DOP-C01: AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

After a daily scrum with your development teams, you've agreed that using Blue/Green style deployments would benefit the team. Which technique should you use to deliver this new requirement?

A company uses a series of individual Amazon CloudFormation templates to deploy its multi-Region applications. These templates must be deployed in a specific order. The company is making more changes to the templates than previously expected and wants to deploy new templates more efficiently. Additionally, the data engineering team must be notified of all changes to the templates. What should the company do to accomplish these goals?

A company hosts parts of a Python-based application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. An Elastic Beanstalk CLI is being used to create and update the environments. The Operations team detected an increase in requests in one of the Elastic Beanstalk environments that caused downtime overnight. The team noted that the policy used for AWS Auto Scaling is NetworkOut. Based on load testing metrics, the team determined that the application needs to scale CPU utilization to improve the resilience of the environments. The team wants to implement this across all environments automatically. Following AWS recommendations, how should this automation be implemented?

An application running on a set of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group requires a configuration file to operate. The instances are created and maintained with AWS CloudFormation. A DevOps engineer wants the instances to have the latest configuration file when launched, and wants changes to the configuration file to be reflected on all the instances with a minimal delay when the CloudFormation template is updated. Company policy requires that application configuration files be maintained along with AWS infrastructure configuration files in source control. Which solution will accomplish this?

A company has built a web service that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company has deployed the application in us-east-1. Amazon Route 53 provides an external DNS that routes traffic from example.com to the application, created with appropriate health checks.

The company has deployed a second environment for the application in eu-west-1. The company wants traffic to be routed to whichever environment results in the best response time for each user. If there is an outage in one Region, traffic should be directed to the other environment.

Which configuration will achieve these requirements?

An application has microservices spread across different AWS accounts and is integrated with an on-premises legacy system for some of its functionality. Because of the segmented architecture and missing logs, every time the application experiences issues, it is taking too long to gather the logs to identify the issues. A DevOps Engineer must fix the log aggregation process and provide a way to centrally analyze the logs. Which is the MOST efficient and cost-effective solution?

An Application team is refactoring one of its internal tools to run in AWS instead of on-premises hardware. All of the code is currently written in Python and is standalone. There is also no external state store or relational database to be queried.

Which deployment pipeline incurs the LEAST amount of changes between development and production?

A company is implementing an Amazon ECS cluster to run its workload. The company architecture will run multiple ECS services on the cluster, with an Application Load Balancer on the front end, using multiple target groups to route traffic. The Application Development team has been struggling to collect logs that must be collected and sent to an Amazon S3 bucket for near-real time analysis What must the DevOps Engineer configure in the deployment to meet these requirements?

(Choose three.)

A retail company wants to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to host its online sales website running on Java. Since this will be the production website, the CTO has the following requirements for the deployment strategy:

Zero downtime. While the deployment is ongoing, the current Amazon EC2 instances in service should remain in service. No deployment or any other action should be performed on the EC2 instances because they serve production traffic. A new fleet of instances should be provisioned for deploying the new application version.

Once the new application version is deployed successfully in the new fleet of instances, the new instances should be placed in service and the old ones should be removed. The rollback should be as easy as possible. If the new fleet of instances fail to deploy the new application version, they should be terminated and the current instances should continue serving traffic as normal. The resources within the environment (EC2 Auto Scaling group, Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Beanstalk DNS CNAME) should remain the same and no DNS change should be made. Which deployment strategy will meet the requirements?