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Single choice~100s
A SysOps administrator needs to monitor memory utilization and disk space on Amazon EC2 instances, but these metrics are not visible in CloudWatch by default. What must they do?
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Single choice~70s
What does enabling detailed monitoring for an EC2 instance change compared to basic monitoring?
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Single choice~110s
An EC2 instance's system status check is failing due to a problem with the underlying host hardware. Which automated action can a CloudWatch alarm take to restore availability with minimal intervention?
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Single choice~100s
An EC2 instance passes its system status check but fails its instance status check. What does this most likely indicate?
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Single choice~100s
A SysOps administrator wants an Auto Scaling group to add instances automatically when average CPU across the group is high. Which mechanism triggers the scaling?
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Single choice~100s
A team must centralize application and OS log files from many EC2 instances into a searchable, retained location in AWS. Which approach should they use?
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Single choice~120s
A SysOps administrator must raise an alarm whenever the string 'ERROR' appears more than 10 times in 5 minutes across an application's CloudWatch Logs. What should they configure?
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Single choice~110s
A team needs to deliver CloudWatch Logs events in near real time to an AWS Lambda function for custom processing as the logs arrive. Which feature enables this?
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Single choice~110s
During an incident, a SysOps administrator must interactively search and aggregate large volumes of CloudWatch Logs to find the root cause. Which capability is designed for this?
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Single choice~80s
A SysOps administrator wants a single view combining graphs of CPU, memory, and request counts from several services and Regions for the operations team. What should they create?