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SOA-C02 · Question #37

A Content Processing team has notified a SysOps Administrator that their content is sometimes taking a long time to process, whereas other times it processes quickly. The Content Processing submits…

The correct answer is D. Create an Auto Scaling policy to increase the number of EC2 instances polling the queue and a. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-using-sqs-queue.html

Submitted by omar99· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization

Question

A Content Processing team has notified a SysOps Administrator that their content is sometimes taking a long time to process, whereas other times it processes quickly. The Content Processing submits messages to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, which details the files that need to be processed. An Amazon EC2 instance polls the queue to determine which file to process next. How could the Administrator maintain a fast but cost-effective processing time?

Options

  • AAttach an Auto Scaling policy to the Amazon SQS queue to increase the number of EC2
  • BCreate an Auto Scaling policy to increase the number of EC2 instances polling the queue and a
  • CAttach an Auto Scaling policy to the SQS queue to scale instances based on the depth of the
  • DCreate an Auto Scaling policy to increase the number of EC2 instances polling the queue and a

How the community answered

(28 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    7% (2)
  • C
    11% (3)
  • D
    79% (22)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-using-sqs-queue.html

Topics

#SQS queue depth#Auto Scaling#EC2 polling#cost-effective scaling

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