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SOA-C02 · Question #151

A company runs its web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group. The company wants the Auto Scaling group to scale out as soon as CPU utilization rises…

The correct answer is C. Configure the Auto Scaling group to scale dynamically based on demand. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scale-based-on-demand.html

Submitted by rohit_dlh· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question

A company runs its web application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group. The company wants the Auto Scaling group to scale out as soon as CPU utilization rises above 50% for the instances. How should a SysOps administrator configure the Auto Scaling group to meet these requirements?

Options

  • AConfigure the Auto Scaling group to scale based on events.
  • BConfigure the Auto Scaling group to scale based on a schedule.
  • CConfigure the Auto Scaling group to scale dynamically based on demand.
  • DConfigure the Auto Scaling group to use predictive scaling.

How the community answered

(63 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    11% (7)
  • C
    81% (51)
  • D
    5% (3)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scale-based-on-demand.html

Topics

#Auto Scaling#dynamic scaling#target tracking policy#CPU utilization

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