EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A company recently acquired another corporation and all of that corporation's AWS accounts. A financial analyst needs the cost data from these accounts. A SysOps administrator uses Cost Explorer to generate cost and usage reports. The SysOps administrator notices that "No Tagkey" represents 20% of the monthly cost.
What should the SysOps administrator do to tag the "No Tagkey" resources?

Question2: A company has deployed a web application in a VPC that has subnets in three Availability Zones. The company launches three Amazon EC2 instances from an EC2 Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).
A SysOps administrator notices that two of the EC2 instances are in the same Availability Zone, rather than being distributed evenly across all three Availability Zones. There are no errors in the Auto Scaling group's activity history.
What is the MOST likely reason for the unexpected placement of EC2 instances?

Question3: A SysOps administrator noticed that a large number of Elastic IP addresses are being created on the company's AWS account, but they are not being associated with Amazon EC2 instances, and are incurring Elastic IP address charges in the monthly bill.
How can the administrator identify who is creating the Elastic IP addresses?

Question4: A SysOps administrator needs to develop a solution that provides email notification and inserts a record into a database every time a file is put into an Amazon S3 bucket.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question5: A SysOps administrator must create a solution that immediately notifies software developers if an AWS Lambda function experiences an error.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question6: A company has multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run a resource-intensive application in a development environment. A SysOps administrator is implementing a solution to stop these EC2 instances when they are not in use.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question7: An environment consists of 100 Amazon EC2 Window* instances The Amazon CloudWatch agent Is deployed and running on at EC2 instances with a baseline configuration file to capture log files There is a new requirement to capture the DHCP tog tiles that exist on 50 of the instances What is the MOST operational efficient way to meet this new requirement?

Question8: A SysOps administrator applies the following policy to an AWS CloudFormation stack:

What is the result of this policy?

Question9: A company hosts a website on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Users are reporting slow responses during peak times between
6 PM and 11 PM every weekend. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to improve performance during these peak times.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question10: A SysOps administrator has used AWS Cloud Formal ion to deploy a serverless application Into a production VPC. The application consists of an AWS Lambda function an Amazon DynamoDB table, and an Amazon API Gateway API. The SysOps administrator must delete the AWS Cloud Formation stack without deleting the DynamoDB table.
Which action should the SysOps administrator take before deleting the AWS Cloud Formation stack?

Question11: A SysOps administrator needs to configure a solution that will deliver digital content to a set of authorized users through Amazon CloudFront. Unauthorized users must be restricted from access.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question12: A company website contains a web tier and a database tier on AWS. The web tier consists of Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group across two Availability Zones. The database tier runs on an Amazon ROS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The database subnet network ACLs are restricted to only the web subnets that need access to the database. The web subnets use the default network ACL with the default rules.
The company's operations team has added a third subnet to the Auto Scaling group configuration. After an Auto Scaling event occurs, some users report that they intermittently receive an error message. The error message states that the server cannot connect to the database. The operations team has confirmed that the route tables are correct and that the required ports are open on all security groups.
Which combination of actions should a SysOps administrator take so that the web servers can communicate with the DB instance? (Select TWO.)

Question13: An organization with a large IT department has decided to migrate to AWS With different job functions in the IT department it is not desirable to give all users access to all AWS resources Currently the organization handles access via LDAP group membership What is the BEST method to allow access using current LDAP credentials?

Question14: A SysOps administrator is using Amazon EC2 instances to host an application. The SysOps administrator needs to grant permissions for the application to access an Amazon DynamoDB table.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question15: A company monitors its account activity using AWS CloudTrail. and is concerned that some log files are being tampered with after the logs have been delivered to the account's Amazon S3 bucket.
Moving forward, how can the SysOps administrator confirm that the log files have not been modified after being delivered to the S3 bucket?

Question16: A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability for an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server and a secondary passive server. Route 53 should route traffic to the primary server if the associated health check returns 2xx or 3xx HTTP codes. All other traffic should be directed to the secondary passive server. The failover record type, set ID. and routing policy have been set appropriately for both primary and secondary servers.
Which next step should be taken to configure Route 53?

Question17: A company using AWS Organizations requires that no Amazon S3 buckets in its production accounts should ever be deleted.
What is the SIMPLEST approach the SysOps administrator can take to ensure S3 buckets in those accounts can never be deleted?

Question18: A company stores files on 50 Amazon S3 buckets in the same AWS Region The company wants to connect to the S3 buckets securely over a private connection from its Amazon EC2 instances The company needs a solution that produces no additional cost Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question19: A company's financial department needs to view the cost details of each project in an AWS account A SysOps administrator must perform the initial configuration that is required to view cost for each project in Cost Explorer Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question20: A company uses Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) to analyze sales and customer usage dat a. Members of the company's geographically dispersed sales team are traveling. They need to log in to Kibana by using their existing corporate credentials that are stored in Active Directory. The company has deployed Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to enable authentication to cloud services.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Question21: A new website will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 will be used to manage DNS records.
What type of record should be set in Route 53 to point the website's apex domain name (for example.company.com to the Application Load Balancer?

Question22: A company's SysOps administrator deploys four new Amazon EC2 instances by using the standard Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The company needs to be able to use AWS Systems Manager to manage the instances The SysOps administrator notices that the instances do not appear in the Systems Manager console What must the SysOps administrator do to resolve this issue?

Question23: A large company is using AWS Organizations to manage its multi-account AWS environment. According to company policy, all users should have read-level access to a particular Amazon S3 bucket in a central account. The S3 bucket data should not be available outside the organization. A SysOps administrator must set up the permissions and add a bucket policy to the S3 bucket.
Which parameters should be specified to accomplish this in the MOST efficient manner?

Question24: A company needs to restrict access to an Amazon S3 bucket to Amazon EC2 instances in a VPC only. All traffic must be over the AWS private network.
What actions should the SysOps administrator take to meet these requirements?

Question25: A SysOps administrator needs to create alerts that are based on the read and write metrics of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. The SysOps administrator creates and enables Amazon CloudWatch alarms for the DiskReadBytes metric and the DiskWriteBytes metric.
A custom monitoring tool that is installed on the EC2 instance with the same alarm configuration indicates that the volume metrics have exceeded the threshold. However, the CloudWatch alarms were not in ALARM state.
Which action will ensure that the CloudWatch alarms function correctly?

Question26: An Amazon S3 Inventory report reveals that more than 1 million objects in an S3 bucket are not encrypted These objects must be encrypted, and all future objects must be encrypted at the time they are written Which combination of actions should a SysOps administrator take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO )

Question27: A company runs us Infrastructure on Amazon EC2 Instances that run In an Auto Scaling group. Recently, the company promoted faulty code to the entire EC2 fleet. This faulty code caused the Auto Scaling group to scale the instances before any of the application logs could be retrieved.
What should a SysOps administrator do to retain the application logs after instances are terminated?

Question28: A company is trying to connect two applications. One application runs in an on-premises data center that has a hostname of hostl .onprem.private. The other application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that has a hostname of hostl.awscloud.private. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection is in place between the on-premises network and AWS.
The application that runs in the data center tries to connect to the application that runs on the EC2 instance, but DNS resolution fails. A SysOps administrator must implement DNS resolution between on-premises and AWS resources.
Which solution allows the on-premises application to resolve the EC2 instance hostname?

Question29: A company is using an AWS KMS customer master key (CMK) with imported key material The company references the CMK by its alias in the Java application to encrypt data The CMK must be rotated every 6 months What is the process to rotate the key?

Question30: A SysOps administrator is deploying an application on 10 Amazon EC2 instances. The application must be highly available. The instances must be placed on distinct underlying hardware.
What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements?

Question31: A company is managing multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The company is reviewing internal security of its AWS environment. The company's security administrator has their own AWS account and wants to review the VPC configuration of developer AWS accounts.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST secure manner?

Question32: A SysOps administrator must create an IAM policy for a developer who needs access to specific AWS services. Based on the requirements, the SysOps administrator creates the following policy:

Which actions does this policy allow? (Select TWO.)

Question33: A company must ensure that any objects uploaded to an S3 bucket are encrypted.
Which of the following actions will meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

Question34: A company is releasing a new static website hosted on Amazon S3. The static website hosting feature was enabled on the bucket and content was uploaded: however, upon navigating to the site, the following error message is received:
403 Forbidden - Access Denied
What change should be made to fix this error?

Question35: An Amazon EC2 instance needs to be reachable from the internet. The EC2 instance is in a subnet with the following route table:

Which entry must a SysOps administrator add to the route table to meet this requirement?

Question36: A company asks a SysOps administrator to ensure that AWS CloudTrail files are not tampered with after they are created. Currently, the company uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to restrict access to specific trails. The company's security team needs the ability to trace the integrity of each file.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question37: A company has an AWS Cloud Formation template that creates an Amazon S3 bucket. A user authenticates to the corporate AWS account with their Active Directory credentials and attempts to deploy the Cloud Formation template. However, the stack creation fails.
Which factors could cause this failure? (Select TWO.)

Question38: An organization is running multiple applications for their customers. Each application is deployed by running a base AWS CloudFormation template that configures a new VPC. All applications are run in the same AWS account and AWS Region. A SysOps administrator has noticed that when trying to deploy the same AWS CloudFormation stack, it fails to deploy.
What is likely to be the problem?

Question39: A company uses AWS Cloud Formation templates to deploy cloud infrastructure. An analysis of all the company's templates shows that the company has declared the same components in multiple templates. A SysOps administrator needs to create dedicated templates that have their own parameters and conditions for these common components.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question40: A company is using an Amazon DynamoDB table for dat
a. A SysOps administrator must configure replication of the table to another AWS Region for disaster recovery.
What should the SysOps administrator do to meet this requirement?

Question41: A company's backend infrastructure contains an Amazon EC2 instance in a private subnet. The private subnet has a route to the internet through a NAT gateway in a public subnet. The instance must allow connectivity to a secure web server on the internet to retrieve data at regular intervals.
The client software times out with an error message that indicates that the client software could not establish the TCP connection.
What should a SysOps administrator do to resolve this error?

Question42: A company has deployed AWS Security Hub and AWS Config in a newly implemented organization in AWS Organizations. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to restrict all member accounts in the organization from deploying Amazon EC2 resources in the ap-southeast-2 Region. The solution must be implemented from a single point and must govern an current and future accounts. The use of root credentials also must be restricted in member accounts.
Which AWS feature should the SysOps administrator use to meet these requirements?

Question43: A company has a stateless application that is hosted on a fleet of 10 Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances in an Auto Scaling group. A minimum of 6 instances are needed to meet service requirements.
Which action will maintain uptime for the application MOST cost-effectively?

Question44: A company is trying to connect two applications. One application runs in an on-premises data center that has a hostname of hostl .onprem.private. The other application runs on an Amazon EC2 instance that has a hostname of hostl.awscloud.private. An AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection is in place between the on-premises network and AWS.
The application that runs in the data center tries to connect to the application that runs on the EC2 instance, but DNS resolution fails. A SysOps administrator must implement DNS resolution between on-premises and AWS resources.
Which solution allows the on-premises application to resolve the EC2 instance hostname?

Question45: A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting connection timeouts to an Amazon EC2 instance that has a public IP address. The instance has a private IP address of 172.31.16.139. When the SysOps administrator tries to ping the instance's public IP address from the remote IP address 203.0.113.12, the response is "request timed out." The flow logs contain the following information:

What is one cause of the problem?

Question46: A company is storing media content in an Amazon S3 bucket and uses Amazon CloudFront to distribute the content to its users. Due to licensing terms, the company is not authorized to distribute the content in some countries. A SysOps administrator must restrict access to certain countries.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Question47: The security team is concerned because the number of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies being used in the environment is increasing. The team tasked a SysOps administrator to report on the current number of IAM policies in use and the total available IAM policies.
Which AWS service should the administrator use to check how current IAM policy usage compares to current service limits?

Question48: A SysOps administrator has launched a large general purpose Amazon EC2 instance to regularly process large data files. The instance has an attached 1 TB General Purpose SSD (gp2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The instance also is EBS-optimized. To save costs, the SysOps administrator stops the instance each evening and restarts the instance each morning.
When data processing is active, Amazon CloudWatch metrics on the instance show a consistent 3.000 VolumeReadOps. The SysOps administrator must improve the I/O performance while ensuring data integrity.
Which action will meet these requirements?

Question49: A SysOps administrator has created a VPC that contains a public subnet and a private subnet. Amazon EC2 instances that were launched in the private subnet cannot access the internet. The default network ACL is active on all subnets in the VPC, and all security groups allow all outbound traffic:
Which solution will provide the EC2 instances in the private subnet with access to the internet?

Question50: 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?

Question51: A SysOps administrator is unable to authenticate an AWS CLI call to an AWS service Which of the following is the cause of this issue?

Question52: A SysOps administrator is creating two AWS CloudFormation templates. The first template will create a VPC with associated resources, such as subnets, route tables, and an internet gateway. The second template will deploy application resources within the VPC that was created by the first template. The second template should refer to the resources created by the first template.
How can this be accomplished with the LEAST amount of administrative effort?

Question53: A SysOps administrator is using Amazon EC2 instances to host an application. The SysOps administrator needs to grant permissions for the application to access an Amazon DynamoDB table.
Which solution will meet this requirement?

Question54: A company has a mobile app that uses Amazon S3 to store images The images are popular for a week, and then the number of access requests decreases over time The images must be highly available and must be immediately accessible upon request A SysOps administrator must reduce S3 storage costs for the company Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Question55: A SysOps administrator is deploying a test site running on Amazon EC2 instances. The application requires both incoming and outgoing connectivity to the internet.
Which combination of steps are required to provide internet connectivity to the EC2 instances? (Choose two.)

Question56: A large company is using AWS Organizations to manage hundreds of AWS accounts across multiple AWS Regions. The company has turned on AWS Config throughout the organization.
The company requires all Amazon S3 buckets to block public read access. A SysOps administrator must generate a monthly report that shows all the S3 buckets and whether they comply with this requirement.
Which combination of steps should the SysOps administrator take to collect this data? {Select TWO).