack set
Be sure that global resources do not have naming conflicts when they are created in more than one region in the same account

Question 8 of 15

8. Question

A startup company has a serverless architecture that uses AWS Lambda to run code without managing servers, Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web, and DynamoDB. The startup is using AWS CodeDeploy to automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, and serverless Lambda functions. A new feature it’s ready to be pushed to production.

Which of the following deployment configuration type will allow you to shift from the original Lambda function to the updated Lambda function version all at once?

All-at-once
Linear
Canary
You can't shift from the original Lambda function to the updated Lambda function version all at once

Question 9 of 15

9. Question

A company creates a VPC with CIDR block `10.0.0.0/24`. The company wants to break this CIDR block into two subnets, each supporting 128 IP addresses. One subnet uses CIDR block `10.0.0.0/25` and the other uses CIDR block `10.0.0.128/25`.

Which of the following addresses is reserved by AWS for the VPC router?

10.0.0.0
10.0.0.1
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3

Question 10 of 15

10. Question

A company creates an Amazon CloudWatch alarm on the Service Quotas console to notify the SysOps administrator when they are close to a quota value threshold.

Sort the steps from the top (first step) to the bottom (last step) to create a CloudWatch alarm for a quota using the console.

Choose Create
For Alarm name, enter a name for the alarm
In Amazon CloudWatch alarms, choose Create
In the navigation pane, choose AWS services and then select a service
For Alarm threshold, choose a threshold
Select a quota that supports CloudWatch alarms
Open the Service Quotas console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/

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Question 11 of 15

11. Question

A company wants to use Chef cookbooks to automate tasks such as installing and configuring packages and deploying apps.

What should a SysOps administrator do to meet this requirement?

Use AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
Use AWS OpsWorks Stacks
Use AWS Systems Manager
Use AWS CloudFormation

Question 12 of 15

12. Question

A company wants to automate the process of patching managed instances and applying patches for operating systems and applications.

Which service should a SysOps administrator use to meet this requirement?

AWS Systems Manager Patch Processor
AWS Systems Manager Patch Upgrader
AWS Systems Manager Patch Automation
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager

Question 13 of 15

13. Question

Α company wants to use an EventBridge to deliver a stream of real-time data from their applications and routes that data to targets such as AWS Lambda.

Which action should a SysOps administrator take to determine where to send their data?

Turn on CloudTrail logging
Use AWS Identity and Access Management
Set up routing rules
Use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with EventBridge

Question 14 of 15

14. Question

The demand for the company’s application keeps growing, so does the need to keep track of their AWS resources. The company wants to use AWS Config as it provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in their AWS account

Which of the following actions a SysOps administrator is NOT able to take with AWS Config?

Evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings
Get a snapshot of the current configurations of the supported resources that are associated with your AWS account
Receive a notification whenever a resource is created, modified, or deleted
Run your application code using the Lambda standard runtime environment

Question 15 of 15

15. Question

A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, and serverless Lambda functions.

Which of the following Deployment configuration Shifts 10 percent of traﬃc every three minutes until all traﬃc is shifted.

CodeDeployDefault.ECSLinear10PercentEvery3Minutes
CodeDeployDefault.ECSCanary10percent3Minutes
CodeDeployDefault.ECSAllAtOnce
CodeDeployDefault.ECSLinear3PercentEvery10Minutes