A Company Has Developed a New Video Game as a Web

question 30

Multiple Choice

A company has developed a new video game as a web application. The application is in a three-tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL. In the database layer several players will compete concurrently online. The game's developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near-real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

• A) Set up an Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached cluster to cache the scores for the web application to display.
• B) Set up an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster to compute and cache the scores for the web application to display.
• C) Place an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the web application to cache the scoreboard in a section of the application.
• D) Create a read replica on Amazon RDS for MySQL to run queries to compute the scoreboard and serve the read traffic to the web application.

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