A company runs a web application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The application experiences predictable traffic spikes at the end of each month. The company wants to ensure it has enough capacity to handle the spikes without paying for unused resources during the rest of the month. What should the company do?

Provision enough instances to handle the peak load at all times.

Use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with a scheduled scaling policy.

Move the application to a single, larger instance.

Use a larger instance type to handle the peak load.

In the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?

Replacing failed hardware in AWS data centers

Physical security of AWS data centers

Security of the customer's data and applications

Which practice is an example of right-sizing to optimize costs?

Always selecting the largest instance type available

Deploying resources in every AWS Region

Selecting an EC2 instance type that matches the workload's compute and memory requirements

Using more Availability Zones than necessary

A company has a simple web application that runs a small piece of code in response to an HTTP request. The code runs for less than a second. The company wants to minimize cost and operational overhead. Which approach is the most cost-effective?

Use Amazon ECS with a continuously running container.

Use a larger EC2 instance to ensure fast response times.

Use AWS Lambda to run the code.

Run the code on a dedicated EC2 instance that is always on.

Which principle is an example of least privilege in AWS?

Using the same password for all accounts

Granting all users full administrative access

Granting users only the permissions they need to perform their job

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A company runs a web application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The application experiences predictable traffic spikes at the end of each month. The company wants to ensure it has enough capacity to handle the spikes without paying for unused resources during the rest of the month. What should the company do?
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In the AWS shared responsibility model, which of the following is the customer responsible for?
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Which practice is an example of right-sizing to optimize costs?
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A company has a simple web application that runs a small piece of code in response to an HTTP request. The code runs for less than a second. The company wants to minimize cost and operational overhead. Which approach is the most cost-effective?
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Which principle is an example of least privilege in AWS?
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