DOP-C02 Domain 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response

Two designs were proposed. Design A would export logs to SIEM. Design B would audit privileged actions. The team must pick the approach aligned with vendor best practices. Which choice is correct?

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. CloudWatch Synthetics canaries
  2. b. Enable trusted access between Service Quotas and Organizations. Create a CloudWatch alarm per needed service at 80% of quota utilization. Send Amazon SNS notifications when the alarm enters ALARM.
  3. c. CloudTrail management events and CloudTrail Lake
  4. d. CloudWatch subscription filters to Kinesis/Firehose/OpenSearch

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Streaming exports integrate with analytics/SIEM. Compare with CloudTrail management events and CloudTrail Lake: CloudTrail Lake enables SQL analytics on events.

Correct answer(s): d. CloudWatch subscription filters to Kinesis/Firehose/OpenSearch

Exam domain: Domain 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Incident Response (18% weight on the official guide).

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