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AWS SysOps Associate Cloudcomputing — practice by topic

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Cloudcomputing topics

Sysopssecuritynetwork (3)Sysopscostperf (2)Sysopsdeployment (2)Sysopsmonitoring (2)

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Which CloudWatch object fires an action (SNS, EC2, Auto Scaling) when a metric crosses a threshold for N consecutive periods?Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service captures detailed history of every API call made against the account, so admins can audit who did what when?Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service automates patching of EC2 instances and on-prem servers at scale, on a schedule?Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service builds, copies, and shares Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) across accounts and Regions via a managed pipeline?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which CloudWatch object fires an action (SNS, EC2, Auto Scaling) when a metric crosses a threshold for N consecutive periods?

  1. A CloudWatch alarm
  2. An S3 bucket policy
  3. A CloudFront edge cache
  4. A Route 53 record set
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Correct answer: A. A CloudWatch alarm

Alarms watch a metric over a period and trigger actions when breached. The other options are unrelated.

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Which AWS service captures detailed history of every API call made against the account, so admins can audit who did what when?

  1. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
  2. Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
  3. AWS CloudTrail
  4. AWS Trusted Advisor
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Correct answer: C. AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail records every API call (console + CLI + SDK + service-to-service) into immutable logs. CloudWatch Metrics is numeric telemetry Trusted Advisor audits configs Kinesis Video is media streaming.

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Which AWS service automates patching of EC2 instances and on-prem servers at scale, on a schedule?

  1. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
  2. AWS Snowball
  3. Amazon CloudFront
  4. Amazon QuickSight
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Correct answer: A. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager

SSM Patch Manager defines patch baselines and runs patch operations on tagged fleets on schedule. The others are unrelated services.

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