Amazon Web Services Updated DOP-C02 Exam Questions and Answers by milana

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ALB supports weighted target groups for traffic splitting between versions without DNS-level changes. By attaching multiple target groups (old & beta) to the same ALB listener rule with weights (90/10), partial traffic testing can occur seamlessly. This is the recommended least-change method per Application Load Balancer advanced request routing documentation.

Failed interactive logins such as ConsoleLogin are part of CloudTrail management events, not data events. The most direct, low-overhead design is to stream management events to CloudWatch Logs, then create a metric filter that matches failed ConsoleLogin events (for example, $.eventName = "ConsoleLogin" and $.responseElements.ConsoleLogin = "Failure" or $.errorMessage). That metric is then used as the basis for a CloudWatch alarm. When the alarm threshold (e.g., N failures in a period) is breached, the alarm triggers and sends a notification to the already created SNS topic, which alerts the security team.

Option A follows this recommended pattern: CloudTrail → CloudWatch Logs → Metric Filter → Alarm → SNS. It is fully managed, near real-time, and requires minimal custom logic.

Option B uses Athena with EventBridge to periodically query CloudTrail logs in S3. This introduces more moving parts, more configuration, higher latency, and more operational overhead.

Options C and D incorrectly reference CloudTrail data events and S3 event notifications, which are not the right mechanisms to detect ConsoleLogin failures. Console logins are not S3 events, and using data events would miss these management actions.

Therefore, Option A is the correct and simplest solution.

The correct answer is C. Updating the SCP in the child OU to allow all actions for Amazon EC2 will enable the DevOps engineer to launch the EC2 instance in the vendor-data account. SCPs are applied to OUs and accounts in a hierarchical manner, meaning that the SCPs attached to the parent OU are inherited by the child OU and accounts. Therefore, the SCP in the child OU overrides the SCP in the root OU and denies all actions except for DynamoDB and Lambda. By adding EC2 to the allowed actions in the child OU’s SCP, the DevOps engineer can access EC2 resources in the vendor-data account.

Option A is incorrect because attaching the AmazonEC2FullAccess IAM policy to the IAM user will not grant the user access to EC2 resources. IAM policies are evaluated after SCPs, so even if the IAM policy allows EC2 actions, the SCP will still deny them.

Option B is incorrect because creating a new SCP that allows all actions for EC2 and attaching it to the vendor-data account will not work. SCPs are not cumulative, meaning that only one SCP is applied to an account at a time. The SCP attached to the account will be the SCP attached to the OU that contains the account. Therefore, option B will not change the SCP that is applied to the vendor-data account.

Option D is incorrect because creating a new SCP that allows all actions for EC2 and attaching it to the root OU will not work. As explained earlier, the SCP in the child OU overrides the SCP in the root OU and denies all actions except for DynamoDB and Lambda. Therefore, option D will not affect the SCP that is applied to the vendor-data account.