Introduction to AWS Monitoring Quiz

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Quiz covering CloudWatch Metrics and Alarms

What you'll be asked

  1. Which AWS service is primarily used to collect, monitor, and analyze performance metrics for your AWS resources?
  2. You need to monitor the memory usage of your EC2 instances. Which action must you take to achieve this?
  3. A CloudWatch Alarm is currently in the 'INSUFFICIENT_DATA' state. What does this indicate?
  4. You have an application that requires 1-second resolution metrics for high-frequency monitoring. Which feature should you use?
  5. You want to trigger an SNS notification when an EC2 instance's CPU utilization exceeds 80% for three consecutive 5-minute periods. How should you configure the CloudWatch Alarm?

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