CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A company uses a hybrid cloud environment with workloads in AWS and on-premises. They want to use a single monitoring dashboard to view metrics from both environments. Which solution should they implement?
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Correct answer & explanation
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Install the CloudWatch agent on on-premises servers and send metrics to CloudWatch, then create a CloudWatch dashboard
Amazon CloudWatch can collect metrics from on-premises servers using the CloudWatch agent, and from AWS services natively. A single CloudWatch dashboard can then display all metrics.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Deploy a third-party monitoring tool in AWS and replicate all logs to it
Why it's wrong here
Deploying a third-party monitoring tool in AWS and replicating all logs to it fails to provide a single dashboard for both AWS and on-premises metrics because the tool is isolated within AWS, requiring separate log shipping pipelines from on-premises that may introduce latency or incompatibility with the on-premises monitoring agents. This option is tempting because centralising logs in a single tool is a common pattern for unified observability, and it would be correct if the on-premises environment already forwarded all logs to that AWS-hosted tool via a compatible agent or gateway.
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Set up a VPN connection and use VPC Flow Logs for on-premises traffic
Why it's wrong here
VPC Flow Logs analyze network traffic, not metrics.
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Install the CloudWatch agent on on-premises servers and send metrics to CloudWatch, then create a CloudWatch dashboard
Why this is correct
This allows unified monitoring from a single dashboard.
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Use AWS CloudTrail to log on-premises activity
Why it's wrong here
CloudTrail only logs AWS API calls, not on-premises metrics.
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