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Cloud Monitoring Flashcards

1
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What is Amazon CloudWatch Metrics?

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Provides metrics for every service in AWS

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What is a CloudWatch dashboard of metrics?

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So you can see metrics of many services at once

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Do metrics in Amazon CloudWatch have timestamps?

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Yes

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What is Amazon CloudWatch Alarms?

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Used to trigger actions for any metric

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What are some alarms actions for Amazon CloudWatch?

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Auto Scaling, EC2 Actions (stop, terminate, reboot, recover), SNS notifications

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What is Amazon CloudWatch Logs?

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Let’s you see logs from services in real time and can hold logs for a period of time

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What is Amazon CloudWatch Events?

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  1. Schedule : cron jobs (scheduled scripts)
  2. Event Pattern: Event rules to react to a service doing something
  3. Trigger Lambda functions, send SQS/SNS messages
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What is Amazon EventBridge?

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The next evolution of CloudWatch Events.

  1. Default event bus (cloud watch events)
  2. Partner event bus (receive events from SaaS service/applications)
  3. Custom event bus (for your own applications)
  4. Schema Registry (model event schema)
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What is AWS CloudTrail?

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Provides governance, compliance, and audit for you AWS account. Get a history of events / API calls made within your AWS account.

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Is AWS CloudTrail enabled by default?

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Yes

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If a resource is deleted in AWS where should you first investigate?

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AWS CloudTrail

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What are the CloudTrail Events?

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  1. Management Events: operations performed on resources in your AWS account
  2. Data events: such as GetObject and DeleteObject in S3
  3. Insights: enable to detect unusual activity
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What is AWS X-Ray?

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Visual analysis of applications

  1. Troubleshoot performance (bottlenecks)
  2. Understand dependencies in micro-service architecture
  3. Pinpoint service issues
  4. Review request behavior
  5. Find errors and exceptions
  6. Etc.
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What is Amazon CodeGuru?

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A ML-powered service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations

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What are the two functionalities of Amazon CodeGuru?

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  1. CodeGuru Reviewer: automated code reviews for static code analysis (development)
  2. CodeGuru Profiler: visibility/recommendations about application performance during runtime (production)
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16
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What is AWS Status - Service Health Dashboard?

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Shows all regions, all services health

17
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What is AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you. Shows relevant and timely information. Proactively lets you know about scheduled things so you can plan

18
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Which CloudWatch feature would you use to trigger notifications when a metric reaches a threshold you specify?

  1. CloudWatch Events
  2. CloudWatch Logs
  3. CloudWatch Alarms
  4. CloudWatch Triggers
A

CloudWatch Alarms

19
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Which AWS service helps developers analyze and debug production as well as distributed applications?

  1. CloudWatch
  2. X-Ray
  3. Service Health Dashboard
  4. CloudTrail
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X-Ray

20
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Which AWS service provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you?

  1. Service Health Dashboard
  2. CloudWatch
  3. Personal Health Dashboard
  4. CloudTrail
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Personal Health Dashboard

21
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You need to setup metrics monitoring for every service in AWS. Which service would you use?

  1. CloudTrail
  2. X-Ray
  3. CloudWatch
  4. Personal Health Dashboard
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CloudWatch

22
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Which cloud monitoring feature can you use to detect unusual activity in your account such as inaccurate resource provisioning or hitting service limits?

  1. CloudWatch Metrics
  2. CloudWatch Logs
  3. CloudTrail Insights
  4. X-ray
A

CloudTrail Insights

23
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Which service allows you to inspect, audit, and record events and API calls made within your AWS account?

  1. X-Ray
  2. CloudWatch
  3. CloudTrail
A

CloudTrail

24
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How would you describe Amazon CloudWatch Logs?

  1. A single, highly scalable service that centralizes the logs from all your systems, applications, and AWS services that you use
  2. A service that provides a real-time stream of system events that describe changes in AWS resources
  3. A service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account
  4. A service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers
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A single, highly scalable service that centralizes the logs from all your systems, applications, and AWS services that you use

25
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If a resource is deleted in AWS, which service should you use to investigate first?

  1. CloudTrail
  2. CloudWatch Logs
  3. Personal Health Dashboard
A

CloudTrail

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