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SOA-C02 · Question #97
A company runs a stateless application that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. Users are reporting performance issues. A SysOps administrator reviews the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the…
The correct answer is C. Create an Auto Scaling group, and assign it to an Application Load Balancer. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html
Submitted by packet_pusher· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
A company runs a stateless application that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. Users are reporting performance issues. A SysOps administrator reviews the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the application and notices that the instance's CPU utilization frequently reaches 90% during business hours. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that will improve the application's responsiveness?
Options
- AConfigure CloudWatch logging on the EC2 instance.
- BConfigure an AWS Client VPN connection to allow the application users to connect directly to the
- CCreate an Auto Scaling group, and assign it to an Application Load Balancer.
- DCreate a CloudWatch alarm that activates when the EC2 instance's CPU utilization goes above
How the community answered
(29 responses)- A14% (4)
- B3% (1)
- C76% (22)
- D7% (2)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html
Topics
#Auto Scaling group#Application Load Balancer#CPU utilization#horizontal scaling
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