Section 14 - Cloud Monitoring Flashcards

1
Q

Which of these is NOT an available metric for EC2 instances:
CPU utilization
Status checks
Network
Ram

A

Ram

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2
Q

What are example of important metrics (choose three)
EC2 instances
Communication
Billing
Runtime
Service Limits

A

EC2 instances
Billing
Service Limits

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3
Q

What are example of important metrics (choose three)
EC2 instances
Communication
EBS volumes
Runtime
S3 buckets

A

EC2 instances
EBS volumes
S3 buckets

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4
Q

CloudWatch Billing alarm can be created
- for all regions
- in one region only (which)

A

in one region only / us-east-1

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5
Q

In CloudWatch, what can you collect that’s related to all of the following services:
Elastic Beanstalk
ECS
AWS
CloudTrail
CloudWatch
Route53

A

logs

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6
Q

By default, logs (are/are not) sent from EC2 to CloudWatch

A

are not

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7
Q

How you do you sent log files from an EC2 instance to CloudWatch?

They are sent automatically, by default
By running a CloudWatch agent

A

By running a CloudWatch agent

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8
Q

What was the old name for Amazon EventBridge?

A

CloudWatch Events

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9
Q

What is a use case for EventBridge?

A

cron jobs

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10
Q

What two types of cron jobs could you create for EventBridge?

A

event based or timed based

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11
Q

What are the three types of EventBridge event busses (choose three)?

Partner Event Bus
Divorced Event Bus
Existential Event Bus
Default Event Bus
Custom Event Bus

A

Partner, Default, and Custom

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12
Q

What type of EventBridge event bus happens from within AWS or per your schedule?

A

default event bus

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13
Q

What type of EventBridge event bus are from outside of your account, via partners with AWS?

A

partner event bus

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14
Q

What type of EventBridge event bus are from your own custom applications?

A

custom event bus

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15
Q

A service that provides governance, compliance and audit for your AWS account

A

AWS CloudTrail

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16
Q

True or False. CloudTrail is enabled by default whenever you use an account.

A

True

17
Q

This service provides a history of events / API calls made with your AWS account, such as Console, SDK, CLI, or AWS Services

A

AWS CloudTrail

18
Q

What two locations can CloudTrail logs be sent?

A

AWS CloudWatch and S3

19
Q

A trail in CloudTrail can be applied to All Regions or limited to a specific region. Which option is the default?

A

All regions.

20
Q

If an exam question refers to an “api that needs to be looked up”, which service would be the right answer?

A

AWS CloudTrail

21
Q

If an exam question refers to an “a user has deleted something, where can we know what has been deleted and when?”, which service would be the right answer?

A

AWS CloudTrail

22
Q

AWS ____ makes it easy for developers to analyze the behavior of their production, distributed applications with end-to-end tracing capabilities. You can use ____ to identify performance bottlenecks, edge case errors, and other hard to detect issues. ____ supports applications, either in development or in production, of any type or size, from simple asynchronous event calls and three-tier web applications to complex distributed applications built using a microservices architecture. This enables developers to quickly find and address problems in their applications and improve the experience for end users of their applications.

A

X-Ray

23
Q

A machine learning powered service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations

A

CodeGuru

24
Q

1 - CodeGuru Reviewer
2 - CodeGuru Profiler

A - automated code reviews for static code analysis (development)
B - visibility/recommendations about application performance during runtime (production)

A

1 - A
2 - B

25
Q

CodeGuru (Reviewer/Profiler) is used when the application is in production

A

CodeGuru Profiler

26
Q

What is the quickest way to get to the AWS Health Dashboard?

A

click the “bell” icon in the upper right of the screen and then from the dropdown menu, click “event logs”

27
Q

What are the two parts to the AWS Health Dashboard (choose two)
Service History
Daily Health log
Weekly Health log
AWS Health Dashboard - Your Account

A

Service History
Your accounts

28
Q

1 - Service History
2 - AWS Health Dashboard - Your Account

A - For services that may affect you / provides proactive notification to help plan for scheduled activities

B - Shows all regions, all services, has an RSS feed - is just general health info

A

1 - B
2 - A

29
Q

Cloud Watch
1 - Metrics
2 - Alarms
3 - Logs
4 - Events (or EventBridge)

A - collect log files from EC2 instances, server, Lambda functions
B - reacts to events in AWS, or trigger a rule on a schedule
C - automate notification, perform EC2 action, notify to SNS based on metric
D - monitor the performance of AWS services and billing metrics

A

1 - D
2 - C
3 - A
4 - B

30
Q

Which CloudWatch feature would you use to trigger notifications when a metric reaches a threshold you specify?
CloudWatch Events
CloudWatch Logs
CloudWatch Alarms
CloudWatch Triggers

A

CloudWatch Alarms

31
Q

This tool is a developer tool that’s powered by machine learning.

A

CodeGuru

32
Q

You need to set up metrics monitoring for every service in AWS. Which service would you use?
CloudTrail
X-Ray
CloudWatch
Personal Health Dashboard

A

CloudWatch

33
Q

Which AWS service automatically analyzes code and provides performance recommendations?
X-Ray
CodePipeline
CodeGuru

A

CodeGuru

34
Q

How would you describe Amazon CloudWatch logs?

A - A single, highly scalable service that centralizes the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services that you use

B - A service that provides a real-time stream of system events that describe changes in AWS resources

C - A service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers

D - A service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account

A

A