Exam Simulator: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

You are working as a site reliability engineer (SRE) for a large US-based IT company. You have been tasked to find an automated way to monitor and resolve issues with their on-demand EC2 instances.

Which of the following options can be used to automatically monitor the EC2 instances and notify you for any possible incident?

You are developing a service marketplace platform in which people buy and sell online services. The project manager instructed you that the API calls on the AWS resources should be monitored and recorded. You used CloudTrail to help you in compliance, operational, and risk auditing of your AWS account. The project manager asked you where does CloudTrail store all of the logs?

A company has just launched a gamification feature on its mobile app that stores the score of the players to a DynamoDB table. You have been tasked to design a solution to trigger a Lambda function whenever the LeaderBoard attribute of the PlayerScore table is updated. The Lambda function would post a congratulatory message on a social media network.

What’s the best solution that can be implemented to trigger the Lambda function on specific events?

You have been tasked to create a CloudWatch alarm based on a static threshold. Sort the steps from the top (first step) to the bottom (last step) to complete the task using the console.

The previous AWS SysOps administrator in the Acme Corporation was using Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, as he was able to monitor the resources in a single view, even those resources that are spread across different Regions. Now, you took over the position as AWS SysOps administrator and you are responsible to create a new CloudWatch dashboard using the console.

Which of the following steps is NOT required to create the new CloudWatch dashboard?

You are working for an eCommerce startup as a SysOps Administrator. You have been tasked to implement a solution so each time the inventory level of a specific product collection reaches the threshold of out-of-stock, only then to get notified instantly for this event.

Which AWS service will you use to accomplish this requirement?

You are developing a web app for restaurant tables reservation and you need a managed service to send a text message to users every time a reservation is confirmed.

Which AWS service will you use to achieve this?

You have been hired to create an Amazon SNS topic for an e-commerce website that works with multiple services that require to broadcast the messages such as checkout and fulfillment systems.

Sort the steps from the top (first step) to the bottom (last step) to create a topic for your producer system using the console.

Which AWS service will you use to configure alarm actions to stop, start, or terminate Amazon EC2 instances when certain criteria are met?

Which of the following recommendations is NOT considered a best practice for using AWS CloudFormation more effectively and securely throughout its entire workflow?

Your new application is hosted in an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances. To improve the monitoring process, you have to configure it to keep the average aggregate CPU utilization of your Auto Scaling group at 50 percent. This should be done by specifying the scaling metrics and threshold values for the CloudWatch alarms that trigger the scaling process.

Which of the following scaling policy type you should use?

A SysOps Administrator creates a CloudWatch Events rule to get notified for AWS Health events. Upon reviewing an account he notices the following rule. Which of the following actions does the rule perform?

A company uses EventBridge as it delivers a stream of real-time data from their own applications, and AWS services and routes that data to targets such as AWS Lambda. Also, they can set up routing rules to determine where to send their data to build application architectures. Now, the company needs to configure the EventBridge with more targets.

Which of the following is NOT a target for EventBridge?

A company is creating an EventBridge rule that triggers on an AWS API Call Using AWS CloudTrail. After configuring the Service provider and the Service name of the service that emits the event, now they are configuring the Event type.

Which of the following Event type should they choose to create the EventBridge rule?

A company troubleshoots problems with the CloudWatch agent. They updated their agent configuration but don’t see the new metrics or logs in the CloudWatch console. What action should they perform to troubleshoot the issue?