HOTSPOT
You manage an Azure Web Site for a consumer-product company. The website runs in
Standard mode on a single medium instance. You expect increased traffic to the website
due to an upcoming sale during a holiday weekend. You need to ensure that the website
performs optimally when user activity is at its highest. Which option should you select? To
answer, select the appropriate option in the answer area.
Answer: 
Explanation:
Why not weekend?
‘Set up schedule times’ should be considered as there on option inside “Specific Dates: Define special events that override your other scale settings”
isn’t it Weekday?
In my opinion the answer is weekend.
Also in my opinion it must be Weekend. Why setting an schedule time for the weekday when the question says there is an increased traffic expected in the weekend?
Yes it is Weekday only, Question says increased traffic during Weekend. so instance should be small in Weekdays.
I think you are right.
In the exhibit, the instance size says “small” not medium.
When scale by metric parameter is NONE the schedule is not effective.
I think the correct answer should be Weekend and Scale by metric CPU
Only one answer is allowed,
In my opinion the correct answer is CPU
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-how-to-scale/
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2013/06/26/autoscaling-windows-azure-applications/
+1 CPU.
Selecting Weekend and leaving Metric as none would not help.
All wrong guys
Since it’s a special event, you should :
1) click on ‘Setup schedule times’ in order to define a specific date for scaling :
– name of the specific scaling
– start date
– start time (hh:mm AM/PM)
– end date
– end time (hh:mm AM/PM)
2) From the “Edit scale setting…” combobox now appears your specific date name (under a “Specific date” section) that you should select
3) Choosing a scaling to edit automatically activate the “Scale by metric” to CPU and update the calendar next to setup the instance.
Pras was right, as usual 🙂
In the exhibit, the instance size says “small”, so maybe we are scaling down in the WEEKDAYS since the instance is already set up as a medium instance.
Any ideas?
Yes David I think you’re correct.
I don’t think so.
The question is “You need to ensure that the website
performs optimally when user activity is at its highest”
I think the real question allow us to change everything, not just EDIT SCALE SETTING
So the answer is:
INSTANCE SIZE: medium
SCALE: weekend
No need to use SET UP SCHEDULE TIME because it is already done (SCALE SETTING drop down, but if not we shouls have choosen ‘Different scale settings for weekdays and weekends’ in the SCHEDULE FORM)
SCALE BY METRIC: cpu
SCALE BY METRIC could as well be NONE, but we need to change the number of instance
The problem is that the slider is not seen on the insight, so I prefer CPU that at least has defaults
Yeah, I reckon it’s weekend to, the question tells us traffic is expected on a weekend specifically, unless they expect us to manually scale it prior to the weekend, but it doesn’t say that.
This question is incomplete.
You’d pick ‘Different scale settings for weekdays and weekends’ from the ‘Set up schedule times’ box.
BTW Cannot scale up Instance size (eg. Small to Large). All Instance Counts share same Instance size.
Since the The website runs in Standard mode and on a single medium instance so it will autoscale at the time of traffic to optimize the performance.
As per the above selections we are only allowed to select Weekday or Weekend and Small size is already selected hence Weekday can be the only choice left with us
cutedevil is correct
As from the PDF explantation:
Note:
The ‘small’ instance is selected. This setting would be for the weekdays. Then you would select a larger instance for the ‘weekend’ schedule setting to cover the increased activity.
Reference: Azure, How to Scale Websites
URL: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-scale/
Thus, the given answer is correct since you’re busy dealing with the Weekday schedule and not the weekend. Trick question
Trick question indeed. Pretty sh1tty way of writing questions tbh. There’s no need to try and trip people up like this. I wish they’d work out a method of doing proper simulation exams where you had to actually do what they wanted *live* on a simulation of the real tproduct. I remember doing my IIS exam like that many years ago, but it’s the only one I’ve ever done that had that sort of thing in.
Question is completely borked as many seem to be. The question states that the site currently runs on a medium instance and you expect increased traffic in an upcoming sale on a holiday weekend. So if it’s currently running on a medium instace and you’re expecting increased traffic, why the hell would you leave it as medium and scale down to a small instance for the weekdays, which is what the answer is implying? That still leave us with a medium instance with increased traffic for the upcoming weekend.
The real life answer would obviously be scale up (or out I guess) (and obviously back down again) for that weekend based on a metric such as CPU. I want to know who writes these damn questions, because they need sacking.
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