A company uses Chef for configuration management and wants to migrate to AWS. They need a managed Chef server and the ability to run Chef recipes on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should they use?

AWS Systems Manager State Manager

AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise

A DevOps team needs to automate the cleanup of unused EBS snapshots older than 30 days. They want a serverless solution that runs daily. Which approach should they use?

An AWS OpsWorks lifecycle event

An AWS Step Functions state machine with a wait state

An AWS Lambda function triggered by an Amazon EventBridge rule

An AWS Systems Manager State Manager association

Which of the following is an example of interacting with AWS software-defined infrastructure using infrastructure as code?

Using the AWS Management Console to create an EC2 instance

Writing an AWS CloudFormation template to provision resources

Sending a support ticket to AWS

A company wants to ensure that all its EC2 instances have a specific configuration file and that the SSM Agent is running. They need a solution that automatically corrects any drift from this desired state. Which AWS service should they use?

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager

AWS Systems Manager State Manager

AWSCertified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Domain 2Objective 3

Task Statement 2.3: Design and Build Automated Solutions for Complex Tasks and Large-Scale Environments. DOP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Content Domain 2: Configuration Management and IaC domain, which accounts for 17% of the DOP-C02 exam. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~12–20 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 27 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

27questions here

6free pages

9concepts

17%of the exam

9 Concepts in This Objective

AWS Systems Manager inventory
AWS Systems Manager patch management
AWS Config for compliance
AWS Lambda automation with SDKs
AWS Step Functions orchestration
AWS OpsWorks configuration management
Systems Manager State Manager
Systems Manager compliance reporting
Automation with AWS software-defined infrastructure

Questions 16–20

16application · medium
A company uses Chef for configuration management and wants to migrate to AWS. They need a managed Chef server and the ability to run Chef recipes on EC2 instances. Which AWS service should they use?
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17application · medium
A DevOps team needs to automate the cleanup of unused EBS snapshots older than 30 days. They want a serverless solution that runs daily. Which approach should they use?
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18foundation · easy
A DevOps engineer needs to collect software inventory data from a fleet of EC2 instances and store it in a central location for reporting. Which AWS service is designed for this purpose?
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19foundation · easy
Which of the following is an example of interacting with AWS software-defined infrastructure using infrastructure as code?
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20application · medium
A company wants to ensure that all its EC2 instances have a specific configuration file and that the SSM Agent is running. They need a solution that automatically corrects any drift from this desired state. Which AWS service should they use?
Select an answer first

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