Amazon AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
DOP-C02
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) exam validates your skills in automating the testing and deployment of AWS applications. It is ideal for those looking to advance their DevOps career.
Questions 411–420 of 483
You are configuring Auto Scaling policies for a web application. What happens when the cooldown period is reached?
A
Auto Scaling stops scaling
B
Instances are terminated immediately
C
More instances are added immediately
D
Scaling activity is paused temporarily
The cooldown period ensures stability by pausing additional scaling actions, preventing rapid fluctuations.
Which service is used for continuous delivery on AWS?
A
AWS CodePipeline
B
Amazon S3
C
AWS Lambda
D
Amazon EC2
AWS CodePipeline automates application delivery, while others do not focus on CI/CD.
A company needs to improve the security of its API. What should they enable?
A
AWS WAF
B
CloudTrail
C
RDS encryption
D
S3 versioning
AWS WAF provides web application protection, unlike the other options which serve different purposes.
You are configuring autoscaling for an EC2 instance. What happens when the minimum size is met and traffic increases?
A
No new instances are launched
B
Instances will be terminated
C
Scaling stops temporarily
D
New instances will be launched
No new instances are launched if the minimum size is reached despite increased traffic.
Which service provides automated monitoring and management of AWS resources?
A
AWS Config
B
CloudWatch
C
AWS Inspector
D
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudWatch provides monitoring, while Config tracks compliance, Inspector focuses on security, and CloudTrail logs API calls.
A company needs high availability for its application. Which Deployment strategy is most suitable?
A
All-at-once
B
Rolling
C
Blue/Green
D
Canary
Blue/Green allows instant fallback and minimized downtime, while others may cause outages or downtime.
You are configuring IAM. What happens if a user is assigned multiple policies?
A
Only one policy is applied.
B
All policies combine permissions.
C
Policies are ignored.
D
Policies cancel each other.
Permissions from all policies are merged, maximizing user access, while the others misrepresent IAM behavior.
Which service provides automation for deploying applications using containers?
A
AWS Lambda
B
Amazon ECS
C
AWS CodePipeline
D
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon ECS offers a managed container orchestration solution, while the others serve different purposes unrelated to container deployment.
A company needs to securely grant third-party software access to AWS resources. Which service should they use?
A
AWS IAM
B
Amazon Cognito
C
AWS Systems Manager
D
AWS Artifact
AWS IAM allows fine-grained access control for third-party applications, unlike the other services listed.
What happens when you exceed the provisioned throughput of a DynamoDB table?
A
Request is throttled
B
Table is automatically resized
C
Data is lost
D
Table becomes unavailable
When provisioned throughput is exceeded, requests are throttled but data is not lost or the table unavailable.