AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question
An operations engineer is provisioning three private subnets-one in each of three Availability Zones-in the 10.0.0.0/16 VPC for an analytics fleet. During nightly jobs, up to 950 Amazon EC2 instances run concurrently in each AZ, and capacity planners require 10 % additional headroom. What is the smallest IPv4 CIDR mask that each subnet must use to satisfy the requirement?
A /21 subnet provides 2,048 IPv4 addresses. Because AWS reserves 5 addresses in every subnet, 2,043 addresses remain usable. The workload needs 950 instances plus 10 % headroom (950 × 1.10 ≈ 1,045). A /22 subnet supplies only 1,019 usable addresses, which is insufficient. /23 and /20 provide 507 and 4,091 usable addresses respectively; /23 is too small, while /20 wastes address space. Therefore, /21 is the smallest mask that meets the requirement.
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