A Customer Uses Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling Service and Creates

question 37

Multiple Choice

A customer uses Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling service and creates a scaling group. He/she sets the "Minimum number of instances" to 6 and "Maximum number of instances" to 8. After correctly configuring scaling settings, the customer adds a scaling rule "Remove 5 ECS instances", and creates a scheduled task based on this rule. And then, the customer checks the scaling group and see it already contains 8 valid ECS instances, he/she then enables this scaling group immediately. How many ECS instances are left in the scaling group when the scheduled task is activated once?

• A) One
• B) Six
• C) Zero
• D) Five

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Definitions:

Assignment Statement

Is the act of allocating a particular value to a variable during program execution.

Accumulating Statement

A statement in programming that updates the value of a variable by adding a new value to it.

Postfix Decrement

Postfix Decrement is an operator in programming that decreases the value of a variable by one, after the current operation completes.

Prefix Decrement

Prefix decrement is an operator that decreases the value of a variable by one before the variable is used in an expression.