A company runs a web application on a group of virtual machines behind a load balancer. The application occasionally experiences slowdowns during traffic spikes. The operations team wants to automatically add capacity when CPU utilization exceeds 70% and remove capacity when it drops below 30%. The team also wants to be notified when the auto-scaling action is triggered. Which configuration should the team implement?

Create two scaling policies (scale out at 70% CPU, scale in at 30% CPU) and configure a monitoring alert on the auto-scaling activity

Configure a monitoring alert that notifies the team when CPU exceeds 70% and let them manually add instances

Create a single scaling policy that adds instances when CPU exceeds 70% and rely on manual removal when traffic drops

Right-size the existing virtual machines to a larger size and keep them running continuously

A DevOps team manages a cloud application that occasionally experiences memory exhaustion on its application servers. The team wants to be notified as soon as memory usage exceeds 85% so they can investigate before the service degrades. Which combination of actions should the team implement?

Enable detailed logging on the servers and review the logs at the end of each day

Set up a daily batch job that checks memory usage and sends a report every morning

Create a monitoring alert that triggers when the memory metric exceeds 85% and sends a notification to the on-call channel

Configure auto-scaling to add more servers when memory exceeds 85% and rely on the scaling event as the notification

An online gaming company runs its application on virtual machines in a single availability zone. Players have experienced downtime when the zone fails. The company wants to improve fault tolerance without changing the application code. Which configuration should the company implement?

Take hourly snapshots of the virtual machines and store them in the same availability zone

Enable auto-scaling within the same availability zone based on CPU usage

Increase the size of the virtual machines in the current availability zone

Deploy identical virtual machines in two different availability zones and place them behind a load balancer

A company runs a batch processing workload that runs for two hours every night. The workload consistently uses 40% of the CPU on the current virtual machine. The cloud bill is higher than expected, and the company wants to reduce cost without changing the workload's performance. Which action should the company take?

Move the workload to a smaller virtual machine that matches the actual CPU utilization

Enable auto-scaling to add more virtual machines when CPU exceeds 50%

Migrate the workload to a larger virtual machine to provide headroom for future growth

Keep the current virtual machine running 24/7 to avoid any change in performance

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11expert · hard
A company runs a web application on a group of virtual machines behind a load balancer. The application occasionally experiences slowdowns during traffic spikes. The operations team wants to automatically add capacity when CPU utilization exceeds 70% and remove capacity when it drops below 30%. The team also wants to be notified when the auto-scaling action is triggered. Which configuration should the team implement?
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A DevOps team manages a cloud application that occasionally experiences memory exhaustion on its application servers. The team wants to be notified as soon as memory usage exceeds 85% so they can investigate before the service degrades. Which combination of actions should the team implement?
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13application · medium
An online gaming company runs its application on virtual machines in a single availability zone. Players have experienced downtime when the zone fails. The company wants to improve fault tolerance without changing the application code. Which configuration should the company implement?
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14application · medium
A company runs a batch processing workload that runs for two hours every night. The workload consistently uses 40% of the CPU on the current virtual machine. The cloud bill is higher than expected, and the company wants to reduce cost without changing the workload's performance. Which action should the company take?
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Which cloud backup strategy involves copying data to a separate geographic location to protect against regional disasters?
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Questions 11–15

A DevOps team manages a cloud application that occasionally experiences memory exhaustion on its application servers. The team wants to be notified as soon as memory usage exceeds 85% so they can investigate before the service degrades. Which combination of actions should the team implement?

An online gaming company runs its application on virtual machines in a single availability zone. Players have experienced downtime when the zone fails. The company wants to improve fault tolerance without changing the application code. Which configuration should the company implement?

Which cloud backup strategy involves copying data to a separate geographic location to protect against regional disasters?

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