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Incident and Event Response Questions

Practice questions for Incident and Event Response topic in AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional. 29 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
medium

An incident investigation requires SQL-style analysis of long-term AWS user and API activity in a managed data lake that converts row-based JSON event...

Q2
medium

A response team needs a service that shows how AWS resources are related to one another and how those configurations changed over time so they can ass...

Q3
medium

A security operations team wants a record of AWS activities delivered to Amazon S3, with optional delivery to CloudWatch Logs and Amazon EventBridge f...

Q4
easy

An engineer needs an immediate, searchable record of the last 90 days of management events in one AWS Region without creating a trail first. Which Clo...

Q5
medium

A compliance team wants resources evaluated continuously as they are created, changed, or deleted, and it wants noncompliant resources flagged when th...

Q6
hard

An enterprise security team needs to retain and query organization-wide CloudTrail activity for years in immutable event data stores, and it wants the...

Q7
hard

A production incident followed an infrastructure change, and the team must identify the last known good configuration of a resource and understand how...

Q8
easy

Which EventBridge schedule expression syntax is documented for time-based rules?

Q9
hard

A team wants CloudWatch alarms to automatically open OpsItems with affected resources, severity, and runbook links so on-call engineers can investigat...

Q10
easy

Which AWS service is a fully managed publish/subscribe messaging service that supports email, SMS, mobile push, HTTP/S, SQS, and Lambda subscribers?

Q11
medium

An operations team wants on-call schedules, runbooks, response plans, and engagement of the right responders during AWS-detected incidents. Which AWS ...

Q12
medium

A workflow processes high volumes of short-lived events and must support up to 100,000 state transitions per second per account with at-least-once exe...

Q13
medium

A team wants to connect an Amazon SQS queue to an Amazon Step Functions state machine with optional filtering and lightweight transformation, but with...

Q14
hard

A noncompliant resource detected by AWS Config must trigger an automatic remediation action that calls a Systems Manager Automation runbook. Which con...

Q15
hard

A team discovers that a critical production Lambda function is failing 20% of the time due to a downstream API timeout. They want to detect this proac...

Q16
medium

A DevOps team wants AWS Config to automatically remediate EC2 security groups that have port 22 open to the internet. Which Config feature should they...

Q17
medium

A team wants Step Functions Standard Workflows to retry a failed state automatically with an exponential backoff strategy. Which field in the state de...

Q18
easy

Which Amazon EventBridge feature allows a specific event bus or cross-account target to receive events from your event bus without requiring the targe...

Q19
medium

A team wants AWS Health events (such as EC2 retirement notifications) to automatically create a Jira ticket via a webhook. Which architecture achieves...

Q20
hard

An operations team uses AWS Config and Systems Manager together. When a Config rule detects an out-of-compliance EC2 instance, the team wants the SSM ...

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