AWS-SysOps Practice Test

AWS-SysOps Practice Test practice questions, page 25 of 38, with answer review and explanations.

Question 121

A user has received a message from the support team that an issue occurred 1 week back between 3 AM to 4 AM and the EC2 server was not reachable. The user is checking the CloudWatch metrics of that instance. How can the user find the data easily using the CloudWatch console?

  1. The user can find the data by giving the exact values in the time Tab under CloudWatch metrics
  2. The user can find the data by filtering values of the last 1 week for a 1 hour period in the Relative tab under CloudWatch metrics
  3. It is not possible to find the exact time from the console. The user has to use CLI to provide the specific time
  4. The user can find the data by giving the exact values in the Absolute tab under CloudWatch metrics

Question 122

A user has setup Auto Scaling with ELB on the EC2 instances. The user wants to configure that whenever the CPU utilization is below 10%, Auto Scaling should remove one instance. How can the user configure this?

  1. The user can get an email using SNS when the CPU utilization is less than 10%. The user can use the desired capacity of Auto Scaling to remove the instance
  2. Use CloudWatch to monitor the data and Auto Scaling to remove the instances using scheduled actions
  3. Configure CloudWatch to send a notification to Auto Scaling Launch configuration when the CPU utilization is less than 10% and configure the Auto Scaling policy to remove the instance
  4. Configure CloudWatch to send a notification to the Auto Scaling group when the CPU Utilization is less than 10% and configure the Auto Scaling policy to remove the instance

Question 123

A user has enabled detailed CloudWatch metric monitoring on an Auto Scaling group. Which of the below mentioned metrics will help the user identify the total number of instances in an Auto Scaling group including pending, terminating and running instances?

  1. GroupTotalInstances
  2. GroupSumInstances
  3. It is not possible to get a count of all the three metrics together. The user has to find the individual number of running, terminating and pending instances and sum it
  4. GroupInstancesCount

Question 124

A user is trying to configure the CloudWatch billing alarm. Which of the below mentioned steps should be performed by the user for the first time alarm creation in the AWS Account Management section?

  1. Enable Receiving Billing Reports
  2. Enable Receiving Billing Alerts
  3. Enable AWS billing utility
  4. Enable CloudWatch Billing Threshold

Question 125

A user is checking the CloudWatch metrics from the AWS console. The user notices that the CloudWatch data is coming in UTC. The user wants to convert the data to a local time zone. How can the user perform this?

  1. In the CloudWatch dashboard the user should set the local time zone so that CloudWatch shows the data only in the local time zone
  2. In the CloudWatch console select the local time zone under the Time Range tab to view the data as per the local timezone
  3. The CloudWatch data is always in UTC; the user has to manually convert the data
  4. The user should have send the local time zone while uploading the data so that CloudWatch will show the data only in the local time zone