Right-Sizing Cloud Resources Quiz

5 questions Pass: 70% +25 pts (50 with Pro)

Quiz covering Performance and Cost Optimization

What you'll be asked

  1. What is the primary goal of right-sizing cloud resources?
  2. You observe that a production web server consistently shows CPU utilization below 5% and memory utilization below 10% over a 30-day period. What is the most appropriate next step?
  3. When analyzing storage optimization, which metric is most useful for identifying over-provisioned volumes?
  4. A developer reports that an application is experiencing intermittent latency spikes. Metrics show that the instance is hitting its 'IOPS limit' during peak hours. Which right-sizing action should be taken?
  5. Your team is managing a distributed microservices architecture where some services are 'spiky' and others are 'steady state'. Which strategy represents the most advanced right-sizing approach?

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