Free AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate (SOA-C03) Practice Questions

Sample SOA-C03 Practice Questions

Browse all 10 free AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate practice questions below.

1. A SysOps administrator notices that an EC2 instance is experiencing high CPU utilization. Which CloudWatch metric should be monitored to investigate this issue?

   • NetworkIn
   • StatusCheckFailed
   • DiskReadBytes
   • CPUUtilization

2. An organization wants to automatically terminate unhealthy EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Which feature should they configure?

   • EC2 Auto Scaling health checks with ELB health checks enabled
   • CloudWatch Logs only
   • S3 lifecycle policies
   • AWS Config rules

3. A company needs to deploy a consistent infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Which AWS service should they use?

   • AWS CloudFormation StackSets
   • AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
   • AWS Config
   • Amazon EC2 Image Builder

4. Which of the following are valid scaling policies for EC2 Auto Scaling? (Select TWO)

   • Target tracking scaling policy
   • Lambda scaling policy
   • Step scaling policy
   • Database scaling policy

5. A company wants to restrict IAM users from launching EC2 instances larger than t3.large. Which approach should they use?

   • CloudWatch alarms
   • Security group rules
   • VPC flow logs
   • IAM policy with a condition key restricting ec2:InstanceType

6. A CloudOps engineer needs to collect custom application metrics from EC2 instances and visualize them in CloudWatch dashboards. Which approach is MOST efficient?

   • Store metrics in DynamoDB
   • Write metrics to S3 and use Athena to query them
   • Use CloudFront to distribute metrics
   • Install the CloudWatch agent and configure it to publish custom metrics using StatsD or collectd protocols

7. An application is logging errors to CloudWatch Logs. The operations team wants to be notified when a specific error pattern appears more than 10 times in 5 minutes. Which solution should they implement?

   • Use VPC Flow Logs
   • Create a CloudWatch Logs metric filter and set up a CloudWatch alarm with SNS notification
   • Configure CloudTrail data events
   • Enable S3 event notifications

8. A company uses EventBridge to trigger Lambda functions for automated remediation. They need to ensure that failed remediation attempts are captured for analysis. What should they configure?

   • Configure a dead-letter queue (DLQ) for the EventBridge rule
   • Enable CloudFront access logs
   • Modify the VPC route table
   • Create an S3 bucket policy

9. Which of the following can be used to automatically remediate non-compliant resources detected by AWS Config? (Select TWO)

   • S3 lifecycle policies
   • CloudFront distributions
   • EventBridge rules with Lambda function targets
   • Systems Manager Automation documents

10. A CloudOps engineer needs to identify which AWS resources are generating the most CloudWatch Logs data to optimize costs. Which tool should they use?

    • AWS Artifact
    • CloudWatch Logs Insights with IncomingBytes metric analysis
    • VPC Flow Logs
    • CloudFront reports