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SOA-C02 · Question #257

A data analytics application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. A SysOps administrator must add custom dimensions to the metrics collected by the Amazon CloudWatch agent. How can the SysOps…

The correct answer is D. Create an append_dimensions field in the Amazon CloudWatch agent configuration file to collect. In custom metrics, the --dimensions parameter is common. A dimension further clarifies what the metric is and what data it stores. You can have up to 30 dimensions assigned to one metric, and each dimension is defined by a name and value pair…

Submitted by alyssa_d· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Question

A data analytics application is running on an Amazon EC2 instance. A SysOps administrator must add custom dimensions to the metrics collected by the Amazon CloudWatch agent. How can the SysOps administrator meet this requirement?

Options

  • ACreate a custom shell script to extract the dimensions and collect the metrics using the Amazon
  • BCreate an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to evaluate the required
  • CCreate an AWS Lambda function to collect the metrics from AWS CloudTrail and send the metrics
  • DCreate an append_dimensions field in the Amazon CloudWatch agent configuration file to collect

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  • A
    9% (2)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    82% (18)

Explanation

In custom metrics, the --dimensions parameter is common. A dimension further clarifies what the metric is and what data it stores. You can have up to 30 dimensions assigned to one metric, and each dimension is defined by a name and value pair. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/publishingMetrics.html

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#CloudWatch agent#custom dimensions#append_dimensions#metrics configuration

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