Hi support team
as you can see in the screenshot: the question is talking about an application hosted onEC2 instance and the right answer is talking about the database, if I’m not mistaken, the “database” word should be replaced by “EC2 instance”
The first part of the answer “Configure the web application to utilize Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling” deals with EC2 side of things. Web applications may be horizontally and automatically scaled in response to demand and therefore is the correct answer for the EC2 side. Putting a larger EC2 instance is not cost effective during quiet periods.
Although the question does not specifically mention a database, it is highly likely that the app would use a database. Since RDS instances cannot be horizontally scaled, then we have to provide a larger instance to be able to handle increased load if the autoscaling group creates more copies of the web server.
When solving AWS exam questions, there are usually two answers that are completely wrong and of the remaining two one is more correct than the other.
I hope that the explanation part shows even if the answer is correct, sometimes I have to answer wrong in purpose to get the explanation part
and this not only for this course but for all courses in KodeKloud
If it wants you to select two and has provided radio buttons, then it’s a UI error. I’ll raise a ticket.
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