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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

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  2. 2Reliability and Business Continuity18%Read free →
  3. 3Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation20%Read free →
  4. 4Security and Compliance16%Read free →
  5. 5Networking, Content Delivery, and Cost26% — the largest sectionRead free →
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Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Before applying an update to a CloudFormation stack, an administrator wants to preview exactly which resources will be modified or replaced. What should they use?

  1. AStackSets
  2. BA change setCorrect
  3. CA nested stack
  4. DDrift detection

Why: A change set previews the additions, modifications, and replacements a stack update would make before you execute it. Drift detection compares actual resources to the template, StackSets deploy across accounts and Regions, and nested stacks decompose templates.

Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

An administrator needs per-minute CPU metrics from EC2 instances instead of the default interval. What should they enable?

  1. AAWS CloudTrail data events
  2. BDetailed monitoring on the instancesCorrect
  3. CA custom metric filter
  4. DThe CloudWatch agent for CPU

Why: Enabling detailed monitoring reports EC2 metrics every one minute instead of the default five-minute basic monitoring. The CloudWatch agent is needed for memory and disk metrics, not CPU frequency, metric filters extract metrics from logs, and CloudTrail records API activity.

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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, by the numbers.

Time130 minutes
SectionsMonitoring, Logging, and Remediation · Reliability and Business Continuity · Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation · Security and Compliance · Networking, Content Delivery, and Cost
Passing score720 / 1000
Our bank22 questions · updated August 2026Written from AWS
LanguagesEnglish
SourceAWS
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