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SOA-C03 · Question #126

A developer uses an Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to launch an EC2 instance that hosts a third-party application. The application occasionally becomes unstable. The CloudOps engineer needs…

The correct answer is B. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that evaluates the CPU utilization of the instance. A CloudWatch alarm can directly trigger two actions when the threshold is breached: - EC2 action to reboot the instance. - SNS notification to alert the developer. This requires no Lambda or Systems Manager runbooks and is therefore the simplest and least administrative option…

Submitted by anna_se· Mar 5, 2026Monitoring, logging, and remediation

Question

A developer uses an Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to launch an EC2 instance that hosts a third-party application. The application occasionally becomes unstable. The CloudOps engineer needs a solution to automatically reboot the EC2 instance whenever utilization is above 90% for 15 minutes and to notify the developer about the reboot. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?

Options

  • AConfigure an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that evaluates the CPU utilization of the instance.
  • BCreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that evaluates the CPU utilization of the instance.
  • CCreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that evaluates the CPU utilization of the instance Configure
  • DCreate an AWS Systems Manager runbook script to publish a message to an Amazon Simple

How the community answered

(50 responses)
  • A
    12% (6)
  • B
    80% (40)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    6% (3)

Explanation

A CloudWatch alarm can directly trigger two actions when the threshold is breached: - EC2 action to reboot the instance. - SNS notification to alert the developer. This requires no Lambda or Systems Manager runbooks and is therefore the simplest and least administrative option that fully meets the requirements (CPU > 90% for 15 minutes, automatic reboot, and notification).

Topics

#CloudWatch alarm#EC2 reboot action#CPU utilization#SNS notification

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