Exam AWS-SysOps topic 1 question 692 discussion

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Question #: 692
Topic #: 1

A company has deployed a fleet of Amazon EC2 web servers for the upcoming release of a new product. The SysOps Administrator needs to test the Amazon
CloudWatch notification settings for this deployment to ensure that a notification is sent using Amazon SNS if the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 70%
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How should the Administrator accomplish this?

A. Use the set-alarm-state command in AWS CloudTrail to invoke the Amazon SNS notification
B. Use CloudWatch custom metrics to set the alarm state in AWS CloudTrail and enable Amazon SNS notifications
C. Use EC2 instance metadata to manually set the CPU utilization to 75% and invoke the alarm state
D. Use the set-alarm-state command in the AWS CLI for CloudWatch

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by kanzagh at Dec. 31, 2019, 6:02 p.m.

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kanzagh

Highly Voted 2 years, 10 months ago

ANS = D https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/US_AlarmAtThresholdEC2.html

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albert_kuo

Most Recent 1 year, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: D

Option D, using the set-alarm-state command in the AWS CLI for CloudWatch, allows the Administrator to manually trigger the alarm state and test the CloudWatch notification settings.

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