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Configuration Management and IaC Questions

Practice questions for Configuration Management and IaC topic in AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional. 37 questions covering this domain.

37 questions10 easy17 medium10 hard
Q1
hard

An administrator suspects someone changed resources directly in service consoles instead of updating the CloudFormation template. The team wants Cloud...

Q2
medium

A patching team wants to check which managed nodes are missing updates before deciding whether to install anything. Which Patch Manager capability mee...

Q3
medium

An operations lead needs to choose between State Manager and Maintenance Windows for recurring node changes. The requirement is to automate ongoing sy...

Q4
hard

A role has an identity-based policy that allows IAM administration, but the same role also has a permissions boundary that allows only Amazon S3, Clou...

Q5
easy

A platform administrator wants to let teams attach identity-based policies to roles but still enforce an upper limit on what those roles can ever do. ...

Q6
medium

An organization wants the recommended way to configure recurring patching across all accounts in all Regions or only selected accounts and Regions fro...

Q7
medium

A fleet operations team wants a secure, scalable configuration management service that keeps managed nodes and other AWS resources in a desired state ...

Q8
medium

A global DevOps team wants to reduce latency when requesting temporary credentials but still use those credentials against resources worldwide. What s...

Q9
easy

An engineering team must create, update, and delete the same CloudFormation stacks across multiple AWS accounts and Regions from one central account. ...

Q10
medium

A fleet of managed nodes needs an inventory of installed applications, network configuration, and Windows updates collected centrally for queries. Whi...

Q11
medium

A team wants a CloudFormation resource (an RDS database) to be retained when its stack is deleted. Which attribute should be set on that resource?

Q12
easy

Which AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store parameter type encrypts the value with AWS KMS and decrypts on retrieval?

Q13
medium

A CloudFormation template is becoming too large to maintain. The team wants to break it into reusable child templates referenced by a parent stack and...

Q14
hard

A platform team must enforce policy as code on CloudFormation templates and stack operations to proactively block noncompliant resource configurations...

Q15
medium

In AWS CDK, which construct level wraps L1 CloudFormation resources with sensible defaults and helper methods for common use cases?

Q16
easy

Which CloudFormation template top-level section declares values that can be passed in at stack creation or update time?

Q17
hard

A CloudFormation stack creates EC2 instances that must complete an internal bootstrap. The stack must wait for those instances to signal success befor...

Q18
medium

A DevOps team wants to define a reusable, versioned procedure that AWS Systems Manager runs to perform multi-step operational tasks (start/stop instan...

Q19
hard

A team uses CDK to provision infrastructure and wants to enforce a rule that every EC2 instance provisioned by CDK must have at least one tag. They wa...

Q20
easy

Which CloudFormation section is used to map a top-level key such as an AWS Region to a nested value such as an AMI ID to avoid hard-coding per-Region ...

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