DOP-C02 Exam Dumps : AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

EKS control plane nodes are fully managed by AWS and are not accessible for configuration, SSH, SSM commands, or custom workloads. Therefore, any prefetching of container images must occur on the worker nodes (EC2 instances in the node groups) because those are the machines that pull and cache container images before running pods.

Option C is the only solution that aligns with AWS architecture:

It creates an IAM role allowing Systems Manager Run Command to execute on EC2 worker nodes.

It uses node group tags to target the correct nodes dynamically.

State Manager runs the prefetch script whenever triggered by the EventBridge automation — ensuring newly added nodes pre-pull images and reduce cold-start latency to seconds.

Options A and D are invalid because you cannot run Systems Manager commands on EKS control plane nodes; AWS manages them and does not expose them. Option B incorrectly targets node groups based on machine size, which does not provide reliable node identification or filtering.

Thus, Option C provides the correct, scalable, and supported method for prefetching images across all worker nodes.

The best solution to implement failover for the application is to use CloudFront origin groups. Origin groups allow CloudFront to automatically switch to a secondary origin when the primary origin is unavailable or returns specific HTTP status codes that indicate a failure1. This way, CloudFront can serve the requests from the secondary ALB in the secondary Region without any delay or redirection. To set up origin groups, the DevOps engineer needs to create a new origin on the distribution for the secondary ALB, create a new origin group with the original ALB as the primary origin and the secondary ALB as the secondary origin, and configure the origin group to fail over for HTTP 5xx status codes. Then, the DevOps engineer needs to update the default behavior to use the origin group instead of the single origin2.

The other options are not as effective or efficient as the solution in option B. Option A is not suitable because creating a second CloudFront distribution will increase the complexity and cost of the application. Moreover, using Route 53 alias records with a failover policy will introduce some delay in detecting and switching to the secondary CloudFront distribution, which may not meet the zero-second RTO requirement. Option C is not feasible because CloudFront does not support using Route 53 alias records as origins3. Option D is not advisable because using a CloudFront function to redirect the requests to the secondary ALB will add an extra round-trip and latency to the failover process, which may also not meet the zero-second RTO requirement.

1: Optimizing high availability with CloudFront origin failover - Amazon CloudFront

2: Creating an origin group - Amazon CloudFront

3: Values That You Specify When You Create or Update a Web Distribution - Amazon CloudFront