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SOA-C02 · Question #166
A SysOps Administrator is required to monitor free space on Amazon EBS volumes attached to Microsoft Windows-based Amazon EC2 instances within a company's account. The administrator must be alerted…
The correct answer is C. Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent to send disk space metrics, then set up CloudWatch alarms. Free disk metric requires CloudWatch agent both on Linux and Windows instances.
Submitted by neha2k· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
Question
A SysOps Administrator is required to monitor free space on Amazon EBS volumes attached to Microsoft Windows-based Amazon EC2 instances within a company’s account. The administrator must be alerted to potential issues. What should the administrator do to receive email alerts before low storage space affects EC2 instance performance?
Options
- AUse built-in Amazon CloudWatch metrics, and configure CloudWatch alarms and an Amazon
- BUse AWS CloudTrail logs and configure the trail to send notifications to an Amazon SNS topic.
- CUse the Amazon CloudWatch agent to send disk space metrics, then set up CloudWatch alarms
- DUse AWS Trusted Advisor and enable email notification alerts for EC2 disk space.
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A8% (2)
- B4% (1)
- C83% (20)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
Free disk metric requires CloudWatch agent both on Linux and Windows instances.
Topics
#CloudWatch agent#disk space metrics#Windows EC2 monitoring#EBS monitoring
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