AWS SYSOPS ADMINISTRATOR ASSOCIATE
EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Host Level Metrics Consist of (4)? - ....ANSWER ...-CPU
Network
Disk
Status Check
True/False: Ram Utilization is a custom metric? - ....ANSWER ...-True
Default monitoring is ___ minutes of granularity while detailed monitoring is __
minute(s) of granularity. - ....ANSWER ...-5, 1
What is the API call to retrieve metrics data from cloudwatch? - ....ANSWER ...-
GetMetricStatistics
Cloudwatch stores logs _______ by default. - ....ANSWER ...-Indefinitely
True/False: You can retrieve data form any terminated EC2/ELB instance after
termination. - ....ANSWER ...-True
In order to use cloudwatch to monitor on-premise, what two items must you download &
install? - ....ANSWER ...-SSM Agent
Cloudwatch Agent
What are the 4 types of EBS Storage? - ....ANSWER ...-GP2 (General Purpose SSD)
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,io1 (Provisioned IOPS SSD)
st1 (Throughput Optimized HDD)
sc1 (Cold HDD)
What metrics return the total number of I/O operations in a specified period of time? -
....ANSWER ...-VolumeReadOps, VolumeWriteOps
What metric return the number of read and write operation requests waiting to be
completed in a specified period of time? - ....ANSWER ...-VolumeQueueLength
Also referred to as the layer 7 load balancer and typically used for HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
- ....ANSWER ...-Application Load Balancer
Also referred to as the layer 4 load balancer and typically used for high performance and
network throughput demands. - ....ANSWER ...-Network Load Balancer
What are the 4 ways to monitor ELB's? - ....ANSWER ...-Cloud Watch Metrics
Access Logs
Request Tracing
Cloudtrail Logs
True/False: As soon as you provision an ELB, you must turn on Cloud Watch metrics. -
....ANSWER ...-False, CW metrics are turned on by default when you provision an
ELB.
These logs provide detailed information about requests sent to your load balancer and
contain information such as time request received, clientIP, latencies, request paths, and
server responses. - ....ANSWER ...-Access Logs
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, Access Logs are an _____ feature (disabled by default). They are stored in ___. -
....ANSWER ...-optional, s3
True/False: Access logs can store data where EC2 instances have been deleted? -
....ANSWER ...-True
This monitoring feature of ELB's track http requests from clients to targets or other
services using the X-Amzn-Trace-ID header which is added or updated to the client
request. - ....ANSWER ...-Request Tracing
What is the only load balancer type that Request Tracing is supported for? -
....ANSWER ...-Application Load Balancer
For memcached, when monitoring CPU utilization, if the load is greater than __%, more
nodes must be added to the cluster. - ....ANSWER ...-90
For memcached, when monitoring Swap file usage, the swap should be around __mb
most of the time and should not exceed __mb. - ....ANSWER ...-0, 50
For memcached, if the swap file usage is greater than 50mb, increase the
___________________________ parameter. - ....ANSWER ...-
memcached_connections_overhead
For evictions monitoring of memcached, you can _____-____ (increase memory of
existing nodes) OR _______-_____ (add more nodes). - ....ANSWER ...-scale-up,
scale-out
For evictions monitoring of redis, you can only _____-_____ (add more nodes). -
....ANSWER ...-scale-out
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EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Host Level Metrics Consist of (4)? - ....ANSWER ...-CPU
Network
Disk
Status Check
True/False: Ram Utilization is a custom metric? - ....ANSWER ...-True
Default monitoring is ___ minutes of granularity while detailed monitoring is __
minute(s) of granularity. - ....ANSWER ...-5, 1
What is the API call to retrieve metrics data from cloudwatch? - ....ANSWER ...-
GetMetricStatistics
Cloudwatch stores logs _______ by default. - ....ANSWER ...-Indefinitely
True/False: You can retrieve data form any terminated EC2/ELB instance after
termination. - ....ANSWER ...-True
In order to use cloudwatch to monitor on-premise, what two items must you download &
install? - ....ANSWER ...-SSM Agent
Cloudwatch Agent
What are the 4 types of EBS Storage? - ....ANSWER ...-GP2 (General Purpose SSD)
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,io1 (Provisioned IOPS SSD)
st1 (Throughput Optimized HDD)
sc1 (Cold HDD)
What metrics return the total number of I/O operations in a specified period of time? -
....ANSWER ...-VolumeReadOps, VolumeWriteOps
What metric return the number of read and write operation requests waiting to be
completed in a specified period of time? - ....ANSWER ...-VolumeQueueLength
Also referred to as the layer 7 load balancer and typically used for HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
- ....ANSWER ...-Application Load Balancer
Also referred to as the layer 4 load balancer and typically used for high performance and
network throughput demands. - ....ANSWER ...-Network Load Balancer
What are the 4 ways to monitor ELB's? - ....ANSWER ...-Cloud Watch Metrics
Access Logs
Request Tracing
Cloudtrail Logs
True/False: As soon as you provision an ELB, you must turn on Cloud Watch metrics. -
....ANSWER ...-False, CW metrics are turned on by default when you provision an
ELB.
These logs provide detailed information about requests sent to your load balancer and
contain information such as time request received, clientIP, latencies, request paths, and
server responses. - ....ANSWER ...-Access Logs
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, Access Logs are an _____ feature (disabled by default). They are stored in ___. -
....ANSWER ...-optional, s3
True/False: Access logs can store data where EC2 instances have been deleted? -
....ANSWER ...-True
This monitoring feature of ELB's track http requests from clients to targets or other
services using the X-Amzn-Trace-ID header which is added or updated to the client
request. - ....ANSWER ...-Request Tracing
What is the only load balancer type that Request Tracing is supported for? -
....ANSWER ...-Application Load Balancer
For memcached, when monitoring CPU utilization, if the load is greater than __%, more
nodes must be added to the cluster. - ....ANSWER ...-90
For memcached, when monitoring Swap file usage, the swap should be around __mb
most of the time and should not exceed __mb. - ....ANSWER ...-0, 50
For memcached, if the swap file usage is greater than 50mb, increase the
___________________________ parameter. - ....ANSWER ...-
memcached_connections_overhead
For evictions monitoring of memcached, you can _____-____ (increase memory of
existing nodes) OR _______-_____ (add more nodes). - ....ANSWER ...-scale-up,
scale-out
For evictions monitoring of redis, you can only _____-_____ (add more nodes). -
....ANSWER ...-scale-out
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