A Company's Application Is Running on Amazon EC2 Instances Within

question 91

Multiple Choice

A company's application is running on Amazon EC2 instances within an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer. Based on the application's history the company anticipates a spike in traffic during a holiday each year. A solutions architect must design a strategy to ensure that the Auto Scaling group proactively increases capacity to minimize any performance impact on application users. Which solution will meet these requirements?

• A) Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to scale up the EC2 instances when CPU utilization exceeds 90%.
• B) Create a recurring scheduled action to scale up the Auto Scaling group before the expected period of peak demand.
• C) Increase the minimum and maximum number of EC2 instances in the Auto Scaling group during the peak demand period.
• D) Configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification to send alerts when there are autoscaling EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCH events.

Understand the four generic business strategies: Cost Leadership, Differentiation, Cost Focus, and Differentiation Focus.

Know the historical application of these strategies by examining case studies such as Henry Ford’s Model T production.

Identify characteristics of cost-leadership and differentiation strategies and how they target broad market segments.

Recognize cost focus and differentiation focus strategies and their targeting of specific market segments.

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