AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional SAP-C01 – Question397

In Amazon CloudWatch, you can publish your own metrics with the put-metric-data command. When you create a new metric using the put-metric-data command, it can take up to two minutes before you can retrieve statistics on the new metric using the get-metric-statistics command.
How long does it take before the new metric appears in the list of metrics retrieved using the list- metrics command?

A. After 2 minutes
B. Up to 15 minutes
C. More than an hour
D. Within a minute

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation: You can publish your own metrics to CloudWatch with the put-metric-data command (or its Query API equivalent PutMetricData). When you create a new metric using the put-metric-data command, it can take up to two minutes before you can retrieve statistics on the new metric using the get-metric-statistics command. However, it can take up to fifteen minutes before the new metric appears in the list of metrics retrieved using the list-metrics command.
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/p…