Cloud Admin Scaling Resources for a Traffic Spike Quiz

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1. Which strategy reduces latency by caching content geographically?

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Cloud Admin Scaling Resources For A Traffic Spike Quiz - Quiz

This quiz evaluates your ability to scale cloud resources during traffic surges. You'll assess auto-scaling strategies, load balancing, resource monitoring, and capacity planning techniques essential for cloud administrators. Master the skills needed to maintain performance and availability when demand spikes unexpectedly.

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2. When scaling resources, administrators should monitor ____ to prevent throttling.

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3. True or False: Stateful applications scale horizontally as easily as stateless ones.

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4. Which approach combines multiple availability zones for high availability?

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5. Predictive scaling uses ____ to forecast traffic and pre-scale resources.

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6. True or False: A single load balancer can be a single point of failure.

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7. What does RPO represent in business continuity planning?

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8. Which GCP service manages scaling for containerized applications?

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9. A scaling policy that adds instances when CPU exceeds 80% is called ____.

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10. True or False: Scaling down resources immediately after a spike prevents cost overruns.

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11. Which AWS service automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances based on demand?

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12. What is the minimum time required to launch new instances during a spike?

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13. A cloud admin needs to handle a 300% traffic increase. The best approach is ____.

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14. Which cloud monitoring tool alerts administrators when thresholds are breached?

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15. True or False: Horizontal scaling involves distributing workloads across multiple instances.

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16. What does RTO stand for in disaster recovery?

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17. Which metric should trigger auto-scaling when managing a sudden traffic increase?

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18. True or False: Vertical scaling adds more processing power to existing instances.

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19. In Azure, which feature allows VMs to scale automatically based on CPU utilization?

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20. What is the primary purpose of a load balancer during a traffic spike?

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Which strategy reduces latency by caching content geographically?
When scaling resources, administrators should monitor ____ to prevent...
True or False: Stateful applications scale horizontally as easily as...
Which approach combines multiple availability zones for high...
Predictive scaling uses ____ to forecast traffic and pre-scale...
True or False: A single load balancer can be a single point of...
What does RPO represent in business continuity planning?
Which GCP service manages scaling for containerized applications?
A scaling policy that adds instances when CPU exceeds 80% is called...
True or False: Scaling down resources immediately after a spike...
Which AWS service automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances...
What is the minimum time required to launch new instances during a...
A cloud admin needs to handle a 300% traffic increase. The best...
Which cloud monitoring tool alerts administrators when thresholds are...
True or False: Horizontal scaling involves distributing workloads...
What does RTO stand for in disaster recovery?
Which metric should trigger auto-scaling when managing a sudden...
True or False: Vertical scaling adds more processing power to existing...
In Azure, which feature allows VMs to scale automatically based on CPU...
What is the primary purpose of a load balancer during a traffic spike?
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