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SOA-C02 · Question #454

A company is experiencing issues with legacy software running on Amazon EC2 instances. Errors occur when the total CPU utilization on the EC2 instances exceeds 80%. A short-term solution is required…

The correct answer is B. Add an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for CPU utilization and configure the alarm action to reboot. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/UsingAlarmActions.html "For Whenever this alarm, choose State is ALARM. For Take this action, choose Reboot this

Submitted by tyler.j· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Question

A company is experiencing issues with legacy software running on Amazon EC2 instances. Errors occur when the total CPU utilization on the EC2 instances exceeds 80%. A short-term solution is required while the software is being rewritten. A SysOps administrator is tasked with creating a solution to restart the instances when the CPU utilization rises above 80%. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

Options

  • AWrite a script that monitors the CPU utilization of the EC2 instances and reboots the instances
  • BAdd an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for CPU utilization and configure the alarm action to reboot
  • CCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule using the predefined patterns for CPU utilization of the EC2
  • DAdd an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for CPU utilization and configure an AWS Systems Manager

How the community answered

(49 responses)
  • A
    14% (7)
  • B
    76% (37)
  • C
    6% (3)
  • D
    4% (2)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/UsingAlarmActions.html "For Whenever this alarm, choose State is ALARM. For Take this action, choose Reboot this

Topics

#CloudWatch alarms#EC2 reboot action#CPU utilization#alarm actions

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