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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 applicatio

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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

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Topics

#Auto Scaling group#Application Load Balancer#CPU utilization#horizontal scaling
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