AWS-SysOps Practice Test practice questions, page 28 of 38, with answer review and explanations.
Question 136
A user has launched two EBS backed EC2 instances in the US-East-1a region. The user wants to change the zone of one of the instances. How can the user change it?
Stop one of the instances and change the availability zone
The zone can only be modified using the AWS CLI
From the AWS EC2 console, select the Actions - > Change zones and specify new zone
Create an AMI of the running instance and launch the instance in a separate AZ
Question 137
A user wants to make so that whenever the CPU utilization of the AWS EC2 instance is above 90%, the redlight of his bedroom turns on. Which of the below mentioned AWS services is helpful for this purpose?
AWS CloudWatch + AWS SES
AWS CloudWatch + AWS SNS
None. It is not possible to configure the light with the AWS infrastructure services
AWS CloudWatch and a dedicated software turning on the light
Question 138
An organization has added 3 of his AWS accounts to consolidated billing. One of the AWS accounts has purchased a Reserved Instance (RI. of a small instance size in the US-East-1a zone. All other AWS accounts are running instances of a small size in the same zone. What will happen in this case for the RI pricing?
Only the account that has purchased the RI will get the advantage of RI pricing
One instance of a small size and running in the US-East-1a zone of each AWS account will get the benefit of RI pricing
Any single instance from all the three accounts can get the benefit of AWS RI pricing if they are running in the same zone and are of the same size
If there are more than one instances of a small size running across multiple accounts in the same zone no one will get the benefit of RI
Question 139
An organization is planning to use AWS for 5 different departments. The finance department is responsible to pay for all the accounts. However, they want the cost separation for each account to map with the right cost center. How can the finance department achieve this?
Create 5 separate accounts and make them a part of one consolidate billing
Create 5 separate accounts and use the IAM cross account access with the roles for better management
Create 5 separate IAM users and set a different policy for their access
Create 5 separate IAM groups and add users as per the department's employees
Question 140
A user has setup an EBS backed instance and a CloudWatch alarm when the CPU utilization is more than 65%. The user has setup the alarm to watch it for 5 periods of 5 minutes each. The CPU utilization is 60% between 9 AM to 6 PM. The user has stopped the EC2 instance for 15 minutes between 11 AM to 11:15 AM. What will be the status of the alarm at 11:30 AM?