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SOA-C02 · Question #163
A company runs a web application on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company notices that random periods of increased traffic cause a degradation in the…
The correct answer is C. Deploy the application to an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances with a target tracking scaling. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html
Submitted by naveen.iyer· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
Question
A company runs a web application on three Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The company notices that random periods of increased traffic cause a degradation in the application’s performance. A SysOps administrator must scale the application to meet the increased traffic. Which solution meets these requirements?
Options
- ACreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor application latency and increase the size of
- BCreate an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to monitor application latency
- CDeploy the application to an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances with a target tracking scaling
- DDeploy the application to an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances with a scheduled scaling policy.
How the community answered
(47 responses)- A4% (2)
- B15% (7)
- C74% (35)
- D6% (3)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html
Topics
#Auto Scaling#target tracking scaling#dynamic scaling#ALB integration
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