Task 1.1: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters by Using AWS Monitoring and Logging Services. SOA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6foundation · easy

   What is the primary purpose of a CloudWatch dashboard?

   • ATo visualize metrics and alarms in a customizable view
   • BTo send notifications when metrics breach thresholds
   • CTo store metric data for long-term retention
   • DTo automatically scale resources based on metric values
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2. 7foundation · easy

   Which of the following is a valid subscription endpoint for an Amazon SNS topic?

   • AA CloudWatch dashboard
   • BAn email address
   • CAn S3 bucket
   • DAn EC2 instance ID
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4. 8foundation · easy

   What is the purpose of cross-account observability in CloudWatch?

   • ATo create a single VPC that spans multiple accounts
   • BTo automatically share IAM permissions between accounts
   • CTo replicate data across AWS Regions for disaster recovery
   • DTo view metrics and logs from multiple AWS accounts in a single dashboard
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5. 9foundation · easy

   In Amazon ECS, how is the CloudWatch agent typically run to collect metrics from containerized workloads?

   • AAs an AWS Fargate service
   • BAs a sidecar container in each task
   • CAs a standalone EC2 instance
   • DAs a Lambda function that polls ECS APIs
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6. 10application · medium

   A company runs a microservices application on Amazon ECS with Fargate. They want to collect custom metrics from each container and send them to CloudWatch, and also create an alarm if the number of 5xx responses exceeds a threshold. What should they do?

   • ARun the CloudWatch agent as a sidecar container in each task, configure it to collect metrics from the application, and publish them to CloudWatch. Then create an alarm on the custom metric.
   • BUse the ECS service's built-in 'CPUUtilization' metric to infer 5xx errors, and create an alarm on that metric.
   • CUse Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to collect metrics from ECS and create CloudWatch alarms on the metrics.
   • DEnable CloudTrail data events for ECS and create a metric filter for '5xx' responses.
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