Monitoring and analytics

Question 1

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Answer 1

Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.

Question 2

What can you do with Amazon CloudWatch, what can you set up?

Answer 2

With CloudWatch, you can create alarms(opens in a new tab) that automatically perform actions if the value of your metric has gone above or below a predefined threshold.

Question 3

What feature of Amazon CloudWatch enables you to access all metrics for your resources from a single location?

Answer 3

The CloudWatch dashboard(opens in a new tab) feature enables you to access all the metrics for your resources from a single location. For example, you can use a CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the CPU utilization of an Amazon EC2 instance, the total number of requests made to an Amazon S3 bucket, and more. You can even customize separate dashboards for different business purposes, applications, or resources.

Question 4

Describe AWS CloudTrail

Answer 4

Recall that you can use API calls to provision, manage, and configure your AWS resources. With CloudTrail, you can view a complete history of user activity and API calls for your applications and resources.

Question 5

What is CloudTrail Insights ?

Answer 5

Optional feature that allows CloudTrail to automatically detect unusual API activities in your AWS account.

Question 6

Which tasks can you perform using AWS CloudTrail? (Select TWO.)

Monitor your AWS infrastructure and resources in real time
Track user activities and API requests throughout your AWS infrastructure
View metrics and graphs to monitor the performance of resources
Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting
Configure automatic actions and alerts in response to metrics

Answer 6

Track user activities and API requests throughout your AWS infrastructure
Filter logs to assist with operational analysis and troubleshooting

Question 7

What does AWS Trusted Advisor let you inspect?

Answer 7

AWS Trusted Advisor(opens in a new tab) is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.

Question 8

Trusted Advisor compares its findings in five categories, which are they?

Answer 8

Trusted Advisor compares its findings to AWS best practices in five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. For the checks in each category, Trusted Advisor offers a list of recommended actions and additional resources to learn more about AWS best practices.

Question 9

Which actions can you perform using Amazon CloudWatch? (Select TWO.)

Monitor your resources’ utilization and performance
Receive real-time guidance for improving your AWS environment
Compare your infrastructure to AWS best practices in five categories
Access metrics from a single dashboard
Automatically detect unusual account activity

Answer 9

Monitor your resources’ utilization and performance
Access metrics from a single dashboard

Question 10

Which service enables you to review the security of your Amazon S3 buckets by checking for open access permissions?

Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon GuardDuty

Answer 10

AWS Trusted Advisor