AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question692

A company has deployed a fleet of Amazon EC2 web servers for the upcoming release of a new product. The SysOps Administrator needs to test the Amazon CloudWatch notification settings for this deployment to ensure that a notification is sent using Amazon SNS if the CPU utilization of an EC2 instance exceeds 70%. How should the Administrator accomplish this?

A.
Use the set-alarm-statecommand in AWS CloudTrail to invoke the Amazon SNS notification
B. Use CloudWatch custom metrics to set the alarm state in AWS CloudTrail and enable Amazon SNS notifications
C. Use EC2 instance metadata to manually set the CPU utilization to 75% and invoke the alarm state
D. Use the set-alarm-statecommand in the AWS CLI for CloudWatch

Correct Answer: D