DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Monitoring, Logging, and Observability on AWS 2

Question 1

Which CloudWatch component triggers an action when a metric crosses a defined threshold?

Accepted Answer

CloudWatch Alarm

Answer

CloudWatch Alarms watch a single metric over a specified time period and perform one or more actions when the metric breaches a threshold.

Question 2

Which AWS service enables you to define rules for evaluating the compliance of AWS resource configurations over time?

Accepted Answer

AWS Config

Answer

AWS Config continuously evaluates your AWS resource configurations against desired rules, providing compliance status and configuration history.

Question 3

Which Amazon CloudWatch feature allows you to run synthetic canary scripts to monitor application endpoints?

Accepted Answer

CloudWatch Synthetics

Answer

CloudWatch Synthetics creates canary scripts that run on a schedule to simulate user interactions and monitor endpoint availability and latency.

Question 4

What does Amazon CloudWatch Real User Monitoring (RUM) collect?

Accepted Answer

Performance data from real user browser sessions

Answer

CloudWatch RUM collects and analyzes client-side performance data from real user browser sessions, including page load times and JavaScript errors.

Question 5

Which CloudWatch feature identifies the top contributors to a metric, such as the IPs generating the most traffic?

Accepted Answer

Contributor Insights

Answer

CloudWatch Contributor Insights creates time series data that displays contributor data from your logs, identifying the top-N contributors to a metric.

DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Practice Test

DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Practice Test

DevOps Engineering on AWS Certification Monitoring, Logging, and Observability on AWS 2