Compute Flashcards
Q: What should a solutions architect recommend to ensure that Amazon EC2 instances can automatically scale to handle varying workloads in a cost-effective manner?
A: Use a mix of On-Demand Instances and Spot Instances.
Q: How should a solutions architect design a scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for a web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes?
A: Deploy the web application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer.
Q: What should a solutions architect do to ensure high availability and fault tolerance for a critical application running on Amazon EC2 instances?
A: Configure the instances in an Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones and use an Application Load Balancer.
Q: How should a solutions architect design a cost-effective solution to handle batch processing workloads on Amazon EC2?
A: Use a combination of Reserved Instances for the baseline capacity and Spot Instances to handle additional capacity.
Q: What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance and scalability of a containerized application running on Amazon ECS?
A: Use AWS Fargate as the launch type for the ECS tasks and configure Auto Scaling based on task metrics.
Q: How should a solutions architect design a high-performance computing (HPC) solution on AWS to process large datasets in parallel?
A: Use Amazon EC2 instances in a compute cluster with Amazon FSx for Lustre as the shared file system.
