EC2 Placement Groups Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. Which EC2 Placement Group strategy is designed to keep instances as close to each other as possible to achieve low network latency and high network throughput?
2. You have a fleet of 10 critical web servers. You need to ensure that each instance is placed on distinct underlying hardware to minimize the impact of correlated hardware failures. Which placement strategy should you choose?
3. A large-scale distributed application (like HDFS or Kafka) needs to run across many instances while ensuring that groups of instances do not share the same physical racks. Which placement group type is most appropriate?
4. Which of the following statements regarding 'Spread' placement groups is true?
5. You have an existing EC2 instance running in a standard configuration. You want to move it into a Cluster placement group. What is the correct procedure to achieve this?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.