What type of information is recorded in an AWS CloudTrail log?

Application performance metrics

API activity in your AWS account

Operating system logs from EC2 instances

A company runs a stateful application on Amazon EKS. They want to monitor the number of active connections to the application and create an alarm when it exceeds a threshold. The application exposes a Prometheus endpoint. What should they do?

Deploy the CloudWatch agent as a DaemonSet with Prometheus scraping enabled to collect the metric and publish it to CloudWatch. Then create an alarm on the metric.

Use the Kubernetes Metrics Server to collect the metric and publish it to CloudWatch.

Use Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to scrape the endpoint and create a CloudWatch alarm on the metric in AMP.

Enable CloudTrail to capture the application's API calls and create a metric filter for active connections.

Which of the following can be configured as an action for a CloudWatch alarm?

Sending a notification to an Amazon SNS topic

When troubleshooting an EventBridge rule that is not triggering on a CloudWatch alarm state change, which of the following should you check?

Whether the alarm is using a composite alarm

Whether the event pattern matches the alarm state change event

Whether the alarm is in the same VPC as the EventBridge rule

Whether the alarm has an SNS topic configured

A company runs a batch processing application on EC2 instances. The application writes a log file with lines like 'Job completed successfully' or 'Job failed'. The operations team wants to monitor the number of failed jobs and create an alarm when the count exceeds 5 in 10 minutes. What should they do?

Create a CloudWatch alarm on the 'CPUUtilization' metric to infer job failures.

Install the CloudWatch agent, configure it to collect the log file, create a metric filter for 'Job failed', and create an alarm on that metric.

Use CloudTrail to capture the application logs and create a metric filter for 'Job failed'.

Use Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to collect the logs and create an alarm.

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Domain 1Objective 1

Task 1.1: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters by Using AWS Monitoring and Logging Services. SOA-C03 Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Content Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization domain, which makes up ~24% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 130-minute exam (~50–85 total, ~12–20 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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11concepts

11 Concepts in This Objective

CloudWatch Metrics and Alarms Fundamentals
CloudTrail Logging and Analysis
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Integration
CloudWatch Agent Installation and Configuration
CloudWatch Agent for ECS and EKS
CloudWatch Alarms Configuration and Actions
Composite Alarms and Troubleshooting
CloudWatch Dashboards Creation and Sharing
Cross-Account and Cross-Region Dashboards
Amazon SNS Notifications for Alarms
EventBridge Integration for Alarm Actions

Questions 16–20

16foundation · easy
What type of information is recorded in an AWS CloudTrail log?
Select an answer first
17application · medium
A company runs a stateful application on Amazon EKS. They want to monitor the number of active connections to the application and create an alarm when it exceeds a threshold. The application exposes a Prometheus endpoint. What should they do?
Select an answer first
18foundation · easy
Which of the following can be configured as an action for a CloudWatch alarm?
Select an answer first
19foundation · easy
When troubleshooting an EventBridge rule that is not triggering on a CloudWatch alarm state change, which of the following should you check?
Select an answer first
20application · medium
A company runs a batch processing application on EC2 instances. The application writes a log file with lines like 'Job completed successfully' or 'Job failed'. The operations team wants to monitor the number of failed jobs and create an alarm when the count exceeds 5 in 10 minutes. What should they do?
Select an answer first

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