AWS-SysOps Free Practice Test

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company runs its entire suite of applications on Amazon EC2 instances. The company plans to move the applications to containers and AWS Fargate. Within 6 months, the company plans to retire its EC2 instances and use only Fargate. The company has been able to estimate its future Fargate costs.
A SysOps administrator needs to choose a purchasing option to help the company minimize costs. The SysOps administrator must maximize any discounts that are available and must ensure that there are no unused reservations.
Which purchasing option will meet these requirements?

1. A. Compute Savings Plans for 1 year with the No Upfront payment option
2. B. Compute Savings Plans for 1 year with the Partial Upfront payment option
3. C. EC2 Instance Savings Plans for 1 year with the All Upfront payment option
4. D. EC2 Reserved Instances for 1 year with the Partial Upfront payment option

Correct Answer: C

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company runs workloads on 90 Amazon EC2 instances in the eu-west-1 Region in an AWS account. In 2 months, the company will migrate the workloads from eu-west-1 to the eu-west-3 Region.
The company needs to reduce the cost of the EC2 instances. The company is willing to make a 1-year commitment that will begin next week. The company must choose an EC2 Instance purchasing option that will provide discounts for the 90 EC2 Instances regardless of Region during the 1-year period. Which solution will meet these requirements?

1. A. Purchase EC2 Standard Reserved Instances.
2. B. Purchase an EC2 Instance Savings Plan.
3. C. Purchase EC2 Convertible Reserved Instances.
4. D. Purchase a Compute Savings Plan.

Correct Answer: B

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company is planning to host its stateful web-based applications on AWS A SysOps administrator is using an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances The web applications will run 24 hours a day 7 days a week throughout the year The company must be able to change the instance type within the same instance family later in the year based on the traffic and usage patterns
Which EC2 instance purchasing option will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

1. A. Convertible Reserved Instances
2. B. On-Demand instances
3. C. Spot instances
4. D. Standard Reserved instances

Correct Answer: A
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-convertible-exchange.html

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The company uses shared VPCs to provide networking resources across accounts A SysOps administrator has been able to successfully launch and manage Amazon EC2 instances in a participant account However the SysOps administrator is now receiving an InstanceLimitExceeded error when the SysOps administrator tries to launch a new EC2 instance
What should the SysOps administrator do to resolve this error')

1. A. Request an instance quota increase from the account that owns the VPC
2. B. Launch additional EC2 instances in a different AWS Region
3. C. Request an instance quota increase from the parte pant account
4. D. Launch additional EC2 instances by using a different Amazon Machine image (AMI)

Correct Answer: A

- (Exam Topic 1)
A company's SysOps administrator needs to change the AWS Support plan for one of the company's AWS accounts. The account has multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated, and the MFA device is lost.
What should the SysOps administrator do to sign in?

1. A. Sign in as a root user by using email and phone verificatio
2. B. Set up a new MFA devic
3. C. Change the root user password.
4. D. Sign in as an 1AM user with administrator permission
5. E. Resynchronize the MFA token by using the 1AM console.
6. F. Sign in as an 1AM user with administrator permission
7. G. Reset the MFA device for the root user by adding a new device.
8. H. Use the forgot-password process to verify the email addres
9. I. Set up a new password and MFA device.

Correct Answer: A