SAP-C02 Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Practice Question
A company is migrating a monolithic application to microservices on AWS. They want to implement a continuous improvement process for existing services. Which AWS service should they use to collect and analyze operational metrics and logs from all microservices in a centralized location?
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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
Amazon CloudWatch provides centralized monitoring of metrics and logs from all microservices. Option A is wrong because AWS Config tracks configuration changes and compliance, not operational metrics. Option B is wrong because Amazon Inspector performs automated security assessments, not log/metrics collection. Option D is wrong because AWS X-Ray is used for tracing requests across services, not for centralized log and metric analysis.
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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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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config tracks configuration changes.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is for vulnerability assessment.
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Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch provides centralized metrics and logs.
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AWS X-Ray
Why it's wrong here
X-Ray is for distributed tracing, not centralized metrics.
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