SAP-C02 Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Practice Question
A company runs a critical application on Amazon ECS Fargate. The application uses an Application Load Balancer as the front end. Recently, the application experienced a spike in traffic, and many tasks were marked as unhealthy and replaced. The team wants to improve resilience to traffic spikes without over-provisioning. What should the team do?
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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Use a step scaling policy with a lower scale-out threshold and a larger adjustment
Step scaling policies can respond more aggressively to larger traffic spikes by using a lower scale-out threshold and a larger adjustment, adding capacity faster when needed. Option B (increase task memory) does not directly affect scaling behavior. Option C (increase health check interval) would actually delay detection of unhealthy tasks, potentially reducing resilience. Option D (target tracking) is reactive and may not handle sudden spikes as effectively as step scaling.
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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Use a step scaling policy with a lower scale-out threshold and a larger adjustment
Why this is correct
Step scaling can add more tasks faster when CPU exceeds thresholds.
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Increase the task memory allocation to improve performance
Why it's wrong here
Performance improvement does not address scaling speed.
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Increase the health check interval to reduce the number of tasks marked unhealthy
Why it's wrong here
Longer interval means slower detection of actual issues.
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Use a target tracking scaling policy with a higher target value
Why it's wrong here
Higher target delays scaling.
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