What is AWS Autoscaling?

• A service that automatically scales AWS resources based on demand

• A service that automatically deploys new instances in AWS

• A service that monitors AWS resource utilization

• A service that optimizes AWS infrastructure costs

What is the purpose of Autoscaling groups in AWS Autoscaling?

• To define the minimum and maximum capacity of the Autoscaling group

• To specify the scaling policies for the Autoscaling group

• To manage the lifecycle of instances in the Autoscaling group

• All of the above

Which metric can be used to trigger scaling actions in AWS Autoscaling?

• CPU utilization

• Network throughput

• Memory utilization

• All of the above

Which scaling policy type in AWS Autoscaling allows you to define specific thresholds for scaling actions?

• Target tracking scaling

• Step scaling

• Simple scaling

• Predictive scaling

What happens to instances when they are terminated by Autoscaling in AWS?

• The instances are stopped and can be restarted later

• The instances are terminated and cannot be restarted

• The instances are moved to a standby state

• The instances are automatically replaced with new instances

How does AWS Autoscaling ensure high availability and fault tolerance?

• By automatically distributing instances across multiple Availability Zones

• By regularly backing up data in Amazon S3

• By using multi-region replication for all resources

• By using RAID configuration for data redundancy

Can you use AWS Autoscaling to scale resources other than EC2 instances?

• Yes, Autoscaling can scale other AWS services as well

• No, Autoscaling is only applicable to EC2 instances

• Only if the resources are hosted in Amazon S3

• Only if the resources are managed by AWS Lambda

How does AWS Autoscaling handle sudden spikes in traffic or demand?

• By increasing the capacity of existing instances

• By automatically adding more instances to the Autoscaling group

• By shifting traffic to different regions

• By offloading excess traffic to a content delivery network (CDN)

What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling primarily used for?

• Scaling database resources

• Scaling storage resources

• Scaling compute resources

• Scaling networking resources

What does Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling use to automatically adjust the number of EC2 instances in a fleet?

• Elastic Load Balancing

• Route 53 DNS

• CloudFront distribution

• Amazon CloudWatch metrics