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CV0-004 Practice Question: A company uses a multi-cloud strategy with both…
A company uses a multi-cloud strategy with both AWS and Azure. The cloud operations team needs to centrally monitor all cloud resources and receive alerts when resource usage exceeds predefined thresholds. Which of the following solutions should the team implement?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often assume native tools like Azure Monitor or AWS CloudWatch can be extended to monitor other clouds, but they are architecturally limited to their own ecosystems, making a third-party tool the only viable multi-cloud solution.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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A third-party monitoring tool that supports both AWS and Azure
A third-party monitoring tool (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, or Dynatrace) can natively ingest metrics and logs from both AWS and Azure APIs, providing a single pane of glass for alerting across a multi-cloud environment. This avoids the vendor lock-in and integration gaps that arise when using native tools from only one cloud provider.
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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Azure Monitor with Log Analytics
Why it's wrong here
Azure Monitor is Azure-specific, not suitable for AWS.
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AWS CloudWatch with cross-account monitoring
Why it's wrong here
CloudWatch is AWS-specific and cannot monitor Azure resources natively.
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A third-party monitoring tool that supports both AWS and Azure
Why this is correct
Third-party tools like Datadog can aggregate metrics from multiple clouds into a single dashboard.
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Custom scripts that log to a central syslog server
Why it's wrong here
Custom scripts are error-prone and not a standard solution for multi-cloud monitoring.
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