AWS CloudWatch Monitoring and Alarms Quiz

1. Which CloudWatch metric is used to monitor RDS database performance?

DatabaseConnections

CPUUtilization

ReadIOPS

All of the above

2. True or False: A Cloudwatch alarm can directly terminate an EC2 instance.

True

False

3. True or False: Detailed monitoring provides metrics at 1-minute intervals for EC2 instances at no additional cost.

True

False

4. True or False: CloudWatch Logs Insights queries can only be run on logs from the last 24 hours.

True

False

5. True or False: CloudWatch alarms can automatically scale EC2 instances based on metrics.

True

False

Submit

9. Which service integrates with CloudWatch to provide application-level monitoring?

AWS X-Ray

CloudWatch Application Insights

Both A and B

AWS Config

10. What does 'Statistic' mean in the context of CloudWatch metrics?

Average, Sum, Maximum, Minimum, or Count

The time period for data collection

The threshold value for alarms

The EC2 instance state

11. Which CloudWatch metric represents the percentage of CPU utilization on an EC2 instance?

CPUUtilization

ProcessorTime

InstanceCPU

ComputeUsage

12. How many evaluation periods are required for an alarm to transition from INSUFFICIENT_DATA to OK?

1

2

3

Depends on TreatMissingData setting

13. What is the maximum number of datapoints that CloudWatch can store per metric?

1,440 per day

10,080 per week

Unlimited

15,000 total

14. Which CloudWatch feature allows you to create custom visualizations of metrics?

CloudWatch Dashboards

CloudWatch Widgets

CloudWatch Graphs

CloudWatch Analytics

15. What does the CloudWatch metric 'NetworkIn' measure?

Bytes received by EC2 instance

Network packets sent

Network latency in milliseconds

Bandwidth utilization percentage

16. Which action can a CloudWatch alarm trigger when an alarm state changes?

Send SNS notification

Invoke Lambda function

Execute Auto Scaling action

All of the above

17. What is the default retention period for CloudWatch Logs?

Never expire

7 days

30 days

365 days

18. CloudWatch Logs Insights uses which query language?

CloudWatch Query Language (CQL)

Structured Query Language (SQL)

CloudWatch Insights Query Syntax (CIQS)

CloudWatch Logs Query Language (CWL)

19. Which CloudWatch alarm state indicates the metric is within the threshold?

OK

ALARM

INSUFFICIENT_DATA

PENDING

20. What is the minimum resolution for CloudWatch custom metrics by default?

1 minute

5 minutes

10 minutes

30 seconds

AWS SysOps CloudWatch Monitoring and Alarms Quiz

1. Which CloudWatch metric is used to monitor RDS database performance?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. True or False: A Cloudwatch alarm can directly terminate an EC2 instance.

3. True or False: Detailed monitoring provides metrics at 1-minute intervals for EC2 instances at no additional cost.

4. True or False: CloudWatch Logs Insights queries can only be run on logs from the last 24 hours.

5. True or False: CloudWatch alarms can automatically scale EC2 instances based on metrics.

6. The CloudWatch metric 'DiskReadBytes' requires the ____ agent to be installed.

7. CloudWatch can monitor metrics from ____ services without installing an agent.

8. What is a CloudWatch ____ used to organize and filter alarms and metrics?

9. Which service integrates with CloudWatch to provide application-level monitoring?

10. What does 'Statistic' mean in the context of CloudWatch metrics?

11. Which CloudWatch metric represents the percentage of CPU utilization on an EC2 instance?

12. How many evaluation periods are required for an alarm to transition from INSUFFICIENT_DATA to OK?

13. What is the maximum number of datapoints that CloudWatch can store per metric?

14. Which CloudWatch feature allows you to create custom visualizations of metrics?

15. What does the CloudWatch metric 'NetworkIn' measure?

16. Which action can a CloudWatch alarm trigger when an alarm state changes?

17. What is the default retention period for CloudWatch Logs?

18. CloudWatch Logs Insights uses which query language?

19. Which CloudWatch alarm state indicates the metric is within the threshold?

20. What is the minimum resolution for CloudWatch custom metrics by default?