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SOA-C02 · Question #327
A company plans to migrate several of its high performance computing (MPC) virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS. A SysOps administrator must identify a placement group for this…
The correct answer is A. Deploy the instances in a cluster placement group in one Availability Zone. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html
Submitted by miguelv· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization
Question
A company plans to migrate several of its high performance computing (MPC) virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS. A SysOps administrator must identify a placement group for this deployment. The strategy must minimize network latency and must maximize network throughput between the HPC VMs. Which strategy should the SysOps administrator choose to meet these requirements?
Options
- ADeploy the instances in a cluster placement group in one Availability Zone.
- BDeploy the instances in a partition placement group in two Availability Zones.
- CDeploy the instances in a partition placement group in one Availability Zone.
- DDeploy the instances in a spread placement group in two Availably Zones.
How the community answered
(24 responses)- A83% (20)
- B4% (1)
- C4% (1)
- D8% (2)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html
Topics
#placement groups#cluster placement group#HPC#network throughput
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