AWS DevOps DevOps Configuration Management & Infrastructure as Code 2

Question 1

A team uses AWS CloudFormation and wants to prevent accidental deletion of a production database stack. Which CloudFormation feature should they enable?

Accepted Answer

Stack termination protection

Answer

DeletionPolicy: Retain on the stack

Answer

Stack drift detection

Answer

AWS Config rules

Question 2

When using AWS CDK, what command synthesizes the CloudFormation template from your CDK app without deploying it?

Accepted Answer

cdk synth

Answer

cdk deploy

Answer

cdk diff

Answer

cdk bootstrap

Question 3

A CloudFormation stack update fails and rolls back. Which resource status indicates the resource was successfully rolled back to its previous state?

Accepted Answer

UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE

Answer

UPDATE_FAILED

Answer

ROLLBACK_COMPLETE

Answer

ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS

Question 4

Which AWS Systems Manager capability allows you to define and enforce configuration baselines across EC2 instances at scale?

Accepted Answer

State Manager

Answer

Session Manager

Answer

Parameter Store

Answer

Run Command

Question 5

In Terraform, which command shows what infrastructure changes will be made before actually applying them?

Accepted Answer

terraform plan

Answer

terraform apply -auto-approve

Answer

terraform validate

Answer

terraform refresh

Question 6

A CloudFormation template includes a resource with `DeletionPolicy: Snapshot`. What happens to an RDS instance with this policy when the stack is deleted?

Accepted Answer

A final DB snapshot is created before the instance is deleted

Answer

The RDS instance is deleted immediately with no backup

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The RDS instance is retained without deletion

Answer

The deletion fails with an error

Question 7

Which AWS service provides a managed Git repository integrated with CodePipeline and supports branch-level access controls using IAM policies?

Accepted Answer

AWS CodeCommit

Answer

AWS CodeArtifact

Answer

Amazon S3 versioning

Answer

AWS CodeDeploy