A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group. When the application starts up. the application needs to process data from an Amazon S3 bucket before the application can start to serve requests.
The size of the data that is stored in the S3 bucket is growing. When the Auto Scaling group adds new instances, the application now takes several minutes to download and process the data before the application can serve requests. The company must reduce the time that elapses before new EC2 instances are ready to serve requests.
Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to reduce the application startup time?
Suggested Answer: C
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13 comments · newest first
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Maryanne
11 months ago
Option C sounds good, but is it really cost-effective?
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James
12 months ago
Surprised that warm pools aren't more commonly used for this!
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Toshia
12 months ago
Wait, why would you increase the instance count? Seems counterproductive.
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Hildred
1 year ago
Definitely agree with option A. Makes sense!
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Luisa
1 year ago
A warm pool can really speed things up!
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Lonna
1 year ago
I’m a bit confused about the difference between the Running and Stopped states for warm pools. Does it really affect startup time that much?
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Keneth
1 year ago
The lifecycle hook part sounds familiar; I practiced a question like this where it was crucial to manage instance states effectively.
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Iesha
1 year ago
I think increasing the maximum instance count could help, but it seems like a more expensive solution than just using warm pools.
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Yasuko
1 year ago
I remember studying about warm pools, but I'm not entirely sure if they should be in a Stopped or Running state for this scenario.
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Veda
1 year ago
I'm a little confused by the XML structure and how the XQuery is supposed to interact with it. I'll need to review my notes and examples to make sure I'm on the right track.
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Lashaun
1 year ago
I feel pretty confident about this one. The question is asking about the specific resentment that could arise, so I'll need to consider the different possibilities outlined in the answer choices.
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Lashaunda
1 year ago
I'm a bit confused on this one. SSH doesn't seem like the right choice, but I'm not 100% confident in my answer. Guess I'll have to weigh the options carefully.
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Sylvia
1 year ago
Okay, let me see if I can break this down. The question is asking about a security control that encompasses the whole computer system, including hardware, firmware, and software. That sounds like it's describing the trusted computing base, so I'm going to go with A.