X-Ray Tracing Quiz

5 questions • Pass: 70% • +25 pts

Quiz covering Observability

X-Ray Tracing Quiz

5 questions | Pass: 70% | Earn 25 points

Questions in this quiz

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  1. 1

    What is the primary purpose of AWS X-Ray in a distributed application?

  2. 2

    In AWS X-Ray, what is a 'Trace' composed of?

  3. 3

    If you want to track a downstream call to an external HTTP API that is not instrumented with the X-Ray SDK, what should you use?

  4. 4

    Which component is responsible for receiving trace data from the X-Ray SDK and buffering it before sending it to the AWS X-Ray service?

  5. 5

    You notice that your X-Ray traces are missing data for a specific microservice. You have verified the SDK is installed, but the trace is 'broken' between the load balancer and the backend service. What is the most likely cause?