Quiz1
Which of the following alarms can help send an email?
- SQS
- ECS Task
- Kinesis Stream
- SNS Topic
SNS Topic
CloudWatch lets you treat missing data points for metrics in different ways. Which of the following is not a valid way to treat missing data?
ignore, Irregular, missing, bad, good
Irregular
Before setting up CloudWatch what two things do you want to set-up?
What is auto-remediation?
Actions taken in response to events
Which AWS service enables customers to set-up an AWS billing alarm to inform them when their spending exceeds a certain threshold.
Amazon Cloudwatch
Your organization wants to start being sent an email whenever the root user of an AWS Account logs in. How could you accomplish this?
Set up CloudTrail to send its logs to CloudWatch. Use a CloudWatch a Metric Filter and Alarm to filter on events by a root user. Have the Alarm send a notification.
Which of the following states are valid for a CloudWatch Alarm? (Choose 3)
- OK
- Insufficient data
- Non-compliant
- Alarm
OK
Insufficient Data
Alarm
What service would you set-up to receive emails about Cloudwatch events?
SNS Simple Notification System
Amazon SNS is a managed messaging service that lets you to decouple publishers from subscribers. This is useful for system-to-system messaging for microservices, distributed architectures, and serverless applications
How can you access Amazon CloudWatch?
- API
_ Command-Line Interface
- SDK
- AWS Management Console
What service helps you by collecting important metrics from a running EC2 instance?
Amazon CloudWatch
What service allows you to better monitor the status of multiple CloudWatch metrics?
CloudWatch Dashboard
Which of the following are valid targets for a CloudWatch rule? (Choose 2)
A. Send a message to an SNS Topic
B. Invoke Lambda
C. Delete an IAM user
A. Send a message to an SNS Topic
B. Invoke Lambda
Where can you create CloudWatch Rules?
In Cloudwatch, Under Events, Select Rules, Create Rule
CloudTrail is for auditing, CloudWatch is for _________
Performance
What can a startup company with limited revenue growth do to be notified when the monthly bill approaches $2000?
Setup a CloudWatch billing alarm that triggers an SNS notification to their email address
Which of the following is a valid Metric Filter Pattern?
A. { $.eventType = "UpdateTrail" }
B. SELECT * FROM $.eventType,
Cevent[user->{lastname.firstname}]
A. { $.eventType = "UpdateTrail" }
True or False. CloudTrail will automatically send its logs to CloudWatch whenever you create a trail.
False. You need to configure any Trail to send its logs to a CloudWatch log group. Further information:
When creating a Cloudwatch rule, what does adding a target do?
Select Target to invoke when an event matches your Event Pattern or when schedule is triggered. Example use SNS to send an email
You would like to collect custom metrics from a production application every 1 minute. What type of monitoring should you use?
CloudWatch with detailed monitoring
What allows you to monitor and collect logs from your Amazon EC2 Instance?
Cloudwatch Logs
CloudWatch groups logs it collects into a Log Group. Inside a Log Group, CloudWatch further groups logs into sequences of events. What are these called?
Log Streams
Someone in your organization is complaining that they get too many notifications for AuthorizationFailures. What could you do to decrease the amount of emails, but still be alerted if lots of authorization failures occur?
Increase the threshold of the alarm from AuthorizationFailureCount >= 1.
JSON Format
What types of monitoring can Amazon CloudWatch be used for? (choose 2)
A. Data Center
B. API Access
C. Application Performance
D. Operational Health
E. Infrastructure
C. Application Performance
D. Operational Health
A company is running a large web application that needs to be available all the time. They want to ensure that all servers are working perfectly. One of the aspects to consider monitoring is CPU usage. The application tends to slow down when CPU usage is greater than 60%. How can they track down when CPU usage goes above 60% for any of the EC2 Instances?
CloudWatch Alarms