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Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 10mins
A company wants to review its monthly costs of using Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for the past year. Which AWS service or tool provides this information?
AWS Trusted Advisor
Cost Explorer
Amazon Forecas
Amazon CloudWatch
A user needs to determine whether an Amazon EC2 instance's security groups were modified in the last month. How can the user see if a change was made?
Use Amazon CloudWatch to see if the security group was changed
Use AWS CloudTrail to see if the security group was changed
Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to see which user or role changed the security group
Use Amazon EC2 to see if the security group was changed
Which AWS service supports the creation of visual reports from AWS Cost and Usage Report data?
AWS Organizations
Amazon QuickSight
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Athena
Which AWS service should be used to monitor Amazon EC2 instances for CPU and network utilization?
AWS Config
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Inspector
Which online tool provides guidance in following AWS best practices by providing personalized recommendations for your cloud workloads?
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Amazon CloudWatch
A business analyst would like to move away from creating complex database queries and static spreadsheets when generating regular reports for high-level management. They would like to publish insightful, graphically appealing reports with interactive dashboards. Which service can they use to accomplish this?
Amazon QuickSight
Business intelligence on Amazon Redshift
Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
Amazon Athena integrated with Amazon Glue
An organization utilizes a software suit consisting of a multitude of underlying microservices hosted on the cloud. The application is frequently giving runtime errors.Which service will help in troubleshooting process?
AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Xray
Amazon OpenSearch Engine
There is an external audit being carried out on your company. The auditor needs to have a log of "who made the requests to the resources". Which Service can assist in providing these details?
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon EC2
AWS CloudWatch
AmazonSNS
Which one is not a feature of CloudWatch?
Insights
X-Ray Traces
Dashboard
Event history
What is Amazon CloudWatch ?
web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud
monitors and records account activity across your AWS infrastructure, giving you control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions.
service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT managers, and product owners
A CloudWatch Alarm set on a High-Resolution Custom Metric can be triggered as often as
10 seconds
1 second
30 seconds
1 minute
You have an RDS DB instance that's configured to push its database logs to CloudWatch. You want to create a CloudWatch alarm if there's an Error found in the logs. How would you do that?
Create a CloudWatch Logs Metric Filter that filter the logs for the keyword Error, then create a CloudWatch Alarm based on that Metric Filter
Create a scheduled CloudWatch Event that triggers an AWS Lambda every 1 hour, scans the logs, and notify you through SNS topic
Create an AWS Config Rule that monitors Error in your database logs and notify you through SNS topic
You have an application hosted on a fleet of EC2 instances managed by an Auto Scaling Group that you configured its minimum capacity to 2. Also, you have created a CloudWatch Alarm that is configured to scale in your ASG when CPU Utilization is below 60%. Currently, your application runs on 2 EC2 instances and has low traffic and the CloudWatch Alarm is in the ALARM state. What will happen?
One EC2 instance will be terminated and the ASG desired and minimum capacity will go to 1
The CloudWatch Alarm will be detached from my ASG
The CloudWatch Alarm will remain in ALARM state but never decrease the number of EC2 instances in the ASG
The CloudWatch Alarm will go in <strong>OK</strong> state
How would you monitor your EC2 instance memory usage in CloudWatch?
Enable EC2 Detailed Monitoring
By default, the EC2 instance pushes memory usage to CloudWatch
Use Unified CloudWatch Agent to push memory usage as a custom metric to CloudWatch
You have made a configuration change and would like to evaluate the impact of it on the performance of your application. Which AWS service should you use?
Amazon Cloudwatch
AWS Cloudtrail
You would like to test out a complex CloudWatch Alarm that responds to globally increased traffic on your application. You are in a test environment. How can you test out this alarm in a cost-effective manner and efficiently?
Setup a global EC2 fleet and increase the request rate to your application until you reach the Alarm state
Change the alarm thresholds temporarily
Use the set-alarm-state CLI command
You want to continuously monitor RAM usage for an application hosted on an EC2 instance. By default, CloudWatch doesn't push RAM usage, so you will use a CloudWatch custom metric. Which API call allows you to push custom metric data to CloudWatch?
SendMetricData
PutCustomMetric
PutMetricData
SendCustomMetric
By default, all logs stored in CloudWatch Logs are automatically expiring after 7 days.
False
True
In CloudWatch Logs, Log Retention Policy defined at ........................... level.
Log Streams
Log Groups
You have a couple of EC2 instances in which you would like their Standard CloudWatch Metrics to be collected every 1 minute. What should you do?
Enable CloudWatch Custom Metrics
Enable High Resolution
Enable Basic Monitoring
Enable Detailed Monitoring
CloudWatch provides automatic dashboards, data with one-second granularity, and up to __ months of metrics storage and retention.
10 months
15 months
12 months
20 months
AWS free tiers allow us to have __ detailed monitoring metrics
3
5
10
25
true or false, The cloudwatch log agent can be setup on-premises
false, only available on ec2
true
