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SAP-C02 · Question #343

A company has an application that sells tickets online and experiences bursts of demand every 7 days. The application has a stateless presentation layer running on Amazon EC2. an Oracle database to st

The correct answer is C. Create an Auto Scaling group for the front end with a combination of On-Demand and Spot. Combination of On-Demand and Spot Instances + DynamoDB.

Submitted by anjalisingh· Mar 6, 2026Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

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A company has an application that sells tickets online and experiences bursts of demand every 7 days. The application has a stateless presentation layer running on Amazon EC2. an Oracle database to store unstructured data catalog information, and a backend API layer. The front-end layer uses an Elastic Load Balancer to distribute the load across nine On-Demand Instances over three Availability Zones (AZs). The Oracle database is running on a single EC2 instance. The company is experiencing performance issues when running more than two concurrent campaigns. A solutions architect must design a solution that meets the following requirements:

  • Address scalability issues.
  • Increase the level of concurrency.
  • Eliminate licensing costs.
  • Improve reliability.

Which set of steps should the solutions architect take?

Options

  • ACreate an Auto Scaling group for the front end with a combination of On-Demand and Spot
  • BCreate an Auto Scaling group for the front end with a combination of On-Demand and Spot
  • CCreate an Auto Scaling group for the front end with a combination of On-Demand and Spot
  • DConvert the On-Demand Instances into Spot Instances to reduce costs for the front end. Convert

How the community answered

(43 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    14% (6)
  • C
    56% (24)
  • D
    26% (11)

Explanation

Combination of On-Demand and Spot Instances + DynamoDB.

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