CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a performance issue where an application occasionally experiences high latency. The application runs on AWS and uses EC2, ELB, and RDS. Which combination of tools would best help trace the request flow and identify the bottleneck?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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AWS X-Ray and VPC Flow Logs
AWS X-Ray provides end-to-end tracing, and VPC Flow Logs capture network traffic details, together helping pinpoint latency sources.
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AWS X-Ray and VPC Flow Logs
Why this is correct
X-Ray traces requests across services; VPC Flow Logs show network latency.
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AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Why it's wrong here
These provide recommendations and status, not tracing.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs and AWS Shield
Why it's wrong here
CloudWatch Logs is for logs, Shield is for DDoS protection.
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AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail is for API audit, Config for configuration history; not for tracing.
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