AWS Certified Sysops Administrator Associate · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 46
Amazon DynamoDB is experiencing a high level of rejected requests and this outage is directly impacting your applications. Your CTO would like to know all the resources that are affected in your AWS Account and how to mitigate them.
Where should you look first?
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A
In AWS Service Health Dashboard
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B
In AWS Organizations
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C
In DynamoDB
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D
In AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Correct option:
In AWS Personal Health Dashboard
AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you. While the Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services, Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.
What’s more, Personal Health Dashboard proactively notifies you when AWS experiences any events that may affect you, helping provide quick visibility and guidance to help you minimize the impact of events in progress, and plan for any scheduled changes, such as AWS hardware maintenance.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard Overview:

Incorrect options:
In DynamoDB - You cannot use DynamoDB to know about issues impacting all the resources in your AWS account.
In AWS Service Health Dashboard - AWS Service Health Dashboard publishes the most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in. You can check on this page https://status.aws.amazon.com/ to get current status information.
AWS Service Health Dashboard Overview:

In AWS Organizations - AWS Organizations helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and scale your workloads on AWS. Organizations help you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. You cannot use AWS Organizations to know about issues impacting all the resources in your AWS account.
References:
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/personal-health-dashboard/
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