DOP-C02 practice question: AWS Health events and notifications

Incident and Event Response A free question from our original DOP-C02 practice exam. Try it, then open the answer to see why each option is right or wrong.

An airline runs about 200 AWS accounts through AWS Organizations. The operations team needs to know about AWS Health events that affect its resources, such as scheduled maintenance for EC2 instances or an issue with a service in a Region the airline uses.

Notifications should reach the operations team's SNS topic in the central account, and they should cover every member account without an extra setup in each account. The team wants to act on the events automatically when it can.

Which approach meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Choose one answer.

A. Enable the AWS Health organizational view through a delegated administrator, and create a central EventBridge rule that matches Health events and sends them to SNS or Lambda.
B. Create an EventBridge rule in each of the 200 accounts that matches AWS Health events and sends them to a local SNS topic, and subscribe the operations team to each topic.
C. Check the AWS Health Dashboard each morning in every account, and open a ticket in the operations queue for any event that affects the airline's resources.
D. Create an AWS Config rule that marks resources as noncompliant when AWS Health reports an issue, and send the compliance changes to the SNS topic.

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Answer: A

A. Right: Correct. The AWS Health organizational view gives the central account events from all member accounts, and an EventBridge rule can route those events to SNS or to a Lambda function. The member accounts need no setup of their own. Learn more: Aggregating AWS Health events using organizational view and delegated administrator access (opens in a new tab)
B. Wrong: This works, but it requires the same rule and topic in 200 accounts and 200 subscriptions. The team asked for no extra setup in each account. Learn more: Monitoring events in AWS Health with Amazon EventBridge (opens in a new tab)
C. Wrong: Checking dashboards by hand is slow and easy to miss, and it does not route events to the SNS topic or allow automatic action. The team wanted events delivered to it. Learn more: What is AWS Health? (opens in a new tab)
D. Wrong: AWS Config evaluates resource configuration, not AWS Health events, so this rule would not report scheduled maintenance or service issues. The design does not match the source of the events. Learn more: Evaluating Resources with AWS Config Rules (opens in a new tab)

Explanation

The AWS Health organizational view, run through a delegated administrator, gives the central account events from every member account. An EventBridge rule can route those events to SNS for people or to Lambda for automatic action, with no setup in each account. Per-account rules, dashboard checks and Config rules each add work or miss the events.

DOP-C02 practice question: AWS Health events and notifications

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