nerdexam
Amazon

SOA-C02 · Question #459

A SysOps administrator is responsible for a legacy, CPU-heavy application. The application can only be scaled vertically. Currently, the application is deployed on a single t3.large Amazon EC2…

The correct answer is B. Upgrade to a compute-optimized instance. Since the application is CPU-heavy and can only be scaled vertically, the best option to alleviate the performance problem would be to upgrade to a compute-optimized instance. Compute- optimized instances provide a higher ratio of vCPUs to memory than other families and are…

Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization

Question

A SysOps administrator is responsible for a legacy, CPU-heavy application. The application can only be scaled vertically. Currently, the application is deployed on a single t3.large Amazon EC2 instance. The system is showing 90% CPU usage and significant performance latency after a few minutes. What change should be made to alleviate the performance problem?

Options

  • AChange the Amazon EBS volume to Provisioned IOPs.
  • BUpgrade to a compute-optimized instance.
  • CAdd additional t2.large instances to the application.
  • DPurchase Reserved Instances.

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    6% (3)
  • B
    74% (35)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    15% (7)

Explanation

Since the application is CPU-heavy and can only be scaled vertically, the best option to alleviate the performance problem would be to upgrade to a compute-optimized instance. Compute- optimized instances provide a higher ratio of vCPUs to memory than other families and are optimized for compute-bound applications that benefit from high-performance processors. Upgrading to a compute-optimized instance would provide more CPU resources for the application, which should help alleviate the performance problem.

Topics

#EC2 instance types#compute-optimized#vertical scaling#CPU performance

Community Discussion

No community discussion yet for this question.

Full SOA-C02 Practice