What You'll Be Tested On
- CloudWatch metrics, alarms, dashboards, logs, metric filters, and Logs Insights
- CloudTrail trails, organization-wide auditing, log integrity, and long-term retention
- Operational analysis with traces, service maps, anomaly detection, and health signals
- Automated remediation using Systems Manager, EventBridge, AWS Config, and Lambda
- Performance tuning with right-sizing, Compute Optimizer, storage metrics, and scaling signals
Key AWS Services in This Domain
Exam Tips for Domain 1
Expect scenarios that ask which telemetry source proves what happened: CloudTrail for API activity, CloudWatch for resource/application metrics, and X-Ray for traces.
For automatic remediation, pair a detector with an action: AWS Config or EventBridge can trigger Systems Manager Automation or Lambda.
Composite alarms reduce noise when multiple conditions must be true before paging an operator.
Performance optimization questions often hinge on the right metric: CPU, memory via the CloudWatch agent, IOPS, throughput, latency, or queue depth.
Practice Domain 1 Questions
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