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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 31–40 of 486

Q31

Which service allows you to run containerized applications on AWS?

  • A AWS Fargate
  • B AWS Lambda
  • C Amazon EC2
  • D AWS CodeDeploy
Explanation AWS Fargate enables serverless container management, whereas Lambda is for event-driven functions, EC2 for VMs, and CodeDeploy for deployment automation.
Q32

A company needs to securely access AWS resources without IAM user credentials. What should they use?

  • A IAM roles
  • B OpenVPN
  • C API Gateway
  • D SNS Topics
Explanation IAM roles provide temporary credentials for access, while OpenVPN is a VPN service and the others do not manage credential security.
Q33

What happens when an instance is terminated in an Auto Scaling group?

  • A Instance is permanently deleted
  • B Auto Scaling launches a new instance
  • C No further actions are taken
  • D All instances are terminated
Explanation Auto Scaling automatically replaces the terminated instance to maintain desired capacity, while the other options do not reflect correct behavior.
Q34

Which service provides automated scaling for EC2 instances?

  • A Auto Scaling
  • B Elastic Load Balancer
  • C Amazon CloudFront
  • D AWS Lambda
Explanation Auto Scaling automatically adjusts instance count, while other services serve different purposes.
Q35

A company needs to store unstructured data and requires high availability. Which AWS service should they choose?

  • A Amazon RDS
  • B Amazon S3
  • C Amazon DynamoDB
  • D AWS EFS
Explanation Amazon S3 is ideal for high availability and unstructured data storage, unlike the others.
Q36

What happens when you assign an IAM policy with 'Deny' permissions?

  • A Always blocks action
  • B Overrides 'Allow' permissions
  • C Allows action if condition met
  • D Has no effect on resources
Explanation A 'Deny' in IAM policy always takes precedence over 'Allow', blocking intended actions.
Q37

Which service allows you to automate EC2 instance scaling?

  • A AWS Elastic Load Balancer
  • B AWS Auto Scaling
  • C AWS Lambda
  • D AWS CloudFormation
Explanation AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances, while the others do not provide this scaling functionality.
Q38

A company needs to ensure high availability for their application running in multiple AWS regions. What should they use?

  • A AWS S3
  • B AWS Route 53
  • C AWS CloudFront
  • D AWS RDS
Explanation AWS Route 53 can route traffic among multiple regions for high availability, while the others do not provide traffic management across regions.
Q39

You are configuring security for an AWS account, and you want to prevent users from launching EC2 instances with specific types. What should you use?

  • A IAM Roles
  • B IAM Policies
  • C AWS Budgets
  • D AWS Config
Explanation IAM Policies control permissions including the ability to launch specific instance types, while the others do not manage instance types directly.
Q40

Which service is primarily used for event-driven serverless applications?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B Amazon EC2
  • C Amazon RDS
  • D AWS CloudFormation
Explanation AWS Lambda allows executing code in response to events, while the others are different services for compute or infrastructure management.