How to Pass AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate SOA-C02 - Study Question List

Starting from July 27, 2021, the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam has been updated, the exam changed from SOA-C01 to SOA-C02. This blog will help to prepare for the exam base on their exam guide. Below are setlist of question during the review for the exam guide, these are just a few questions when we reading the guide, it won't guarantee to pass the exam if you know all but at least will help you better to prepare the exam. 

• CloudWatch Logs
  • How much does CloudWatch Logs Cost?
  • How to send Application logs from EC2 to CloudWatch Logs? Specify the log group, set retention, analyze the log data.
  • How to use CloudWatch Insights to interactive search and analyze logs?
  • How to send notifications when CloudWatch logs exceed a threshold?
  • How to use CloudWatch Filter to filter the logs?
  • What other AWS services can send logs to CloudWatch logs?
  • CloudWatch Logs Alternatives?
  • How to archive the old log data to S3 archive storage?
• CloudTrail
  • What is a list of fields CloudTrail shows?
  • How to Query, Analyze CloudTrail log data?
  • How to use the S3 policy to transfer logs to a cheaper tier?
• CloudWatch Agent
  • How to collect custom metrics, memory, disk usage by using CloudWatch agent?
  • How to install CloudWatch Agent to EC2 instance by using Systems Manager?
  • How to use CloudWatch Agent with OpenTelemetry?
  • What list of AWS services can use CloudWatch Agent to send custom metrics?
  • How to use CloudWatch Agent at an on-premised server?
  • CloudWatch alternative?
• CloudWatch Alarm
  • How to set a billing alarm?
  • How to create CPU utilization CloudWatch alarm when CPU is over a certain threshold?
  • How to create EC2 instance status CloudWatch alarm, to watch when site id down?
  • Why does DynamoDB create a basic alarm?
  • How much does the CloudWatch alarm cost?
  • CloudWatch alternative?
• AWS EventBridge
  • What is the list of use cases to use EventBridge?
  • How to use EventBridge as a scheduler to trigger Lambda?
• AWS System Manager
  • What list of features AWS System Manager can provide?
• AWS AutoScaling
  • How to use AutoScaling base on EC2 CPU Usage?
  • What is the list of AWS services that can use autoscaling?
  • What is the list way to handle auto-scaling?
  • AWS Autoscaling alternative?
• AWS RDS
  • How to use RDS to create different RDS databases?
  • How to create RDS replicas?
  • How to create Aurora?
  • How to create Aurora replicas?
  • How to set up Multi-AZ for RDS?
• Caching
  • What is the list of AWS services that can use caching?
  • How to set up ElasticCache, and which services can use ElasticCache?
  • How to set up ElasticCache cluster?
  • What's eviction, how do you do to handler eviction for Redis or memcached? 
  • What list of metrics needs to watch for ElasticCache? and how to react?
• Elastic Load Balancer
  • How to set up Classic Load Balancer?
  • How to set up an Application Load Balancer?
  • How to set up Network Load Balancer?
  • How to set up Gateway Load Balancer?
  • Price?
  • Elastic Load Balancer alternative?
• Route 53 
  • How to set up Route 53 health check?
  • What Route 53 health check alternative?
  • What are DNS logs? and what it is for?
  • What difference between geolocation vs geoproximity?
  • What's the route 53 DNS resolver? and use case?
• Amazon FSx
• AWS S3
  • How to configure AWS S3 cross-region replication? and Why? latency? 
  • How to create a static website?
  • How to use CloudFront with OAI with an S3 static site?
• AWS Fargate
  • How to set up a simple app with AWS Fargate?
  • Price?
• EC2
  • How to use AWS Image Builder?
• OpsWork
  • How to use OpsWork? basic usage.
  • Price?
• AWS CodeDeploy
  • How to use CodeDeploy to deploy code?
  • How to deploy a simple express.js app by using CodeDeploy?
  • Any other way to deploy?
  • List of deploy policy, rolling, immutable and more?
• Service Quotas
  • Good to watch what AWS' limitation then you can send quota request.
• Elastic Beanstalk
  • How to create an express.js app with ElasticBeanstalk include deployment?
• CloudFormation
  • CloudFormation vs Terraform? Which is better.
• IAM Access Analyzer
  • How to use IAM Access Analyzer?
• IAM Policy Simulator
  • How to use IAM Policy Simulator?
• AWS Control Tower
  • How to use AWS Control Tower to create a sample, best practice environment?
• AWS Encryption
  
  • How to use AWS KMS? or What if you don't use AWS KMS?
  • How to use Cloud HSM?
  • What list of services uses encryption at rest at AWS service?
  • What list of services does encryption in transit in AWS service?
• AWS Store Secrets
  • How to use store secrets?
• AWS parameter store
  • How to use parameter store?
• AWS Guard Duty
  • How to use Guard Duty? What it can do?
• AWS WAF
  • How to use WAF? and when to use WAF?
  • What is the list of AWS WAF Managed rules?
• AWS Shield
  • What AWS Shield and how to use it?
• AWS Config
  • How to use AWS Config?
  • What is the list of common best practices AWS Config to use?
• AWS Inspector
  • How to set up AWS Inspector to analyze security issues on EC2?
  • What is the list of AWS Service can use AWS Inspector to analyze security issues?
• AWS Macie
  • How to use AWS Macie to discover sensitive data? (PII)
  • What data source does it support? does it only support AWS or on-promise? 
• Security Groups
• Network ACLs
• System Session Manager
  • How to use System session manager to access instances?
  • What list of AWS services does the system session manager support?
  • System session manager alternative?
• VPC endpoints
• VPC peering
  • How to set up VPC peering? case study?
• AWS VPN
  • What is AWS VPN and what it is for?
• AWS Transit Gateway
• AWS BGP Connections
• AWS Customer Network
•  Others
  • How to build fault-tolerant workloads with AWS?
• Logs
  • VPC Flow logs
  • Load Balancer access logs
  • AWS WAF web ACL logs
  • CloudFront logs
  • Any other logs?
• Backup
  • How to backup for a list of services?