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SOA-C02 · Question #511

A company has users that deploy Amazon EC2 instances that have more disk performance capacity than is required. A SysOps administrator needs to review all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)…

The correct answer is C. Opt in to AWS Compute Optimizer. Allow sufficient time for metrics to be gathered. Review the. To help you right-size your EBS volumes, AWS Compute Optimizer analyzes your AWS resource utilization data collected by Amazon CloudWatch from the past 14 days (paid option available for up to three months of data) to identify the optimal resource configuration. These…

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

Question

A company has users that deploy Amazon EC2 instances that have more disk performance capacity than is required. A SysOps administrator needs to review all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are associated with the instances and create cost optimization recommendations based on IOPS and throughput. What should the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements in the MOST operationally efficient way?

Options

  • AUse the monitoring graphs in the EC2 console to view metrics for EBS volumes. Review the
  • BStop the EC2 instances from the EC2 console. Change the EC2 instance type for Amazon EBS-
  • COpt in to AWS Compute Optimizer. Allow sufficient time for metrics to be gathered. Review the
  • DInstall the fio tool onto the EC2 instances and create a .cfg file to approximate the required

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  • A
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  • B
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  • C
    78% (18)
  • D
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Explanation

To help you right-size your EBS volumes, AWS Compute Optimizer analyzes your AWS resource utilization data collected by Amazon CloudWatch from the past 14 days (paid option available for up to three months of data) to identify the optimal resource configuration. These recommendations are available for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, EBS volumes, AWS Auto Scaling groups, AWS Lambda functions, and AWS Fargate. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/cost-optimizing-amazon-ebs-volumes-using-aws- compute-optimizer/

Topics

#AWS Compute Optimizer#EBS optimization#IOPS analysis#cost recommendations

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