A company's operations team manually applies security patches to a fleet of 200 Amazon EC2 instances every month. The process is error-prone and often leaves instances out of compliance. The team wants to automate patching while maintaining control over maintenance windows. What should the team do?

Use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager with a maintenance window to automate patching.

Use AWS Config managed rules to automatically patch instances that are non-compliant.

Enable auto recovery on the EC2 instances and rely on replacing instances from a patched AMI.

Create an AWS Lambda function that runs on a schedule and installs patches via SSH.

A company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The operations team wants to improve observability by correlating metrics, logs, and traces. They currently use CloudWatch for metrics and logs, but they do not have tracing. They want to identify performance bottlenecks across the application. What should the team do?

Enable AWS X-Ray and use CloudWatch Logs to store trace data.

Use AWS CloudTrail to trace API calls and correlate with CloudWatch metrics.

Use AWS X-Ray for tracing and CloudWatch for metrics and logs, then use CloudWatch ServiceLens to correlate them.

Use AWS Config to track configuration changes and correlate with CloudWatch metrics.

A company runs a production environment with a mix of EC2 instances and on-premises servers. The operations team wants to automate the patching of both environments using AWS Systems Manager. The on-premises servers are not currently managed by Systems Manager. What should the team do to automate patching for both environments?

Use AWS Config to patch the on-premises servers.

Use AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager only for EC2 instances and use a separate tool for on-premises servers.

Use AWS OpsWorks to manage both environments.

Install the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) on the on-premises servers and register them as managed instances.

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Which AWS service is primarily used to collect and monitor metrics, logs, and set alarms for AWS resources?
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A company's operations team manually applies security patches to a fleet of 200 Amazon EC2 instances every month. The process is error-prone and often leaves instances out of compliance. The team wants to automate patching while maintaining control over maintenance windows. What should the team do?
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A company runs a multi-tier application on AWS. The operations team wants to improve observability by correlating metrics, logs, and traces. They currently use CloudWatch for metrics and logs, but they do not have tracing. They want to identify performance bottlenecks across the application. What should the team do?
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9expert · hard
A company runs a production environment with a mix of EC2 instances and on-premises servers. The operations team wants to automate the patching of both environments using AWS Systems Manager. The on-premises servers are not currently managed by Systems Manager. What should the team do to automate patching for both environments?
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Which AWS service is used to trace requests as they travel through an application to identify performance bottlenecks and errors?
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Which AWS service is primarily used to collect and monitor metrics, logs, and set alarms for AWS resources?

A company's operations team manually applies security patches to a fleet of 200 Amazon EC2 instances every month. The process is error-prone and often leaves instances out of compliance. The team wants to automate patching while maintaining control over maintenance windows. What should the team do?

Which AWS service is used to trace requests as they travel through an application to identify performance bottlenecks and errors?

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