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.
The Security team at AnyCompany discovers that some employees have been using individual AWS accounts that are not under the control of AnyCompany. The team has requested that those individual accounts be linked to the central organization using AWS Organizations.
Which action should a SysOps Administrator take to accomplish this?
A sysops administrator is implementing SSL for a domain of an internet facing application running behind an Application load balancer (ALB). The administrator decides to use an SSL certificates from Amazon certificate Manager (ACM) to secure it. Upon creating a request for the ALB fully qualified domain name (FQND), it fails, and the error message “Domain not allowed” is displayed.
How can the administrator fix this issue?
A company's Marketing department generates gigabytes of assets each day and stores them locally. They would like to protect the files by backing them up to AWS All the assets should be stored on the cloud but the most recent assets should be available locally for tow latency access
Which AWS service meets the requirements?
A SysOps Administrator must set up notifications for whenever combined billing exceeds a certain threshold for all AWS accounts within a company. The Administrator has set up AWS Organizations and enabled Consolidated Billing.
Which additional steps must the Administrator perform to set up the billing alerts?
A recent AWS CloudFormation stack update has failed and returned the error update_rollback_failed. A Sysops administrator is tasked with returning the CloudFormation stack to its previous working state.
What must be done to accomplish this?
An application is running on multiple EC2 instances. As part of an initiative to improve overall infrastructure security, the EC2 instances were moved to a private subnet. However, since moving, the EC2 instances have not been able to automatically update, and a SysOps Administrator has not been able to SSH into them remotely.
Which two actions could the Administrator take to securely resolve these issues? (Choose two.)
A SySOps Administrator is managing an AWS account where Developers are authorized to launch Amazon EC2 instances to test new code. To limit costs, the Administrator must ensure that the EC2 instances in the account are terminated 24 hours after launch.
How should the Administrator meet these requirements?
A company stores thousands of non-critical log files in an Amazon S3 bucket A set of reporting scripts retrieve these log files daily. Which of the following storage options will be the MOST cost efficient for the company's use case?
A popular auctioning platform requires near-real-time access to dynamic bidding information The platform must be available at all times The current Amazon RDS instance often reaches 100% CPU utilization during peak bidding sessions and can no longer be resized. To improve application performance, a SysOps Administrator is evaluating Amazon ElastiCache and has chosen Redis over Memcached
What advantages will this solution provide? (Select TWO )
A sysops administrator is reviewing AWS Trusted Advisor warnings and encounters a warning for an S3 bucket policy that has open access permissions. While discussing the issue with the bucket owner, the administrator realizes the S3 bucket is an origin for an Amazon CloudFront web distribution.
A company has adopted a security policy that requires all customer data to be encrypted at rest. Currently, customer data is stored on a central Amazon EFS file system and accessed by a number of different applications from Amazon EC2 instances.
How can the SysOps Administrator ensure that all customer data stored on the EFS file system meets the new requirement?
A SysOps Administrator is creating additional Amazon EC2 instances and receives an InstanceLimitExceeded error.
What is the cause of the issue and how can it be resolved?
A SysOps Administrator is responsible for a large fleet of EC2 instances and must know whether any
instances will be affected by upcoming hardware maintenance.
Which option would provide this information with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A SysOps Administrator deployed an AWS elastic Beanstalk worker node environment that reads messages from an auto-generated Amazon simple Queue service (Amazon SQS) queue and deletes them from the queue after processing. Amazon EC2 auto scaling scales in and scales out number of worker nodes based on CPU utilization. After some time, the administrator notices that the number of messages in the SQS queue are increasing significantly.
Which action will remediate the issue?
A SysOps Administrator is attempting to use AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to initiate a SSH session with an Amazon EC2 instance running on a custom Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) The Administrator cannot find the target instance in the Session Manager console
Which combination of actions with solve this issue? (Select TWO )
A SysOps Administrator is configuring AWS SSO tor the first time. The Administrator has already created a directory in the master account using AWS Directory Service and enabled full access in AWS Organizations
What should the Administrator do next to configure the service?
An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for memcached cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on the shopping site. When viewing recent Amazon CloudWatch metrics data for the ElastiCache cluster, the sysops administrator notices a large number of evictions.
Which of the following actions will reduce these evictions? (Select Two)
A company wants to reduce costs across the entire company after discovering that several AWS accounts were using unauthorized services and incurring extremely high costs.
Which AWS service enables the company to reduce costs by controlling access to AWS services for all AWS accounts?