AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 359

A user is trying to create a PIOPS EBS volume with 8 GB size and 200 IOPS. Will AWS create the volume?

Answer options

• A. Yes, since the ratio between EBS and IOPS is less than 30
• B. No, since the PIOPS and EBS size ratio is less than 30
• C. No, the EBS size is less than 10 GB
• D. Yes, since PIOPS is higher than 100

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS allows the creation of this Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) EBS volume because the minimum size for a PIOPS volume is 4 GB, and the ratio of requested IOPS to volume size (200 IOPS to 8 GB is 25) is within the allowed limit (under 30:1 for legacy limits, or 50:1/500:1 for newer types). Options B and C are incorrect because the volume creation will succeed, and Option D is incorrect because having IOPS higher than 100 does not bypass the volume size ratio rules.