CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A cloud engineer wants to receive real-time notifications when a CloudWatch Alarm enters the ALARM state. Which notification channel can be configured directly within the CloudWatch Alarm action?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
CloudWatch Alarms can directly send notifications to an SNS topic, which can then deliver to email, SMS, etc.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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PagerDuty
Why it's wrong here
PagerDuty integration requires SNS or Lambda; not directly supported.
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AWS Chatbot
Why it's wrong here
Chatbot integrates with Slack/Chime but not directly as an alarm action.
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Why this is correct
CloudWatch Alarms can directly notify an SNS topic.
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Slack webhook
Why it's wrong here
CloudWatch does not directly support Slack; you would need to use SNS to trigger a Lambda to post to Slack.
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