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SOA-C02 · Question #1

A company hosts a website on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Users are reporting slow responses during peak times between 6 PM and 11 PM very weekend. A SysOps…

The correct answer is B. Configure a scheduled scaling action with a recurrence option to change the desired capacity. Scheduled scaling helps you to set up your own scaling schedule according to predictable load changes. For example, let's say that every week the traffic to your web application starts to increase on Wednesday, remains high on Thursday, and starts to decrease on Friday. You can…

Submitted by jakub_pl· Mar 30, 2026High Availability and Elasticity

Question

A company hosts a website on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Users are reporting slow responses during peak times between 6 PM and 11 PM very weekend. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to improve performance during these peak times. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate a scheduled Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to invoke an AWS
  • BConfigure a scheduled scaling action with a recurrence option to change the desired capacity
  • CCreate a target tracking scaling po icy to add more instances when memory utilization is above
  • DConfigure the cooldown period for the Auto Scaling group to modify desired capacity before and

How the community answered

(53 responses)
  • A
    9% (5)
  • B
    85% (45)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Scheduled scaling helps you to set up your own scaling schedule according to predictable load changes. For example, let's say that every week the traffic to your web application starts to increase on Wednesday, remains high on Thursday, and starts to decrease on Friday. You can configure a schedule for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to increase capacity on Wednesday and decrease capacity on Friday. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/schedule_time.html

Topics

#Auto Scaling#scheduled scaling#EC2 performance#EventBridge

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