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

AWS Health Dashboard provides account-specific health events and notifications for resources in your account, distinguishing it from the general public service health page.

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

OpsCenter aggregates and standardizes OpsItems from various AWS services, giving operations teams a unified view for investigation and resolution.

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 Config evaluates resource configurations against rules and can trigger automatic remediation actions, including invoking SSM Automation runbooks or Lambda functions on non-compliant resources.

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

Answer

Systems Manager Automation executes runbooks (SSM Automation documents) that define multi-step workflows, API calls, and conditional branching for incident remediation.

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

Answer

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager manages the full incident lifecycle with on-call management, escalation plans, runbook execution, and post-incident analysis templates.

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AWS DevOps Incident and Event Response