A startup with a small budget wants to deploy a load balancer for their web application running on cloud VMs. They prefer a solution that requires no upfront hardware investment and can scale with their needs. Which type of load balancer should they choose?

A DNS-based load balancer that rotates IP addresses

A cloud-based load balancer offered by their cloud provider

A software load balancer installed on a single VM

A hardware load balancer purchased and installed on-premises

A company wants to deploy a CDN to improve performance for their global users. They also need to ensure that content is always fresh, especially for frequently updated files. What should they configure?

Set a long cache TTL to maximize cache hits

Set a short cache TTL and use cache invalidation for updated content

Use a load balancer instead of a CDN

Disable caching for all content

A company runs a web application on a set of VMs. They have configured autoscaling based on CPU utilization. However, during a traffic spike, the autoscaling policy adds VMs too slowly, causing performance degradation. What should they do to improve the response time?

Increase the CPU threshold for scaling out

Remove the cooldown period entirely

Use a scheduled scaling policy instead

Lower the CPU threshold for scaling out and reduce the cooldown period

After deploying a CDN, what is a common management task to ensure content stays up to date?

Disabling caching to ensure users always get the latest content.

Configuring cache expiration (TTL) rules and purging cached content when needed.

Manually copying new content to every edge server.

Increasing the number of origin servers to handle more traffic.

A company wants to offload the management and maintenance of its load balancer to a cloud provider. Which type of load balancer should they choose?

Open-source load balancer on a physical server

Software load balancer installed on their own VMs

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A company runs a web application on a set of VMs. They have configured autoscaling based on CPU utilization. However, during a traffic spike, the autoscaling policy adds VMs too slowly, causing performance degradation. What should they do to improve the response time?
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After deploying a CDN, what is a common management task to ensure content stays up to date?
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15foundation · easy
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