AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question435

An instance has enabled basic monitoring only for CloudWatch. What is the minimum time period available for basic monitoring?

A.
60 seconds
B. 360 seconds
C. 300 seconds
D. 240 seconds

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation: When a user is setting up an alarm on the EC2 instance metric, the time period should be equal to or more than the metric frequency. For basic monitoring, the metric is monitored at every 5 minutes (300 seconds). Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API…