Cloud Practice

#101 (Accuracy: 100% / 4 votes)

A DevOps engineer has implemented a CI/CD pipeline to deploy an AWS CloudFormation template that provisions a web application. The web application consists of an Application Load Balancer (ALB), a target group, a launch template that uses an Amazon Linux 2 AMI, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances, a security group, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The launch template includes user data that specifies a script to install and start the application.

The initial deployment of the application was successful. The DevOps engineer made changes to update the version of the application with the user data. The CI/CD pipeline has deployed a new version of the template. However, the health checks on the ALB are now failing. The health checks have marked all targets as unhealthy.

During investigation, the DevOps engineer notices that the CloudFormation stack has a status of UPDATE_COMPLETE. However, when the DevOps engineer connects to one of the EC2 instances and checks /var/log/messages, the DevOps engineer notices that the Apache web server failed to start successfully because of a configuration error.

How can the DevOps engineer ensure that the CloudFormation deployment will fail if the user data fails to successfully finish running?

A. Use the cfn-signal helper script to signal success or failure to CloudFormation. Use the WaitOnResourceSignals update policy within the CloudFormation template. Set an appropriate timeout for the update policy.
B. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for the UnhealthyHostCount metric. Include an appropriate alarm threshold for the target group. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as the target to signal success or failure to CloudFormation.
C. Create a lifecycle hook on the Auto Scaling group by using the AWS::AutoScaling::LifecycleHook resource. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic as the target to signal success or failure to CloudFormation. Set an appropriate timeout on the lifecycle hook.
D. Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent to stream the cloud-init logs. Create a subscription filter that includes an AWS Lambda function with an appropriate invocation timeout. Configure the Lambda function to use the SignalResource API operation to signal success or failure to CloudFormation.

#102 (Accuracy: 100% / 3 votes)

An ecommerce company is receiving reports that its order history page is experiencing delays in reflecting the processing status of orders. The order processing system consists of an AWS Lambda function that uses reserved concurrency. The Lambda function processes order messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue and inserts processed orders into an Amazon DynamoDB table. The DynamoDB table has auto scaling enabled for read and write capacity.
Which actions should a DevOps engineer take to resolve this delay? (Choose two.)

A. Check the ApproximateAgeOfOldestMessage metric for the SQS queue. Increase the Lambda function concurrency limit.
B. Check the ApproximateAgeOfOldestMessage metnc for the SQS queue Configure a redrive policy on the SQS queue.
C. Check the NumberOfMessagesSent metric for the SQS queue. Increase the SQS queue visibility timeout.
D. Check the WriteThrottleEvents metric for the DynamoDB table. Increase the maximum write capacity units (WCUs) for the table's scaling policy.
E. Check the Throttles metric for the Lambda function. Increase the Lambda function timeout.

#103 (Accuracy: 91% / 7 votes)

A company is using Amazon S3 buckets to store important documents. The company discovers that some S3 buckets are not encrypted. Currently, the company’s IAM users can create new S3 buckets without encryption. The company is implementing a new requirement that all S3 buckets must be encrypted.

A DevOps engineer must implement a solution to ensure that server-side encryption is enabled on all existing S3 buckets and all new S3 buckets. The encryption must be enabled on new S3 buckets as soon as the S3 buckets are created. The default encryption type must be 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256).

Which solution will meet these requirements?

A. Create an AWS Lambda function that is invoked periodically by an Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule. Program the Lambda function to scan all current S3 buckets for encryption status and to set AES-256 as the default encryption for any S3 bucket that does not have an encryption configuration.
B. Set up and activate the s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled AWS Config managed rule. Configure the rule to use the AWS-EnableS3BucketEncryption AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook as the remediation action. Manually run the re-evaluation process to ensure that existing S3 buckets are compliant.
C. Create an AWS Lambda function that is invoked by an Amazon EventBridge event rule. Define the rule with an event pattern that matches the creation of new S3 buckets. Program the Lambda function to parse the EventBridge event, check the configuration of the S3 buckets from the event, and set AES-256 as the default encryption.
D. Configure an IAM policy that denies the s3:CreateBucket action if the s3:x-amz-server-side-encryption condition key has a value that is not AES-256. Create an IAM group for all the company’s IAM users. Associate the IAM policy with the IAM group.

#104 (Accuracy: 100% / 5 votes)

An IT team has built an AWS CloudFormation template so others in the company can quickly and reliably deploy and terminate an application. The template creates an Amazon EC2 instance with a user data script to install the application and an Amazon S3 bucket that the application uses to serve static webpages while it is running.
All resources should be removed when the CloudFormation stack is deleted. However, the team observes that CloudFormation reports an error during stack deletion, and the S3 bucket created by the stack is not deleted.
How can the team resolve the error in the MOST efficient manner to ensure that all resources are deleted without errors?

A. Add a DelelionPolicy attribute to the S3 bucket resource, with the value Delete forcing the bucket to be removed when the stack is deleted.
B. Add a custom resource with an AWS Lambda function with the DependsOn attribute specifying the S3 bucket, and an IAM role. Write the Lambda function to delete all objects from the bucket when RequestType is Delete.
C. Identify the resource that was not deleted. Manually empty the S3 bucket and then delete it.
D. Replace the EC2 and S3 bucket resources with a single AWS OpsWorks Stacks resource. Define a custom recipe for the stack to create and delete the EC2 instance and the S3 bucket.

#105 (Accuracy: 100% / 3 votes)

A company uses AWS CloudFormation stacks to deploy updates to its application. The stacks consist of different resources. The resources include AWS Auto Scaling groups, Amazon EC2 instances, Application Load Balancers (ALBs), and other resources that are necessary to launch and maintain independent stacks. Changes to application resources outside of CloudFormation stack updates are not allowed.

The company recently attempted to update the application stack by using the AWS CLI. The stack failed to update and produced the following error message: “ERROR: both the deployment and the CloudFormation stack rollback failed. The deployment failed because the following resource(s) failed to update: [AutoScalingGroup].”

The stack remains in a status of UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED.

Which solution will resolve this issue?

A. Update the subnet mappings that are configured for the ALBs. Run the aws cloudformation update-stack-set AWS CLI command.
B. Update the IAM role by providing the necessary permissions to update the stack. Run the aws cloudformation continue-update-rollback AWS CLI command.
C. Submit a request for a quota increase for the number of EC2 instances for the account. Run the aws cloudformation cancel-update-stack AWS CLI command.
D. Delete the Auto Scaling group resource. Run the aws cloudformation rollback-stack AWS CLI command.

#106 (Accuracy: 100% / 3 votes)

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? (Choose two.)

A. 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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. 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 health checks to determine the availability in a given Region. Use Auto Scaling groups in each Region to adjust capacity based on demand.
E. Set up the application in 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.

#107 (Accuracy: 100% / 4 votes)

A company uses a single AWS account to 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 the DevOps engineer do next to meet these requirements?

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

#108 (Accuracy: 100% / 6 votes)

A DevOps engineer needs to back up sensitive Amazon S3 objects that are stored within an S3 bucket with a private bucket policy using S3 cross-Region replication functionality. The objects need to be copied to a target bucket in a different AWS Region and account.
Which combination of actions should be performed to enable this replication? (Choose three.)

A. Create a replication IAM role in the source account
B. Create a replication I AM role in the target account.
C. Add statements to the source bucket policy allowing the replication IAM role to replicate objects.
D. Add statements to the target bucket policy allowing the replication IAM role to replicate objects.
E. Create a replication rule in the source bucket to enable the replication.
F. Create a replication rule in the target bucket to enable the replication.

#109 (Accuracy: 97% / 7 votes)

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?

A. Configure a nightly Amazon EventBridge event to invoke an AWS Lambda function to run the RefreshCache command for Storage Gateway.
B. Instruct the third party to put data into the S3 bucket using AWS Transfer for SFTP.
C. Modify Storage Gateway to run in volume gateway mode.
D. Use S3 Same-Region Replication to replicate any changes made directly in the S3 bucket to Storage Gateway.

#110 (Accuracy: 100% / 6 votes)

A company has a single AWS account that runs hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. New EC2 instances are launched and terminated each hour in the account. The account also includes existing EC2 instances that have been running for longer than a week.
The company's security policy requires all running EC2 instances to use an EC2 instance profile. If an EC2 instance does not have an instance profile attached, the EC2 instance must use a default instance profile that has no IAM permissions assigned.
A DevOps engineer reviews the account and discovers EC2 instances that are running without an instance profile. During the review, the DevOps engineer also observes that new EC2 instances are being launched without an instance profile.
Which solution will ensure that an instance profile is attached to all existing and future EC2 instances in the Region?

A. Configure an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to EC2 RunInstances API calls. Configure the rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function to attach the default instance profile to the EC2 instances.
B. Configure the ec2-instance-profile-attached AWS Config managed rule with a trigger type of configuration changes. Configure an automatic remediation action that invokes an AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to attach the default instance profile to the EC2 instances.
C. Configure an Amazon EventBridge rule that reacts to EC2 StartInstances API calls. Configure the rule to invoke an AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to attach the default instance profile to the EC2 instances
D. Configure the iam-role-managed-policy-check AWS Config managed rule with a trigger type of configuration changes. Configure an automatic remediation action that invokes an AWS Lambda function to attach the default instance profile to the EC2 instances.

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