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SOA-C02 · Question #490
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Scale-out actions take a long time to become complete because of long-running boot scripts. A…
The correct answer is D. Add a warm pool to the Auto Scaling group. Warm pools are used to have a group of instances already booted in stand-by to avoid initial
Submitted by the_admin· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Scale-out actions take a long time to become complete because of long-running boot scripts. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to reduce the required time for scale-out actions without overprovisioning the Auto Scaling group. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Options
- AChange the launch configuration to use a larger instance size.
- BIncrease the minimum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group.
- CAdd a predictive scaling policy to the Auto Scaling group.
- DAdd a warm pool to the Auto Scaling group.
How the community answered
(15 responses)- A13% (2)
- C7% (1)
- D80% (12)
Explanation
Warm pools are used to have a group of instances already booted in stand-by to avoid initial
Topics
#Auto Scaling warm pool#scale-out latency#EC2 Auto Scaling#boot scripts
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