SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company is migrating a multi-tier web application to AWS. The application includes an Apache web server and a MySQL database. The operations team needs to scale the web tier based on CPU utilization while maintaining a static IP for the database. Which combination of AWS services should the solutions architect use?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Auto Scaling group for web tier with an Application Load Balancer; Amazon EC2 instance for MySQL database with an Elastic IP
An Auto Scaling group with an Application Load Balancer provides scaling for web servers. An Elastic IP on an EC2 instance provides a static IP for the database. RDS does not support Elastic IP directly.
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Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Auto Scaling group for web tier with a Network Load Balancer; Amazon RDS for MySQL database with a static Elastic IP
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: RDS does not use Elastic IP.
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Auto Scaling group for web tier with an Application Load Balancer; Amazon EC2 instance for MySQL database with an Elastic IP
Why this is correct
Correct: ALB for web scaling, EC2 with Elastic IP for static database IP.
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Auto Scaling group for web tier with an Application Load Balancer; Amazon RDS for MySQL database with a static Elastic IP
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: RDS does not use Elastic IP; it uses a DNS name.
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Auto Scaling group for web tier with a Classic Load Balancer; Amazon EC2 instance for MySQL database with an Elastic IP
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: Classic Load Balancer is legacy and not recommended for new architectures.
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