SOA-C01 Free Practice Test

A user is planning to use AWS services for his web application. If the user is trying to set up his own billing management system for AWS, how can he configure it?

1. A. Set up programmatic billing acces
2. B. Download and parse the bill as per the requirement
3. C. It is not possible for the user to create his own billing management service with AWS
4. D. Enable the AWS CloudWatch alarm which will provide APIs to download the alarm data
5. E. Use AWS billing APIs to download the usage report of each service from the AWS billing console

Correct Answer: A
AWS provides an option to have programmatic access to billing. Programmatic Billing Access leverages the existing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3. APIs. Thus, the user can build applications that reference his billing data from a CSV (comma-separated value. file stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. AWS will upload the bill to the bucket every few hours and the user can download the bill CSV from the bucket, parse itand create a billing system as per the requirement.

Your team is excited about the use of AWS because now they have access to ??programmable Infrastructure" You have been asked to manage your AWS infrastructure In a manner similar to the way you might manage application code You want to be able to deploy exact copies of different versions of your infrastructure, stage changes into different environments, revert back to previous versions, and identify what versions are running at any particular time (development, test, QA, production).
Which approach addresses this requirement?

1. A. Use cost allocation reports and AWS OpsWorks to deploy and manage your infrastructure.
2. B. Use AWS CloudWatch metrics and alerts along with resource tagging to deploy and manage your infrastructure.
3. C. Use AWS Beanstalk and a version control system like GIT to deploy and manage your infrastructure.
4. D. Use AWS CloudFormation and a version control system like GIT to deploy and manage your infrastructure.

Correct Answer: D
Reference:
?V Answer A: does not provide versioning
?V Answer B: does not provide versioning
?V Answer C: Beanstalk provide version control over your application (not infrastructure)
Extract from what is AWS CloudFormation: (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html)
Easily Control and Track Changes to Your Infrastructure In some cases, you might have underlying resources that you want to upgrade incrementally. For example, you might change to a higher performing instance type in your Auto Scaling launch configuration so that you can reduce the maximum number of instances in your Auto Scaling group. If problems occur after you complete the update, you might need to roll back your infrastructure to the original settings. To do this manually, you not only have to remember which resources were changed, you also have to know what the original settings were.
When you provision your infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation, the AWS CloudFormation template describes exactly what resources are provisioned and their settings. Because these templates are text files, you simply track differences in your templates to track changes to your infrastructure, similar to the way developers control revisions to source code. For example, you can use a version control system with your templates so that you know exactly what changes were made, who made them, and when. If at any point you need to reverse changes to your infrastructure, you can use a previous version of your template.

An organization has configured Auto Scaling with ELB. There is a memory issue in the application which is causing CPU utilization to go above 90%. The higher CPU usage triggers an event for Auto Scaling as per the scaling policy. If the user wants to find the root cause inside the application without triggering a scaling activity, how can he achieve this?

1. A. Stop the scaling process until research is completed
2. B. It is not possible to find the root cause from that instance without triggering scaling
3. C. Delete Auto Scaling until research is completed
4. D. Suspend the scaling process until research is completed

Correct Answer: D
Auto Scaling allows the user to suspend and then resume one or more of the Auto Scaling processes in the Auto Scaling group. This is very useful when the user wants to investigate a configuration problem or some other issue, such as a memory leak with the web application and then make changes to the application, without triggering the Auto Scaling process.

A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets using the VPC Wizard. The VPC has CIDR 20.0.0.0/16. The private subnet uses CIDR 20.0.0.0/24. Which of the below mentioned entries are required in the main route table to allow the instances in VPC to communicate with each other?

1. A. Destination : 20.0.0.0/24 and Target : VPC
2. B. Destination : 20.0.0.0/16 and Target : ALL
3. C. Destination : 20.0.0.0/0 and Target : ALL
4. D. Destination : 20.0.0.0/24 and Target : Local

Correct Answer: D

A user has launched a large EBS backed EC2 instance in the US-East-1a region. The user wants to achieve Disaster Recovery (DR. for that instance by creating another small instance in Europe. How can the user achieve DR?

1. A. Copy the running instance using the ??Instance Copy?? command to the EU region
2. B. Create an AMI of the instance and copy the AMI to the EU regio
3. C. Then launch the instance from the EU AMI
4. D. Copy the instance from the US East region to the EU region
5. E. Use the ??Launch more like this?? option to copy the instance from one region to another

Correct Answer: B
To launch an EC2 instance it is required to have an AMI in that region. If the AMI is not available in that region, then create a new AMI or use the copy command to copy the AMI from one region to the other region.