AWS Certified Developer – Associate — Question 313

An application development team decides to use AWS X-Ray to monitor application code to analyze performance and perform root cause analysis.

What does the team need to do to begin using X-Ray? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Log instrumentation output into an Amazon SQS queue.
• B. Use a visualization tool to view application traces.
• C. Instrument application code using the AWS SDK.
• D. Install the X-Ray agent on the application servers.
• E. Create an Amazon DynamoDB table to store the trace logs.

Correct answer: C, D

Explanation

To begin using AWS X-Ray, developers must instrument their application code using the AWS SDK to generate trace data, and deploy the X-Ray daemon (agent) on the application servers to gather and transmit these traces to the X-Ray service. AWS X-Ray manages its own data storage and visualization console, meaning external components like Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, or separate visualization tools are not required.