CloudWatch Dashboards and Alarms Quiz

Quiz covering Operational Excellence

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   Which AWS CloudWatch feature is best suited for visualizing multiple metrics across different AWS resources in a single, customizable view?

2. 2

   You need to trigger an SNS notification only when the average CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 80% for three consecutive 5-minute periods. Which feature do you configure?

3. 3

   If you have a CloudWatch Alarm in the 'INSUFFICIENT_DATA' state, what is the most likely cause?

4. 4

   You want to monitor the ratio of 5xx errors to total requests on an Application Load Balancer. Which feature allows you to perform this calculation within a CloudWatch graph?

5. 5

   A developer wants to create a 'Composite Alarm' that only triggers if both a high CPU alarm and a high memory alarm are active simultaneously. What is the benefit of using a Composite Alarm in this scenario?