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SOA-C02 · Question #437

A company hosts an internal application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Employees use the…

The correct answer is C. Use the Service Quotas console to create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for the EC2 instances. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/configure-cloudwatch.html

Submitted by ricky.ec· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Question

A company hosts an internal application on Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Employees use the application to provide product prices to potential customers. The Auto Scaling group is configured with a dynamic scaling policy and tracks average CPU utilization of the instances. Employees have noticed that sometimes the application becomes slow or unresponsive. A SysOps administrator finds that some instances are experiencing a high CPU load. The Auto Scaling group cannot scale out because the company is reaching the EC2 instance service quota. The SysOps administrator needs to implement a solution that provides a notification when the company reaches 70% or more of the EC2 instance service quota. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient manner?

Options

  • ACreate an AWS Lambda function that lists the EC2 instances, counts the EC2 instances, and
  • BCreate an AWS Lambda function that lists the EC2 instances, counts the EC2 instances, and
  • CUse the Service Quotas console to create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for the EC2 instances.
  • DCreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm. Configure the alarm with a threshold of 70% for the

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  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    81% (22)
  • D
    11% (3)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/latest/userguide/configure-cloudwatch.html

Topics

#Service Quotas#CloudWatch alarms#EC2 Auto Scaling limits#CPU utilization

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