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AWS SysOps Administrator MCQs (25)

1) SysOps Administrator role mainly focuses on?

A. Designing applications
B. Operating and managing AWS environments
C. Writing frontend code
D. Hardware installation

2) Which service is most used for monitoring AWS resources?

A. CloudWatch
B. Route 53
C. IAM
D. S3

3) CloudWatch Alarms are used to?

A. Store files
B. Trigger actions based on metrics
C. Create VPCs
D. Encrypt data

4) Which service tracks AWS API activity?

A. CloudTrail
B. CloudFront
C. Lambda
D. SNS

5) Auto Scaling is mainly used for?

A. Backup
B. Automatically adjusting EC2 capacity
C. DNS routing
D. Encryption

6) Load Balancer distributes traffic across?

A. Buckets
B. Multiple targets/instances
C. IAM users
D. VPCs only

7) Which Load Balancer works at Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS)?

A. Application Load Balancer
B. Network Load Balancer
C. Classic only
D. Gateway LB

8) SysOps best practice for EC2 access is?

A. Root login always
B. Use IAM roles and least privilege
C. Open all ports
D. Disable security groups

9) Security Groups are?

A. Stateless firewalls
B. Stateful firewalls
C. DNS systems
D. Monitoring tools

10) Which service stores logs centrally?

A. CloudWatch Logs
B. S3 Glacier
C. Route 53
D. EC2

11) EBS snapshots are stored in?

A. S3 internally
B. EC2 RAM
C. Local disk
D. VPC

12) Which helps automate operational tasks?

A. AWS Systems Manager
B. Route 53
C. CloudFront
D. IAM Groups

13) SSM Run Command is used to?

A. Execute commands on instances remotely
B. Create buckets
C. Manage DNS
D. Encrypt RDS

14) AWS Backup helps with?

A. Centralized backup management
B. CDN caching
C. Code deployment
D. IAM authentication

15) Route 53 is mainly used for?

A. DNS management
B. Storage
C. Monitoring
D. Database

16) Which feature checks health of endpoints in Route 53?

A. Health Checks
B. Buckets
C. Snapshots
D. Aliases

17) Ops teams commonly use SNS for?

A. Alert notifications
B. Hosting apps
C. Databases
D. Storage

18) What is a common SysOps task for RDS?

A. Managing backups and monitoring
B. Writing SQL engine code
C. Building frontend UI
D. Creating IAM users only

19) CloudWatch metric “CPUUtilization” belongs to?

A. EC2 monitoring
B. IAM
C. S3 website
D. CloudTrail

20) AWS Config is used to?

A. Track resource configuration changes
B. Host websites
C. Run containers
D. Store media

21) High availability best practice includes?

A. Multi-AZ architecture
B. One single instance
C. Manual scaling only
D. No backups

22) Which service helps with infrastructure as code?

A. CloudFormation
B. CloudFront
C. SES
D. Inspector only

23) Trusted Advisor helps SysOps by?

A. Providing cost, performance, and security recommendations
B. Running containers
C. Hosting DNS
D. Sending emails only

24) Disaster recovery planning usually includes?

A. Backups and multi-region strategy
B. One region only
C. Disabling monitoring
D. Removing snapshots

25) SysOps Administrator is mainly responsible for?

A. Operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting AWS systems
B. Writing business logic
C. Designing UI pages
D. Hardware repairs

Answer Key

1) B

2) A

3) B

4) A

5) B

6) B

7) A

8) B

9) B

10) A

11) A

12) A

13) A

14) A

15) A

16) A

17) A

18) A

19) A

20) A

21) A

22) A

23) A

24) A

25) A

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