AWS Monitoring

Question 1

Used to monitor applications and systems using log data.

Answer 1

CloudWatch Logs

Question 2

Fundamental concept in CloudWatch that represent time-ordered set of data points that are published to CloudWatch

Answer 2

CloudWatch Metrics

Question 3

Near Real Time stream of system alerts that describe changes in AWS resources

Answer 3

CloudWatch Events

Question 4

Use to monitor API activity on your account

Answer 4

CloudTrail Trails

Question 5

How would you react to medium to high severity events generated from GuardDuty

Answer 5

Use a cloudwatch events rule

Question 6

Given multiple organizations, how can you ensure CloudTrail is configured for all orgs and not changeable by the suborgs

Answer 6

Create a cloudTrial from within the mgt account with the organizations trails option enabled

Question 7

Lambda monitoring functions using what metrics

Answer 7

Total number of requests

Latency per request

Question 8

Cloud trail event types

Answer 8

Management events — control plane

Data events — data plane

Question 9

Do you need to create Cloud Trail trails in each region?

Answer 9

No.. you can create 1 and apply to all regions