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Amazon CloudWatch provides APIs to interact with its services programmatically. Using these APIs, developers can create custom applications, automation scripts, or integrate monitoring data with third-party tools. The CloudWatch API enables you to put custom metrics, get statistics for existing met…

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Question 1

In Amazon CloudWatch, you need to query your application's average Latency aggregated into 5-minute (300-second) periods. Which API and configuration should you use?

Correct Answer: GetMetricData with Latency metric and 300-second period

To track average application latency every 5 minutes in Amazon CloudWatch, you must query the Latency metric aggregated into 300-second periods and use the Average statistic. The GetMetricData API is the recommended, modern API for retrieving metric data, especially when you might scale to multiple metrics or time series. Among the options, only 'GetMetricData with Latency metric and 300-second period' aligns with the required metric (Latency) and the correct 5-minute (300-second) period. Options using 60-second periods do not meet the 5-minute requirement, and options using RequestCount target the wrong metric for latency.

Question 2

You want to set an alarm to notify you when the application that you are running breaches the threshold of 80% CPU utilization. Which AWS CloudWatch API action will help you do that?

Correct Answer: PutMetricAlarm

To set an alarm, you use the PutMetricAlarm API. PutMetricAlarm allows you to set an alarm on specific metrics based on a threshold value.

Question 3

Your company wants to create a custom dashboard to visualize AWS resource metrics. Which AWS CloudWatch API action should be used to get metrics and statistical data to construct the graphical representation?

Correct Answer: GetMetricData

The GetMetricData API allows you to retrieve metric data for multiple metrics and resources, which can be used to create custom graphical representations of the data.

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