Which steps should be taken to MINIMIZE downtime if a primary database fails?
A DevOps Engineer manages an application that has a cross-region failover requirement. The application stores its data in an Amazon Aurora on Amazon RDS database in the primary region with a read replica in the secondary region. The application uses Amazon Route 53 to direct customer traffic to the active...
How can this be automated with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
A company has deployed several applications globally. Recently, Security Auditors found that few Amazon EC2 instances were launched without Amazon EBS disk encryption. The Auditors have requested a report detailing all EBS volumes that were not encrypted in multiple AWS accounts and regions. They also want to be notified whenever...
How can these requirements be met?
A company is using several AWS CloudFormation templates for deploying infrastructure as code. In most of the deployments, the company uses Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups. A DevOps Engineer needs to update the AMIs for the Auto Scaling group in the template if newer AMIs are available. How can these...
What is the MOST efficient way to ensure users remain logged in?
A company is testing a web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The company uses a blue/green deployment process with immutable instances when deploying new software. During testing, users are being automatically...
Which combination of actions will meet these requirements?
A company runs an application with an Amazon EC2 and on-premises configuration. A DevOps engineer needs to standardize patching across both environments. Company policy dictates that patching only happens during non-business hours. Which combination of actions will meet these requirements? (Select THREE.)A . Add the physical machines into AWS Systems...
Which Auto Scaling process would be helpful when testing new instances before sending traffic to them, while still keeping them in your Auto Scaling Group?
Which Auto Scaling process would be helpful when testing new instances before sending traffic to them, while still keeping them in your Auto Scaling Group?A . Suspend the process AZ Rebalance B. Suspend the process Health Check C. Suspend the process Replace Unhealthy D. Suspend the process AddToLoadBalancerView AnswerAnswer: D...
How should the Engineer automate the deployment process while also meeting the security requirements?
A DevOps Engineer is responsible for the deployment of a PHP application. The Engineer is working in a hybrid deployment, with the application running on both on-premises servers and Amazon EC2 instances. The application needs access to a database containing highly confidential information. Application instances need access to database credentials,...
What should a DevOps engineer do to meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 to store proprietary information. The development team creates buckets for new projects on a daily basis. The security team wants to ensure that all existing and future buckets have encryption, logging, and versioning enabled. Additionally, no buckets should ever be publicly read or write accessible....
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A DevOps engineer is tasked with moving a mission-critical business application running in Go to AWS. The development team running this application is understaffed and requires a solution that allows the team to focus on application development. They also want to enable blue/green deployments and perform A/B testing. Which solution...
What steps will allow the DevOps Engineer access to one of the unhealthy instances to troubleshoot the deployed application?
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. After a recent application update, users are getting HTTP 502 Bad Gateway errors from the application URL. The DevOps Engineer cannot...