Task 3.1: Determine a Strategy to Improve Overall Operational Excellence. SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A company runs a production web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The operations team receives alerts from CloudWatch but often misses early signs of degradation because they only monitor average CPU utilization. During a recent incident, the team discovered that a memory leak caused the application to become unresponsive, but the CPU average remained below the alarm threshold. The team wants to improve detection of similar issues. What should the team do?

   • AUse AWS Health to monitor for scheduled maintenance events and apply patches proactively.
   • BCreate a CloudWatch alarm on the EC2 status checks and enable detailed monitoring on the instances.
   • CEnable AWS Trusted Advisor checks for EC2 and review the performance recommendations weekly.
   • DPublish a custom CloudWatch metric for memory utilization from each instance and create an alarm on that metric.
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2. 2application · medium

   A company's operations team wants to establish a culture of continuous improvement. They have started holding post-incident reviews but have noticed that the same types of incidents keep recurring. The team wants to ensure that action items from reviews are tracked and implemented. What should the team do?

   • ASchedule a yearly review of all post-incident reviews.
   • BCreate a feedback loop where action items are entered into a backlog and tracked to completion in regular operational reviews.
   • CDocument the action items in the post-incident review notes and archive them.
   • DUse AWS Systems Manager to automatically implement all action items.
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4. 3application · medium

   A company runs a serverless application using AWS Lambda. The operations team wants to monitor for errors and set up alerts when the error rate exceeds a threshold. They also want to see the logs for each invocation. What should the team do?

   • ACreate a CloudWatch alarm on the Errors metric for the Lambda function and view logs in CloudWatch Logs.
   • BUse AWS X-Ray to trace invocations and view logs in X-Ray.
   • CUse AWS Trusted Advisor to check for Lambda errors.
   • DUse AWS Config to monitor Lambda function errors.
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5. 4foundation · medium

   During an operational assessment, you notice that a team manually creates and configures EC2 instances. Which operational practice gap does this indicate?

   • AInsufficient monitoring
   • BInadequate change management
   • CLack of automation
   • DPoor incident response
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6. 5foundation · medium

   What is the primary purpose of regular operational reviews in a continuous improvement culture?

   • ATo assign blame for any operational failures
   • BTo justify the current budget to management
   • CTo replace the need for automated monitoring
   • DTo assess the effectiveness of current operational practices and identify areas for improvement
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