Exams / SOA-C03 / CloudWatch metrics, alarms and dashboards

CloudWatch metrics, alarms and dashboards: SOA-C03 practice questions

3 free questions on CloudWatch metrics, alarms and dashboards, from the Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization domain (22% of the SOA-C03 exam guide). Every question is original and explains why each option is right or wrong.

Questions

1. A regional bank's online banking team has separate CloudWatch alarms on its Application Load Balancer for HTTP 5xx error count and for target response time. Each alarm notifies…Medium
2. A ski resort runs a nightly lift-pass reconciliation job on Amazon EC2. While it runs, the job publishes a custom CloudWatch metric, RecordsProcessed, every minute. If the job…Harder
3. An esports league runs its match services in six AWS accounts across two AWS Regions. The operations lead wants one CloudWatch dashboard in a central monitoring account that…Medium · choose 2

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• Using Amazon CloudWatch alarms

More Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization topics

• CloudWatch agent and log collection (2)
• CloudTrail and log analysis (1)
• EventBridge rules and notifications (1)
• Automated remediation with Systems Manager (2)
• EC2 performance and right-sizing (1)
• EBS performance and volume types (1)
• S3 performance and data transfer (1)
• EFS, FSx and shared storage (1)
• RDS performance monitoring (1)