TEST BANK FOR AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide By Stephen Cole et. al.

Assessment Test
1. You notice in the AWS Management Console that your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) Instance State is Failed. What would cause this?
A. Loss of network connectivity
B. Loss of System Power
C. Incompatible kernel
D. Software issues on the physical host
2. What is the difference between a Public Subnet and a Private Subnet in a VPC?
A. The Route Table in the Private Subnet has a route to the Network Address Translation
(NAT), while the Route Table in a Public Subnet does not.
B. The Route Table in the Public Subnet has a route to the Internet Gateway (IGW), while
the Route Table in a Private Subnet does not.
C. The Public Subnet has NAT server, while a Private Subnet does not.
D. Only Elastic Load Balancers are allowed in the Public Subnet.
3. You have deployed eight Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in
the us-west-1a Availability Zone and two Amazon EC2 instances in us-west-1b Availability
Zone. You noticed that the two Amazon EC2 instances in us-west-1b received
the same amount of traffic that is load balanced between the other eight Amazon EC2
instances located in the us-west-1a Availability Zone. How can you fix this from the
load balancer?
A. Enable cross-load balancing on your load balancer.
B. Create an Auto Scaling group, and configure it to balance out the instances between
the Availability Zones.
C. Create three instances in us-west-1b, and terminate three instances in us-west-1a.
D. Migrate to an Application load balancer.
4. You have launched an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database
instance running MySQL. When you created the Amazon RDS instance, you did not
specify a maintenance window, and now you need to update the instance size from micro to
large. If you request to have the update happen inside the maintenance window, what will
occur?
A. Nothing. The command will be ignored until you create and apply a maintenance
window.
B. Nothing. It is not possible to change the DB size using Amazon RDS.
C. AWS will select and use a default maintenance window if one is not provided.
D. AWS will prompt you to provide a maintenance window when you make the request.