Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
14 practice questions under this official exam objective (SOA-C03), each with the answer key, an option-by-option explanation and instant feedback.
Questions under this objective
14 total · page 1 of 1ALB Weighted Random Routing and Session Affinity Errors
Resolves random application errors caused by session affinity conflicts with ALB weighted random routing by switching to least outstanding requests. T
Resolving Private IPv4 Exhaustion in AWS VPCs
Learn how to fix EC2 launch failures caused by missing private IPv4 addresses by associating a secondary CIDR block and creating a new subnet in your
S3 Event Notification Validation Failure Causes
This question addresses the 'Unable to validate destination configurations' error in Amazon S3 event notifications, establishing that a missing resour
Detailed Monitoring for One-Minute EC2 Metrics and SNS Alerts
For an application on a highly available EC2 pair needing metrics collected every minute, CloudWatch detailed monitoring provides 1-minute granularity
How to Alert on Savings Plans Utilization Below 90%?
Savings Plans utilization alerts are configured through an AWS Budgets Savings Plans budget, not a standalone Savings Plans alert or a CloudWatch alar
How Do You Alert on Lambda Runtime Over 10 Seconds via SNS?
Lambda automatically publishes a Duration metric to Amazon CloudWatch for every invocation, so the fastest way to alert on a 10-second threshold is a
How to automate an EC2 reboot after a failed instance health check?
This scenario tests whether you can pair the right CloudWatch status-check metric with the right EC2 alarm action to automate the manual reboot a Clou
How to log all S3 access and alert on delete events?
S3 server access logging captures every request made to a bucket, while S3 event notifications to Amazon SNS deliver near-real-time DeleteObject alert
How Do You Alarm on EBS Disk Utilization Above 80% in CloudWatch?
Amazon EBS volumes do not natively publish disk-space metrics, so monitoring disk utilization on EC2 Linux instances requires the CloudWatch agent plu
How should CloudWatch Synthetics monitor customer routes with 95% availability?
This question asks for application availability monitoring that replays customer routes and alerts when fewer than 95% of runs are error-free. The cor
How to Trace ECS Microservice Purchase Latency with AWS X-Ray?
This SOA-C03 scenario asks for end-to-end transaction tracing across ECS microservices with minimal code changes and a visual dependency map. The corr
How to Search a Year of EC2 Error Logs in CloudWatch?
This SOA-C03 scenario tests whether you can retain and search EC2 application error logs for a full year using the CloudWatch agent and CloudWatch Log
How to Get Notified When an AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Goes Down?
AWS Site-to-Site VPN tunnel availability is monitored by creating CloudWatch Logs metric filters from VPN logs and a CloudWatch alarm on tunnel state
How to centralize CloudWatch metrics and alarms across accounts and Regions?
CloudWatch cross-account observability links application accounts as source accounts to a single monitoring account so one dashboard can display CPU a