Amazon Monitoring & Audit Quiz

What does Amazon CloudWatch provide metrics for?

• Only for EC2 instances

• Only for S3 buckets

• Every service in AWS

• Only for RDS instances

What is a Metric in Amazon CloudWatch?

• A static configuration setting

• A variable to monitor (e.g., CPUUtilization, NetworkIn)

• A type of AWS service

• A user interface element

What is a Dimension in the context of Amazon CloudWatch Metrics?

• A type of metric

• A billing parameter

• An attribute of a metric (e.g., instance id, environment)

• A visualization tool

How many dimensions can a single metric have in Amazon CloudWatch?

• 10 dimensions

• 20 dimensions

• 30 dimensions

• 40 dimensions

What feature does Amazon CloudWatch have that allows for time-based tracking of metrics?

• Timestamps

• Alarms

• Logs

• Events

What can you create in Amazon CloudWatch to visualize metrics?

• CloudWatch Alarms

• CloudWatch Dashboards

• CloudWatch Logs

• CloudWatch Events

What type of custom metrics can you create in Amazon CloudWatch?

• CloudWatch S3 Metrics

• CloudWatch EC2 Metrics

• CloudWatch Custom Metrics

• CloudWatch Standard Metrics

What is the purpose of CloudWatch Metric Streams?

• To store data in a database

• To continually stream CloudWatch metrics to a destination of your choice with near-real-time delivery

• To filter and delete CloudWatch metrics

• To analyze CloudWatch metrics within the CloudWatch console

Which of the following is an example of a 3rd party service provider that can be a destination for CloudWatch Metric Streams?

• Amazon EC2

• Google Cloud Platform

• Datadog

• Microsoft Azure

What feature does CloudWatch Metric Streams offer to manage the flow of metrics?

• The ability to increase the storage capacity for metrics

• The option to filter metrics to only stream a subset of them

• The capability to transform metrics using machine learning

• The function to archive metrics for long-term storage