Scaling in the Cloud This section covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domains: Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation CramSaver If you can correctly answer these questions before going through this section, save time by skimming the Exam Alerts in this section and […]

CramQuiz Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can. 1. Your company was recently a target of a malicious actor due to a misconfiguration of an S3 bucket ACL, making it publicly accessible. The CISO has instructed you that all […]

Integration with AWS Systems Manager Automation Systems Manager is a set of AWS tools that offers comprehensive configuration management of fleets of servers. We discuss AWS Systems Manager in more detail in Chapter 7, “Provisioning Resources.” An important part of Systems Manager is Systems Manager Automation, which allows you to perform the following common IT […]

Amazon EventBridge This section covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domain: Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation CramSaver If you can correctly answer these questions before going through this section, save time by skimming the Exam Alerts in this section and then completing the Cram Quiz at the end […]

CramQuiz Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can. 1. You are the administrator of a hybrid-cloud application that uses S3 as the central store for all the data being shared across the platforms. The Internet users are always directed […]

Security Issues At the top layer of the monitoring and alerting stack are security issues. These issues also encompass a wide range of aspects that need to be determined for each application beforehand. A range of different alerts can be configured for security issues, including but not limited to Large numbers of failed login attempts: […]

Infrastructure Issues Generally, you should follow AWS best practices and deploy any unmanaged system across two availability zones, as discussed in Chapter 1, “Introduction to AWS.” Anytime you deploy, you expect the infrastructure to just work. If you have a deployment issue, you can easily resolve the issue by trying a redeployment. We call this […]

This chapter covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domains: Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation Domain 4: Security and Compliance (For more information on the official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate [SOA-C02] exam topics, see the Introduction.) As a general rule, you should consider the services, instances, and […]

CramSaver If you can correctly answer these questions before going through this section, save time by completing the Cram Quiz at the end of the section. 1. What information is captured in a CloudTrail log? 2. What is the default retention of the default CloudTrail trail? Answers 1. Answer: CloudTrail logs record information about who requested the action, […]

Cram Quiz Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can. 1. You have been put in charge of designing a monitoring platform for an application for a large enterprise. The monitoring system needs to be highly available and should allow […]