A Company Develops and Maintains a Web Application Using Amazon

question 183

Multiple Choice

A company develops and maintains a web application using Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance in a single Availability Zone. The resources need to run only when new deployments are being tested using AWS CodePipeline. Testing occurs one or more times a week and each test takes 2-3 hours to run. A DevOps engineer wants a solution that does not change the architecture components. Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective manner?

• A) Convert the RDS database to an Amazon Aurora Serverless database. Use an AWS Lambda function to start and stop the EC2 instances before and after tests.
• B) Put the EC2 instances into an Auto Scaling group. Schedule scaling to run at the start of the deployment tests.
• C) Replace the EC2 instances with EC2 Spot Instances and the RDS database with an RDS Reserved Instance.
• D) Subscribe Amazon Cloud Watch Events to CodePipeline to trigger AWS Systems Manager Automation documents that start and stop all EC2 and RDS instances before and after deployment tests.

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Definitions:

Time-consuming

Describes tasks or activities that require a lot of time to complete, often more than is desired or expected.

Experimental Research

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Independent Variable

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