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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 321–330 of 486

Q321

What happens when you set an AWS Auto Scaling group to a desired capacity of zero?

  • A Instances remain running
  • B Instances will be terminated
  • C Auto Scaling is disabled
  • D New instances will be launched
Explanation Setting desired capacity to zero terminates all instances; others are not accurate descriptions of the behavior.
Q322

Which AWS service enables you to run Docker containers?

  • A Amazon EKS
  • B AWS Lambda
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D Amazon S3
Explanation Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is designed for running Docker containers, while the other options serve different purposes.
Q323

A company needs persistent storage for their EC2 instance. What should they use?

  • A Amazon S3
  • B Amazon EBS
  • C AWS Lambda
  • D AWS Fargate
Explanation Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) provides persistent block storage for EC2 instances, unlike the other options which do not support this use case.
Q324

What might happen if a security group rule is misconfigured for an EC2 instance?

  • A The instance will be terminated.
  • B All inbound traffic is blocked.
  • C The instance will slow down.
  • D Traffic will route through AWS VPN.
Explanation A misconfigured security group can block inbound traffic, not affecting instance performance or routing in the other scenarios.
Q325

Which service can you use to automate infrastructure deployment?

  • A AWS CloudFormation
  • B AWS S3
  • C AWS CodePipeline
  • D AWS Lambda
Explanation AWS CloudFormation automates infrastructure deployments; S3 is for storage, CodePipeline is for CI/CD, and Lambda runs code in response to events.
Q326

A company needs to ensure its EC2 instances restart automatically if they fail. Which service should it use?

  • A Auto Scaling
  • B Elastic Load Balancer
  • C EC2 Image Builder
  • D Amazon CloudWatch
Explanation Auto Scaling can automatically replace failed instances; ELB manages load, CloudWatch monitors resources, EC2 Image Builder is for creating images.
Q327

What happens when you create an IAM policy without specifying any actions?

  • A Deny all actions
  • B Allow all actions
  • C Policy is ignored
  • D Policy applies with defaults
Explanation IAM policies default to 'Deny' if no actions are specified; thus, no access is granted.
Q328

Which service allows you to automate infrastructure provisioning in AWS?

  • A AWS CloudFormation
  • B AWS Lambda
  • C Amazon S3
  • D Amazon RDS
Explanation AWS CloudFormation automates infrastructure provisioning while the others do not.
Q329

You are configuring Amazon S3 bucket policies. Which of the following actions is allowed by a policy that has "s3:PutObject"?

  • A Upload files to the bucket
  • B Delete files from the bucket
  • C List objects in the bucket
  • D Modify bucket permissions
Explanation "s3:PutObject" allows uploading files only, not deleting or modifying permissions.
Q330

What happens when you enable versioning on an S3 bucket?

  • A Objects are permanently deleted
  • B Previous versions are preserved
  • C Storage costs decrease
  • D Access times improve
Explanation Enabling versioning preserves previous versions, unlike the misleading other options.