SOA-C01 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An organization is setting up programmatic billing access for their AWS account. Which of the below mentioned services is not required or enabled when the organization wants to use programmatic access?

A. Programmatic access

B. AWS bucket to hold the billing report

C. AWS billing alerts

D. Monthly Billing report

A user is planning to setup notifications on the RDS DB for a snapshot. Which of the below mentioned event categories is not supported by RDS for this snapshot source type?

A. Backup

B. Creation

C. Deletion

D. Restoration

A user has launched an EBS backed EC2 instance. The user has rebooted the instance. Which of the below mentioned statements is not true with respect to the reboot action?

A. The private and public address remains the same

B. The Elastic IP remains associated with the instance

C. The volume is preserved

D. The instance runs on a new host computer

A user is observing the EC2 CPU utilization metric on CloudWatch. The user has observed some interesting patterns while filtering over the 1 week period for a particular hour. The user wants to zoom that data point to a more granular period. How can the user do that easily with CloudWatch?

A. The user can zoom a particular period by selecting that period with the mouse and then releasing the mouse

B. The user can zoom a particular period by double clicking on that period with the mouse

C. The user can zoom a particular period by specifying the aggregation data for that period

D. The user can zoom a particular period by specifying the period in the Time Range

A user wants to upload a complete folder to AWS S3 using the S3 Management console. How can the user perform this activity?

A. Just drag and drop the folder using the flash tool provided by S3

B. Use the Enable Enhanced Folder option from the S3 console while uploading objects

C. The user cannot upload the whole folder in one go with the S3 management console

D. Use the Enable Enhanced Uploader option from the S3 console while uploading objects

In regard to AWS CloudFormation, to pass values to your template at runtime you should use ____________.

A. parameters

B. conditions

C. resources

D. mapping

What does Amazon ELB stand for?

A. Elastic Load Balancing

B. Elastic Linux Box

C. Encrypted Load Balancing D. Encrypted Linux Box

A root AWS account owner has created three IAM users: Bob, John and Michael. Michael is the IAM administrator. Bob and John are not the super users, but users with some pre-defined policies. John does not have access to modify his password. Thus, he asks Bob to change his password. How can Bob change John's password?

A. This statement is false. Only Michael can change the password for John

B. This is possible if Michael can add Bob to a group which has permissions to modify the IAM passwords

C. It is not possible for John to modify his password

D. Provided Bob is the manager of John

A SysOps Administrator created an Amazon VPC with an IPv6 CIDR block, which requires access to the internet. However, access from the internet towards the VPC is prohibited. After adding and configuring the required components to the VPC, the Administrator is unable to connect to any of the domains that reside on the internet.

What additional route destination rule should the Administrator add to the route tables?

A. Route ::/0 traffic to a NAT gateway

B. Route ::/0 traffic to an internet gateway

C. Route 0.0.0.0/0 traffic to an egress-only internet gateway D. Route ::/0 traffic to an egress-only internet gateway

A SysOps Administrator has an AWS CloudFormation template of the company's existing infrastructure in us-west-2. The Administrator attempts to use the template to launch a new stack in eu-west-1, but the stack only partially deploys, receives an error message, and then rolls back.

Why would this template fail to deploy? (Choose two.)

A. The template referenced an IAM user that is not available in eu-west-1

B. The template referenced an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is not available in eu-west-1

C. The template did not have the proper level of permissions to deploy the resources

D. The template requested services that do not exist in eu-west-1

E. CloudFormation templates can be used only to update existing services