A startup is moving to the cloud and wants to implement security monitoring without managing the underlying infrastructure. They need a solution that automatically collects logs and metrics from cloud services, provides dashboards, and sends alerts. Which approach best fits their requirement?

Use the cloud provider's native monitoring service

Install agents on every VM and use a third-party tool

Use a spreadsheet to track security events

Deploy a self-managed ELK stack on VMs

A company uses Google Cloud and wants to aggregate logs from Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Functions into a single place for security analysis. They also need to export these logs to a data warehouse for long-term retention and advanced analytics. Which two services should they use together?

Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Pub/Sub

Cloud Audit Logs and Cloud Storage

What is the purpose of setting a threshold in a cloud-native monitoring alert?

To limit the number of users who can view the alert

To define the condition that triggers an alert when a metric or log value crosses a specified limit

To encrypt the alert notification

To determine the storage duration of the alert data

A company uses AWS with EC2 instances, an RDS database, and an Application Load Balancer. The security team needs a single view of all API activity across these services, including who made changes and when, to support incident investigations. Which data source should be the primary focus for this requirement?

AWS Config configuration history

EC-CouncilCloud Security Essentials

Domain 6Objective 3

Cloud-Native Monitoring Solutions CSE Practice Questions (Page 4)

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16foundation · easy
What type of monitoring data is most useful for understanding the sequence of operations in a single user request that spans multiple microservices?
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17application · medium
A startup is moving to the cloud and wants to implement security monitoring without managing the underlying infrastructure. They need a solution that automatically collects logs and metrics from cloud services, provides dashboards, and sends alerts. Which approach best fits their requirement?
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18application · medium
A company uses Google Cloud and wants to aggregate logs from Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Functions into a single place for security analysis. They also need to export these logs to a data warehouse for long-term retention and advanced analytics. Which two services should they use together?
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19foundation · easy
What is the purpose of setting a threshold in a cloud-native monitoring alert?
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20application · medium
A company uses AWS with EC2 instances, an RDS database, and an Application Load Balancer. The security team needs a single view of all API activity across these services, including who made changes and when, to support incident investigations. Which data source should be the primary focus for this requirement?
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What type of monitoring data is most useful for understanding the sequence of operations in a single user request that spans multiple microservices?

A startup is moving to the cloud and wants to implement security monitoring without managing the underlying infrastructure. They need a solution that automatically collects logs and metrics from cloud services, provides dashboards, and sends alerts. Which approach best fits their requirement?

What is the purpose of setting a threshold in a cloud-native monitoring alert?

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