Rightsizing Quiz

Quiz covering Cloud Economics

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1. 1

   What is the primary goal of 'rightsizing' in cloud economics?

2. 2

   An application is consistently using only 5% of its allocated CPU and memory. What is the most appropriate first step in a rightsizing strategy?

3. 3

   When performing rightsizing, why is it critical to analyze historical performance metrics rather than just current snapshots?

4. 4

   You have identified an instance that is under-utilized during business hours but experiences massive spikes in memory usage during a batch job at midnight. Which approach is most effective?

5. 5

   A high-performance computing (HPC) application is currently running on a general-purpose instance. The application is CPU-bound and experiences significant latency. After monitoring, you notice CPU utilization is at 99%. What is the most technically accurate rightsizing decision?