CloudWatch Alarms and SNS Integration Quiz

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

Quiz covering CloudWatch Security Monitoring

What you'll be asked

  1. Which AWS service is primary used to send notifications when a CloudWatch Alarm transitions into an 'ALARM' state?
  2. You have a CloudWatch Alarm monitoring CPU utilization. You want to ensure that notifications are only sent if the CPU remains above the threshold for 3 consecutive evaluation periods. Which setting should you configure?
  3. A security engineer needs to trigger a Lambda function automatically whenever a CloudWatch Alarm enters the 'ALARM' state. What is the most direct way to achieve this using CloudWatch?
  4. You have an alarm that monitors a custom metric for failed login attempts. The alarm is currently in the 'INSUFFICIENT_DATA' state. What does this mean?
  5. You are designing a high-availability alerting system. You have a CloudWatch Alarm that triggers an SNS topic. If the SNS topic is configured with a FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queue as a subscriber, what is a critical constraint you must be aware of?

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