SAP-C02 Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Practice Question
A company runs a containerized application on Amazon ECS using Fargate. The application experiences intermittent high latency during peak hours. The operations team suspects that the task placement strategy is causing resource contention. The cluster uses the default binpack strategy. What should the team do to improve performance?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Change the task placement strategy to spread across Availability Zones.
Changing the task placement strategy to spread distributes tasks across Availability Zones, reducing resource contention and improving latency. Option A is wrong because increasing memory and CPU does not address placement-related contention. Option B is wrong because increasing the number of tasks with the default binpack strategy may worsen contention by packing tasks more densely. Option D is wrong because using EC2 with GPU instances does not solve placement issues and introduces unnecessary complexity.
Answer analysis
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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Increase the memory and CPU for each task definition to reduce contention.
Why it's wrong here
This does not address placement strategy; contention may still occur.
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Increase the number of tasks to distribute the load evenly.
Why it's wrong here
More tasks on the same resources could increase contention.
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Change the task placement strategy to spread across Availability Zones.
Why this is correct
Spread strategy distributes tasks, reducing resource contention.
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Use a launch type of EC2 with GPU instances to handle the load.
Why it's wrong here
GPU instances are for compute-intensive workloads, not for general latency issues.
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