CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A cloud engineer wants to be notified when the average CPU utilization of an auto-scaling group exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which alerting mechanism should be used?
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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AWS CloudWatch Alarm
CloudWatch Alarms can monitor metrics and trigger actions when a threshold is breached for a specified period.
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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AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
Why it's wrong here
OpsCenter aggregates operational issues, but doesn't directly monitor metric thresholds.
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AWS Config rule
Why it's wrong here
Config rules evaluate resource configurations, not metric thresholds.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
Trusted Advisor provides best practice recommendations, not real-time metric alerts.
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AWS CloudWatch Alarm
Why this is correct
Alarms evaluate metric thresholds and trigger notifications.
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