CCP AWS Management and Monitoring Tools 2

Question 1

What is AWS Systems Manager used for?

Accepted Answer

Providing operational visibility and control over your AWS and on-premises infrastructure

Answer

AWS Systems Manager provides a unified interface for managing EC2 instances and on-premises servers, including automation, patching, and configuration management.

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of a CloudWatch Alarm?

Accepted Answer

To notify you or take automated actions when a metric crosses a defined threshold

Answer

A CloudWatch Alarm watches a metric and transitions between states (OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA) to trigger notifications or automatic actions when thresholds are breached.

Question 3

Which AWS service provides Infrastructure as Code using an open-source framework with higher-level abstractions than raw CloudFormation?

Accepted Answer

AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

Answer

AWS CDK allows you to define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages like Python, TypeScript, or Java, which synthesizes to CloudFormation templates.

Question 4

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Accepted Answer

A managed platform service that automatically handles deployment, scaling, and health monitoring of web applications

Answer

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that lets you deploy and scale web applications by simply uploading code, without managing underlying infrastructure.

Question 5

Which AWS service is used to send notifications to subscribers via email, SMS, or other endpoints when events occur?

Accepted Answer

Amazon SNS

Answer

Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a managed pub/sub messaging service that delivers messages to subscribers via email, SMS, Lambda, SQS, or HTTP endpoints.

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CCP AWS Management and Monitoring Tools 2