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DVA-C02 · Question #96

A company hosts a batch processing application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with instances that run the most recent version of Amazon Linux. The application sorts and processes large datasets. In recent w

The correct answer is C. Configure the Amazon CloudWatch agent to track the memory usage of the instances.. Amazon CloudWatch does not collect memory metrics by default. You need to install the CloudWatch agent on your instances to collect this additional system-level metric like memory

Submitted by amina.ke· Mar 5, 2026Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Question

A company hosts a batch processing application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with instances that run the most recent version of Amazon Linux. The application sorts and processes large datasets. In recent weeks, the application's performance has decreased significantly during a peak period for traffic. A developer suspects that the application issues are related to the memory usage. The developer checks the Elastic Beanstalk console and notices that memory usage is not being tracked. How should the developer gather more information about the application performance issues?

Options

  • AConfigure the Amazon CloudWatch agent to push logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs by using
  • BConfigure the Elastic Beanstalk .ebextensions directory to track the memory usage of the
  • CConfigure the Amazon CloudWatch agent to track the memory usage of the instances.
  • DConfigure an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to track the memory usage of the instances.

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  • A
    6% (1)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    75% (12)
  • D
    13% (2)

Explanation

Amazon CloudWatch does not collect memory metrics by default. You need to install the CloudWatch agent on your instances to collect this additional system-level metric like memory

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