Free Amazon SOA-C01 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: SOA-C01
Exam Name/Title: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Certification Provider: Amazon
Corresponding Certification: Amazon AWS Certified Associate

Exam Questions: 261
Updated On: Jun 02, 2026

Question #17

A SysOps Administrator has configured health checks on a load balancer. An Amazon EC2 instance attached to this load balancer fails the health check.
What will happen next? (Choose two.)

A. The EC2 instance will be terminated based on the health check failure.

B. The load balancer will continue to perform the health check on the EC2 instance.

C. A new EC2 instance will be deployed to replace the unhealthy instance.

D. The load balancer will stop sending traffic to the EC2 instance.

E. The EC2 instance will be rebooted.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: B,D Vote an answer

Question #18

A company's application infrastructure was deployed using AWS CloudFormation and is composed of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. When releasing a new version of the application, the update deployment must avoid DNS changes and allow rollback.
Which solution should a sysops administrator use to meet the deployment requirements for this new release?

A. Modify the CloudFormation template to use an AutoScalingReplacingUpdate policy. Update the stack. Perform a second update with the new release

B. Create a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing the updated code. Create a launch configuration with the AMI. Update Auto Scaling group to use the new lauch configuration.

C. Configure the Auto Scaling group to use lifecycle hooks. Deploy now instances with the new application version. Complete the lifecycle hook action once healthy.

D. Deploy a second CloudFormation stack. Wait for the application to be available Cut over to the new Application Load Balancer

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #19

A company has centralized all its logs into one Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. The SysOps Administrator is to alert different teams of any issues relevant to them.
What is the MOST efficient approach to accomplish this?

A. Write a AWS lambda function that will query the logs every minute and contain the logic of which team to notify on which patterns and issues.

B. Set up different metric filters for each team based on patterns and alerts. Each alarm will notify the appropriate notification list.

C. Create an AWS Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances that will scale based on the amount of ingested log entries. This group will pull streams, look for patterns, and send notifications to relevant teams.

D. Redesign the aggregation of logs so that each team's relevant parts are sent to a separate log group, then subscribe each team to its respective log group.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #20

A company is migrating its exchange server from its on-premises location to a VPC in the AWS Cloud Users working from home connect using a secure encrypted channel over the internet to the exchange server However, after the migration to AWS. users are having trouble receiving email.
The VPC flow log records display the following.

A. SMTP traffic from the network interface was blocked by an outbound network ACL

B. SMTP traffic to the network interface was blocked by an inbound network ACL

C. SMTP traffic to the network interface was blocked by an inbound security group

D. SMTP traffic from the network interface was blocked by an outbound security group

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #21

An application running on Amazon EC2 needs login credentials to access a database. The login credentials are stored in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as secure string parameters.
What is the MOST secure way to grant the application access to the credentials?

A. Create an IAM group for the application and grant the group permissions to read the Systems Manager parameters

B. Create an IAM policy for the application and grant the policy permission to read the Systems Manager parameters

C. Create an IAM EC2 role for the EC2 instances and grant the role permission to read the Systems Manager parameters

D. Create an IAM user for the application and grant the user permission to read the Systems Manager parameters

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #22

A company's customers are reporting increased latency while accessing static web content from Amazon S3. A SysOps Administrator observed a very high rate of read operations on a particular S3 bucket.
What will minimize latency by reducing load on the S3 bucket?

A. Migrate the S3 bucket to a region that is closer to end users' geographic locations.

B. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin.

C. Use cross-regions replication to replicate all of the data to another region.

D. Use Amazon ElasticCache to cache data being served from Amazon S3.

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #23

A SysOps Administrator is trying to set up an Amazon Route 53 domain namo to route traffic to a website hosted on Amazon S3 The domain name of the website is www anycompany com and the S3 bucket name is anycompany-static After the record set is set up in Route 53, the domain name www anycompany com does not seem to work, and the static website is not displayed in the browser Which of the following is a cause of this?

A. The Route 53 record set must be in the same region as the S3 bucket

B. The S3 bucket must be configured with Amazon CloudFront first.

C. The S3 bucket name must match the record sot name in Route 53.

D. The Route 53 record set must have an IAM role that allows access to the S3 bucket

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #24

A gaming application is deployed on four Amazon EC2 instances in a default VPC. The SysOps Administrator has noticed consistently high latency in responses as data is transferred among the four instances. There is no way for the Administrator to alter the application code.
The MOST effective way to reduce latency is to relaunch the EC2 instances in:

A. a single Availability Zone.

B. a placement group.

C. a single subnet inside the VPC.

D. a dedicated VPC.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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