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SOA-C02 · Question #268

An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on the shopping site. When viewing recent Amazon CloudWatch metrics data for…

The correct answer is A. Add an additional node to the ElastiCache cluster. C. Increase the individual node size inside the ElastiCache cluster. Scale Out and or Scale Up. https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sysops-associate/AWS-Certified-SysOps- Administrator-Associate_Sample-Questions_C02.pdf

Submitted by femi9· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization

Question

An ecommerce company uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached cluster for in-memory caching of popular product queries on the shopping site. When viewing recent Amazon CloudWatch metrics data for the ElastiCache cluster, the SysOps administrator notices a large number of evictions. Which of the following actions will reduce these evictions? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AAdd an additional node to the ElastiCache cluster.
  • BIncrease the ElastiCache time to live (TTL).
  • CIncrease the individual node size inside the ElastiCache cluster.
  • DPut an Elastic Load Balancer in front of the ElastiCache cluster.
  • EUse Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to decouple the ElastiCache cluster.

How the community answered

(36 responses)
  • A
    78% (28)
  • B
    11% (4)
  • D
    3% (1)
  • E
    8% (3)

Explanation

Scale Out and or Scale Up. https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sysops-associate/AWS-Certified-SysOps- Administrator-Associate_Sample-Questions_C02.pdf

Topics

#ElastiCache Memcached#cache evictions#node scaling#memory capacity

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