AWS DevOps Incident and Event Response

Question 1

Which AWS service provides a personalized view of the health of AWS services and sends notifications about events that might impact your specific resources?

Accepted Answer

AWS Health Dashboard

Answer

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer

AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter

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Amazon EventBridge

Question 2

Which AWS Systems Manager capability provides a central location where engineers can view, investigate, and resolve operational work items called OpsItems?

Accepted Answer

Systems Manager OpsCenter

Answer

Systems Manager Patch Manager

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Systems Manager Run Command

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Systems Manager Session Manager

Question 3

An automated remediation Lambda function needs to stop a non-compliant EC2 instance when a configuration change is detected. Which service should trigger this action automatically?

Accepted Answer

AWS Config automatic remediation

Answer

AWS CloudTrail

Answer

Amazon CloudWatch Events

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AWS Systems Manager State Manager

Question 4

During a major incident, your team needs to run a pre-approved multi-step operational workflow across several AWS services. Which Systems Manager feature should you use?

Accepted Answer

Systems Manager Automation

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Systems Manager Parameter Store

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Systems Manager Inventory

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Systems Manager Compliance

Question 5

Which AWS service provides on-call schedules, escalation plans, response plans, and post-incident analysis capabilities for DevOps incident management?

Accepted Answer

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager

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AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter

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Amazon DevOps Guru

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AWS CloudWatch Synthetics

Question 6

What is the primary purpose of a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) in an event-driven incident response architecture?

Accepted Answer

To capture and retain messages that fail processing for later analysis

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To permanently delete failed events after maximum retries

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To throttle event processing during high-load incidents

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To encrypt sensitive event payloads before processing

Question 7

Which Amazon EventBridge feature allows your team to capture events during an incident and replay them against remediation logic for post-incident validation?

Accepted Answer

EventBridge Event Archive and Replay

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EventBridge Pipes

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EventBridge Schema Registry

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EventBridge API Destinations