AWS SysOps Administrator Practice Test

1. Which AWS service is primarily used to monitor application and infrastructure metrics in real time?

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Config

X-Ray

2. What is the primary purpose of Auto Scaling Groups in AWS?

Automatically adjust the number of EC2 instances based on demand

Encrypt data in transit across regions

Monitor database performance metrics

Manage security group rules

3. Which IAM policy action allows a user to launch and terminate EC2 instances?

Ec2:RunInstances and ec2:TerminateInstances

Ec2:StartInstances and ec2:StopInstances

Ec2:CreateInstance and ec2:DeleteInstance

Ec2:LaunchInstance and ec2:TerminateInstance

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5. True or False: An AWS Systems Manager Session Manager connection requires SSH keys.

True

False

6. Which service provides a centralized way to manage and retrieve secrets in AWS?

AWS Secrets Manager

Parameter Store

Key Management Service

Identity and Access Management

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8. Which of the following is a key responsibility of an AWS SysOps Administrator? (Select all that apply)

Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure

Develop application code

Implement automated backup and recovery

Design network architecture from scratch

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9. What does the CloudTrail service log in AWS?

API calls and account activity

Application performance metrics

Network traffic between instances

Database query execution times

10. True or False: An Elastic IP address persists with an instance even after stopping and restarting it.

True

False

11. Which AWS service allows you to run commands on multiple EC2 instances at once?

Systems Manager Run Command

Lambda

Batch

Step Functions

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13. Which of the following is NOT a valid EC2 instance state?

Pending

Running

Active

Stopped

14. True or False: VPC Flow Logs capture network traffic at the packet level.

True

False

15. Which CloudWatch feature sends notifications when an alarm state changes?

SNS topics

SQS queues

Lambda functions

EventBridge rules

AWS SysOps Administrator Practice Test

1. Which AWS service is primarily used to monitor application and infrastructure metrics in real time?

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2. What is the primary purpose of Auto Scaling Groups in AWS?

3. Which IAM policy action allows a user to launch and terminate EC2 instances?

4. CloudWatch alarms trigger when a metric exceeds a defined ____.

5. True or False: An AWS Systems Manager Session Manager connection requires SSH keys.

6. Which service provides a centralized way to manage and retrieve secrets in AWS?

7. The ____ metric in CloudWatch indicates the percentage of allocated EC2 compute capacity in use.

8. Which of the following is a key responsibility of an AWS SysOps Administrator? (Select all that apply)

9. What does the CloudTrail service log in AWS?

10. True or False: An Elastic IP address persists with an instance even after stopping and restarting it.

11. Which AWS service allows you to run commands on multiple EC2 instances at once?

12. To enable detailed monitoring for EC2 instances, you must enable ____ in CloudWatch.

13. Which of the following is NOT a valid EC2 instance state?

14. True or False: VPC Flow Logs capture network traffic at the packet level.

15. Which CloudWatch feature sends notifications when an alarm state changes?