CCP AWS Management and Monitoring Tools 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which AWS service provides a unified dashboard for monitoring the performance and health of AWS resources and applications?
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- Amazon CloudWatch (Correct answer)
- AWS Systems Manager
Correct answer: Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing a unified view of AWS resource performance.
Question 2: What does AWS Config do?
- It monitors application performance metrics
- It tracks and records configuration changes to AWS resources and evaluates compliance against desired configurations (Correct answer)
- It provides centralized logging for applications
- It manages EC2 instance fleets
Correct answer: It tracks and records configuration changes to AWS resources and evaluates compliance against desired configurations
AWS Config continuously records AWS resource configurations and changes, enabling you to audit compliance, analyze changes, and troubleshoot issues.
Question 3: Which AWS tool provides best practice recommendations across cost, security, performance, fault tolerance, and service limits?
- AWS Config
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Trusted Advisor (Correct answer)
- AWS Well-Architected Tool
Correct answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations to help provision resources following AWS best practices.
Question 4: What is AWS CloudFormation used for?
- Monitoring application performance
- Provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure using code (Infrastructure as Code) (Correct answer)
- Scanning for security vulnerabilities
- Managing user access permissions
Correct answer: Provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure using code (Infrastructure as Code)
AWS CloudFormation allows you to model, provision, and manage AWS resources using templates, enabling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
Question 5: What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
- A tool for automatically optimizing EC2 instance sizes
- A set of best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective cloud systems (Correct answer)
- A managed service for deploying applications
- A compliance certification program
Correct answer: A set of best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective cloud systems
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent set of best practices across six pillars to help evaluate architectures and implement scalable cloud designs.
Question 6: Which AWS service enables you to create, manage, and deploy APIs at any scale?
- AWS AppSync
- Amazon API Gateway (Correct answer)
- AWS Direct Connect
- Amazon Route 53
Correct answer: Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service for creating, publishing, and managing RESTful and WebSocket APIs at any scale.
CCP AWS Management and Monitoring Tools 1
Which AWS service provides a unified dashboard for monitoring the performance and health of AWS resources and applications?