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SOA-C02 · Question #193
An errant process is known to use an entire processor and run at 100%. A SysOps administrator wants to automate restarting the instance once the problem occurs for more than 2 minutes. How can this be
The correct answer is B. Create a CloudWatch alarm for the EC2 instance with detailed monitoring. Enable an action to. Basic monitoring is 5 minutes interval. Detailed monitoring is 1 minute interval. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-metrics-basic-
Submitted by jordan8· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
Question
An errant process is known to use an entire processor and run at 100%. A SysOps administrator wants to automate restarting the instance once the problem occurs for more than 2 minutes. How can this be accomplished?
Options
- ACreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for the Amazon EC2 instance with basic monitoring.
- BCreate a CloudWatch alarm for the EC2 instance with detailed monitoring. Enable an action to
- CCreate an AWS Lambda function to restart the EC2 instance, triggered on a scheduled basis
- DCreate a Lambda function to restart the EC2 instance, triggered by EC2 health checks.
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A3% (1)
- B84% (27)
- C3% (1)
- D9% (3)
Explanation
Basic monitoring is 5 minutes interval. Detailed monitoring is 1 minute interval. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-metrics-basic-
Topics
#CloudWatch detailed monitoring#CPU alarm#EC2 recovery action#automation
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