Which cost management strategy can reduce cloud spending without affecting performance for a workload that runs continuously?

Purchasing reserved instances for the expected baseline usage

Migrating to a different cloud provider

Stopping the workload during off-peak hours

A company runs a batch processing workload that is not time-sensitive and can run at any time. The workload currently runs on on-demand VMs at full price. The company wants to reduce costs. What is the most cost-effective approach?

Purchase reserved instances for the batch workload.

Move the workload to a larger VM size to finish faster and reduce total runtime.

Use spot instances (or preemptible VMs) for the batch workload, accepting that they may be interrupted.

Keep the on-demand VMs but enable detailed billing to track costs.

Which tool is commonly used to monitor cloud resource performance and set alerts for threshold breaches?

Configuration management database (CMDB)

Cloud monitoring service (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor)

Which scaling strategy automatically adjusts the number of instances based on current demand?

Horizontal scaling (scale out/in)

Vertical scaling (scale up/down)

A company runs a production web application on a fleet of VMs. The administrator wants to implement autoscaling to handle variable traffic, but the application requires a warm-up period of several minutes before new instances can serve traffic. The administrator is concerned that during rapid traffic spikes, new instances will not be ready in time, causing performance degradation. What should the administrator do to address this?

Configure autoscaling to keep a small buffer of extra instances running at all times.

Disable autoscaling and manually add instances when traffic increases.

Increase the cooldown period to prevent autoscaling from adding instances too quickly.

Reduce the warm-up period by optimizing the application startup process.

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A company runs a batch processing workload that is not time-sensitive and can run at any time. The workload currently runs on on-demand VMs at full price. The company wants to reduce costs. What is the most cost-effective approach?
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Which tool is commonly used to monitor cloud resource performance and set alerts for threshold breaches?
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Which scaling strategy automatically adjusts the number of instances based on current demand?
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A company runs a production web application on a fleet of VMs. The administrator wants to implement autoscaling to handle variable traffic, but the application requires a warm-up period of several minutes before new instances can serve traffic. The administrator is concerned that during rapid traffic spikes, new instances will not be ready in time, causing performance degradation. What should the administrator do to address this?
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