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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.
Questions 301–310 of 486
Which service can automatically scale EC2 instances based on demand?
A
Elastic Load Balancer
B
Auto Scaling
C
CloudFormation
D
AWS Config
Auto Scaling manages scaling EC2 instances; others do not.
A company needs to enforce role-based access to S3 buckets, which service should they use?
A
IAM Policies
B
Resource Tags
C
CloudTrail
D
AWS Organizations
IAM Policies control access to AWS resources; others do not specifically manage access rights.
What happens when a Lambda function times out?
A
Function retried automatically
B
An error is logged
C
Invocation is deleted
D
Invocation is queued
An error is logged when Lambda times out; automatic retries depend on setup, not happening by default.
Which service is best for managing container orchestration?
A
Amazon ECS
B
Amazon S3
C
Amazon RDS
D
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS is specifically designed for container orchestration, whereas the others serve different purposes.
A company needs to ensure its EC2 instances are not publicly accessible. What feature should they use?
A
Reports
B
Security Groups
C
IAM Roles
D
Route 53
Security Groups control traffic access to EC2 instances, while the others do not directly manage accessibility.
What happens when an Auto Scaling group reaches its desired capacity during an instance termination process?
A
No new instances are launched
B
All instances are terminated
C
Instances are added until exceeded
D
Only additional instances are launched
The Auto Scaling group maintains the desired capacity, but will not launch new instances if that capacity is reached during termination.
Which service provides serverless data manipulation capabilities?
A
AWS Lambda
B
AWS RDS
C
AWS EC2
D
AWS S3
AWS Lambda allows serverless execution of code, while others are mainly for data storage or processing.
A company needs real-time monitoring for their web application on AWS. Which service should they use?
A
Amazon CloudWatch
B
AWS X-Ray
C
AWS Inspector
D
Amazon LightSail
Amazon CloudWatch provides real-time monitoring of AWS resources and applications.
What happens when your EC2 instance exceeds its instance limits?
A
Launch succeeds without issues
B
Instance launches but on pause
C
Launch fails and shows error
D
Service upgrades automatically
When limits are exceeded, the instance launch fails with an error, unlike the other options.
Which service allows you to automate infrastructure provisioning?
A
AWS CloudFormation
B
AWS CodeDeploy
C
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
D
AWS Lambda
AWS CloudFormation automates infrastructure provisioning; others serve different purposes.