Task 2.1: Design a Deployment Strategy to Meet Business Requirements SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21foundation · easy

   In a blue/green deployment, what is the primary mechanism used to switch traffic from the old environment to the new environment?

   • ARestarting the EC2 instances in the old environment
   • BModifying the DNS record or load balancer target group
   • CReplacing the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in the launch template
   • DUpdating the Auto Scaling group launch configuration
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2. 22foundation · easy

   What is a key advantage of a blue/green deployment over a rolling deployment?

   • AIt does not require any monitoring
   • BIt allows instant rollback by switching traffic back
   • CIt eliminates the need for a load balancer
   • DIt requires less infrastructure to run
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4. 23foundation · easy

   What is a promotion path in the context of deployment environments?

   • AThe process of deleting an environment
   • BThe process of scaling an environment
   • CThe process of moving an application from one environment to the next, such as from dev to test to prod
   • DThe process of monitoring an environment
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5. 24foundation · easy

   What is a common cost optimization strategy during deployments?

   • AAvoiding the use of automation
   • BKeeping all environments running at full capacity at all times
   • CDeploying to the largest instance type available
   • DMinimizing idle capacity by using appropriate scaling strategies
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6. 25application · medium

   A company runs a customer-facing web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The team must release a new version with a database schema change that is not backward compatible. The business requires zero downtime and the ability to revert to the previous version within minutes if a critical issue is detected after the release. Which deployment strategy should the team use?

   • ABlue/green deployment with a new environment using the updated schema, then switching the load balancer to the new environment
   • BImmutable deployment that replaces EC2 instances in the same Auto Scaling group with the new version
   • CCanary deployment that sends 5% of traffic to the new version and gradually increases it to 100%
   • DRolling deployment with a database migration script that runs before the application update
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