SAP-C02 Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Practice Question
A company wants to monitor CPU utilization of their EC2 instances and receive an alert when utilization exceeds 80% for 10 minutes. Which AWS service should be used?
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Why each option matters
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
CloudWatch Alarms can monitor metrics and trigger actions when a threshold is breached.
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Amazon Inspector
Why it's wrong here
Inspector is for security assessments.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config evaluates resource configurations.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Why this is correct
CloudWatch Alarms monitor metrics and send notifications.
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AWS CloudTrail
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail is for auditing API calls.
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