A company manages shared libraries across development and production accounts with IAM roles and CodePipeline/CDK. Developers must be the only ones to access latest versions. Shared packages must be independently tested before production.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A DevOps engineer updates an AWS CloudFormation stack to add a nested stack that includes several Amazon EC2 instances. When the DevOps engineer attempts to deploy the updated stack, the nested stack fails to deploy. What should the DevOps engineer do to determine the cause of the failure?
A company has containerized all of its in-house quality control applications. The company is running Jenkins on Amazon EC2 instances, which require patching and upgrading. The compliance officer has requested a DevOps engineer begin encrypting build artifacts since they contain company intellectual property.
What should the DevOps engineer do to accomplish this in the MOST maintainable manner?
A company is using AWS Organizations to centrally manage its AWS accounts. The company has turned on AWS Config in each member account by using AWS Cloud Formation StackSets The company has configured trusted access in Organizations for AWS Config and has configured a member account as a delegated administrator account for AWS Config
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a new security policy The policy must require all current and future AWS member accounts to use a common baseline of AWS Config rules that contain remediation actions that are managed from a central account Non-administrator users who can access member accounts must not be able to modify this common baseline of AWS Config rules that are deployed into each member account
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company releases a new application in a new AWS account. The application includes an AWS Lambda function that processes messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SOS) standard queue. The Lambda function stores the results in an Amazon S3 bucket for further downstream processing. The Lambda function needs to process the messages within a specific period of time after the messages are published. The Lambda function has a batch size of 10 messages and takes a few seconds to process a batch of messages.
As load increases on the application's first day of service, messages in the queue accumulate at a greater rate than the Lambda function can process the messages. Some messages miss the required processing timelines. The logs show that many messages in the queue have data that is not valid. The company needs to meet the timeline requirements for messages that have valid data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has developed a serverless web application that is hosted on AWS. The application consists of Amazon S3. Amazon API Gateway, several AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The company is using AWS CodeCommit to store the source code. The source code is a combination of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) templates and Python code.
A security audit and penetration test reveal that user names and passwords for authentication to the database are hardcoded within CodeCommit repositories. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution to automatically detect and prevent hardcoded secrets.
What is the MOST secure solution that meets these requirements?
A company configured an Amazon S3 event source for an AWS Lambda function. The company needs the Lambda function to run when a new object is created or an existing object is modified in a specific S3 bucket. The Lambda function will use the S3 bucket name and the S3 object key of the incoming event to read the contents of the new or modified S3 object. The Lambda function will parse the contents and save the parsed contents to an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The Lambda function's execution role has permissions to 'eari from the S3 bucket and to Write to the DynamoDB table. During testing, a DevOpS engineer discovers that the Lambda fund on does rot run when objects are added to the S3 bucket or when existing objects are modified.
Which solution will resolve these problems?
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?
A security team wants to use AWS CloudTrail to monitor all actions and API calls in multiple accounts that are in the same organization in AWS Organizations. The security team needs to ensure that account users cannot turn off CloudTrail in the accounts.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
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.)
A security review has identified that an AWS CodeBuild project is downloading a database population script from an Amazon S3 bucket using an unauthenticated request. The security team does not allow unauthenticated requests to S3 buckets for this project.
How can this issue be corrected in the MOST secure manner?
A company sells products through an ecommerce web application The company wants a dashboard that shows a pie chart of product transaction details. The company wants to integrate the dashboard With the company’s existing Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
Which solution Will meet these requirements With the MOST operational efficiency?
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 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?
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?
A company uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL global database that has two secondary AWS Regions. A DevOps engineer has configured the database parameter group to guarantee an RPO of 60 seconds. Write operations on the primary cluster are occasionally blocked because of the RPO setting.
The DevOps engineer needs to reduce the frequency of blocked write operations.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using AWS CodePipeline to deploy an application. According to a new guideline, a member of the company's security team must sign off on any application changes before the changes are deployed into production. The approval must be recorded and retained.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company uses AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower to manage all the company's AWS accounts. The company uses the Enterprise Support plan.
A DevOps engineer is using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) to provision new accounts. When new accounts are provisioned, the DevOps engineer notices that the support plan for the new accounts is set to the Basic Support plan. The DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to provision the new accounts with the Enterprise Support plan.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company operates sensitive workloads across the AWS accounts that are in the company's organization in AWS Organizations The company uses an IP address range to delegate IP addresses for Amazon VPC CIDR blocks and all non-cloud hardware.
The company needs a solution that prevents principals that are outside the company's IP address range from performing AWS actions In the organization's accounts
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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)
A company has a workflow that generates a file for each of the company's products and stores the files in a production environment Amazon S3 bucket. The company's users can access the S3 bucket.
Each file contains a product ID. Product IDs for products that have not been publicly announced are prefixed with a specific UUID. Product IDs are 12 characters long. IDs for products that have not been publicly announced begin with the letter P.
The company does not want information about products that have not been publicly announced to be available in the production environment S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer wants to find a solution to migrate an application from on premises to AWS The application is running on Linux and needs to run on specific versions of Apache Tomcat HAProxy and Varnish Cache to function properly. The application's operating system-level parameters require tuning The solution must include a way to automate the deployment of new application versions. The infrastructure should be scalable and faulty servers should be replaced automatically.
Which solution should the DevOps engineer use?
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?
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.)
A business has an application that consists of five independent AWS Lambda functions.
The DevOps engineer has built a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild that builds tests packages and deploys each Lambda function in sequence. The pipeline uses an Amazon EventBridge rule to ensure the pipeline starts as quickly as possible after a change is made to the application source code.
After working with the pipeline for a few months the DevOps engineer has noticed the pipeline takes too long to complete.
What should the DevOps engineer implement to BEST improve the speed of the pipeline?
A company that uses electronic patient health records runs a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon Linux operating system. The company must continuously ensure that the EC2 instances are running operating system patches and application patches that are in compliance with current privacy regulations. The company uses a custom repository to store application patches.
A DevOps engineer needs to automate the deployment of operating system patches and application patches. The DevOps engineer wants to use both the default operating system patch repository and the custom patch repository.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
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?
A company uses Amazon EC2 as its primary compute platform. A DevOps team wants to audit the company's EC2 instances to check whether any prohibited applications have been installed on the EC2 instances.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A DevOps team uses AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application. The application is a REST API that uses AWS Lambda functions and Amazon API Gateway Recent deployments have introduced errors that have affected many customers.
The DevOps team needs a solution that reverts to the most recent stable version of the application when an error is detected. The solution must affect the fewest customers possible.
Which solution Will meet these requirements With the MOST operational efficiency?
A company discovers that its production environment and disaster recovery (DR) environment are deployed to the same AWS Region. All the production applications run on Amazon EC2 instances and are deployed by AWS CloudFormation. The applications use an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volume for application storage. No application data resides on the EC2 instances. A DevOps engineer copies the required AMIs to a new DR Region. The DevOps engineer also updates the CloudFormation code to accept a Region as a parameter. The storage needs to have an RPO of 10 minutes in the DR Region. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company hosts its staging website using an Amazon EC2 instance backed with Amazon EBS storage. The company wants to recover quickly with minimal data losses in the event of network connectivity issues or power failures on the EC2 instance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps administrator is responsible for managing the security of a company's Amazon CloudWatch Logs log groups. The company’s security policy states that employee IDs must not be visible in logs except by authorized personnel. Employee IDs follow the pattern of Emp-XXXXXX, where each X is a digit.
An audit discovered that employee IDs are found in a single log file. The log file is available to engineers, but the engineers are not authorized to view employee IDs. Engineers currently have an AWS IAM Identity Center permission that allows logs:* on all resources in the account.
The administrator must mask the employee ID so that new log entries that contain the employee ID are not visible to unauthorized personnel.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company runs a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC. The company's employees remotely access the EC2 instances by using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The company wants to collect metrics about how many RDP sessions the employees initiate every day. Which combination of steps will meet this requirement? (Select THREE.)
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?
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?
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?
A DevOps engineer is implementing governance controls for a company that requires its infrastructure to be housed within the United States. The company has many AWS accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The engineer must restrict which AWS Regions the company can use. The engineer must also ensure that an alert is sent as soon as possible if any activity outside the governance policy occurs. The controls must be automatically enabled on any new Region outside the United States. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company recently deployed its web application on AWS. The company is preparing for a large-scale sales event and must ensure that the web application can scale to meet the demand
The application's frontend infrastructure includes an Amazon CloudFront distribution that has an Amazon S3 bucket as an origin. The backend infrastructure includes an Amazon API Gateway API. several AWS Lambda functions, and an Amazon Aurora DB cluster
The company's DevOps engineer conducts a load test and identifies that the Lambda functions can fulfill the peak number of requests However, the DevOps engineer notices request latency during the initial burst of requests Most of the requests to the Lambda functions produce queries to the database A large portion of the invocation time is used to establish database connections
Which combination of steps will provide the application with the required scalability? (Select TWO)
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?
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.)
A company is building a web application on AWS. The application uses AWS CodeConnections to access a Git repository. The company sets up a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline that automatically builds and deploys the application to a staging environment when the company pushes code to the main branch. Bugs and integration issues sometimes occur in the main branch because there is no automated testing integrated into the pipeline.
The company wants to automatically run tests when code merges occur in the Git repository and to prevent deployments from reaching the staging environment if any test fails. Tests can run up to 20 minutes. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer manages a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The engineer needs to implement a deployment strategy that:
Launches a second fleet of instances with the same capacity as the original fleet.
Maintains the original fleet unchanged while the second fleet is launched.
Transitions traffic to the second fleet when the second fleet is fully deployed.
Terminates the original fleet automatically 1 hour after transition.
Which solution will satisfy these requirements?
A company is using an Amazon Aurora cluster as the data store for its application. The Aurora cluster is configured with a single DB instance. The application performs read and write operations on the database by using the cluster's instance endpoint.
The company has scheduled an update to be applied to the cluster during an upcoming maintenance window. The cluster must remain available with the least possible interruption during the maintenance window.
What should a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS Organizations with CloudTrail trusted access. All events across accounts and Regions must be logged and retained in an audit account, and failed login attempts should trigger real-time notifications.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A company uses AWS CodePipeline pipelines to automate releases of its application A typical pipeline consists of three stages build, test, and deployment. The company has been using a separate AWS CodeBuild project to run scripts for each stage. However, the company now wants to use AWS CodeDeploy to handle the deployment stage of the pipelines.
The company has packaged the application as an RPM package and must deploy the application to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are in an EC2 Auto Scaling group and are launched from a common AMI.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company runs a workload on Amazon EC2 instances. The company needs a control that requires the use of Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) on all EC2 instances in the AWS account. If an EC2 instance does not prevent the use of Instance Metadata Service Version 1 (IMDSv1), the EC2 instance must be terminated.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company’s web app runs on EC2 with a relational database. The company wants highly available multi-Region architecture with latency-based routing for global customers.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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?
A company that uses electronic health records is running a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon Linux operating system. As part of patient privacy requirements, the company must ensure continuous compliance for patches for operating system and applications running on the EC2 instances.
How can the deployments of the operating system and application patches be automated using a default and custom repository?
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?
A company has microservices running in AWS Lambda that read data from Amazon DynamoDB. The Lambda code is manually deployed by developers after successful testing The company now needs the tests and deployments be automated and run in the cloud Additionally, traffic to the new versions of each microservice should be incrementally shifted over time after deployment.
What solution meets all the requirements, ensuring the MOST developer velocity?
A company's application teams use AWS CodeCommit repositories for their applications. The application teams have repositories in multiple AWS
accounts. All accounts are in an organization in AWS Organizations.
Each application team uses AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) configured with an external IdP to assume a developer IAM role. The developer role allows the application teams to use Git to work with the code in the repositories.
A security audit reveals that the application teams can modify the main branch in any repository. A DevOps engineer must implement a solution that
allows the application teams to modify the main branch of only the repositories that they manage.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
A company has configured an Amazon S3 event source on an AWS Lambda function The company needs the Lambda function to run when a new object is created or an existing object IS modified In a particular S3 bucket The Lambda function will use the S3 bucket name and the S3 object key of the incoming event to read the contents of the created or modified S3 object The Lambda function will parse the contents and save the parsed contents to an Amazon DynamoDB table.
The Lambda function's execution role has permissions to read from the S3 bucket and to write to the DynamoDB table, During testing, a DevOps engineer discovers that the Lambda
function does not run when objects are added to the S3 bucket or when existing objects are modified.
Which solution will resolve this problem?
A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company needs a solution to improve the company's management of AWS resources in a production account.
The company wants to use AWS CloudFormation to manage all manually created infrastructure. The company must have the ability to strictly control who can make manual changes to AWS infrastructure. The solution must ensure that users can deploy new infrastructure only by making changes to a CloudFormation template that is stored in an AWS CodeConnections compatible Git provider.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort? (Select THREE).
A company is migrating its container-based workloads to an AWS Organizations multi-account environment. The environment consists of application workload accounts that the company uses to deploy and run the containerized workloads. The company has also provisioned a shared services account tor shared workloads in the organization.
The company must follow strict compliance regulations. All container images must receive security scanning before they are deployed to any environment. Images can be consumed by downstream deployment mechanisms after the images pass a scan with no critical vulnerabilities. Pre-scan and post-scan images must be isolated from one another so that a deployment can never use pre-scan images.
A DevOps engineer needs to create a strategy to centralize this process.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead? (Select TWO.)
A company is launching an application that stores raw data in an Amazon S3 bucket. Three applications need to access the data to generate reports. The data must be redacted differently for each application before
the applications can access the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company that runs many workloads on AWS has an Amazon EBS spend that has increased over time. The DevOps team notices there are many unattached
EBS volumes. Although there are workloads where volumes are detached, volumes over 14 days old are stale and no longer needed. A DevOps engineer has been tasked with creating automation that deletes unattached EBS volumes that have been unattached for 14 days.
Which solution will accomplish this?
A DevOps engineer has implemented a Cl/CO pipeline to deploy an AWS Cloud Format ion 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 Cloud Formation stack has a status of UPDATE_COMPLETE. However, when the DevOps engineer connects to one of the EC2 instances and checks /varar/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 company is using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy applications to a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. During a recent deployment, several EC2 instances failed to update successfully. A DevOps engineer must investigate the root cause of the failures and must determine which specific deployment lifecycle events encountered errors.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to access and analyze the detailed deployment logs for troubleshooting?
A company is experiencing failures in its AWS CodeDeploy deployments for a critical application. The application is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances. A DevOps engineer must analyze the failed deployments to identify the root cause of the failures.
Which solution will provide the appropriate information to troubleshoot the deployment issues?
A company recently created a new AWS Control Tower landing zone in a new organization in AWS Organizations. The landing zone must be able to demonstrate compliance with the Center tor Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks tor AWS Foundations.
The company's security team wants to use AWS Security Hub to view compliance across all accounts Only the security team can be allowed to view aggregated Security Hub Findings. In addition specific users must be able to view findings from their own accounts within the organization All accounts must be enrolled m Security Hub after the accounts are created.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements in the MOST automated way? (Select THREE.)
A company used a lift-and-shift strategy to migrate a workload to AWS. The company has an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances. Each EC2 instance runs a web application, a database, and a Redis cache.
Users are experiencing large variations in the web application's response times. Requests to the web application go to a single EC2 instance that is under significant load. The company wants to separate the application components to improve availability and performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company is running its ecommerce website on AWS. The website is currently hosted on a single Amazon EC2 instance in one Availability Zone. A MySQL database runs on the same EC2 instance. The company needs to eliminate single points of failure in the architecture to improve the website's availability and resilience. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST configuration changes to the website?
A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. When the application starts up. the application needs to process data from an Amazon S3 bucket before the application can start to serve requests.
The size of the data that is stored in the S3 bucket is growing. When the Auto Scaling group adds new instances, the application now takes several minutes to download and process the data before the application can serve requests. The company must reduce the time that elapses before new EC2 instances are ready to serve requests.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to reduce the application startup time?
A company runs applications on Windows and Linux Amazon EC2 instances The instances run across multiple Availability Zones In an AWS Region. The company uses Auto Scaling groups for each application.
The company needs a durable storage solution for the instances. The solution must use SMB for Windows and must use NFS for Linux. The solution must also have sub-millisecond latencies. All instances will read and write the data.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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.)
A DevOps engineer is using AWS CodeDeploy across a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group. The associated CodeDeploy deployment group, which is integrated with EC2 Auto Scaling, is configured to perform in-place deployments with codeDeployDefault.oneAtATime During an ongoing new deployment, the engineer discovers that, although the overall deployment finished successfully, two out of five instances have the previous application revision deployed. The other three instances have the newest application revision
What is likely causing this issue?
A development team manually builds a local artifact. The development team moves the artifact to an Amazon S3 bucket to support an application. The application has a local cache that must be cleared when the development team deploys the application to Amazon EC2 instances. For each deployment, the development team runs a command to clear the cache, download the artifact from the S3 bucket, and unzip the artifact to complete the deployment.
The development team wants to migrate the deployment process to a CI/CD process and to track the progress of each deployment.
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency? (Select THREE.)
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?
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?
A DevOps engineer manages a large commercial website that runs on Amazon EC2. The website uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to collect and process web togs. The DevOps engineer manages the Kinesis consumer application, which also runs on Amazon EC2.
Sudden increases of data cause the Kinesis consumer application to (all behind and the Kinesis data streams drop records before the records can be processed. The DevOps engineer must implement a solution to improve stream handling.
Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
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?
A company recently migrated its application to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that uses Amazon EC2 instances. The company configured the application to automatically scale based on CPU utilization.
The application produces memory errors when it experiences heavy loads. The application also does not scale out enough to handle the increased load. The company needs to collect and analyze memory metrics for the application over time.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)
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?
A company deployed an Amazon CloudFront distribution that accepts requests and routes to an Amazon API Gateway HTTP API. During a recent security audit, the company discovered that requests from the internet could reach the HTTP API without using the CloudFront distribution.
A DevOps engineer must ensure that connections to the HTTP API use the CloudFront distribution.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
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?
A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to automate software deployment. The deployment must meet these requirements:
• A number of instances must be available to serve traffic during the deployment Traffic must be balanced across those instances, and the instances must automatically heal in the event of failure.
• A new fleet of instances must be launched for deploying a new revision automatically, with no manual provisioning.
• Traffic must be rerouted to the new environment to half of the new instances at a time. The deployment should succeed if traffic is rerouted to at least half of the instances; otherwise, it should fail.
• Before routing traffic to the new fleet of instances, the temporary files generated during the deployment process must be deleted.
• At the end of a successful deployment, the original instances in the deployment group must be deleted immediately to reduce costs.
How can a DevOps engineer meet these requirements?
A company manages a multi-tenant environment in its VPC and has configured Amazon GuardDuty for the corresponding AWS account. The company sends all GuardDuty findings to AWS Security Hub.
Traffic from suspicious sources is generating a large number of findings. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to automatically deny traffic across the entire VPC when GuardDuty discovers a new suspicious source.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company requires all employees to access secrets via Systems Manager Parameter Store with rotation every 60 days.
The company must add a new secret for an Amazon ElastiCache Redis cluster.
Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
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?
A company’s security team requires that all external Application Load Balancers (ALBs) and Amazon API Gateway APIs are associated with AWS WAF web ACLs. The company has hundreds of AWS accounts, all of which are included in a single organization in AWS Organizations. The company has configured AWS Config for the organization. During an audit, the company finds some externally facing ALBs that are not associated with AWS WAF web ACLs.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer take to prevent future violations? (Choose two.)
A company is testing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The company uses a blue green deployment process with immutable instances when deploying new software.
During testing users are being automatically logged out of the application at random times. Testers also report that when a new version of the application is deployed all users are logged out. The development team needs a solution to ensure users remain logged m across scaling events and application deployments.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to ensure users remain logged in?
A company wants to use a grid system for a proprietary enterprise m-memory data store on top of AWS. This system can run in multiple server nodes in any Linux-based distribution. The system must be able to reconfigure the entire cluster every time a node is added or removed. When adding or removing nodes an /etc./cluster/nodes config file must be updated listing the IP addresses of the current node members of that cluster.
The company wants to automate the task of adding new nodes to a cluster.
What can a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company runs an Amazon EKS cluster and must implement comprehensive logging for the control plane and nodes. The company must analyze API requests and monitor container performance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company is adopting AWS CodeDeploy to automate its application deployments for a Java-Apache Tomcat application with an Apache Webserver. The development team started with a proof of concept, created a deployment group for a developer environment, and performed functional tests within the application. After completion, the team will create additional deployment groups for staging and production.
The current log level is configured within the Apache settings, but the team wants to change this configuration dynamically when the deployment occurs, so that they can set different log level configurations depending on the deployment group without having a different application revision for each group.
How can these requirements be met with the LEAST management overhead and without requiring different script versions for each deployment group?
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.)
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?
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.)
A company is developing a new application. The application uses AWS Lambda functions for its compute tier. The company must use a canary deployment for any changes to the Lambda functions. Automated rollback must occur if any failures are reported.
The company’s DevOps team needs to create the infrastructure as code (IaC) and the CI/CD pipeline for this solution.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
A company's DevOps engineer is working in a multi-account environment. The company uses AWS Transit Gateway to route all outbound traffic through a network operations account. In the network operations account all account traffic passes through a firewall appliance for inspection before the traffic goes to an internet gateway.
The firewall appliance sends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and includes event seventies of CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, and INFO. The security team wants to receive an alert if any CRITICAL events occur.
What should the DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
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?
An ecommerce company hosts a web application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. The company deploys the application across multiple Availability Zones.
Application users are reporting intermittent performance issues with the application.
The company enables basic Amazon CloudWatch monitoring for the EC2 instances. The company identifies and implements a fix for the performance issues. After resolving the issues, the company wants to implement a monitoring solution that will quickly alert the company about future performance issues.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A DevOps engineer needs to implement a CI/CD pipeline that uses AWS CodeBuild to run a test suite. The test suite contains many test cases and takes a long time to finish running. The DevOps engineer wants to reduce the duration to run the tests. However, the DevOps engineer still wants to generate a single test report for all the test cases.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts The company needs an automated process across all AWS accounts to isolate any compromised Amazon EC2 instances when the instances receive a specific tag.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company wants to migrate its content sharing web application hosted on Amazon EC2 to a serverless architecture. The company currently deploys changes to its application by creating a new Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances and a new Elastic Load Balancer, and then shifting the traffic away using an Amazon Route 53 weighted routing policy.
For its new serverless application, the company is planning to use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The company will need to update its deployment processes to work with the new application. It will also need to retain the ability to test new features on a small number of users before rolling the features out to the entire user base.
Which deployment strategy will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server as its primary database and must ensure cross-Region high availability with RPO < 1 min and RTO < 10 min.
Which solution meets these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is supporting early-stage development for a developer platform running on Amazon EKS. Recently, the platform has experienced an increased rate of container restart failures. The DevOps engineer wants diagnostic information to isolate and resolve issues.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A DevOps engineer notices that all Amazon EC2 instances running behind an Application Load Balancer in an Auto Scaling group are failing to respond to user requests. The EC2 instances are also failing target group HTTP health checks
Upon inspection, the engineer notices the application process was not running in any EC2 instances. There are a significant number of out of memory messages in the system logs. The engineer needs to improve the resilience of the application to cope with a potential application memory leak. Monitoring and notifications should be enabled to alert when there is an issue
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company has deployed an application in a single AWS Region. The application backend uses Amazon DynamoDB tables and Amazon S3 buckets.
The company wants to deploy the application in a secondary Region. The company must ensure that the data in the DynamoDB tables and the S3 buckets persists across both Regions. The data must also immediately propagate across Regions.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?
A company manages an application that stores logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The company wants to archive the logs to an Amazon S3 bucket Logs are rarely accessed after 90 days and must be retained tor 10 years.
Which combination of steps should a DevOps engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company runs an application on an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service by using the AWS Fargate launch type. The application consumes messages from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue. The application can take several minutes to process each message from the queue. When the application processes a message, the application reads a file from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the data in the file. The application writes the processed output to a second S3 bucket. The company uses Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor processing errors and to ensure that the application processes messages successfully.
The SQS queue typically receives a low volume of messages. However, occasionally the queue receives higher volumes of messages. A DevOps engineer needs to implement a solution to reduce the processing time of message bursts.
Which solution will meet this requirement in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company uses Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) for all images of the company's containerized infrastructure. The company uses the pull through cache functionality with the /external prefix to avoid throttling when the company retrieves images from external image registries. The company uses AWS Organizations for its accounts.
Every image in the registry must be encrypted with a specific, pre-provisioned AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key. The company's internally created images already comply with this policy. However, cached external images use server-side encryption with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3).
The company must remove the noncompliant cache repositories. The company must also implement a secure solution to ensure that all new pull through cache repositories are automatically encrypted with the required KMS key.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps team manages an API running on-premises that serves as a backend for an Amazon API Gateway endpoint. Customers have been complaining about high response latencies, which the development team has verified using the API Gateway latency metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. To identify the cause, the team needs to collect relevant data without introducing additional latency.
Which actions should be taken to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A DevOps engineer is deploying a new version of a company's application in an AWS CodeDeploy deployment group associated with its Amazon EC2 instances. After some time, the deployment fails. The engineer realizes that all the events associated with the specific deployment ID are in a Skipped status and code was not deployed in the instances associated with the deployment group.
What are valid reasons for this failure? (Select TWO.).
A growing company manages more than 50 accounts in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company has configured its applications to send logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
A DevOps engineer needs to aggregate logs so that the company can quickly search the logs to respond to future security incidents. The DevOps engineer has created a new AWS account for centralized monitoring.
Which combination of steps should the DevOps engineer take to make the application logs searchable from the monitoring account? (Select THREE.)
A DevOps team supports an application that runs on a large number of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The DevOps team uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy the EC2 instances. The application recently experienced an issue. A single instance returned errors to a large percentage of requests. The EC2 instance responded as healthy to both Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing health checks. The DevOps team collects application logs in Amazon CloudWatch by using the embedded metric format. The DevOps team needs to receive an alert if any EC2 instance is responsible for more than half of all errors. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Select TWO.)
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?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations that has all features enabled. The company uses AWS Backup in a primary account and uses an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key to encrypt the backups.
The company needs to automate a cross-account backup of the resources that AWS Backup backs up in the primary account. The company configures cross-account backup in the Organizations management account. The company creates a new AWS account in the organization and configures an AWS Backup backup vault in the new account. The company creates a KMS key in the new account to encrypt the backups. Finally, the company configures a new backup plan in the primary account. The destination for the new backup plan is the backup vault in the new account.
When the AWS Backup job in the primary account is invoked, the job creates backups in the primary account. However, the backups are not copied to the new account's backup vault.
Which combination of steps must the company take so that backups can be copied to the new account's backup vault? (Select TWO.)
A company is reviewing its 1AM policies. One policy written by the DevOps engineer has been (lagged as too permissive. The policy is used by an AWS Lambda function that issues a stop command to Amazon EC2 instances tagged with Environment: NonProduccion over the weekend. The current policy is:
What changes should the engineer make to achieve a policy ot least permission? (Select THREE.)
A company runs a microservices application on Amazon EKS. Users report delays accessing an account summary feature during peak hours. CloudWatch metrics and logs show normal CPU and memory utilization on EKS nodes. The DevOps engineer cannot identify where delays occur within the microservices.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy application environments. A deployment failed due to manual modifications in stack resources. The DevOps engineer wants to detect manual modifications and alert the DevOps lead with the least effort.
Which solution meets these requirements?