AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 617

A company's application running on Amazon EC2 Linux recently crashed because it ran out of available memory. Management wants to be alerted if this ever happens again.
Which combination of steps will accomplish this? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Create an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the memory usage metrics on the instance over time.
• B. Create an alarm on the dashboard that publishes an Amazon SNS notification to alert the CIO when a threshold is passed.
• C. Create an alarm on the metric that publishes an Amazon SNS notification to alert the CIO when a threshold is passed.
• D. Create an alarm on the AWS Personal Health Dashboard that publishes an Amazon SNS notification to alert the CIO when the system is out of memory.
• E. Configure the Amazon CloudWatch agent to collect and push memory usage metrics on the instance.

Correct answer: A, D

Explanation

Creating an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard provides management with the necessary visibility to monitor memory utilization trends over time. Additionally, integrating an alert with the AWS Personal Health Dashboard allows the organization to leverage health events and trigger Amazon SNS notifications to inform the CIO when critical system resource exhaustion occurs.