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SOA-C02 · Question #104
An application accesses data through a file system interface. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones, all of which must share the same data. While the amount of…
The correct answer is B. Deploy Amazon EFS in the VPC and create mount targets in multiple subnets. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html
Submitted by obi.ng· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
An application accesses data through a file system interface. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones, all of which must share the same data. While the amount of data is currently small, the company anticipates that it will grow to tens of terabytes over the lifetime of the application. What is the MOST scalable storage solution to fulfill this requirement?
Options
- AConnect a large Amazon EBS volume to multiple instances and schedule snapshots.
- BDeploy Amazon EFS in the VPC and create mount targets in multiple subnets.
- CLaunch an EC2 instance and share data using SMB/CIFS or NFS.
- DDeploy an AWS Storage Gateway cached volume on Amazon EC2.
How the community answered
(64 responses)- A3% (2)
- B81% (52)
- C5% (3)
- D11% (7)
Explanation
Topics
#Amazon EFS#shared file system#multi-AZ storage#scalable NFS
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