EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A DevOps Engineer is leading the implementation for automating patching of Windows-based workstations in a hybrid cloud environment by using AWS Systems Manager (SSM).
What steps should the Engineer follow to set up Systems Manager to automate patching in this environment?
(Select TWO.)

Question2: A consulting company was hired to assess security vulnerabilities within a client company's application and propose a plan to remediate all identified issues. The architecture is identified as follows: Amazon S3 storage for content, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer with attached Amazon EBS storage, and an Amazon RDS MySQL database. There are also several AWS Lambda functions that communicate directly with the RDS database using connection string statements in the code.
The consultants identified the top security threat as follows: the application is not meeting its requirement to have encryption at rest.
What solution will address this issue with the LEAST operational overhead and will provide monitoring for potential future violations?

Question3: A company has an application that has predictable peak traffic times. The company wants the application instances to scale up only during the peak times. The application stores state in Amazon DynamoDB. The application environment uses a standard Node.js application stack and custom Chef recipes stored in a private Git repository.
Which solution is MOST cost-effective and requires the LEAST amount of management overhead when performing rolling updates of the application environment?

Question4: A company has a web application that uses an Amazon DynamoDB table in a single AWS Region to store user information. To support an increasingly global user base, the application must run in a secondary Region and allow users to connect to their closest Region and fail over to the secondary Region.
Which approach should be used to ensure the deployment meets these requirements?

Question5: A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. A DevOps engineer needs to ensure there are at least four application servers running at all times. Whenever an update has to be made to the application, the engineer creates a new AMI with the updated configuration and updates the AWS CloudFormation template with the new AMI ID. After the stack update finishes, the engineer manually terminates the old instances one by one. verifying that the new instance is operational before proceeding. The engineer needs to automate this process.
Which action will allow for the LEAST number of manual steps moving forward?

Question6: Company policies require that information about IP traffic going between instances in the production Amazon VPC is captured. The capturing mechanism must always be enabled and the Security team must be notified when any changes in configuration occur.
What should be done to ensure that these requirements are met?

Question7: A company uses a complex system that consists of networking, IAM policies, and multiple three-tier applications. Requirements are still being defined for a new system, so the number of AWS components present in the final design is not known. The DevOps Engineer needs to begin defining AWS resources using AWS CloudFormation to automate and version-control the new infrastructure.
What is the best practice for using CloudFormation to create new environments?

Question8: A DevOps engineer is tasked with migrating Docker containers used for a workload to AWS. The solution must allow for changes to be deployed into development and test environments automatically by updating each container and checking it into a container registry Once the containers are pushed, they must be deployed automatically Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question9: An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Amazon RDS MySOL is used on the backend. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The Application Load Balancer health check ensures the web servers are operating and able to make read/write SQL connections. Amazon Route 53 provides DNS functionality with a record pointing to the Application Load Balancer. A new policy requires a geographically isolated disaster recovery site with an RTO of 4 hours and an RPO of 15 minutes.
Which disaster recovery strategy will require the LEAST amount of changes to the application stack?

Question10: An AWS CodePipeline pipeline has implemented a code release process. The pipeline is integrated with AWS CodeDeploy to deploy versions of an application to multiple Amazon EC2 instances for each CodePipeline stage.
During a recent deployment, the pipeline failed due to a CodeDeploy issue. The DevOps team wants to improve monitoring and notifications during deployment to decrease resolution times.
What should the DevOps Engineer do to create notifications when issues are discovered?

Question11: An Information Security policy requires that all publicly accessible systems be patched with critical OS security patches within 24 hours of a patch release. All instances are tagged with the Patch Group key set to 0.
Two new AWS Systems Manager patch baselines for Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with zero-day delay for security patches of critical severity were created with an auto-approval rule. Patch Group 0 has been associated with the new patch baselines. Which two steps will automate patch compliance and reporting? (Select TWO.)

Question12: You have decided that you need to change the instance type of your production instances which are running as part of an AutoScaling group. The entire architecture is deployed using CloudFormation Template. You currently have 4 instances in Production. You cannot have any interruption in service and need to ensure 2 instances are always runningduring the update? Which of the options below listed can be used for this?

Question13: A company is implementing AWS CodePipeline to automate its testing process. The company wants to be notified when the execution state fails and used the following custom event pattern in Amazon CloudWatch:

Which type of events will match this event pattern?

Question14: A social networking service runs a web API that allows its partners to search public posts. Post data is stored in Amazon DynamoDB and indexed by AWS Lambda functions, with an Amazon ES domain storing the indexes and providing search functionality to the application.
The service needs to maintain full capacity during deployments and ensure that failed deployments do not cause downtime or reduced capacity, or prevent subsequent deployments.
How can these requirements be met? (Select TWO )

Question15: A company has a legacy application running on AWS. The application can only run on one Amazon EC2 instance at a time. Application metadata is stored in Amazon S3 and must be retrieved if the instance is restarted. The instance should be automatically restarted or relaunched if performance degrades.
Which solution will satisfy those requirements?

Question16: A company is using an AWS CodeBuild project to build and package an application. The packages are copied to a shared Amazon S3 bucket before being deployed across multiple AWS accounts.
The buildspec.yml file contains the following:

The DevOps Engineer has noticed that anybody with an AWS account is able to download the artifacts.
What steps should the DevOps Engineer take to stop this?

Question17: A highly regulated company has a policy that DevOps Engineers should not log in to their Amazon EC2 instances except in emergencies. If a DevOps Engineer does log in, the Security team must be notified within
15 minutes of the occurrence.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question18: A DevOps Engineer is implementing a mechanism for canary testing an application on AWS. The application was recently modified and went through security, unit, and functional testing. The application needs to be deployed on an AutoScaling group and must use a Classic Load Balancer.
Which design meets the requirement for canary testing?

Question19: A healthcare company has a critical application running in AWS. Recently, the company experienced some down time. if it happens again, the company needs to be able to recover its application in another AWS Region. The application uses Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon EC2 instances. The company also maintains a custom AMI that contains its application. This AMI is changed frequently.
The workload is required to run in the primary region, unless there is a regional service disruption, in which case traffic should fail over to the new region.
Additionally, the cost for the second region needs to be low. The RTO is 2 hours.
Which solution allows the company to fail over to another region in the event of a failure, and also meet the above requirements?

Question20: A Development team is currently using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application revision to an Auto Scaling group. If the deployment process fails, it must be rolled back automatically and a notification must be sent.
What is the MOST effective configuration that can satisfy all of the requirements?

Question21: An Application team is refactoring one of its internal tools to run in AWS instead of on-premises hardware.
All of the code is currently written in Python and is standalone. There is also no external state store or relational database to be queried.
Which deployment pipeline incurs the LEAST amount of changes between development and production?

Question22: A DevOps Engineer is designing a deployment strategy for a web application. The application will use an Auto Scaling group to launch Amazon EC2 instances using an AMI. The same infrastructure will be deployed in multiple environments (development, test, and quality assurance). The deployment strategy should meet the following requirements: " Minimize the startup time for the instance " Allow the same AMI to work in multiple environments " Store secrets for multiple environments securely How should this be accomplished?

Question23: A web application with multiple services runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instance. The instance health check used by the load balancer returns PASS if at least one service is running on the instance.
The company uses AWS CodePipeline with AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy steps to deploy code to test and production environments. Recently, a new version was unable to connect to the database server in the test environment. One process was running, so the health checks reported healthy and the application was promoted to production, causing a production outage. The company wants to ensure that test builds are fully functional before a promotion to production.
Which changes should a DevOps Engineer make to the test and deployment process? (Choose two.)

Question24: A DevOps engineer is architecting a continuous development strategy for a company's software as a service (SaaS) web application running on AWS. For application and security reasons, users subscribing to this application are distributed across multiple Application Load Balancers (ALBs), each of which has a dedicated Auto Scaling group and fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. The application does not require a build stage, and when it is committed to AWS CodeCommit, the application must trigger a simultaneous deployment to all ALBs. Auto Scaling groups, and EC2 fleets.
Which architecture will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of configuration?

Question25: A company is setting up a centralized logging solution on AWS and has several requirements. The company wants its Amazon CloudWatch Logs and VPC Flow logs to come from different sub accounts and to be delivered to a single auditing account. However, the number of sub accounts keeps changing. The company also needs to index the logs in the auditing account to gather actionable insight.
How should a DevOps Engineer implement the solution to meet all of the company's requirements?

Question26: A business has an application that consists of five independent AWS Lambda functions.
The DevOps Engineer has built a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild that builds, tests, packages, and deploys each Lambda function in sequence. The pipeline uses an Amazon CloudWatch Events rule to ensure the pipeline execution starts as quickly as possible after a change is made to the application source code.
After working with the pipeline for a few months, the DevOps Engineer has noticed the pipeline takes too long to complete.
What should the DevOps Engineer implement to BEST improve the speed of the pipeline?

Question27: A company has a website in an AWS Elastic Beanstalk load balancing and automatic scaling environment.
This environment has an Amazon RDS MySQL instance configured as its database resource. After a sudden increase in traffic, the website started dropping traffic. An administrator discovered that the application on some instances is not responding as the result of out-of-memory errors. Classic Load Balancer marked those instances as out of service, and the health status of Elastic Beanstalk enhanced health reporting is degraded.
However, Elastic Beanstalk did not replace those instances. Because of the diminished capacity behind the Classic Load Balancer, the application response times are slower for the customers.
Which action will permanently fix this issue?

Question28: An IT team has built an AWS CloudFormation template so others in the company can quickly and reliably deploy and terminate an application. The template creates an Amazon EC2 instance with a user data script to install the application and an Amazon S3 bucket that the application uses to serve static webpages while it is running.
All resources should be removed when the CloudFormation stack is deleted. However, the team observes that CloudFormation reports an error during stack deletion, and the S3 bucket created by the stack is not deleted.
How can the team resolve the error in the MOST efficient manner to ensure that all resources are deleted without errors?

Question29: A DevOps Engineer is launching a new application that will be deployed using Amazon Route 53, an Application Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, and Amazon DynamoDB. One of the key requirements of this launch is that the application must be able to scale to meet a sudden load increase. During periods of low usage, the infrastructure components must scale down to optimize cost.
What steps can the DevOps Engineer take to meet the requirements? (Select TWO.)

Question30: A company must ensure consistent behavior of an application running on Amazon Linux in its corporate ecosystem before moving into AWS. The company has an existing automated server build system using VMware. The goal is to demonstrate the functionality of the application and its prerequisites on the new target operating system.
The DevOps Engineer needs to use the existing corporate server pipeline and virtualization software to create a server image. The server image will be tested on- premises to resemble the build on Amazon EC2 as closely as possible.
How can this be accomplished?

Question31: A DevOps Engineer manages a large commercial website that runs on Amazon EC2. The website uses Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to collect and process web logs. The Engineer manages the Kinesis consumer application, which also runs on EC2. Spikes of data cause the Kinesis consumer application to fall behind, and the streams drop records before they can be processed.
What is the FASTEST method to improve stream handling?

Question32: A DevOps Engineer encountered the following error when attempting to use an AWS CloudFormation template to create an Amazon ECS cluster:
An error occurred (InsufficientCapabilitiesException) when calling the CreateStack operation.
What caused this error and what steps need to be taken to allow the Engineer to successfully execute the AWS CloudFormation template?

Question33: A company is hosting a web application in an AWS Region. For disaster recovery purposes, a second region is being used as a standby. Disaster recovery requirements state that session data must be replicated between regions in near-real time and 1% of requests should route to the secondary region to continuously verify system functionality. Additionally, if there is a disruption in service in the main region, traffic should be automatically routed to the secondary region, and the secondary region must be able to scale up to handle all traffic.
How should a DevOps Engineer meet these requirements?

Question34: An education company has a Docker-based application running on multiple Amazon EC2 instances in an Amazon ECS cluster. When deploying a new version of the application, the Developer, pushes a new image to a private Docker container registry, and then stops and starts all tasks to ensure that they all have the latest version of the application. The Developer discovers that the new tasks are occasionally running with an old image.
How can this issue be prevented?

Question35: A company has established tagging and configuration standards for its infrastructure resources running on AWS. A DevOps Engineer is developing a design that will provide a near-real-time dashboard of the compliance posture with the ability to highlight violations.
Which approach meets the stated requirements?

Question36: A Security team is concerned that a Developer can unintentionally attach an Elastic IP address to an Amazon EC2 instance in production. No Developer should be allowed to attach an Elastic IP address to an instance.
The Security team must be notified if any production server has an Elastic IP address at any time.
How can this task be automated?

Question37: 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 this occurs in future.
How can this be automated with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Question38: A DevOps Engineer is asked to implement a strategy for deploying updates to a web application with zero downtime. The application infrastructure is defined in AWS CloudFormation and is made up of an Amazon Route 53 record, an Application Load Balancer, Amazon EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group, and Amazon DynamoDB tables. To avoid downtime, there must be an active instance serving the application at all times.
Which strategies will ensure the deployment happens with zero downtime? (Select TWO.)

Question39: A company has several AWS accounts. The accounts are shared and used across multiple teams globally, primarily for Amazon EC2 instances. Each EC2 instance has tags for team, environment, and cost center to ensure accurate cost allocations.
How should a DevOps Engineer help the teams audit their costs and automate infrastructure cost optimization across multiple shared environments and accounts?

Question40: A retail company has adopted AWS OpsWorks for managing its deployments. In the last three months, the company has discovered that some production instances have been restarting without reason. Upon inspection of the AWS CloudTrail logs, a DevOps Engineer determined that those instances were restarted by OpsWorks.
The Engineer now wants automated email notifications whenever OpsWorks restarts an instance when the instance is deemed unhealthy or unable to communicate with the service endpoint.
How can the Engineer meet this requirement?

Question41: A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to manage its application deployments. Recently, the Development team decided to use GitHub for version control, and the team is looking for ways to integrate the GitHub repository with CodeDeploy. The team also needs to develop a way to automate deployment whenever there is a new commit on that repository. The team is currently deploying new application revisions by manually indicating the Amazon S3 location.
How can the integration be achieved in the MOST efficient way?

Question42: A large enterprise is deploying a web application on AWS. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The application stores data in an Amazon RDS Oracle DB instance and Amazon DynamoDB.
There are separate environments for development, testing, and production.
What is the MOST secure and flexible way to obtain password credentials during deployment?

Question43: A DevOps engineer is deploying a new version of a company's application in an AWS CodeDeploy deployment group associated with its Amazon EC2 instances. After some time, the deployment fails. The engineer realizes that all the events associated with the specific deployment ID are in a Skipped status, and code was not deployed in the instances associated with the deployment group.
What are valid reasons for this failure? (Select TWO.)

Question44: 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, which must be encrypted at rest and in transit before reaching the instances.
How should the Engineer automate the deployment process while also meeting the security requirements?

Question45: You are responsible for your company's large multi-tiered Windows-based web application running on Amazon EC2 instances situated behind a load balancer. While reviewing metrics, you've started noticing an upwards trend for slow customer page load time. Your manager has asked you to come up with a solution to ensure that customer load time is not affected by too many requests per second. Which technique would you use to solve this issue?

Question46: A company uses AWS CodePipeline to manage and deploy infrastructure as code. The infrastructure is defined in AWS CloudFormation templates and is primarily comprised of multiple Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS databases. The Security team has observed many operators creating inbound security group rules with a source CIDR of 0 0 0 0/0 and would like to proactively stop the deployment of rules with open CIDRs The DevOps Engineer will implement a predeptoyment step that runs some security checks over the CloudFormation template before the pipeline processes it. This check should allow only inbound security group rules with a source CIDR of 0.0.0.0/0 if the rule has the description "Security Approval Ref XXXXX (where XXXXX is a preallocated reference). The pipeline step should fail if this condition is not met and the deployment should be blocked How should this be accomplished?

Question47: An application has microservices spread across different AWS accounts and is integrated with an on-premises legacy system for some of its functionality.
Because of the segmented architecture and missing logs, every time the application experiences issues, it is taking too long to gather the logs to identify the issues. A DevOps Engineer must fix the log aggregation process and provide a way to centrally analyze the logs.
Which is the MOST efficient and cost-effective solution?

Question48: A DevOps Engineer administers an application that manages video files for a video production company. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an ELB Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. Data is stored in an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Multi-AZ DB instance, and the video files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. On a typical day, 50 GB of new video are added to the S3 bucket. The Engineer must implement a multi-region disaster recovery plan with the least data loss and the lowest recovery times. The current application infrastructure is already described using AWS CloudFormation.
Which deployment option should the Engineer choose to meet the uptime and recovery objectives for the system?

Question49: A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Recently, an issue occurred that prevented EC2 instances from launching successfully, and it took several hours for the support team to discover the issue. The support team wants to be notified by email whenever an EC2 instance does not start successfully.
Which action will accomplish this?

Question50: A mobile application running on eight Amazon EC2 instances is relying on a third-party API endpoint. The thirdparty service has a high failure rate because of limited capacity, which is expected to be resolved in a few weeks. In the meantime, the mobile application developers have added a retry mechanism and are logging failed API requests. A DevOps Engineer must automate the monitoring of application logs and count the specific error messages; if there are more than 10 errors within a 1-minute window, the system must issue an alert. How can the requirements be met with MINIMAL management overhead?

Question51: A company is migrating an application to AWS that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. Because of licensing limitations, the application does not support horizontal scaling. The application will be using Amazon Aurora for its database.
How can the DevOps Engineer architect automated healing to automatically recover from EC2 and Aurora failures, in addition to recovering across Availability Zones (AZs), in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question52: An Engineering team manages a Node.js e-commerce application. The current environment consists of the following components: " Amazon S3 buckets for storing content " Amazon EC2 for the front-end web servers " AWS Lambda for executing image processing " Amazon DynamoDB for storing session-related data The team expects a significant increase in traffic to the site. The application should handle the additional load without interruption. The team ran initial tests by adding new servers to the EC2 front-end to handle the larger load, but the instances took up to 20 minutes to become fully configured. The team wants to reduce this configuration time.
What changes will the Engineering team need to implement to make the solution the MOST resilient and highly available while meeting the expected increase in demand?

Question53: A company wants to use Amazon ECS to provide a Docker container runtime environment. For compliance reasons, all Amazon EBS volumes used in the ECS cluster must be encrypted. Rolling updates will be made to the cluster instances and the company wants the instances drained of all tasks before being terminated.
How can these requirements be met? (Select TWO.)

Question54: A company that runs many workloads on AWS has an Amazon EBS spend that has increased over time. The DevOps team notices there are many unattached EBS volumes. Although there are workloads where volumes are detached, volumes over 14 days old are stale and no longer needed. A DevOps engineer has been tasked with creating automation that deletes unattached EBS volumes that have been unattached for 14 days.
Which solution will accomplish this?

Question55: A company has developed a Node.js web application which provides REST services to store and retrieve time series data. The web application is built by the Development team on company laptops, tested locally, and manually deployed to a single on-premises server, which accesses a local MySQL database. The company is starting a trial in two weeks, during which the application will undergo frequent updates based on customer feedback. The following requirements must be met:
*The team must be able to reliably build, test, and deploy new updates on a daily basis, without downtime or degraded performance.
*The application must be able to scale to meet an unpredictable number of concurrent users during the trial.
Which action will allow the team to quickly meet these objectives?

Question56: A company has a hybrid architecture solution in which some legacy systems remain on-premises, while a specific cluster of servers is moved to AWS. The company cannot reconfigure the legacy systems, so the cluster nodes must have a fixed hostname and local IP address for each server that is part of the cluster.
The DevOps Engineer must automate the configuration for a six-node cluster with high availability across three Availability Zones (AZs), placing two elastic network interfaces in a specific subnet for each AZ. Each node's hostname and local IP address should remain the same between reboots or instance failures.
Which solution involves the LEAST amount of effort to automate this task?

Question57: A DevOps Engineer needs to deploy a scalable three-tier Node.js application in AWS. The application must have zero downtime during deployments and be able to roll back to previous versions. Other applications will also connect to the same MySQL backend database.
The CIO has provided the following guidance for logging:
*Centrally view all current web access server logs.
*Search and filter web and application logs in near-real time.
*Retain log data for three months.
How should these requirements be met?

Question58: A company is building a solution for storing files containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on AWS.
Requirements state:
*All data must be encrypted at rest and in transit.
*All data must be replicated in at least two locations that are at least 500 miles apart.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Question59: A government agency is storing highly confidential files in an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket. The agency has configured federated access and has allowed only a particular on-premises Active Directory user group to access this bucket.
The agency wants to maintain audit records and automatically detect and revert any accidental changes administrators make to the IAM policies used for providing this restricted federated access.
Which of the following options provide the FASTEST way to meet these requirements?

Question60: A company runs a database on a single Amazon EC2 instance in a development environment. The data is stored on separate Amazon EBS volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance. An Amazon Route 53 A record has been created and configured to point to the EC2 instance. The company would like to automate the recovery of the database instance when an instance or Availability Zone (AZ) fails. The company also wants to keep its costs low. The RTO is 4 hours and RPO is 12 hours.
Which solution should a DevOps Engineer implement to meet these requirements?

Question61: A DevOps Engineer must improve the monitoring of a Finance team payments microservice that handles transactions for an e-commerce platform. The microservice runs on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The Finance team would like to know the number of payments per minute, and the team would like to be notified when this metric falls below a specified threshold.
How can this be cost-effectively automated?

Question62: A company uses AWS Storage Gateway in file gateway mode in front of an Amazon S3 bucket that is used by multiple resources. In the morning when business begins, users do not see the objects processed by a third party the previous evening. When a DevOps engineer looks directly at the S3 bucket, the data is there, but it is missing in Storage Gateway.
Which solution ensures that all the updated third-party files are available in the morning?

Question63: A company using AWS CodeCommit for source control wants to automate its continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline on AWS in its development environment. The company has three requirements:
1. There must be a legal and a security review of any code change to make sure sensitive information is not leaked through the source code.
2. Every change must go through unit testing.
3. Every change must go through a suite of functional testing to ensure functionality.
In addition, the company has the following requirements for automation:
1. Code changes should automatically trigger the CI/CD pipellline.
2. Any failure in the pipeline should notify [email protected].
3. There must be an approval to stage the assets to Amazon S3 after tests have been performed.
What should a DevOps Engineer do to meet all of these requirements while following CI/CD best practices?

Question64: A DevOps Engineer must implement monitoring for a workload running on Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS MySQL. The monitoring must include:
Application logs and operating system metrics for the Amazon EC2 instances Database logs and operating system metrics for the Amazon RDS database Which steps should the Engineer take?

Question65: A law firm is running a web application on AWS. The system manages legal documents uploaded by users, and stores the documents in Amazon S3. Users have complained that file uploads are taking too long and there are timeouts during peak usage. A DevOps engineer found that web servers are managing concurrent uploads and are overloaded.
Which actions should be taken to troubleshoot the issue in the MOST cost-effective manner?

Question66: A Development team is building more than 40 applications. Each app is a three-tiered web application based on an ELB Application Load Balancer, Amazon EC2, and Amazon RDS. Because the applications will be used internally, the Security team wants to allow access to the 40 applications only from the corporate network and block access from external IP addresses. The corporate network reaches the internet through proxy servers. The proxy servers have 12 proxy IP addresses that are being changed one or two times per month. The Network Infrastructure team manages the proxy servers; they upload the file that contains the latest proxy IP addresses into an Amazon S3 bucket. The DevOps Engineer must build a solution to ensure that the applications are accessible from the corporate network.
Which solution achieves these requirements with MINIMAL impact to application development, MINIMAL operational effort, and the LOWEST infrastructure cost?

Question67: A company is beginning to move to the AWS Cloud. Internal customers are classified into two groups according to their AWS skills: beginners and experts.
The DevOps Engineer needs to build a solution to allow beginners to deploy a restricted set of AWS architecture blueprints expresses as AWS CloudFormation templates. Deployment should only be possible on predetermined Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). However, expert users should be able to deploy blueprints without constraints. Experts should also be able to access other AWS services, as needed.
How can the Engineer implement a solution to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of overhead?

Question68: A DevOps engineer has automated a web service deployment using AWS CodePipelme with the following steps:
* An AWS CodeBuild project compiles the deployment artifact and runs unit tests.
* An AWS CodeDeploy deployment group deploys the web service to Amazon EC2 instances in the staging environment.
* A CodeDeploy deployment group deploys the web service to EC2 instances in the production environment The quality assurance (QA) team has asked for permission to inspect the build artifact before the deployment to the production environment occurs. The OA team wants to run an internal automated penetration testing tool (invoked using a REST API call) to run some manual tests.
Which combination of actions will fulfill this request? (Select TWO.)

Question69: A Development team is adding a new country to an e-commerce application. This addition requires that new application features be added to the shipping component of the application. The team has not decided if all new features should be added, as some will take approximately six weeks to build. While the final decision on the shipping component features is being made, other team members are continuing to work on other features of the application.
Based on this situation, how should the application feature deployments be managed?

Question70: 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 analyze the problem because Auto Scaling is terminating all EC2 instances shortly after launch for being unhealthy.
What steps will allow the DevOps Engineer access to one of the unhealthy instances to troubleshoot the deployed application?

Question71: A company is using an AWS CloudFormation template to deploy web applications. The template requires that manual changes be made for each of the three major environments: production, staging, and development. The current sprint includes the new implementation and configuration of AWS CodePipeline for automated deployments.
What changes should the DevOps Engineer make to ensure that the CloudFormation template is reusable across multiple pipelines?

Question72: A company wants to implement a CI/CD pipeline for building and testing its mobile apps. A DevOps Engineer has been given the following requirements: Use AWS CodePipeline to orchestrate the workflow. Test the application on real devices. Trigger a notification. Stage the application binary on a production bucket in a different account. Make the application binary publicly accessible. Which sequence of actions should the Engineer perform in the pipeline to meet the requirements?

Question73: A financial institution provides security-hardened AMIs of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and Windows Server
2016 for its application teams to use in deployments.
A DevOps Engineer needs to implement an automated daily check of each AMI to monitor for the latest CVE.
How should the Engineer implement these checks using Amazon Inspector?

Question74: Your application is currently running on Amazon EC2 instances behind a load balancer. Your management has decided to use a Blue/Green deployment strategy. How should you implement this for each deployment?

Question75: A Security team requires all Amazon EBS volumes that are attached to an Amazon EC2 instance to have AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption enabled. If encryption is not enabled, the company's policy requires the EBS volume to be detached and deleted. A DevOps Engineer must automate the detection and deletion of unencrypted EBS volumes. Which method should the Engineer use to accomplish this with the LEAST operational effort?