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SOA-C02 – Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)

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Question 10 (Mix Questions)

A company uses an AWS CloudFormation template to provision an Amazon EC2 instance and an Amazon RDS DB instance A SysOps administrator must update the template to ensure that the DB instance is created before the EC2 instance is launched

What should the SysOps administrator do to meet this requirement?

Select an option, then click Submit answer.

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    Add a wait condition to the template Update the EC2 instance user data script to send a signal after the EC2 instance is started
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    Add the DependsOn attribute to the EC2 instance resource, and provide the logical name of the RDS resource
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    Change the order of the resources in the template so that the RDS resource is listed before the EC2 instance resource
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    Create multiple templates Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to wait for one stack to complete before the second stack is created
Question 11 (Mix Questions)

A company runs a stateless application that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. Users are reporting performance issues. A SysOps administrator reviews the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the application and notices that the instance's CPU utilization frequently reaches 90% during business hours.

What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that will improve the application's responsiveness?

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    Configure CloudWatch logging on the EC2 instance. Configure a CloudWatch alarm for CPU utilization to alert the SysOps administrator when CPU utilization goes above 90%.
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    Configure an AWS Client VPN connection to allow the application users to connect directly to the EC2 instance private IP address to reduce latency.
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    Create an Auto Scaling group, and assign it to an Application Load Balancer. Configure a target tracking scaling policy that is based on the average CPU utilization of the Auto Scaling group.
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    Create a CloudWatch alarm that activates when the EC2 instance's CPU utilization goes above 80%. Configure the alarm to invoke an AWS Lambda function that vertically scales the instance.
Question 12 (Mix Questions)

A company hosts several write-intensive applications. These applications use a MySQL database that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The company asks a SysOps administrator to implement a highly available database solution that is ideal for multi-tenant workloads.

Which solution should the SysOps administrator implement to meet these requirements?

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    Create a second EC2 instance for MySQL. Configure the second instance to be a read replica.
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    Migrate the database to an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. Add an Aurora Replica.
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    Migrate the database to an Amazon Aurora multi-master DB cluster.
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    Migrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance.