AWS AWS Monitoring & Operations 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides distributed tracing so you can analyze and debug the performance of microservices applications?
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS X-Ray (Correct answer)
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
Correct answer: AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray collects data about requests as they travel through your application and provides tools to visualize and troubleshoot latency.
Question 2: What is the finest granularity available for a CloudWatch high-resolution custom metric?
- 60 seconds
- 30 seconds
- 10 seconds
- 1 second (Correct answer)
Correct answer: 1 second
CloudWatch high-resolution custom metrics can be published at 1-second granularity, enabling near-real-time monitoring.
Question 3: Which AWS service provides a central console to manage and operate nodes both in AWS and on-premises?
- AWS OpsWorks
- AWS Systems Manager (Correct answer)
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS Organizations
Correct answer: AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager gives you a unified interface to view operational data and automate tasks across AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
Question 4: Which AWS service aggregates security findings from multiple AWS services and third-party tools into a single dashboard?
- Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS Security Hub (Correct answer)
- Amazon Macie
- AWS Config
Correct answer: AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub provides a comprehensive view of security alerts and compliance status across AWS accounts by aggregating findings.
Question 5: Which CloudWatch feature uses machine learning to automatically detect anomalies in metric data without requiring manual threshold configuration?
- CloudWatch Alarms
- CloudWatch Anomaly Detection (Correct answer)
- CloudWatch Metrics Insights
- CloudWatch Contributor Insights
Correct answer: CloudWatch Anomaly Detection
CloudWatch Anomaly Detection applies machine learning to metrics to create a model of expected values and flag deviations automatically.
Question 6: Which CloudWatch feature lets you run SQL-like queries against your log data to quickly find operational issues?
- CloudWatch Metric Filters
- CloudWatch Logs Insights (Correct answer)
- CloudWatch Contributor Insights
- CloudWatch Synthetics
Correct answer: CloudWatch Logs Insights
CloudWatch Logs Insights provides an interactive query language to search and analyze log data with aggregations, filters, and visualization.
AWS AWS Monitoring & Operations 2
Which AWS service provides distributed tracing so you can analyze and debug the performance of microservices applications?