AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
(SOA-C02) Study Set 3 Exam 2026 Guide
1. An Amazon EBS volume attached to an EC2 instance A. Extend the volume's file
was recently modified. Part of the modification includ- system.
ed increasing the storage capacity. The SysOpsAdmin-
istrator notices that the increased storage capacity is
not reflected in the file system.Which step should the
Administrator complete to use the increased storage
capacity?
2. A SysOps Administrator is creating additional Amazon A. The concurrent running
EC2 instances and receives an InstanceLimitExceeded instance limit has been
error.What is the cause of the issue and how can it be reached, and an EC2 limit
resolved? increase request must be
filed with AWS Support.
3. Malicious traffic is reaching company web servers. A A. Place web servers be-
SysOps Administrator is tasked with blocking this traf- hind AWS WAF and estab-
fic. The malicious traffic is distributed over many IP lish the rate limit to create
addresses and represents much higher traffic than is a blacklist.
typically seen from legitimate users.How should the
Administrator protect the web servers?
4. A SysOps Administrator must evaluate storage solu- A. Amazon EFS
tions to replace a company's current user-shared dri-
ves infrastructure. Any solution must support security
controls that enable Portable Operating System Inter-
face (POSIX) permissions and Network File System pro-
tocols. Additionally, any solution must be accessible
from multiple Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises
servers connected to the Amazon VPC.Which AWS ser-
vice meets the user drive requirements?
5.
, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
(SOA-C02) Study Set 3 Exam 2026 Guide
A Developer created an AWS Lambda function and has A. Create an Ama-
asked the SysOps Administrator to make this function zon CloudWatch sched-
run every 15 minutes.What is the MOST efficient way uled event to invoke the
to accomplish this request? Lambda function.
6. A company's Auditor implemented a compliance re- A. Add the AWS Config
quirement that all Amazon S3 buckets must have log- managed rule S3_BUCK-
ging enabled.How should the SysOps Administrator ET_LOGGING_ENABLED.
ensure this compliance requirement is met, while still
permitting Developers to create and use new S3 buck-
ets?
7. An organization is concerned that its Amazon RDS A. Ensure that automated
databases are not protected. The solution to address backups are enabled and
this issue must be low cost, protect against table cor- set the appropriate reten-
ruption that could be overlooked for several days, and tion period.
must offer a 30-day window of protection.How can
these requirements be met?
8. An organization is running multiple applications for A. The account has
their customers. Each application is deployed by run- reached the default limit
ning a base AWS CloudFormation template that con- for VPCs allowed.
figures a new VPC. All applications are run in the same
AWS account and AWS Region. A SysOps Administra-
tor has noticed that when trying to deploy the same
AWSCloudFormation stack, it fails to deploy.What is
likely to be the problem?
9. Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which A. Scheduling mainte-
of the following actions are the responsibility of the nance, patches, and other
customer for an Aurora database? updates
10.
(SOA-C02) Study Set 3 Exam 2026 Guide
1. An Amazon EBS volume attached to an EC2 instance A. Extend the volume's file
was recently modified. Part of the modification includ- system.
ed increasing the storage capacity. The SysOpsAdmin-
istrator notices that the increased storage capacity is
not reflected in the file system.Which step should the
Administrator complete to use the increased storage
capacity?
2. A SysOps Administrator is creating additional Amazon A. The concurrent running
EC2 instances and receives an InstanceLimitExceeded instance limit has been
error.What is the cause of the issue and how can it be reached, and an EC2 limit
resolved? increase request must be
filed with AWS Support.
3. Malicious traffic is reaching company web servers. A A. Place web servers be-
SysOps Administrator is tasked with blocking this traf- hind AWS WAF and estab-
fic. The malicious traffic is distributed over many IP lish the rate limit to create
addresses and represents much higher traffic than is a blacklist.
typically seen from legitimate users.How should the
Administrator protect the web servers?
4. A SysOps Administrator must evaluate storage solu- A. Amazon EFS
tions to replace a company's current user-shared dri-
ves infrastructure. Any solution must support security
controls that enable Portable Operating System Inter-
face (POSIX) permissions and Network File System pro-
tocols. Additionally, any solution must be accessible
from multiple Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises
servers connected to the Amazon VPC.Which AWS ser-
vice meets the user drive requirements?
5.
, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
(SOA-C02) Study Set 3 Exam 2026 Guide
A Developer created an AWS Lambda function and has A. Create an Ama-
asked the SysOps Administrator to make this function zon CloudWatch sched-
run every 15 minutes.What is the MOST efficient way uled event to invoke the
to accomplish this request? Lambda function.
6. A company's Auditor implemented a compliance re- A. Add the AWS Config
quirement that all Amazon S3 buckets must have log- managed rule S3_BUCK-
ging enabled.How should the SysOps Administrator ET_LOGGING_ENABLED.
ensure this compliance requirement is met, while still
permitting Developers to create and use new S3 buck-
ets?
7. An organization is concerned that its Amazon RDS A. Ensure that automated
databases are not protected. The solution to address backups are enabled and
this issue must be low cost, protect against table cor- set the appropriate reten-
ruption that could be overlooked for several days, and tion period.
must offer a 30-day window of protection.How can
these requirements be met?
8. An organization is running multiple applications for A. The account has
their customers. Each application is deployed by run- reached the default limit
ning a base AWS CloudFormation template that con- for VPCs allowed.
figures a new VPC. All applications are run in the same
AWS account and AWS Region. A SysOps Administra-
tor has noticed that when trying to deploy the same
AWSCloudFormation stack, it fails to deploy.What is
likely to be the problem?
9. Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, which A. Scheduling mainte-
of the following actions are the responsibility of the nance, patches, and other
customer for an Aurora database? updates
10.
