AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 878

A SysOps Administrator has configured a CloudWatch agent to send custom metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and is now assembling a CloudWatch dashboard to display these metrics.
What steps should the Administrator take to complete this task?

Answer options

• A. Select the AWS Namespace, filter by metric name, then add to the dashboard.
• B. Add a text widget, select the appropriate metric from the custom namespace, then add to the dashboard.
• C. Select the appropriate widget and metrics from the custom namespace, then add to the dashboard.
• D. Open the CloudWatch console, from the CloudWatch Events, add all custom metrics.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

To display the custom metrics on a dashboard, the Administrator must access the CloudWatch console and integrate the metrics via CloudWatch Events. Other options are incorrect because they either reference the default AWS Namespace instead of the custom namespace created by the agent, or incorrectly suggest using a text widget which cannot render metric data.