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Dashboards are the customizable home pages within Amazon CloudWatch that allow you to create visualizations and monitoring views for your AWS resources. They provide a single pane of glass to monitor the performance and health of your applications and infrastructure across different AWS services. D…

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Dashboards Example Questions

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Question 1

You have set up a CloudWatch dashboard to monitor various AWS resources for Application A. Recently, you have received alerts due to a sudden traffic spike. How can you implement a solution to quickly update the entire dashboard to account for the increased traffic?

Correct Answer: Use CloudWatch Metrics Math to apply a constant factor to all metrics displayed on the dashboard.

Using CloudWatch Metrics Math, you can perform arithmetic operations on multiple metrics as well as apply a constant factor to all the metrics displayed. This allows you to quickly and efficiently account for spikes in traffic without making manual changes.

Question 2

You have been monitoring your company's website performance using a CloudWatch dashboard. After a recent software update, the website suffers from increased latency. Which of the following solutions would best display the latency patterns over the past 24 hours?

Correct Answer: Update the dashboard widget to display the Average latency to show trends and variations.

To properly analyze latency patterns after the software update, you should consider the average latency in your CloudWatch dashboard. This displays a comprehensive view of the trends and variations in latency over a desired time period, such as the past 24 hours.

Question 3

Your application server team frequently asks for the metrics displayed on your CloudWatch dashboard in order to assist in capacity planning. What can you do to automatically provide them with these metrics, ensuring that the data is up-to-date?

Correct Answer: Set up a scheduled Lambda function to export the dashboard as a pdf and email it to the team.

Setting up a scheduled Lambda function that exports the CloudWatch dashboard as a pdf and emails it to the application team is the most efficient way to keep them informed. This ensures that they always have access to up-to-date metrics without needing to request it frequently.

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