Amazon SNS Notifications Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering CloudWatch Metrics and Alarms

What you'll be asked

  1. When configuring a CloudWatch Alarm to send a notification, which AWS service is primarily used to act as the message bus to deliver that notification to endpoints like email or SMS?
  2. You have created an SNS topic for CloudWatch Alarms. What is the mandatory step you must perform before the notification will actually be delivered to an email address?
  3. A CloudWatch Alarm is currently in the 'INSUFFICIENT_DATA' state. If you have configured an SNS action for this alarm, what happens when the alarm transitions to this state?
  4. You need to send a single CloudWatch Alarm notification to multiple teams: one team via email and another team via an SQS queue. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?
  5. You have an SNS topic with a strict Resource-Based Policy. The CloudWatch Alarm is failing to trigger the SNS notification. What is the most likely cause?

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