CloudWatch Alarms and SNS Integration Quiz

5 questions • Pass: 70% • +25 pts

Quiz covering CloudWatch Security Monitoring

CloudWatch Alarms and SNS Integration Quiz

5 questions | Pass: 70% | Earn 25 points

Questions in this quiz

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  1. 1

    Which AWS service is primary used to send notifications when a CloudWatch Alarm transitions into an 'ALARM' state?

  2. 2

    You have a CloudWatch Alarm monitoring CPU utilization. You want to ensure that notifications are only sent if the CPU remains above the threshold for 3 consecutive evaluation periods. Which setting should you configure?

  3. 3

    A security engineer needs to trigger a Lambda function automatically whenever a CloudWatch Alarm enters the 'ALARM' state. What is the most direct way to achieve this using CloudWatch?

  4. 4

    You have an alarm that monitors a custom metric for failed login attempts. The alarm is currently in the 'INSUFFICIENT_DATA' state. What does this mean?

  5. 5

    You are designing a high-availability alerting system. You have a CloudWatch Alarm that triggers an SNS topic. If the SNS topic is configured with a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queue as a subscriber, what is a critical constraint you must be aware of?