Question 7

A company runs applications on Amazon EC2 instances. Many of the instances are not patched. The company has a tagging policy. All the instances are tagged with details about the owners, application, and environment. AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) is installed on all the instances.
A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to automatically patch all existing and future instances that have "Prod" in the environment tag. The SysOps administrator plans to create a patch policy in Systems Manager Patch Manager.
Which solution will meet the patching requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Correct Answer:A

Question 8

A CloudOps engineer is troubleshooting an implementation of Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. The CloudWatch Synthetics results must be sent to an Amazon S3 bucket.
The CloudOps engineer has copied the configuration of an existing canary that runs on a VPC that has an internet gateway attached. However, the CloudOps engineer cannot get the canary to successfully start on a private VPC that has no internet access.
What should the CloudOps engineer do to successfully run the canary on the private VPC?

Correct Answer:D

Question 9

A company's developers manually install software modules on Amazon EC2 instances to deploy new versions of a service. A security audit finds that instances contain inconsistent and unapproved modules.
A CloudOps engineer must create a new instance image that contains only approved software.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Correct Answer:D

Question 10

A company uses AWS Organizations to manage a set of AWS accounts. The company has set up organizational units (OUs) in the organization. An application OU supports various applications.
A CloudOps engineer must prevent users from launching Amazon EC2 instances that do not have a CostCenter-Project tag into any account in the application OU. The restriction must apply only to accounts in the application OU.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Correct Answer:B

Question 11

A company has an on-premises DNS solution and wants to resolve DNS records in an Amazon Route 53 private hosted zone for example.com. The company has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection for network connectivity between the on-premises network and the VPC. A CloudOps engineer must ensure that an on-premises server can query records in the example.com domain.
What should the CloudOps engineer do to meet these requirements?

Correct Answer:A

Question 12

To comply with regulations, a SysOps administrator needs to back up an Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to an Amazon S3 bucket. If the SysOps administrator restores the AMI from the bucket in the future, the AMI must use the same AMI image ID as the original AMI.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Correct Answer:C

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