Q1. What is Amazon CloudWatch primarily used for?
A. Deploying applications
B. Monitoring and observability of AWS resources
C. Managing IAM users
D. Creating VPC networks
Answer: B
Q2. Which of the following is a CloudWatch metric?
A. EC2 CPU Utilization
B. IAM Role Name
C. S3 Bucket Policy
D. VPC CIDR Block
Answer: A
Q3. Which telemetry type represents numerical data over time?
A. Logs
B. Metrics
C. Traces
D. Events
Answer: B
Q4. Which CloudWatch feature allows you to search and analyze logs?
A. Dashboards
B. Metrics Explorer
C. Logs Insights
D. Alarms
Answer: C
Q5. What is the purpose of a CloudWatch Alarm?
A. Store logs
B. Create dashboards
C. Notify when a metric crosses a threshold
D. Deploy applications
Answer: C
Q6. Which EC2 metric is available by default without installing CloudWatch Agent?
A. Memory utilization
B. Disk usage
C. CPU utilization
D. Process count
Answer: C
Q7. Why is CloudWatch Agent required?
A. To create dashboards
B. To collect deeper system-level metrics like memory and disk
C. To create IAM users
D. To enable VPC networking
Answer: B
Q8. Where would you go in CloudWatch to visualize multiple metrics in one place?
A. Logs
B. Alarms
C. Dashboards
D. Metrics Explorer
Answer: C
Q9. Which section is used to view all available AWS service metrics?
A. Logs
B. Metrics → All Metrics
C. Dashboards
D. Setup
Answer: B
Q10. What does CloudWatch Logs store?
A. Numeric metrics
B. Application and system log data
C. Network configuration
D. IAM policies
Answer: B
Q11. Which of the following is an example of a CloudWatch Log Group?
A. EC2 Instance ID
B. /aws/lambda/my-function
C. CPUUtilization
D. Dashboard1
Answer: B
Q12. What does the “ALARM” state mean in CloudWatch?
A. Metric is normal
B. No data available
C. Threshold condition is breached
D. Instance is stopped
Answer: C
Q13. Which feature helps simulate user behavior like checking a website?
A. Logs Insights
B. Synthetics Canaries
C. Metrics Explorer
D. Contributor Insights
Answer: B
Q14. Which CloudWatch component is used to monitor container environments like EKS?
A. Application Signals
B. Container Insights
C. Logs Insights
D. RUM
Answer: B
Q15. Which of the following best describes CloudWatch Dashboard?
A. A place to write logs
B. A visual monitoring page combining metrics and alarms
C. A tool to create EC2 instances
D. A tool to configure IAM
Answer: B
Bonus (Optional Challenge Question)
Q16. What is the main limitation of CloudWatch when using only AWS Console access?
A. Cannot create alarms
B. Cannot view metrics
C. Cannot install CloudWatch Agent easily on EC2
D. Cannot access dashboards
Answer: C