SAP-C02 Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Practice Question
A company runs a containerized microservices application on Amazon EKS. The operations team notices that some pods are frequently being evicted due to resource constraints. The team wants to improve resource utilization and reduce evictions. Which TWO actions should the team take? (Choose two.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Configure Horizontal Pod Autoscaler based on CPU and memory utilization.
Options A and C are correct. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) dynamically scales the number of pod replicas based on CPU or memory utilization, helping to meet demand without over-provisioning. Resource quotas limit the total resources a namespace can consume, preventing any single team or application from starving others. Option B is incorrect because increasing resource requests for all pods can lead to over-provisioning and wasted resources, potentially worsening the eviction problem. Option D is incorrect because Cluster Autoscaler adds more worker nodes, which addresses cluster-level capacity but does not directly reduce pod evictions caused by node-level resource contention. Option E is incorrect because Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) adjusts resource requests and limits automatically, but it often requires pod restarts and may not immediately prevent evictions if the underlying node is already overcommitted.
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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Configure Horizontal Pod Autoscaler based on CPU and memory utilization.
Why this is correct
Scales pods to handle load.
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Increase the resource requests for all pods to ensure they have enough resources.
Why it's wrong here
May waste resources.
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Set resource quotas per namespace to limit resource consumption.
Why this is correct
Prevents one namespace from starving others.
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Enable Cluster Autoscaler to add more worker nodes.
Why it's wrong here
Does not address pod-level evictions.
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Use Vertical Pod Autoscaler to automatically adjust pod resource requests.
Why it's wrong here
Can cause pod restarts, not ideal.
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