AWS-SysOps Practice Test

AWS-SysOps Practice Test practice questions, page 13 of 38, with answer review and explanations.

Question 61

A user has launched an EC2 instance. The user is planning to setup the CloudWatch alarm. Which of the below mentioned actions is not supported by the CloudWatch alarm?

  1. Notify the Auto Scaling launch config to scale up
  2. Send an SMS using SNS
  3. Notify the Auto Scaling group to scale down
  4. Stop the EC2 instance

Question 62

A user is trying to delete an Auto Scaling group from CLI. Which of the below mentioned steps are to be performed by the user?

  1. Terminate the instances with the ec2-terminate-instance command
  2. Terminate the Auto Scaling instances with the as-terminate-instance command
  3. Set the minimum size and desired capacity to 0
  4. There is no need to change the capacity. Run the as-delete-group command and it will reset all values to 0

Question 63

An organization is planning to create 5 different AWS accounts considering various security requirements. The organization wants to use a single payee account by using the consolidated billing option. Which of the below mentioned statements is true with respect to the above information?

  1. Master (Payee. account will get only the total bill and cannot see the cost incurred by each account
  2. Master (Payee. account can view only the AWS billing details of the linked accounts
  3. It is not recommended to use consolidated billing since the payee account will have access to the linked accounts
  4. Each AWS account needs to create an AWS billing policy to provide permission to the payee account

Question 64

A user has deployed an application on his private cloud. The user is using his own monitoring tool. He wants to configure that whenever there is an error, the monitoring tool should notify him via SMS. Which of the below mentioned AWS services will help in this scenario?

  1. None because the user infrastructure is in the private cloud/
  2. AWS SNS
  3. AWS SES
  4. AWS SMS

Question 65

A user has created a web application with Auto Scaling. The user is regularly monitoring the application and he observed that the traffic is highest on Thursday and Friday between 8 AM to 6 PM. What is the best solution to handle scaling in this case?

  1. Add a new instance manually by 8 AM Thursday and terminate the same by 6 PM Friday
  2. Schedule Auto Scaling to scale up by 8 AM Thursday and scale down after 6 PM on Friday
  3. Schedule a policy which may scale up every day at 8 AM and scales down by 6 PM
  4. Configure a batch process to add an instance by 8 AM and remove it by Friday 6 PM