This certification validates practical ability to design, deploy, and operate scalable cloud services, with emphasis on cloud architecture and operations. It is intended for professionals who manage reliable, secure, and cost-aware environments.
A CloudOps engineer is examining the following AWS CloudFormation template:
Why will the stack creation fail?
A company applies user-defined tags to resources that are associated with the company's AWS workloads. Twenty days after applying the tags, the company notices that it cannot use the tags to filter views in the AWS Cost Explorer console.
What is the reason for this issue?
An environment consists of 100 Amazon EC2 Windows instances. The Amazon CloudWatch agent is deployed and running on all EC2 instances with a baseline configuration file to capture log files. There is a new requirement to capture the DHCP log files that exist on 50 of the instances.
What is the MOST operationally efficient way to meet this new requirement?
A company is storing backups in an Amazon S3 bucket. The backups must not be deleted for at least 3 months after the backups are created.
What should a CloudOps engineer do to meet this requirement?
A company's CloudOps engineer is troubleshooting communication between the components of an application. The company configured VPC flow logs to be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs However, there are no logs in CloudWatch Logs.
What could be blocking the VPC flow logs from being published to CloudWatch Logs?