AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 514

A company developed and now runs a memory-intensive application on multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances. The memory utilization metrics of the EC2 Linux instances must be monitored every minute.
How should the SysOps Administrator publish the memory metrics? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Enable detailed monitoring on the instance within Amazon CloudWatch
• B. Publish the memory metrics to Amazon CloudWatch Events
• C. Publish the memory metrics using the Amazon CloudWatch agent
• D. Publish the memory metrics using Amazon CloudWatch Logs
• E. Set metrics_collection_interval to 60 seconds

Correct answer: A, B

Explanation

Enabling detailed monitoring (Option A) is required to ensure that CloudWatch tracks metrics at a 1-minute resolution rather than the standard 5-minute interval. Delivering these memory utilization data points to Amazon CloudWatch Events (Option B) allows the administrator to trigger real-time actions and monitor the high-frequency metrics efficiently.