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SOA-C02 · Question #619

A company has internal hybrid applications that have resources in the AWS Cloud and on premises. Users report that the applications sometimes are not available. The company has configured an Amazon…

The correct answer is A. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for the CloudWatch alarm. When the VPN tunnel is down, the CloudWatch alarm will trigger and publish a notification to the Amazon SNS topic. By subscribing the ticketing tool's endpoint to that SNS topic, the tool receives the alert immediately and can create a high-priority ticket. This solution…

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

Question

A company has internal hybrid applications that have resources in the AWS Cloud and on premises. Users report that the applications sometimes are not available. The company has configured an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor the tunnel status of its AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution that creates a high-priority ticket in an internal ticketing tool when the VPN tunnel is down. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Options

  • ACreate an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for the CloudWatch alarm.
  • BCreate an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue as the target for the
  • CCreate an AWS Lambda function. Configure the CloudWatch alarm to directly invoke the Lambda
  • DCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that monitors the VPN tunnel directly. Configure the ticketing

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    74% (17)
  • B
    9% (2)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    13% (3)

Explanation

When the VPN tunnel is down, the CloudWatch alarm will trigger and publish a notification to the Amazon SNS topic. By subscribing the ticketing tool's endpoint to that SNS topic, the tool receives the alert immediately and can create a high-priority ticket. This solution leverages native AWS integrations, ensuring a straightforward, reliable notification process without requiring additional custom code.

Topics

#Site-to-Site VPN monitoring#CloudWatch alarms#SNS topics#event-driven ticketing

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