AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 181

A user has created an Auto Scaling group using CLI. The user wants to enable CloudWatch detailed monitoring for that group. How can the user configure this?

Answer options

• A. When the user sets an alarm on the Auto Scaling group, it automatically enables detail monitoring
• B. By default detailed monitoring is enabled for Auto Scaling
• C. Auto Scaling does not support detailed monitoring
• D. Enable detail monitoring from the AWS console

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because detailed monitoring is indeed enabled by default for Auto Scaling groups, allowing users to access more granular metrics. Option A is incorrect as setting an alarm does not change the default monitoring settings, C is wrong because Auto Scaling does support detailed monitoring, and D is misleading since the default setting does not require activation through the console.