AWS SYSOPS ADMINISTRATOR
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2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which AWS Cloud service allows you to gain system-wide visibility into resource
utilization, application performance, and operational health? - ....ANSWER ...-
Amazon CloudWatch
Which AWS Cloud service enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going
to and from network interfaces in your VPC? - ....ANSWER ...-Amazon VPC Flow
Logs
Which AWS Cloud Service enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and
risk auditing of your AWS account? - ....ANSWER ...-AWS CloudTrail
What is the term used for an environment that extends an existing on-premises
infrastructure into the cloud to connect cloud resources to internal systems? -
....ANSWER ...-Hybrid Cloud architecture
Which of the following services acts as a virtual firewall that controls the traffic for one or
more instances? - ....ANSWER ...-Security Groups
A three-tier architecture is comprised of which of the following layers? (Choose three.) -
....ANSWER ...-1. Database layer
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,2. Front-end web server layer
3. Application Layer
Each AWS region is composed of two or more locations that provide you with the ability
to introduce high availability, fault tolerance, and/or scale to your applications. What are
these locations called? - ....ANSWER ...-Availability Zones
What AWS Cloud service is designed to give you an easy way to establish a trusted
relationship between your Active Directory and AWS? - ....ANSWER ...-Active
Directory Connector
What AWS Cloud service provides a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where
systems operators can launch AWS resources into a virtual network they defined? -
....ANSWER ...-Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
You manage a fleet of web servers hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2). Most, if not all, of the websites are static in nature. What AWS Cloud Service can
host a static website, thus replacing servers? - ....ANSWER ...-Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3)
What are the three AWS CLI output formats? - ....ANSWER ...-1. JSON<default>
2. text
3. table
Which AWS CLI output is most easily parsed and ingested by applications? -
....ANSWER ...-JSON
How do you enable AWS CLI autocompletion for the bash shell? - ....ANSWER ...-
complete -C aws_complete aws
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,In Linux or Mac, you can use the backslash character to separate a command into
several lines. - ....ANSWER ...-True
The AWS SDK for Python is also known as - ....ANSWER ...-Boto
Which of the following is a dependency of the AWS CLI for Mac and Linux? -
....ANSWER ...-Python
Which of the following AWS CLI output formats is best geared toward human viewing? -
....ANSWER ...-Table format
Which of the following AWS CLI output is a structured format that is handy for creating
loosely-formatted data to be processed programmatically? - ....ANSWER ...-JSON
format
Which of the following AWS CLI output is most useful for the query command or text-
processing utilities? - ....ANSWER ...-Text Format
How can one split apart long AWS CLI command line to make it more easily readable by
the operator? - ....ANSWER ...-Use backslashes (\) every few words, with a
newline after each backslash
For which languages are AWS SDKs available? (Choose all that apply) -
....ANSWER ...-Ruby
Perl
Python
Which command can you run to find more information about the proper syntax and
options for AWS IoT commands from the CLI? - ....ANSWER ...-aws iot help
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, What does the waiter allow you to do in Boto? - ....ANSWER ...-wait for ordered
infrastructure to become available before continuing
The waiter in Boto provides a handler for your code to deal with the short wait that
occurs when you perform tasks like launching an instance or creating a new Amazon
Redshift cluster. - ....ANSWER ...-True
In which situation would you use the AWS IoT Device SDK? - ....ANSWER ...-To
simplify the process of connecting things to the AWS IoT service.
Like the AWS mobile SDK, the AWS IoT Device SDK provides prebuilt libraries that
ease the process of connecting your devices to the AWS IoT Service.
For the CLI commands that accept formatted files as input, the input file must be in
which of the following formats? - ....ANSWER ...-JSON
Some AWS CLI inputs can be encoded in JSON format and passed through to using the
--cli-input-json parameter
Which option allows you to filter output? - ....ANSWER ...---query
Querying (--query) output data, in text format, is a powerful tool for making sense of
complex cloud deployments.
In what file are your Access Key and Secret Key stored after executing the aws configure
command? - ....ANSWER ...-credentials
your keys are stored in the credentials file, located in either ~/.aws/credentials on Mac
or Linux or in %UserProfile%\.awscredentials on Windows.
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ASSOCIATES EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which AWS Cloud service allows you to gain system-wide visibility into resource
utilization, application performance, and operational health? - ....ANSWER ...-
Amazon CloudWatch
Which AWS Cloud service enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going
to and from network interfaces in your VPC? - ....ANSWER ...-Amazon VPC Flow
Logs
Which AWS Cloud Service enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and
risk auditing of your AWS account? - ....ANSWER ...-AWS CloudTrail
What is the term used for an environment that extends an existing on-premises
infrastructure into the cloud to connect cloud resources to internal systems? -
....ANSWER ...-Hybrid Cloud architecture
Which of the following services acts as a virtual firewall that controls the traffic for one or
more instances? - ....ANSWER ...-Security Groups
A three-tier architecture is comprised of which of the following layers? (Choose three.) -
....ANSWER ...-1. Database layer
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,2. Front-end web server layer
3. Application Layer
Each AWS region is composed of two or more locations that provide you with the ability
to introduce high availability, fault tolerance, and/or scale to your applications. What are
these locations called? - ....ANSWER ...-Availability Zones
What AWS Cloud service is designed to give you an easy way to establish a trusted
relationship between your Active Directory and AWS? - ....ANSWER ...-Active
Directory Connector
What AWS Cloud service provides a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where
systems operators can launch AWS resources into a virtual network they defined? -
....ANSWER ...-Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
You manage a fleet of web servers hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2). Most, if not all, of the websites are static in nature. What AWS Cloud Service can
host a static website, thus replacing servers? - ....ANSWER ...-Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3)
What are the three AWS CLI output formats? - ....ANSWER ...-1. JSON<default>
2. text
3. table
Which AWS CLI output is most easily parsed and ingested by applications? -
....ANSWER ...-JSON
How do you enable AWS CLI autocompletion for the bash shell? - ....ANSWER ...-
complete -C aws_complete aws
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,In Linux or Mac, you can use the backslash character to separate a command into
several lines. - ....ANSWER ...-True
The AWS SDK for Python is also known as - ....ANSWER ...-Boto
Which of the following is a dependency of the AWS CLI for Mac and Linux? -
....ANSWER ...-Python
Which of the following AWS CLI output formats is best geared toward human viewing? -
....ANSWER ...-Table format
Which of the following AWS CLI output is a structured format that is handy for creating
loosely-formatted data to be processed programmatically? - ....ANSWER ...-JSON
format
Which of the following AWS CLI output is most useful for the query command or text-
processing utilities? - ....ANSWER ...-Text Format
How can one split apart long AWS CLI command line to make it more easily readable by
the operator? - ....ANSWER ...-Use backslashes (\) every few words, with a
newline after each backslash
For which languages are AWS SDKs available? (Choose all that apply) -
....ANSWER ...-Ruby
Perl
Python
Which command can you run to find more information about the proper syntax and
options for AWS IoT commands from the CLI? - ....ANSWER ...-aws iot help
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, What does the waiter allow you to do in Boto? - ....ANSWER ...-wait for ordered
infrastructure to become available before continuing
The waiter in Boto provides a handler for your code to deal with the short wait that
occurs when you perform tasks like launching an instance or creating a new Amazon
Redshift cluster. - ....ANSWER ...-True
In which situation would you use the AWS IoT Device SDK? - ....ANSWER ...-To
simplify the process of connecting things to the AWS IoT service.
Like the AWS mobile SDK, the AWS IoT Device SDK provides prebuilt libraries that
ease the process of connecting your devices to the AWS IoT Service.
For the CLI commands that accept formatted files as input, the input file must be in
which of the following formats? - ....ANSWER ...-JSON
Some AWS CLI inputs can be encoded in JSON format and passed through to using the
--cli-input-json parameter
Which option allows you to filter output? - ....ANSWER ...---query
Querying (--query) output data, in text format, is a powerful tool for making sense of
complex cloud deployments.
In what file are your Access Key and Secret Key stored after executing the aws configure
command? - ....ANSWER ...-credentials
your keys are stored in the credentials file, located in either ~/.aws/credentials on Mac
or Linux or in %UserProfile%\.awscredentials on Windows.
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