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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 421–430 of 486

Q421

Which service is best for managing serverless application deployments?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B AWS CodeDeploy
  • C AWS CloudFormation
  • D Amazon EC2
Explanation AWS Lambda specifically facilitates serverless applications, while others assist in deployment or orchestration.
Q422

A company needs to ensure that their EC2 instances are not publicly accessible. What should they do?

  • A Use a public subnet
  • B Use security groups
  • C Use VPC peering
  • D Use IAM roles
Explanation Security groups can restrict public access, whereas other options don't directly address instance accessibility.
Q423

What happens when an AWS Auto Scaling group scales in and terminates an instance?

  • A Data is lost forever
  • B Instance is stopped
  • C Elastic Load Balancer removes instance
  • D It scales back up immediately
Explanation The Elastic Load Balancer automatically deregisters terminated instances, while other options either imply incorrect behavior or do not happen.
Q424

Which service provides a managed NoSQL database solution for applications?

  • A Amazon DynamoDB
  • B Amazon RDS
  • C Amazon S3
  • D Amazon Redshift
Explanation Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service. RDS is for SQL databases, S3 is for object storage, and Redshift is for data warehousing.
Q425

A company needs to ensure compliance with data retention policies. What AWS service should they consider?

  • A Amazon S3
  • B AWS Backup
  • C AWS Lambda
  • D Amazon CloudFront
Explanation AWS Backup centralizes and automates backup across services for compliance purposes. S3 is for storage, Lambda for compute, and CloudFront is for content delivery.
Q426

You are configuring an AWS IAM policy with conditions that restrict access based on IP address. What happens if the requester’s IP is outside the allowed range?

  • A Access is granted
  • B Access is denied
  • C Access is granted with warning
  • D Policy is ignored
Explanation IAM policies deny access if conditions are not met, including IP restrictions. Access is not granted under any circumstances that violate defined conditions.
Q427

Which service allows automated VM provisioning and scaling?

  • A AWS Lambda
  • B Amazon ECS
  • C Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • D AWS CloudFormation
Explanation EC2 Auto Scaling provisions and scales EC2 instances, while others serve different purposes.
Q428

A company needs a managed NoSQL database solution. Which service should they use?

  • A Amazon RDS
  • B Amazon DynamoDB
  • C Amazon Redshift
  • D Amazon ElastiCache
Explanation DynamoDB is optimized for NoSQL, while the others are for relational or in-memory processing.
Q429

What happens when you delete an S3 bucket with versioning enabled?

  • A All object versions are deleted.
  • B Bucket will be empty after deletion.
  • C Bucket cannot be deleted.
  • D Versions remain, but not retrievable.
Explanation All object versions are permanently deleted upon bucket deletion.
Q430

Which AWS service provides scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2?

  • A Amazon EFS
  • B Amazon S3
  • C Amazon Glacier
  • D AWS Lambda
Explanation Amazon EFS offers elastic file storage for EC2; S3 is object storage, Glacier is archival, and Lambda is serverless compute.