AWS-SysOps Practice Test

AWS-SysOps Practice Test practice questions, page 33 of 38, with answer review and explanations.

Question 161

A user has setup an EBS backed instance and attached 2 EBS volumes to it. The user has setup a CloudWatch alarm on each volume for the disk data. The user has stopped the EC2 instance and detached the EBS volumes. What will be the status of the alarms on the EBS volume?

  1. OK
  2. Insufficient Data
  3. Alarm
  4. The EBS cannot be detached until all the alarms are removed

Question 162

A user has launched an EC2 instance from an instance store backed AMI. The infrastructure team wants to create an AMI from the running instance. Which of the below mentioned credentials is not required while creating the AMI?

  1. AWS account ID
  2. X.509 certificate and private key
  3. AWS login ID to login to the console
  4. Access key and secret access key

Question 163

A user has configured an SSL listener at ELB as well as on the back-end instances. Which of the below mentioned statements helps the user understand ELB traffic handling with respect to the SSL listener?

  1. It is not possible to have the SSL listener both at ELB and back-end instances
  2. ELB will modify headers to add requestor details
  3. ELB will intercept the request to add the cookie details if sticky session is enabled
  4. ELB will not modify the headers

Question 164

A user has created a Cloudformation stack. The stack creates AWS services, such as EC2 instances, ELB, AutoScaling, and RDS. While creating the stack it created EC2, ELB and AutoScaling but failed to create RDS. What will Cloudformation do in this scenario?

  1. Cloudformation can never throw an error after launching a few services since it verifies all the steps before launching
  2. It will warn the user about the error and ask the user to manually create RDS
  3. Rollback all the changes and terminate all the created services
  4. It will wait for the user's input about the error and correct the mistake after the input

Question 165

A user is trying to launch an EBS backed EC2 instance under free usage. The user wants to achieve encryption of the EBS volume. How can the user encrypt the data at rest?

  1. Use AWS EBS encryption to encrypt the data at rest
  2. The user cannot use EBS encryption and has to encrypt the data manually or using a third party tool
  3. The user has to select the encryption enabled flag while launching the EC2 instance
  4. Encryption of volume is not available as a part of the free usage tier