Task 3.2: Automate the Management of Existing Resources. SOA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A company wants to automatically stop non-production EC2 instances during weekends to save costs. The instances are tagged with 'Environment: Non-Prod'. Which solution should the company use?

   • ACreate an Amazon EventBridge rule with a cron schedule that runs on Friday evening and invokes an AWS Lambda function that stops all instances with the tag 'Environment: Non-Prod'.
   • BUse AWS Systems Manager State Manager to associate a stop command with the instances.
   • CCreate an AWS Systems Manager maintenance window that runs a script on each instance to stop it.
   • DConfigure an S3 Event Notification to trigger a Lambda function when a 'stop' file is uploaded to a bucket.
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2. 7foundation · medium

   A DevOps team wants to automatically trigger an AWS Systems Manager automation document whenever a new commit is pushed to a specific branch of their AWS CodeCommit repository. The team already uses AWS CodePipeline for their CI/CD pipeline. Which integration approach meets this requirement with the least amount of custom code?

   • AUse the AWS DevOps Agent to install a webhook in CodeCommit that directly invokes the Systems Manager automation document on every push.
   • BAdd a Lambda function as a source action in the CodePipeline pipeline that polls the CodeCommit repository and calls the Systems Manager automation document on new commits.
   • CCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that matches CodeCommit repository and branch events, and set the Systems Manager automation document as the rule target.
   • DConfigure an S3 event notification on the CodeCommit repository's S3 bucket to invoke an AWS Lambda function that starts the Systems Manager automation document.
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4. 8application · medium

   A company uses AWS Organizations and wants to automatically tag new EC2 instances with the name of the account they belong to. The tagging must happen as soon as an instance is launched. Which solution should the company use?

   • AConfigure an S3 Event Notification on the CloudTrail bucket to invoke a Lambda function that parses the RunInstances event and tags the instance.
   • BCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that matches EC2 Instance State-change Notification events for running instances and invokes an AWS Lambda function that reads the account name and applies the tag.
   • CUse AWS Systems Manager State Manager to run a script on each instance that reads the account name and applies the tag.
   • DCreate an AWS Config rule that checks for missing tags and invokes a Lambda function to remediate.
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5. 9foundation · easy

   A CloudOps engineer wants to route events from AWS services to targets such as Lambda functions or Step Functions state machines. Which AWS service provides a rule-based event bus for this purpose?

   • AAWS Step Functions
   • BAmazon SQS
   • CAmazon EventBridge
   • DAmazon Kinesis Data Streams
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6. 10foundation · easy

   A CloudOps engineer needs to automate the installation of security patches on a fleet of EC2 instances according to a defined maintenance window. Which AWS Systems Manager capability is designed for this operational process?

   • APatch Manager
   • BRun Command
   • CState Manager
   • DParameter Store
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