ACA-Cloud1 Exam Dumps : ACA Cloud Computing Associate

Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling service allows you to automatically adjust the number of ECS instances in a scaling group based on your business needs and scaling policies. You can set the minimum and maximum number of instances in a scaling group to limit the range of scaling actions1. When you create a scaling rule, you can specify the number of instances to be added or removed, or the expected number of instances after the scaling action2. You can also create a scheduled task to execute a scaling rule at a specified time or periodically3.

In this question, the customer sets the minimum number of instances to 6 and the maximum number of instances to 8 in the scaling group. This means that the scaling group will always have at least 6 instances and at most 8 instances. The customer also adds a scaling rule to remove 5 instances, and creates a scheduled task based on this rule. However, this scaling rule will not be executed if it violates the minimum and maximum limits of the scaling group. Therefore, when the scheduled task is activated once, the scaling group will only remove 2 instances, which is the difference between the current number of instances (8) and the minimum number of instances (6). The remaining number of instances in the scaling group will be 6, which is the correct answer. References: 1: Create a scaling group - Auto Scaling - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center2: Create a scaling rule - Auto Scaling - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center3: Create a scheduled task - Auto Scaling - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center.

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According to the Alibaba Cloud Academy, Auto Scaling is a service that automatically creates and releases ECS instances based on pre-defined rules in order to scale services to match demand. Furthermore, it can configure server load balancer and relational database service white lists, without any manual intervention. Therefore, using Auto Scaling is the most preferred method from the perspective of cost and implementation simplicity, as it can dynamically adjust the number of ECS instances according to the traffic fluctuations, without requiring manual operations or wasting resources. The other methods are either too complex, inefficient, or costly to implement. References: Introduction to Alibaba Auto Scaling - Cloud Academy, ACA Cloud Computing Exam Preparation Course - Alibaba Cloud, Module 4: Cloud Computing Elasticity, Lesson 1: Auto Scaling, Slide 2.

Load and Performance Testing Service (LPTS) is a service that helps users to test the performance and stability of their websites, applications, or servers under different load conditions. LPTS can simulate a large number of concurrent users and requests, and generate detailed reports on the response time, throughput, error rate, and other metrics of the target system. LPTS can help users to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and ensure the reliability and availability of their online services. References: Load and Performance Testing Service - Alibaba Cloud Academy, Load and Performance Testing Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center