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Free SOA-C03 practice test

15 exam-style practice questions for AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03). Take your time (about 15 minutes), then see your score, the topics to work on and the correct answers with explanations.
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In this test15 questions
  • Deployment, provisioning and automation4
  • Reliability and business continuity4
  • Security and compliance3
  • Networking and content delivery2
  • Monitoring, logging and remediation2
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1 of 15Networking and content delivery

Instances in a private subnet need to download updates from the internet but must not accept inbound connections. What do you use?

2 of 15Networking and content delivery

Two VPCs are peered, but instances cannot talk. What is a common missing step?

3 of 15Deployment, provisioning and automation

Where should an application read configuration such as a database endpoint without hard-coding it?

4 of 15Reliability and business continuity

How do you protect an important EC2 instance from being terminated by mistake?

5 of 15Deployment, provisioning and automation

Which service provisions AWS resources from a template in JSON or YAML?

6 of 15Monitoring, logging and remediation

Which service collects metrics and lets you alarm when an EC2 instance's CPU stays above 80%?

7 of 15Security and compliance

Which AWS Organizations feature prevents any account from disabling CloudTrail?

8 of 15Reliability and business continuity

How can EBS snapshots be copied to another Region on a schedule?

9 of 15Reliability and business continuity

Instances behind an ALB are marked unhealthy by the load balancer but the ASG keeps them. What should you change?

10 of 15Deployment, provisioning and automation

What prerequisite must an EC2 instance meet to be managed by Systems Manager?

11 of 15Monitoring, logging and remediation

How do you turn a specific error pattern in application logs into a metric you can alarm on?

12 of 15Deployment, provisioning and automation

What does the CloudFormation helper script cfn-signal do with a creation policy?

13 of 15Reliability and business continuity

Which feature keeps a standby copy of an RDS database in another Availability Zone with automatic failover?

14 of 15Security and compliance

What is the recommended way to give an EC2 application permission to read an S3 bucket?

15 of 15Security and compliance

An auditor wants proof of compliance mapped to a framework, collected automatically. Which service helps?

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