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SOA-C01 Amazon Web Services AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Prepare effectively for your Amazon Web Services SOA-C01 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2025, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.

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A SysOps Administrator has been able to consolidate multiple, secure websites onto a single server, and each site is running on a different port. The Administrator now wants to start a duplicate server in a second Availability Zone and put both behind a load balancer for high availability.

What would be the command line necessary to deploy one of the sites’ certificates to the load balancer?

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

A company has an application running on a fleet of Microsoft Windows instances. Patches to the operating system need to be applied each month. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager is used to apply the patches on a schedule.

When the fleet is being patched, customers complain about delayed service responses.

What can be done to ensure patches are deployed with MINIMAL customer impact?

A.

Change the number of instances patched at any one time to 100%.

B.

Create a snapshot of each server in the fleet using a Systems Manager Automation document before starting the patch process.

C.

Configure the maintenance window to patch 10% of the instance in the patch group at a time.

D.

Create a patched Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Configure the maintenance window option to deploy the patched AMI on only 10% of the fleet at a time.

A SySOps Administrator has created a new Amazon S3 bucket named mybucket for the Operations team. Members of the team are part of an IAM group to which the following IAM policy has been assigned.

Which of the following actions will be allowed on the bucket? (Select TWO.)

A.

Get the bucket's region.

B.

Delete an object.

C.

Delete the bucket

D.

Download an object

E.

List all the buckets in the account.

An organization has decided to consolidate storage and move all of its backups and archives to Amazon S3. With all of the data gathered into a hierarchy under a single directory, the organization determines there is 70 TB data that needs to be uploaded. The organization currently has a 150-Mbps connection with 10 people working at the location.

Which service would be the MOST efficient way to transfer this data to Amazon S3?

A.

AWS Snowball

B.

AWS Direct Connect

C.

AWS Storage Gateway

D.

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

A company is managing multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations. One of these accounts is used only for retaining logs in an Amazon S3 bucket The company wants to make sure that compute resources cannot be used in the account.

How can this be accomplished with the LEAST administrative effort?

A.

Apply an 1AM policy to all 1AM entities in the account with a statement to explicitly deny NotAction: s3:

B.

Configure AWS Config to terminate compute resources that have been created in the accounts.

C.

Configure AWS CloudTrail to block any action where the event source is not s3.amazonaws.com.

D.

Update the service control policy on the account to deny the unapproved services.

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Amazon Route 53 is used for DNS and points to the load balancer. A SysOps Administrator has launched a new Auto Scaling group with a new version of the application, and wants to gradually shift traffic to the new version.

How can this be accomplished?

A.

Create an Auto Scaling target tracking scaling policy to gradually move traffic the old version to the new one

B.

Change the Application Load Balancer to a Network Load Balancer, then add both Auto Scaling groups as targets

C.

Use an Amazon Route 53 weighted routing policy to gradually move traffic from the old version to the new one

D.

Deploy Amazon Redshift to gradually move traffic from the old version to the new one using a set of predefined values

A sysops administrator must generate a report that provides a breakdown of all API activity by a specific user over the course of a year. AWS CloudTrail has already been enabled.

How should this report be generated?

A, Access the Cloud Trail logs stored in the Amazon S3 bucket tied to Cloud Trail. Use Amazon Athena to extract the information needed to generate the report

B. Locate the monthly reports that CloudTrail sends that are emailed to the account's root user. Forward the reports to the auditor using a secure channel

C. Use the AWS Management Console to search for the user name in the CloudTrail history. Filter by API and download the report in CSV format

D. Use the CloudTrail digest files stored in the company's Amazon S3 bucket. Send the logs to Amazon QuickSight to create the report.

A company needs to deploy a web application on two Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Two EC2 instances will also be deployed to host the database. The infrastructure needs to be designed across Availability Zones for high availability and must limit public access to the instances as much as possible.

How should this be achieved within a VPC?

A.

Create one public subnet for the Application Load Balancer, one public subnet for the servers, and private subnet for the database servers.

B.

Create one public subnets for the Application Load Balancer, two private subnets for the web servers, and two private subnets for the database servers.

C.

Create two public subnets for the Application Load Balancer, two public subnets for the web servers, and two public subnets for the database servers.

D.

Create two public subnets for the Application Load Balancer, two public subnets for the web servers, and two public subnets for the database servers.

A company wants to identify specific Amazon EC2 instances that ate underutilized and the estimated cost savings for each instance How can this be done with MINIMAL effort?

A.

Use AWS Budgets to report on low utilization of EC2 instances.

B.

Run an AWS Systems Manager script to check for low memory utilization of EC2 instances.

C.

Run Cost Explorer to look for low utilization of EC2 instances.

D.

Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to identify EC2 instances with low utilization.

A SysOps Administrator is managing an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance. The Administrator must ensure that that application stays available if the database becomes unresponsive.

How can these requirements be met?

A.

Create read replicas for the RDS database and use them in case of a database failure

B.

Create a new RDS instance from the snapshot of the original RDS instance if a failure occurs

C.

Keep a separate RDS database running and switch the endpoint in the web application if a failure occurs

D.

Modify the RDS instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment

A company has several AWS accounts and has set up consolidated billing through AWS Organizations. The total monthly bill has been increasing over several months, and a SysOps administrator has been asked to determine what is causing this increase.

What is the Most comprehensive tool that will accomplish this task?

A.

AWS Cost Explorer

B.

AWS Trusted Advisor

C.

Cost allocation tags

D.

Resource groups

A company is expanding its use of AWS services across its portfolios. The company wants to provision AWS accounts for each team to ensure a separation of business processes for security, compliance, and billing account creation and bootstrapping should be completed in a scalable and efficient way so new accounts are created with a defined baseline and governance guardrails in place. A sysops administrator needs to design a provisioning process that save time and resources.

Which action should be taken to meet these requirements?

A.

Automate using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to provision the AWS Accounts, set up infrastructure, and integrate with AWS Organizations.

B.

Create bootstrapping scripts in AWS OpsWorks and combine them with AWS CloudFormation templates to provision accounts and infrastructure.

C.

Use AWS config to provision accounts and deploy instances using AWS service catalog.

D.

Use AWS Control Tower to create a template in account factory and use the template to provision new accounts.

A SysOps Administrator is troubleshooting Amazon EC2 connectivity issues to the internet. The EC2 instance is in a private subnet. Below is the route table that is applied to the subnet of the EC2 instance.

Destination – 10.2.0.0/16

Target – local

Status – Active

Propagated – No

Destination – 0.0.0.0/0

Target – nat-xxxxxxx

Status – Blackhole

Propagated – No

What has caused the connectivity issue?

A.

The NAT gateway no longer exists

B.

There is no route to the internet gateway.

C.

The routes are no longer propagating.

D.

There is no route rule with a destination for the internet.

A company has a VPC with public and private subnets An Amazon EC2 based application resides in the private subnets and needs to process raw csv files stored in an Amazon S3 bucket A sysops administrator has set up the correct 1AM role with the required permissions for the application to access the S3 bucket, but the application is unable to communicate with the S3 bucket

Which action will solve this problem while adhering to least privilege access?

A.

Add a bucket policy to the S3 bucket permitting access from the 1AM role.

B.

Attach an S3 gateway endpoint to the VPC Configure the route table for the private subnet.

C.

Configure the route table to allow the instances on the private subnet access through the internet gateway

D.

Create a NAT gateway in a private subnet and configure the route table for the private subnets.

A SysOps Administrator needs to confirm that security best practices are being followed with the AWS account root user.

How should the Administrator ensure that this is done?

A.

Change the root user password by using the AWS CLI routinely.

B.

Periodically use the AWS CLI to rotate access keys and secret keys for the root user.

C.

Use AWS Trusted Advisor security checks to review the configuration of the root user.

D.

Periodically distribute the AWS compliance document from AWS Artifact that governs the root user configuration.

A SysOps Administrator must find a way to set up alerts when Amazon EC2 service limits are close to being reached.

How can the Administrator achieve this requirement?

A.

Use Amazon Inspector and Amazon CloudWatch Events.

B.

Use AWS Trusted Advisor and Amazon CloudWatch Events.

C.

Use the Personal Health Dashboard and CloudWatch Events.

D.

Use AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch Events.

A company has deployed its infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation Recently the company made manual changes to the infrastructure. A SysOps Administrator is tasked with determining what was changed and updating the CloudFormation template

Which solution will ensure all the changes are captured?

A.

Create a new CloudFormation stack based on the changes that were made Delete the old stack and deploy the new stack

B.

Update the CloudFormation stack using a change set Review the changes and update the stack

C.

Update the CloudFormation stack by modifying the selected parameters in the template to match what was changed

D.

Use drift detection on the CloudFormation stack Use the output to update the CloudFormation template and redeploy the stack

A company needs to have real-time access to image data while seamlessly maintaining a copy of the images in an offsite location Which AWS solution would allow access to the image data locally while also providing for disaster recovery?

A.

Create an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway configured as a stored volume Mount it from clients using Internet Small Computer System Interface OSCSI)

B.

Mount an Amazon EFS volume on a local server Share this volume with employees who need access to the images

C.

Store the images in Amazon S3 and use AWS Data Pipeline to allow for caching of S3 data on local workstations

D.

Use Amazon S3 for file storage, and enable S3 Transfer Acceleration to maintain a cache for frequently used files to increase local performance

A company creates custom AMI images by launching new Amazon EC2 instances from an AWS CloudFormation template. It installs and configures necessary software through AWS OpsWorks, and takes images of each EC2 instance. The process of installing and configuring software can take between 2 to 3 hours, but at times, the process stalls due to installation errors.

The SysOps Administrator must modify the CloudFormation template so if the process stalls, the entire stack will fail and roll back.

Based on these requirements, what should be added to the template?

A.

Conditions with a timeout set to 4 hours.

B.

CreationPolicy with a timeout set to 4 hours.

C.

DependsOn with a timeout set to 4 hours.

D.

Metadata with a timeout set to 4 hours.

A company has several business units that want to use Amazon EC2. The company wants to require all business units to provision their EC2 instances by using only approved EC2 instance configurations

What should a SysOps administrator do to implement this requirement?

A.

Create an EC2 instance launch configuration. Allow the business units to launch EC2 instances by specifying this launch configuration in the AWS Management Console

B.

Develop an 1AM policy that limits the business units to provision EC2 instances only Instruct the business units to launch instances by using an AWS CtoudFormation template.

C.

Publish a product and launch constraint role for EC2 instances by using AWS Service Catalog Allow the business units to perform actions in AWS Service Catalog only

D.

Share an AWS CloudFormation template with the business units Instruct the business units to pass a role to AWS CloudFormation to allow the service to manage EC2 instances.

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