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SOA-C02 · Question #180
A SysOps administrator must create a solution to automatically shuts down any Amazon EC2 instances that have less than 10% average CPU to monitor average CPU utilization for 60 minutes or more…
The correct answer is B. Implement an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for each EC2 instance to monitor average CPU. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/US_AlarmAtThresholdEC2.h
Submitted by miguelv· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
Question
A SysOps administrator must create a solution to automatically shuts down any Amazon EC2 instances that have less than 10% average CPU to monitor average CPU utilization for 60 minutes or more. Which solution meets these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient manner?
Options
- AImplement a cron job on each EC2 instance to run once every 60 minutes and calculate the
- BImplement an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for each EC2 instance to monitor average CPU
- CInstall the unified Amazon CloudWatch agent on each EC2 instance, and enable the Basic level
- DUse AWS Systems Manager Run Command to get CPU utilization from each EC2 instance every
How the community answered
(28 responses)- A11% (3)
- B71% (20)
- C14% (4)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/US_AlarmAtThresholdEC2.h
Topics
#CloudWatch alarms#CPU utilization#EC2 auto-shutdown#automation
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