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Start Resilient Cloud Solutions PracticeA company runs a critical web application on EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with Auto Scaling. During a recent traffic spike, the application became unavailable for 10 minutes. Analysis shows that the ALB's healthy host count dropped to zero because the instances failed health checks due to high CPU load. What is the MOST effective design change to improve resilience during future traffic spikes?
Explanation: Predictive scaling uses historical traffic data to forecast future demand and proactively adjust capacity before a spike occurs. This prevents the CPU from reaching critical levels that cause health check failures, ensuring the ALB always has healthy hosts. Scheduled scaling alone would not adapt to unexpected spikes, but predictive scaling combined with dynamic scaling provides both proactive and reactive resilience.
A company uses DynamoDB global tables in two AWS Regions with strong consistency reads. They observe occasional write conflicts that are not being resolved automatically. The application uses DynamoDBMapper with optimistic locking. What should the DevOps engineer do to ensure conflict resolution?
Explanation: Option D is correct because DynamoDB global tables use last-writer-wins (LWW) for conflict resolution by default, but when using DynamoDBMapper with optimistic locking, the application must implement conditional writes with a version number attribute to ensure updates are applied only to the latest version. This prevents stale updates from overwriting newer data, as the conditional write will fail if the version number in the request does not match the current version in the table, allowing the application to retry with the updated version.
A company's application runs on EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone. The operations team wants to improve resilience without redesigning the application. Which action is the MOST effective?
Explanation: Deploying EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using an Auto Scaling group is the most effective action because it eliminates the single point of failure at the AZ level. If one AZ experiences an outage, the Auto Scaling group automatically launches replacement instances in the remaining healthy AZs, ensuring application availability without requiring any application-level changes. This directly addresses the goal of improving resilience by leveraging AWS's fault-isolated infrastructure.
A company uses a third-party backup solution to back up its EC2 instances daily. The backups are stored in an S3 bucket with default settings. The company wants to ensure that backups are protected from accidental deletion and are available for at least one year. Which combination of S3 features should the DevOps engineer implement?
Explanation: Option D is correct because S3 Object Lock with Governance mode prevents objects from being deleted or overwritten by any user (including the root user) for the specified retention period of 365 days, meeting the one-year availability requirement. The lifecycle policy to transition to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days reduces storage costs while still keeping the data accessible for retrieval within 12 hours, which is acceptable for backup retention. This combination ensures immutability and cost-effective long-term storage.
A company runs a stateful web application on EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB) in a single Availability Zone. The application stores session state locally on the instance. The company wants to achieve high availability across multiple AZs with minimal application changes. What should the DevOps engineer do?
Explanation: Option D is correct because replacing the NLB with an ALB and enabling sticky sessions (session affinity) using the ALB's cookie allows the stateful web application to maintain session state across multiple AZs without modifying the application code. The ALB generates a cookie (AWSALB) that binds a client's session to a specific target instance, ensuring subsequent requests from the same client are routed to the same EC2 instance. This achieves high availability across AZs with minimal changes, as the application continues to store session state locally on the instance.
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