AWS SysOps Associate Sysopsmonitoring — practice questions

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Which CloudWatch object fires an action (SNS, EC2, Auto Scaling) when a metric crosses a threshold for N consecutive periods?Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service captures detailed history of every API call made against the account, so admins can audit who did what when?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which CloudWatch object fires an action (SNS, EC2, Auto Scaling) when a metric crosses a threshold for N consecutive periods?

A CloudWatch alarm
An S3 bucket policy
A CloudFront edge cache
A Route 53 record set

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Correct answer: A. A CloudWatch alarm

Alarms watch a metric over a period and trigger actions when breached. The other options are unrelated.

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Which AWS service captures detailed history of every API call made against the account, so admins can audit who did what when?

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Trusted Advisor

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Correct answer: C. AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail records every API call (console + CLI + SDK + service-to-service) into immutable logs. CloudWatch Metrics is numeric telemetry Trusted Advisor audits configs Kinesis Video is media streaming.