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SOA-C02 · Question #152

A company runs an application that uses a MySQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has a General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The company made changes

The correct answer is A. Use EBS fast snapshot restore to create a new General Purpose SSD EBS volume from the. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html

Submitted by ngozi_ng· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization

Question

A company runs an application that uses a MySQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance has a General Purpose SSD Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The company made changes to the application code and now wants to perform load testing to evaluate the impact of the code changes. A SysOps administrator must create a new MySQL instance from a snapshot of the existing production instance. This new instance needs to perform as similarly as possible to the production instance. Which restore option meets these requirements?

Options

  • AUse EBS fast snapshot restore to create a new General Purpose SSD EBS volume from the
  • BUse EBS fast snapshot restore to create a new Provisioned IOPS SSD EBS volume from the
  • CUse EBS snapshot restore to create a new General Purpose SSD EBS volume from the
  • DUse EBS snapshot restore to create a new Provisioned IOPS SSD EBS volume from the

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    78% (36)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    11% (5)
  • D
    7% (3)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html

Topics

#EBS fast snapshot restore#snapshot initialization#EBS performance#load testing

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