SAP-C02 Question #672: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A company has AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company wants to track Amazon EC2 usage as a metric. The company's architecture team must receive a daily alert if the EC2 usage is more than 10% higher the average EC2 usage from the last 30 days. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

• AConfigure AWS Budgets in the organization's management account. Specify a usage type of EC2
• BConfigure AWS Cost Anomaly Detection in the organization's management account. Configure a
• CEnable AWS Trusted Advisor in the organization's management account. Configure a cost
• DConfigure Amazon Detective in the organization's management account. Configure an EC2 usage

Explanation

The company needs to track EC2 usage and receive daily alerts for usage exceeding a 10% increase over the 30-day average.

Common mistakes.

• A. AWS Budgets primarily focuses on cost and usage thresholds that are defined manually, not dynamic anomaly detection based on historical averages.
• C. AWS Trusted Advisor provides cost optimization recommendations and identifies potential savings, but it does not proactively monitor for dynamic usage anomalies like a 10% increase over a 30-day average.
• D. Amazon Detective is a security service that analyzes security data and identifies potential threats, not a service for monitoring and alerting on EC2 usage anomalies.

Concept tested. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection for usage monitoring

Reference. https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-anomaly-detection/

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