Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :SOA-C02
  • Exam Name
    :AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)
  • Certification
    :Amazon Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Amazon
  • Total Questions
    :551 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :Jul 01, 2025

Amazon Amazon Certifications SOA-C02 Questions & Answers

  • Question 361:

    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? (Choose two.)

    A. Add an additional node to the ElastiCache cluster.

    B. Increase the ElastiCache time to live (TTL).

    C. Increase the individual node size inside the ElastiCache cluster.

    D. Put an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the ElastiCache cluster.

    E. Use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to decouple the ElastiCache cluster.

  • Question 362:

    A company migrated an I/O intensive application to an Amazon EC2 general purpose instance. The EC2 instance has a single General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attached.

    Application users report that certain actions that require intensive reading and writing to the disk are taking much longer than normal or are failing completely. After reviewing the performance metrics of the EBS volume, a SysOps administrator notices that the VolumeQueueLength metric is consistently high during the same times in which the users are reporting issues. The SysOps administrator needs to resolve this problem to restore full performance to the application.

    Which action will meet these requirements?

    A. Modify the instance type to be storage optimized.

    B. Modify the volume properties by deselecting Auto-Enable Volume 10.

    C. Modify the volume properties to increase the IOPS.

    D. Modify the instance to enable enhanced networking.

  • Question 363:

    A company is using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to share a file system among several Amazon EC2 instances. As usage increases, users report that file retrieval from the EFS file system is slower than normal. Which action should a SysOps administrator take to improve the performance of the file system?

    A. Configure the file system for Provisioned Throughput.

    B. Enable encryption in transit on the file system.

    C. Identify any unused files in the file system, and remove the unused files.

    D. Resize the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume of each of the EC2 instances.

  • Question 364:

    A gaming application is deployed on four Amazon EC2 instances in a default VPC. The SysOps administrator has noticed consistently high latency in responses as data is transferred among the four instances. There is no way for the administrator to alter the application code.

    The MOST effective way to reduce latency is to relaunch the EC2 instances in:

    A. a dedicated VPC.

    B. a single subnet inside the VPC.

    C. a placement group.

    D. a single Availability Zone.

  • Question 365:

    While setting up an AWS managed VPN connection, a SysOps administrator creates a customer gateway resource in AWS The customer gateway device resides in a data center with a NAT gateway in front of it. What address should be used to create the customer gateway resource?

    A. The private IP address of the customer gateway device

    B. The MAC address of the NAT device in front of the customer gateway device

    C. The public IP address of the customer gateway device

    D. The public IP address of the NAT device in front of the customer gateway device

  • Question 366:

    A Sysops administrator has created an Amazon EC2 instance using an AWS CloudFormation template in the us-east-I Region. The administrator finds that this template has failed to create an EC2 instance in the us-west-2 Region. What is one cause for this failure?

    A. Resource tags defined in the CloudFormation template are specific to the us-east-I Region.

    B. The Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID referenced in the CloudFormation template could not be found in the us-west-2 Region.

    C. The cfn-init script did not run during resource provisioning in the us-west-2 Region.

    D. The IAM user was not created in the specified Region.

  • Question 367:

    A new application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and accesses data in an Amazon RDS database instance. When fully deployed in production, the application fails. The database can be queried from a console on a bastion host. When

    looking at the web server logs, the following error is repeated multiple times:

    "** Error Establishing a Database Connection

    Which of the following may be causes of the connectivity problems? (Select TWO.)

    A. The security group for the database does not have the appropriate egress rule from the database to the web server.

    B. The certificate used by the web server is not trusted by the RDS instance.

    C. The security group for the database does not have the appropriate ingress rule from the web server to the database.

    D. The port used by the application developer does not match the port specified in the RDS configuration.

    E. The database is still being created and is not available for connectivity.

  • Question 368:

    A SysOps administrator is tasked with deploying a company's infrastructure as code. The SysOps administrator want to write a single template that can be reused for multiple environments. How should the SysOps administrator use AWS CloudFormation to create a solution?

    A. Use Amazon EC2 user data in a CloudFormation template

    B. Use nested stacks to provision resources

    C. Use parameters in a CloudFormation template

    D. Use stack policies to provision resources

  • Question 369:

    A large company is using AWS Organizations to manage hundreds of AWS accounts across multiple AWS Regions. The company has turned on AWS Config throughout the organization.

    The company requires all Amazon S3 buckets to block public read access. A SysOps administrator must generate a monthly report that shows all the S3 buckets and whether they comply with this requirement.

    Which combination of steps should the SysOps administrator take to collect this data? {Select TWO).

    A. Create an AWS Config aggregator in an aggregator account. Use the organization as the source. Retrieve the compliance data from the aggregator.

    B. Create an AWS Config aggregator in each account. Use an S3 bucket in an aggregator account as the destination. Retrieve the compliance data from the S3 bucket

    C. Edit the AWS Config policy in AWS Organizations. Use the organization's management account to turn on the s3-bucket-public-read-prohibited rule for the entire organization.

    D. Use the AWS Config compliance report from the organization's management account. Filter the results by resource, and select Amazon S3.

    E. Use the AWS Config API to apply the s3-bucket-public-read-prohibited rule in all accounts for all available Regions.

  • Question 370:

    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.

    Which action should the administrator take to ensure that users access objects in Amazon S3 by using only CloudFront URLs?

    A. Encrypt the S3 bucket content with Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3).

    B. Create an origin access identity and grant it permissions to read objects in the S3 bucket.

    C. Assign an 1AM user to the CloudFront distribution and grant the user permissions in the S3 bucket policy.

    D. Assign an 1AM role to the CloudFront distribution and grant the role permissions in the S3 bucket policy.

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