A team wants to run containers on AWS without provisioning or managing EC2 instances. They want to pay only for the vCPU and memory resources consumed by their containers. Which AWS compute service should they use?

Amazon EKS with managed node groups

Amazon ECS with EC2 launch type

A news website experiences high read traffic, with many users accessing the same popular articles. The application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The team wants to reduce the load on the instances and improve response times for users. Which solution is most effective?

Enable sticky sessions on the ALB

Add an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the ALB

Use an Amazon ElastiCache cluster for session state

Increase the size of the EC2 instances

A team wants to deploy a containerized application on AWS without managing the underlying EC2 instances or the Kubernetes control plane. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this requirement?

Amazon EKS with EC2 managed node groups

Amazon ECS with EC2 launch type

A team is running a containerized application on Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type. They want to automatically scale the number of tasks based on the average CPU utilization of the running tasks. Which scaling approach should they use?

ECS Service Auto Scaling with a target tracking policy

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Domain 3Objective 2

Task Statement 3.2: Implement Solutions That Are Scalable to Meet Business Requirements. DOP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Content Domain 3: Resilient Cloud Solutions domain, which accounts for 15% of the DOP-C02 exam. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~11–18 in this domain), expect 4–6 from this objective — we provide 43 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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13concepts

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13 Concepts in This Objective

Scaling metrics selection
Scaling issue identification and remediation
Loosely coupled architectures
Distributed architecture patterns
Serverless architecture fundamentals
Auto scaling implementation
Load balancing solutions
Caching strategies
Container platform deployment
Multi-Region deployment for global scalability
API Gateway configuration for serverless
Lambda scaling and configuration
Fargate serverless containers

Questions 21–25

21foundation · easy
A team is exposing a set of AWS Lambda functions as a REST API using Amazon API Gateway. They want to protect the backend from being overwhelmed by a sudden spike in requests. Which API Gateway feature should they configure?
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22foundation · easy
A team wants to run containers on AWS without provisioning or managing EC2 instances. They want to pay only for the vCPU and memory resources consumed by their containers. Which AWS compute service should they use?
Select an answer first
23application · medium
A news website experiences high read traffic, with many users accessing the same popular articles. The application runs on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The team wants to reduce the load on the instances and improve response times for users. Which solution is most effective?
Select an answer first
24foundation · easy
A team wants to deploy a containerized application on AWS without managing the underlying EC2 instances or the Kubernetes control plane. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this requirement?
Select an answer first
25foundation · easy
A team is running a containerized application on Amazon ECS with the Fargate launch type. They want to automatically scale the number of tasks based on the average CPU utilization of the running tasks. Which scaling approach should they use?
Select an answer first

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