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Operations and Support questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Common Operations and Support exam traps

▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

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Operations and Support questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1easymultiple choice

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A cloud architect is designing a monitoring solution for a web application. Which service should they use to collect and visualize metrics such as CPU utilization and network throughput?

Trap 1: AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail records API activity, not metrics.

Trap 2: AWS Config

AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes.

Trap 3: AWS Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor provides best practice recommendations.

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A
AWS CloudTrail
Why wrong: CloudTrail records API activity, not metrics.
B
AWS CloudWatch
CloudWatch provides metrics collection and dashboards.
C
AWS Config
Why wrong: AWS Config tracks resource configuration changes.
D
AWS Trusted Advisor
Why wrong: Trusted Advisor provides best practice recommendations.

Operations and Support practice questions

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Operations and Support questions

A cloud architect is designing a monitoring solution for a web application. Which service should they use to collect and visualize metrics such as CPU utilization and network throughput?

A company wants to receive alerts when their cloud costs exceed a budget threshold. Which cost management feature should they use?

A cloud administrator is configuring automated scaling for a web application. The scaling policy should add two instances when CPU utilization exceeds 80% for five minutes. Which type of scaling policy should they implement?

A systems administrator notices that an application is slow to respond. They want to analyze the latency of individual requests across microservices. Which tool should they use?

A company uses multiple AWS accounts. The cloud team wants to allocate costs to specific business units. What should they implement?

A cloud engineer is setting up automated patching for Linux instances in AWS. They need to define a maintenance window during which patches are applied. Which service should they use?

A company's disaster recovery plan requires them to restore a database to a specific point in time. Which backup strategy should they use?

A cloud administrator is troubleshooting a network connectivity issue between two subnets. They suspect a security group or NACL is blocking traffic. Which tool should they use to analyze the traffic flow?

A cloud engineer needs to ensure that an auto-scaling group does not launch new instances immediately after a scale-in event to allow metrics to stabilize. Which feature should they configure?

A cloud administrator wants to be notified immediately via email when a critical alert is triggered. Which notification channel should they configure?

A company wants to reduce costs by identifying underutilized EC2 instances. Which tool should they use to get rightsizing recommendations?

A cloud operations team is implementing structured logging for better querying. They have decided to use JSON format. What is a key benefit of structured logging over unstructured logging?

A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan that includes testing. Which TWO activities are commonly performed as part of DR testing?

A cloud engineer is troubleshooting a performance issue in a microservices application. Which THREE tools can help with distributed tracing and latency diagnosis?

A company wants to implement automated patching for their cloud resources. Which TWO services are designed for patch management?

A cloud administrator needs to monitor CPU utilization for a fleet of EC2 instances and receive notifications when utilization exceeds 80%. Which AWS service should be used to create a metric alarm that triggers an SNS notification?

A company wants to centralize logs from multiple AWS services and analyze them using SQL-like queries. Which service should they use?

A cloud engineer is configuring an auto-scaling group and wants to add instances based on a sustained increase in CPU utilization above 80% for 5 minutes. Which scaling policy type should be used?

A cloud administrator needs to perform a disaster recovery test for a critical application running in a different AWS region. The RTO is 1 hour, and the RPO is 15 minutes. Which replication strategy should be used to meet the RPO?

A company uses AWS and wants to optimize costs by receiving recommendations to downsize over-provisioned EC2 instances. Which tool provides rightsizing recommendations?

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