You Are Running an Application on Multiple Virtual Machines Within

question 43

Multiple Choice

You are running an application on multiple virtual machines within a managed instance group and have autoscaling enabled. The autoscaling policy is configured so that additional instances are added to the group if the CPU utilization of instances goes above 80%. VMs are added until the instance group reaches its maximum limit of five VMs or until CPU utilization of instances lowers to 80%. The initial delay for HTTP health checks against the instances is set to 30 seconds. The virtual machine instances take around three minutes to become available for users. You observe that when the instance group autoscales, it adds more instances then necessary to support the levels of end-user traffic. You want to properly maintain instance group sizes when autoscaling. What should you do?

• A) Set the maximum number of instances to 1.
• B) Decrease the maximum number of instances to 3.
• C) Use a TCP health check instead of an HTTP health check.
• D) Increase the initial delay of the HTTP health check to 200 seconds.

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Definitions:

Consumer Surplus

The amount a buyer is willing to pay for a good minus the amount the buyer actually pays for it.

Monopolistically Competitive Price

Refers to the price level set by firms in a monopolistically competitive market, where many firms sell products that are differentiated from one another and not perfect substitutes.

Price Increases

A rise in the cost of goods or services, often measured by the rate of inflation.

Quantity Demanded

The total amount of a good that consumers are willing to purchase at a given price over a specified period.