Pre Test : AWS Sysops

1. Which AWS Cloud service allows you to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application
performance, and operational health?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS Identity and Management (IAM)
D. AWS CloudTrail

2. Which AWS Cloud service enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network
interfaces in your VPC?

A. Amazon CloudWatch
B. AWS OpsWorks
C. AWS CloudFormation
D. Amazon VPC Flow Logs

3. Which of the following is a dependency of the AWS CLI for Mac and Linux?

A. C++ B. Python C. Java D. .NET SDK

4. Which of the following AWS CLI output formats is best geared toward human viewing?

A. Table B. JSON C. Text D. .NET SDK

5. You have a relational database that is running on a Windows Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instance. What would be the best choice for storage?

A. Instance store volumes

B. Magnetic-based Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
C. Solid State Drive (SSD)-based Amazon EBS
D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
E. Provisioned IOPS

6. You have an instance store-backed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance with an interface
that has a private IP address and a public IP address attached to it. You stop the instance. What happens to the
IP addresses?

A. Both the public and private IP addresses are removed from the interface.
B. The public IP address is removed, but the private IP address remains associated with the interface.
C. The public IP address remains associated with the interface, but the private IP address is removed.
D. Both the public IP address and the private IP address remain associated with the interface.
E. None of the above. You cannot stop instance store-backed Amazon EC2 instances.
7. You are running a website that keeps historical photos from previous elections. Users need to be able to
search for and display images from the last 100 years. On average, most images are requested only once or
twice a year. What would be the most cost-effective, highly available method of storing and serving the
images?

A. Save images on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and use a web server running on Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
B. Save images on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) and use a web server running on Amazon EC2.
C. Save images on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and serve direct from Amazon S3.
D. Save images on Amazon Simple Storage Service – Infrequent Access (Amazon S3-IA) and serve direct from
Amazon S3.
E. Save images on Amazon Glacier and serve direct from Amazon Glacier.
8. You are running a legacy Sybase database on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance
running Windows. You average 1,200 transactions per second against the database, but at peak levels have as
many as 2,500 transactions per second. The current size of the database is 1.8 TB. What is the best data
volume Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) configuration for cost without sacrificing performance?

A. One Amazon EBS Magnetic Volume provisioned at 2 TB with 2,500 provisioned IOPS
B. Two Amazon EBS Magnetic Volumes, each provisioned at 1 TB and Raid0 connected
C. One Amazon EBS gp2 volume provisioned at 2 TB
D. One Amazon EBS Solid State Drive (SSD) provisioned at 2 TB with 2,500 provisioned IOPS
E. Two Amazon EBS gp2 volumes, each provisioned at 1 TB and Raid0 connected
9. Your application’s Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances need a single shared volume to
edit common files. What is the best volume to attach to the instances?

A. One Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume with IOPS
B. One Amazon EBS ma1 volume
C. One Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume
D. One Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) volume
E. One Amazon EBS gp2 volume

10. How are charges calculated for data transferred between Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the same Availability Zone?
A. GB out from Amazon RDS
B. GB in from Amazon RDS
C. IOPS from Amazon EC2
D. There is no charge.
11. On an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance using an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon
EBS) volume for persistence, there is a large inconsistency in the response times of the database queries.
While investigating the issue, you find that there is a large amount of wait time on the database’s disk volume.
How can you improve the performance of the database’s storage while maintaining the current persistence of
the data? (Choose two.)

A. Move to a Solid-State Drive (SSD)-backed instance.

B. Use an Amazon EC2 instance with an Instance Store volume.
C. Use an Amazon EC2 instance type that is Amazon EBS-Optimized.
D. Use a Provisioned IOPs Amazon EBS volume.
12. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) automated backups and DB snapshots are currently
supported for which storage engine?

A. JDBC B. ODBC C. InnoDB D. MyISAM

13. There are 10 Amazon EC2 instances running in multiple regions using an internal memory management
tool to capture log files and send them to Amazon CloudWatch in USWest-2. Additionally, you are using the
AWS CLI to configure CloudWatch to use the same namespace and metric in all regions. Which of the following
is true? A. Amazon CloudWatch will receive and aggregate statistical data based on the namespace and metric.
B. Amazon CloudWatch will process the data only for the server that responds first and ignore the other
regions. C. Amazon CloudWatch will process the statistical data for the most recent response regardless of
region and overwrite other data. D. Amazon CloudWatch cannot receive data across regions.

14. You have misconfigured an Amazon EC2 instance’s clock and are sending data to Amazon CloudWatch via
the API. Because of the misconfiguration, logs are being sent 60 minutes in the future. Which of the following
is true? A. Amazon CloudWatch will process the data. B. It is not possible to send data from the future. C. It is
not possible to send data manually to Amazon CloudWatch. D. Agents cannot send data for more than 60
minutes in the future.

15. You have a system that sends data to Amazon CloudWatch every five minutes for tracking/ monitoring.
Which of these parameters is required as part of the put-metric-data request? A. Key B. Namespace C. Metric
Name D. Timestamp

Answer1. A. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run
on AWS. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, set
alarms, and automatically react to changes in your AWS resources.

Answer2. D. Amazon VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffi c
going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. Flow log data is stored using Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

3. B. The AWS CLI for Mac and Linux requires Python to be installed to operate. For Windows, the installer
contains all of the required dependencies.

4. A. JSON is a structured format that is handy for creating loosely-formatted data to be processed
programmatically. Text is most useful for the query command or text-processing utilities. Table format is
intended to be used by operators to create tables of output that can be read by humans.

5. E. SSD-based Amazon EBS gives you low latency. The Provisioned IOPS, however, gives you a greater level of
control regarding input and output.

6. E. Instance-storage backed Amazon EC2 instances cannot be stopped; they can only be running or deleted.

7. D. While Amazon Glacier is the cheapest storage option available, content cannot be searched or served
from Amazon Glacier. Every other option is signifi cantly more expensive to maintain and would not provide
more availability.
8. C. The magnetic volumes have a max IOPS of 100 each, and provisioned IOPS are extremely expensive given
the fact that the baseline performance of a 2 TB volume is already at 6,000 IOPS. Having two volumes does not
improve the performance and instead adds to the complexity of the operation.

9. C. Any Amazon EBS volume can only be mounted to one Amazon EC2 instance at a time. Amazon S3
volumes and Amazon EBS ma1 volumes do not exist.

10. D. Internally, there are no transfer charges. Chargers are only incurred when data leaves AWS.

11. C, D. There is no such thing as an SSD-Backed Instance. In this question, Amazon EBS was chosen for the
persistence of data outside the lifecycle of an Amazon EC2 instance. Data on an instance store-backed
instance is lost when that instance is terminated. Improving performance comes from using Amazon EBS
optimized instances and Provisioned IOPS.

12. C. The Point-In-Time-Restore and Snapshot Restore features of Amazon RDS for MySQL require a crash-
recoverable storage engine and are supported for the InnoDB storage engine only. While MySQL supports
multiple storage engines with varying capabilities, not all of them are optimized for crash recovery and data
durability

13. A. Amazon CloudWatch doesn’t differentiate the source of a metric. If you publish a metric with the same
namespace and dimensions from different sources, CloudWatch treats this as a single metric. This can be
useful for service metrics in a distributed, scaled system. For example, all the hosts in a web server application
could publish identical metrics representing the latency of requests that they are processing. CloudWatch
treats these as a single metric, allowing you to get the statistics for minimum, maximum, average, and sum of
all requests across your application.
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14. A. Each metric data point must be marked with a timestamp. The timestamp can be up to two weeks in the
past and up to two hours into the future. If you do not provide a 496 Appendix ■ Answers to the Review
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15. B. put-metric-data publishes metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch associates
the data points with the specifi ed metric. If the specifi ed metric does not exist, Amazon CloudWatch creates
the metric. When Amazon CloudWatch creates a metric, it can take up to 15 minutes for the metric to appear.
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