Quiz - Monitoring and reporting Flashcards
Which of the following services can you use to monitor API calls in AWS?
- Which of the following services can you use to monitor API calls in AWS?
- Trusted Advisor
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
CloudTrail
Which of the following services is used for Monitoring AWS resources as well as the applications you run on AWS?
- X-Ray
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- Systems Manager
CloudWatch
Which service allows you to manage multiple AWS accounts at once, automate account creation, control access to AWS services and consolidate billing across multiple accounts?
- IAM
- AWS Billing Dashboard
- Trusted Advisor
- AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations
Which feature allows you to organize your AWS resources according to user defined tags?
- IAM Groups
- Security Groups
- AWS Organizations
- Resource Groups
Resource Groups
You have a number of application servers behind an Elastic Load Balancer and your security team is requesting that you provide detailed information for every request received by the load balancer, including client IP address and server responses. They would like these logs to be stored in an S3 bucket for future use. Which service can you use to provide this?
- Access Logs
- CloudTrail Logs
- Request Tracing
- CloudWatch metrics
Access Logs
Which of the following CloudWatch metrics can you use to determine the percentage of I/O operations delivered of the total IOPS provisioned for an EBS volume?
- VolumeThroughputPercentage
- IOThroughputPercentage
- ThroughputConsumedPercentage
- VolumeConsumedReadWriteOps
VolumeThroughputPercentage
For custom CloudWatch metrics, what is the minimum granularity in terms of time that CloudWatch can monitor.
- 5 minutes
- 3 minutes
- 2 minutes
- 1 minute
1 minute
You have a number of application servers behind an Application Load Balancer, which of the following is a way of monitoring HTTP requests from users to your application?
- CloudTrail Logs
- Access Logs
- Request Tracing
- CloudWatch metrics
Request Tracing
Which AWS service allows you to audit the configuration of your AWS environment, provides a resource inventory and can be used to notify you of configuration changes?
- Systems Manager
- CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- CloudWatch
AWS Config
Which of the following services can you use to monitor performance metrics in AWS?
- CloudWatch
- Trusted Advisor
- CloudTrail
- Systems Manager
CloudWatch
Your data analytics team wants to run a number of data processing jobs in parallel. All processed data will be written to a DynamoDB database and the developers have indicated that it doesn’t matter if the jobs stop and restart. You have a number of days to produce the data. Which is the most cost effective way to purchase compute instances to run these jobs?
- Use Dedicated Hosts
- Use On-Demand Instances
- Use Reserved Instances
- Use Spot Instances
Use Spot Instances
By default, EC2 monitoring carried out by CloudWatch monitors which metrics? (Choose 3)
- Memory
- CPU
- Status
- Disk
CPU
Status
Disk
You are running your mission critical application on a large number of On-Demand EC2 instances and your monthly bill is steadily growing each month. Your Head of Finance challenges the project to reduce infrastructure costs by 50% over the next 3 months. What can you suggest to optimise your AWS infrastructure costs?
- Consolidate your applications to fewer larger instances and terminate some of your instances
- Use Dedicated Hosts
- Use Spot Instances
- Used Reserved Instances
Used Reserved Instances
Which of the following CloudWatch metrics would be most useful in diagnosing a suspected I/O issue on your EBS volume?
- VolumeIdleTime
- VolumeQueueLength
- IOWaitTime
- SurgeQueueLength
VolumeQueueLength
For which of the following would you need to use a custom metric in order to monitor it in CloudWatch?
- Network
- Disk
- CPU
- Memory
Memory
