CloudWatch Dashboards and Alarms Quiz

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

Quiz covering Operational Excellence

What you'll be asked

  1. Which AWS CloudWatch feature is best suited for visualizing multiple metrics across different AWS resources in a single, customizable view?
  2. You need to trigger an SNS notification only when the average CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 80% for three consecutive 5-minute periods. Which feature do you configure?
  3. If you have a CloudWatch Alarm in the 'INSUFFICIENT_DATA' state, what is the most likely cause?
  4. You want to monitor the ratio of 5xx errors to total requests on an Application Load Balancer. Which feature allows you to perform this calculation within a CloudWatch graph?
  5. A developer wants to create a 'Composite Alarm' that only triggers if both a high CPU alarm and a high memory alarm are active simultaneously. What is the benefit of using a Composite Alarm in this scenario?

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