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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 instanc

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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.

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Topics

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