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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

SOA-C03

The AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) exam tests your skills in operating and managing AWS environments. It is ideal for those looking to enhance their operational expertise on AWS.

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Questions 281–290 of 486

Q281

A company needs to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances. Which service should they use?

  • A Amazon Route 53
  • B AWS Elastic Load Balancing
  • C AWS CloudTrail
  • D Amazon VPC
Explanation AWS Elastic Load Balancing efficiently distributes traffic among instances; other options do not serve this purpose.
Q282

What happens when an Auto Scaling group scales down?

  • A Stops all instances immediately
  • B Terminates randomly selected instances
  • C Terminates instances based on health
  • D Increases available instances
Explanation Auto Scaling terminates instances based on health checks; the other choices misrepresent the scaling process.
Q283

Which service is ideal for managing serverless applications?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B Amazon EC2
  • C AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • D Amazon RDS
Explanation AWS Lambda allows you to run code without provisioning servers, unlike EC2 and RDS that require full infrastructure management.
Q284

A company needs to ensure its data is replicated in multiple AWS regions. Which service should they use?

  • A S3 Cross-Region Replication
  • B Amazon SQS
  • C AWS IAM
  • D AWS Batch
Explanation S3 Cross-Region Replication is designed for replicating data across regions, whereas the other options do not serve this purpose.
Q285

What happens when you set an IAM user's permissions to an empty policy?

  • A User has full access
  • B User has no access
  • C User has limited access
  • D Policy is ignored
Explanation An empty IAM policy results in no permissions at all, effectively denying access to AWS resources.
Q286

Which service is best for real-time data streaming?

  • A Kinesis Data Streams
  • B S3 Standard Storage
  • C CloudTrail
  • D RDS Multisite
Explanation Kinesis Data Streams is specifically designed for real-time data ingestion and processing, while the others serve different purposes.
Q287

A company needs a highly available and scalable database solution. Which AWS service should they use?

  • A DynamoDB
  • B S3
  • C RDS Single-AZ
  • D Lambda
Explanation DynamoDB offers serverless scalability and high availability, while the others either lack these features or are unsuitable for databases.
Q288

What happens when you set an EC2 instance to Terminate protection?

  • A Instance cannot be stopped
  • B Instance cannot be terminated
  • C Instance cannot be rebooted
  • D Instance cannot be resized
Explanation Termination protection prevents the instance from being terminated but allows other actions such as stopping or rebooting.
Q289

Which service provides a fully managed NoSQL database?

  • A Amazon DynamoDB
  • B Amazon RDS
  • C Amazon Redshift
  • D Amazon Aurora
Explanation Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service; RDS and Aurora are relational database services, and Redshift is for data warehousing.
Q290

A company needs to ensure that their AWS resources are compliant with governance policies. Which service should they use?

  • A AWS CloudTrail
  • B AWS Config
  • C AWS Lambda
  • D AWS CloudFormation
Explanation AWS Config allows tracking resource configurations for compliance; CloudTrail logs API calls, allowing activity auditing, but does not enforce compliance.