DBS-C01 Monitoring and Troubleshooting Practice Question
Which TWO AWS services can be used to monitor the performance of an Amazon DynamoDB table and send alerts when throttling occurs? (Choose two.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Amazon CloudWatch provides metrics such as ConsumedReadCapacityUnits, ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits, and ThrottledRequests for DynamoDB. You can create CloudWatch Alarms to monitor these metrics and send notifications (e.g., via SNS) when throttling occurs. Therefore, both B (CloudWatch Alarms) and E (CloudWatch) are correct. Option A (Amazon Inspector) is a security assessment service, not a monitoring service. Option C (VPC Flow Logs) captures network traffic, not database performance. Option D (AWS Config) tracks resource configuration changes, not performance metrics.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Amazon Inspector is a security vulnerability assessment service.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Why this is correct
CloudWatch Alarms can trigger notifications based on metrics.
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VPC Flow Logs
Why it's wrong here
VPC Flow Logs capture IP traffic information.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config is for resource inventory and compliance.
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Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch provides metrics like ConsumedWriteCapacityUnits and ThrottledWriteRequests.
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