Scaling Amazon EC2

Question 1

What do you call beginning with only the resources you need and designing your architecture to automatically respond to changing demand by scaling out or in?

Answer 1

Scalability

Question 2

What enables you to automatically add or remove Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application demand?

Answer 2

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Question 3

What do you call scaling that responds to changing demand?

Answer 3

Dynamic Scaling

Question 4

What type of scaling schedules the right number of Amazon EC2 instances based on predicted demand?

Answer 4

Predictive Scaling

Question 5

It is the number of Amazon EC2 instances that launch immediately after you have created the Auto Scaling group.

Answer 5

Minimum Capacity

Question 6

What is set when minimum capacity of EC2 Instance is not set?

Answer 6

Desired Capacity

Question 7

Which AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances?

Answer 7

AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

Question 8

Which load balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers?

Answer 8

Application Load Balancer

Question 9

Which load balancer is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required?

Answer 9

Network Load Balancer

Question 10

Which load balancer provides basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances and operates at both the request level and connection level?

Answer 10

Classic Load Balancer

Question 11

Which load balancer is architected to handle millions of requests/second, volatile traffic patterns, and introduces extremely low latency?

Answer 11

Gateway Load Balancer