A Company Hosts Its Website on AWS

question 253

Multiple Choice

A company hosts its website on AWS. To address the highly variable demand, the company has implemented Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Management is concerned that the company is over-provisioning its infrastructure, especially at the front end of the three-tier application. A solutions architect needs to ensure costs are optimized without impacting performance. What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this?

• A) Use Auto Scaling with Reserved Instances.
• B) Use Auto Scaling with a scheduled scaling policy.
• C) Use Auto Scaling with the suspend-resume feature.
• D) Use Auto Scaling with a target tracking scaling policy.

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Definitions:

FOB Shipping Point

A term used in shipping agreements indicating that the buyer is responsible for paying shipping costs and for the goods at the point of departure from the seller's shipping dock.

Inventory Turnover

An indicator of the number of times a business's inventory turns over and is replenished during a certain period, demonstrating how efficiently inventory is managed.

Specific Identification Method

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Average-Cost Method

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