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.
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 the weekend auction and can no longer be resized. To improve application performance, a sysops administrator is evaluating Amazon ElastiCache and has chosen Redis (cluster mode enabled) instead of Memcached
What are reasons for making this choice? (Select TWO.)
A SysOps Administrator must remove public IP addresses from all Amazon EC2 Instances to prevent exposure to the internet. However, many corporate applications running on those EC2 instances need to access Amazon S3 buckets. The administrator is tasked with allowing the EC2 instances to continue to access the S3 buckets.
Which solutions can be used? (Select Two).
A company uses multiple accounts for its applications. Account A manages the company’s Amazon Route 53 domains and hosted zones. Account B uses a load balancer fronting the company’s web servers.
How can the company use Route 53 to point to the load balancer in the MOST cost-effective and efficient manner?
A company runs a web application that users access using the domain name www example com The company manages the domain name using Amazon Route 53 The company created an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the application and would like www example com to access the application through CloudFront
What is the MOST cost-effective way to achieve this?
A company is concerned about a security vulnerability impacting its Linux operating system.
What should the SysOps Administrator do to alleviate this concern?
A SysOps Administrator needs to create a replica of a company’s existing AWS infrastructure in a new AWS account. Currently, an AWS Service Catalog portfolio is used to create and manage resources.
What is the MOST efficient way to accomplish this?
A SysOps Administrator is trying to set up an Amazon Route 53 domain namo to route traffic to a website hosted on Amazon S3 The domain name of the website is www anycompany com and the S3 bucket name is anycompany-static After the record set is set up in Route 53, the domain name www anycompany com does not seem to work, and the static website is not displayed in the browser
Which of the following is a cause of this?
A SysOps Administrator is deploying an Amazon EC2 instance and is using third-party VPN software to route traffic to an on-premises data center Based on the shared responsibility model AWS is responsible for managing which element of this deployment?
A sysops administrator must monitor a fleet of Amazon EC2 Linux instances with the constraint that no agents be installed. The sysops administrator chooses Amazon CloudWatch as the monitoring tool.
Which metric can be measured given the constraints? (Select Three)
A security audit revealed that the security groups in a VPC have ports 22 and 3389 open to all. introducing a possible threat that instances can be stopped or configurations can be modified. A SysOps administrator needs to automate remediation.
What should the administrator do to meet these requirements?
A company developed and now runs a memory-intensive application on multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The memory utilization metrics of the EC2 Linux instances must be monitored every minute.
How should the SysOps Administrator publish the memory metrics? (Choose two.)
A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability tor an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server and a secondary passive server. Route 53 should route traffic to the primary server if the associated health check returns 2xx or 3xx HTTP codes. AH other traffic should be directed to the secondary passive server. The failover record type, set ID, and routing policy have been set appropriately for both primary and secondary servers.
Which next step should be taken to configure Route 53?
Which type routing protocol operates by exchanging the entire routing information?
A company requires that all access from on-premises applications to AWS services go over its AWS Direct Connect connection rather than the public internet. How would a SysOps Administrator implement this requirement?
A medical imaging company needs lo process large amounts of imaging data in real time using a specific instance type. The company wants to guarantee sufficient resource capacity for 1 year
Which action will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?
A local agency plans to deploy 500 Raspberry Pi devices throughout a city. All the devices need to be managed centrally and their configurations need to be consistent. What is the BEST service for managing these devices?
A company has centralized all its logs into one Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. The SysOps Administrator is to alert different teams of any issues relevant to them.
What is the MOST efficient approach to accomplish this?
A SysOps administrator maintains several Amazon EC2 instances that do not have access to the public internet. To patch operating systems, the instances should not be reachable from the Public internet.
The administrator deploys a NAT instance, updates the security groups, and configures the appropriate routes within the route table. However, the instances are still unable to reach the internet.
What should be done to resolve the issue?
A company hosts a multi-tier ecommerce web application on AWS, and has recently been alerted to suspicious application traffic The architecture consists of Amazon EC2 instances deployed across multiple Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) After examining the server logs, a sysops administrator determines that the suspicious traffic is an attempted SQL injection attack.
What should the sysops administrator do to prevent similar attacks?
An organization created an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume with a file system ID of fs-85ba41fc, and it is actively used by 10 Amazon EC2 hosts. The organization has become concerned that the file system is not encrypted?
How can this be resolved?
