A Company Is Running a Website on Amazon EC2 Instances

question 47

Multiple Choice

A company is running a website on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. When the website traffic increases, additional instances take several minutes to become available because of a long-running user data script that installs software. A SysOps administrator must decrease the time that is required for new instances to become available. Which action should the SysOps administrator take to meet this requirement?

• A) Reduce the scaling thresholds so that instances are added before traffic increases.
• B) Purchase Reserved Instances to cover 100% of the maximum capacity of the Auto Scaling group.
• C) Update the Auto Scaling group to launch instances that have a storage optimized instance type.
• D) Use EC2 Image Builder to prepare an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that has pre-installed software.

Analyze production technologies using inputs of capital and labor.

Identify capital-intensive and labor-intensive technologies.

Calculate the optimal method of production based on the cost of capital and labor.

Understand the concepts of marginal and average products of labor.

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Definitions:

Capitalist Economy

An economic system where private individuals or businesses own capital goods, and the production of goods and services is based on supply and demand.

Employment Discrimination

Occurs when a job applicant or employee is treated unfavorably because of characteristics, such as race, gender, age, or disability, that are unrelated to their job performance.

Earnings

The amount of profit that a company produces during a specific period, which is a key indicator of its financial health.

Short-Run Cost Curves

Graphical representations showing how a firm's costs change in relation to output level in the short term, where some inputs are fixed.