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On the Job
Watchful Services
Head in the Clouds
(CloudWatch)
Tracking the Trail
(CloudTrail)
Wisdom of the Cloud People
(Trusted Advisors)
Potpourri
200

Which service can be used to track the CPU usage of an EC2 instance?

  1. Amazon CloudFront

  2. Amazon CloudTrail 

  3. Amazon CloudFormation

  4. Amazon CloudWatch

4. Amazon CloudWatch

200

Which of the following are primary benefits of CloudWatch? (Choose 3)

  1. Taking action based on alarms and triggers that can be created

  2. Access your data from a single platform

  3. CloudWatch provides serverless computing. Meaning that CloudWatch runs your custom code without need for an EC2 instance.

  4. It provides monitoring insights into your AWS resources.

1. Taking action based on alarms and triggers that can be created

2. Access your data from a single platform

4. It provides monitoring insights into your AWS resources.

200

Which of the following is a key benefit of using AWS CloudTrail?

A) Automated software patching
B) Enhanced security through detailed auditing
C) Automatic scaling of resources
D) Reduced data transfer costs

B) Enhanced security through detailed auditing

200

Which of the following is NOT one of the five AWS Trusted Advisor categories?

  1. Cost Optimization

  2. Performance

  3. Security

  4. Application transformation

4. Application transformation

200

Which AWS service can assist with providing recommended actions on cost optimization?

  1. Amazon CloudWatch Events

  2. AWS Artifact

  3. AWS Inspector

  4. AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor

400

Which service records API activity on your account and delivers log files to an Amazon S3 bucket?

  1. Amazon CloudTrail

  2. Amazon CloudWatch Logs

  3. Amazon CloudWatch

  4. Amazon S3 Event Notifications

Amazon CloudTrail

400

Which of these options are ways you can use CloudWatch? (Choose 3)

  1. DNS connection with user

  2. Automated alarm actions

  3. SNS notifications

  4. Event driven corrective actions

2. Automated alarm actions

3. SNS notifications

4. Event driven corrective actions

400

Where are CloudTrail logs stored?

  1. RDS

  2. S3

  3. Route Table

  4. DynamoDB

2. S3

400

Which categories are included in AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard? (Select TWO)

  1. Reliability

  2. Performance

  3. Scalability

  4. Elasticity

  5. Fault tolerance

2. Performance

5. Fault Tolerance

400

What are three uses of CloudWatch? (Select THREE)

  1. Performance monitoring

  2. Recoding API calls.

  3. Gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization.

  4. Real time application and system monitoring.

  5. Used for compliance auditing.

1. Performance monitoring

3. Gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization.

4. Real time application and system monitoring.

600

You want to get a notification when CPU Utilization on an EC2 instance goes above 80%. Which of the following is the best method to accomplish that?

  1. Create a CloudWatch Alarm that will trigger when CPU Utilization goes above 80% and have that alarm trigger a CloudWatch topic to send you a message.

  2. Create a CloudWatch Alarm that will trigger when CPU Utilization goes above 80% and have that alarm trigger an SNS topic to send you a message.

  3. Create a billing alarm to trigger when CPU Utilization goes above 80%.

  4. None of these is a correct method.

2. Create a CloudWatch Alarm that will trigger when CPU Utilization goes above 80% and have that alarm trigger an SNS topic to send you a message.

600

What are two of the benefits of using AWS CloudWatch? (Select TWO)

  1. You may use AWS CloudWatch to monitor your Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon RDS DB instances, among other AWS resources, to gain valuable insights into their efficiency and effectiveness.

  2. CloudWatch provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.

  3. CloudWatch allows you to configure alarms with instantaneous responses to changes in your AWS infrastructure.

  4. CloudWatch allows you to investigate how resources were changed in your AWS account.

  5. CloudWatch reduces latency when delivering content to users.

1. You may use AWS CloudWatch to monitor your Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EC2 instances, and Amazon RDS DB instances, among other AWS resources, to gain valuable insights into their efficiency and effectiveness.

3. CloudWatch allows you to configure alarms with instantaneous responses to changes in your AWS infrastructure.

600

Which tasks can you perform using AWS CloudTrail? (Select TWO)

  1. Monitor your AWS infrastructure and resources in real time

  2. Track user activities and API request throughout your AWS infrastructure

  3. View metrics and graphs to monitor the performance of resources

  4. Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting

  5. Configure automatic actions and alerts in response to metrics

2. Track user activities and API request throughout your AWS infrastructure

4. Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting

600

Which two are AWS Trusted Advisor categories? (Select TWO)

  1. Fault tolerance

  2. Analytics

  3. Security

  4. Reliability

  5. Logging

1. Fault tolerance

3. Security

600

Which service enables you to review the security of your Amazon S3 buckets by checking for open access permissions?

1. Amazon CloudWatch

2. AWS CloudTrail

3. AWS Trusted Advisor

4. Amazon GuardDuty

3. AWS Trusted Advisor

800

A manager needs to keep a check on their AWS spend. How can the manager setup alarms that notify them when their bill reaches a certain amount?

  1. By notifying AWS support

  2. Using AWS Trusted Advisor

  3. Using CloudTrail

  4. Using CloudWatch

Using CloudWatch

800

What is a CloudWatch metric?

  1. A record of an API call made for an account.

  2. A data point in a time series representing a particular measurement that occurs within your AWS environment.

  3. A way to measure cost efficiency

  4. It is used to filter events

2. A data point in a time series representing a particular measurement that occurs within your AWS environment.

800

What is a CloudTrail “trail”?

  1. It is one of the metrics displayed in the monitoring dashboard.

  2. A configuration which allows for delivery of CloudTrail events to an S3 bucket

  3. A configuration which allows for delivery of CloudTrail events with SNS

  4. There is no such thing as a CloudTrail “trail”

2. A configuration which allows for delivery of CloudTrail events to an S3 bucket

“Create a trail

A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to your Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the S3 bucket that you specify.”

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-workflow.html

800

What type of recommendation would AWS Trusted Advisor provide under the "Cost Optimization" category?

A) Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for AWS accounts
B) Deleting unused Elastic IP addresses to reduce costs
C) Setting up CloudWatch Alarms for EC2 instances
D) Implementing VPC peering connections for better network performance

B) Deleting unused Elastic IP addresses to reduce costs

800

S3 can publish events to what items? (Choose 3)

  1. SQS

  2. SNS Topic

  3. CloudWatch

  4. Lambda Functions

1. SQS

2. SNS Topic

4. Lambda Functions

1000

A company needs to monitor the read and write IOPS metrics for their AWS MySQL RDS instance and send real-time alerts to their Operations team. Which AWS services can accomplish this? (Select TWO)

  1. Trusted Advisor

  2. Amazon CloudWatch

  3. Amazon SQS

  4. Amazon SNS

2. Amazon CloudWatch

4. Amazon SNS

1000

How long do CloudWatch Logs store our metadata? 

  1. One week

  2. One month

  3. Three months

  4. Indefinitely by default, retention settings cannot be changed

  5. Indefinitely by default, retention settings can be changed

5. Indefinitely by default, retention settings can be changed

1000

Which two are not recorded by CloudTrail? (Select TWO)

  1. Request parameters

  2. Time of API call

  3. Performance metrics

  4. Identity of API caller

  5. Resource utilization

3. Performance metrics

5. Resource utilization

1000

In the context of the Trusted Advisor service limits check, what specific steps can be taken if a service limit is found to be close to its maximum threshold?

A) Reduce usage of the service and delete unnecessary resources
B) Submit a support ticket to increase the service limit
C) Switch to a different AWS region to avoid the limit
D) Enable auto-scaling to handle higher loads

B) Submit a support ticket to increase the service limit

1000

In Amazon CloudWatch, what is the primary purpose of a custom metric, and how can you implement it to monitor application-specific data?

A) To track predefined AWS service metrics; By enabling detailed monitoring
B) To log application errors; By integrating with AWS Lambda
C) To collect and monitor specific data points not covered by default metrics; By using the PutMetricData API to publish custom data points
D) To aggregate log data from multiple sources; By setting up CloudWatch Logs Insights

C) To collect and monitor specific data points not covered by default metrics; By using the PutMetricData API to publish custom data points