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Office 365 Which of the following best describes Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

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A service that manages serverless applications

A service for managing cloud storage

A fully managed service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets

A tool for managing databases

Question 2 1 / 1 pis

Which type of load balancer is recommended for applications that require high-performance Layer 7 features?

Application load Balancer

Gateway Load Balancer

Classic Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer

Question 3 1 / 1 pts

Which ELB type is ideal for handling sudden and volatile network traffic spikes?

Network Load Balancer

Classic Load Balancer

Gateway Load Balancer

Application load Balancer

Question 4 1 / 1 pts

Which of the following protocols is supported by an Application Load Balancer?

HTTP and HTTPS only

HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket

TCP only

UDP

Question 5 1 / 1 pts

Which load balancer is capable of routing requests based on IP addresses?

All of these

Application load Balancer

Classic Load Balancer

Question 6 1/1pts

How can you improve the security of your ELB setup?

By using HTTP protocol instead of HTTPS

By placing ELB in a public subnet

By using SSL/ TLS certificates

By allowing unrestricted access to all IP ranges

Question 7 1/1pts

Which feature allows the Application Load Balancer to route traffic based on HTTP headers?

Sticky sessions

Listener rules

Target groups

Health checks

Question 8 1/1pts

Which of the following is true about Cross-Zone Load Balancing?

It distributes traffic only within the same Availability Zone

It evenly distributes traffic across registered targets in all enabled Availability Zones

It is only available for Network Load Balancers

It only works with EC2 instances

Question 9 1/1pts

Which load balancer can handle WebSocket connections?

Network Load Balancer

Classic Load Balancer

All of these

Application Load Balancer

Question 10 1/1pts

Which of the following does ELB use to monitor the health of registered targets?

Health checks

Security groups

Listener configurations

Availability zones

Question 11 1/1pts

What happens when an ELB detects an unhealthy target?

ELB shuts down the unhealthy target automatically

Traffic is still routed to the unhealthy target

ELB removes the unhealthy target from the routing list and stops routing traffic to it

ELB sends an alert but continues routing traffic

Question 12 1/1pts

Which feature al lows you to handle SSL termination at the load balancer instead of your backend instances?

Listener rules

Sticky sessions

SSL offloading

Cross-Zone Load Balancing

Question 13 1/1pts

Which AWS service is commonly paired with ELB to automatically scale instances based on traffic?

AWS Lambda

Auto Scaling

Amazon 53

AWS CloudFront

Question 14 1/1pts

How does an Application Load Balancer route traffic to multiple services running on the same instance?

By using Cross-Zone Load Balancing

By using IP addresses

By routing traffic to different ports

By assigning unique health checks

Question 15 1/1pts

Which of the following is NOT a valid target type for ELB?

Containers

EC2 instances

RDS databases

Lambda functions

Question 16 1/1pts

When you enable access logs in ELB, where are the logs stored?

In the load balancer itself

In EC2 instance logs

In Amazon 53

In AWS CloudWatch

Question 17 1/1pts

Which feature al lows Network Load Balancers to forward TCP traffic directly to a specific port on the target?

Proxy protocol

SSL offloading

( TCP passthrough
TLS termination

Question 18 1/1pts

Which load balancer supports UDP traffic?

Application Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer

Classic Load Balancer

None of the above

Question 19 1/1pts

How can you enable SSL/TLS certificates on an ELB?

By using Auto Scaling

By adding SSL rules to target groups

By configuring SSL listeners

By enabling Cross-Zone Load Balancing

Question 20 1/1pts

Cross-zone load balancing is enabled by default in Application Load Balancer

True

False

Question 21 0/1pts

Cross-zone load balancing can be turned off per target group or per region .

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Question 22 1/1pts

Application Load Balancer (ALB) supports content-based routing

True

False

Question 23 1/1pts

Network Load Balancer (NLB) works at Layer 4

True

False

Question 24 1/1pts

Application Load Balancer is suitable for Video Conferencing like Google meet

True

False
Question 25 1/1pts

You are configuring a Network Load Balancer (NLB) for a high-volume database application. The application
uses TCP for communication. What kind of listener should you configure for this use case?

TCP listener

HTTPS listener

WebSocket listener

HTTP listener

Question 26 1/1pts

You are setting up a listener on an Application Load Balancer that needs to handle WebSocket connections for
a real-time chat application. What type of listener configuration is required?

Path-based routing with sticky sessions

HTTP listener without SSL termination

HTTPS listener with WebSocket support

TCP listener on port 80

Question 27 1/1pts

You have an HTTPS listener configured on your ALB, but you need to terminate SSL/ TLS connections at the
load balancer. What should you do to implement this?

Use a TCP listener instead of an HTTPS listener

Configure SSL termination on the backend instances

Enable SSL passthrough on the listener

Attach an SSL/ TLS certificate to the listener

Question 28 1/1pts

You are setting up an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and want to route HTTP requests to port 80 on your
backend instances. What type of listener should you configure?

A TCP listener on port 443

An HTTPS listener on port 443

An HTTP listener on port 80

A WebSocket listener on port 8080

Question 29 1/1pts

You have an application running on Amazon EC2 instances. During high traffic, you want to automatically add
more instances to handle the load. What feature of Auto Scaling allows you to achieve this?

Dynamic scaling

Static scaling

Manual scaling

Scheduled scaling

Question 30 1/1pts

You are setting up Auto Scaling for an e-commerce application. You expect traffic to spike every Friday
evening. How can you configure Auto Scaling to handle this predictable increase in traffic?

Configure a scheduled scaling policy

Set up a target tracking policy

Enable dynamic scaling based on CPU usage

Use lifecycle hooks to add instances manually

Question 31 1/1pts

Your web application needs to handle sudden spikes in traffic while ensuring cost efficiency. What is the best
Auto Scaling strategy?

Use dynamic scaling based on CPU utilization and set a minimum and maximum number of instances

Enable only manual scaling

Schedule scaling with no consideration for traffic spikes

Set a fixed number of instances

Question 32 1/1pts

You want to terminate instances with the oldest launch configuration first when scaling in. How can you
configure Auto Scaling to achieve this?

Use a scaling policy based on health checks

Set the termination policy to "Oldestlnstance"

Set the termination policy to "Newestlnstance"

Terminate instances manually

Question 33 1/1pts

During a scaling event, one of your instances fails a health check. What will Auto Scaling do by default?

Launch a new instance but keep the unhealthy one active

Terminate the unhealthy instance and replace it with a new one

Manually notify the user of the instance failure

Nothing, the instance will remain active

Question 34 1/1pts

Your Auto Scaling group is scaling out but the instances are taking too long to initialize. How can you delay
sending traffic to these instances until they are fully ready?

Reduce the cooldown period

Use lifecycle hooks to pause instance initialization

Set a health check grace period

Increase the minimum number of instances

Question 35 1/1pts

You want to add a notification when Auto Scaling launches or terminates instances. What feature should you
configure?

CloudWatch Alarms

Amazon SNS notifications

AWS Config Rules

Elastic Load Balancing

Question 36 1/1pts

Your Auto Scaling group is configured to scale based on CPU utilization, but it is not scaling out even when
CPU usage is consistently above the threshold . What might be the cause?
( The cooldown period is too long

The maximum number of instances is set too high

The health check grace period is too short

The dynamic scaling policy is disabled

Question 37 1/1pts

You have a dynamic scaling policy based on network traffic (bytes in/ out) for your Auto Scaling group. What
metric should you monitor to ensure this scaling policy is working effectively?

Memory utilization

CPU utilization

Disk read/write operations

Networkln and NetworkOut metrics from CloudWatch

Question 38 1/1pts

You have an Auto Scaling group that spans multiple Availability Zones. One of the zones becomes unavailable.
How will Auto Scaling handle this situation?

It will automatically replace the instances in the unavailable zone in another zone

It will terminate all instances across all zones

Auto Scaling will stop working until the zone is restored

Manual intervention is required to launch new instances

Question 39 1/1pts

You need to implement Auto Scaling for an application that has unpredictable, bursty traffic patterns. Which
scaling strategy should you use?

Scheduled scaling

Manual scaling

Dynamic scaling with target tracking

Scaling based on predefined thresholds

Question 40 1/1pts

You have a scaling policy based on the number of active connections to your EC2 instances. Which service
and metrics will you use to configure this?

Elastic Load Balancing with ActiveConnectionCount metrics

Auto Scaling with CPU utilization metrics

Amazon 53 with access log metrics

Amazon SNS with instance launch/terminate notifications

Question 41 1/1pts

You want to run a batch job every day at midnight that requires 5 EC2 instances for processing. What Auto
Scaling feature should you use to automatically launch these instances?

Dynamic scaling

Target tracking

Scheduled scaling

Predictive scaling
Question 42 1/1pts

Your Auto Scaling group uses both On-Demand and Spot instances. However, during a scale-out event, only
On-Demand instances are launched. What could be the reason?

The maximum capacity has been reached

The Auto Scaling group is not configured for mixed instances

The cooldown period is too long

Spot instances are unavailable in the current zone

Question 43 1/1pts

You want to control the order in which instances are terminated when scaling in. How can you configure Auto
Scaling to terminate instances based on their launch age?

Enable Elastic Load Balancer health checks

Set the termination policy to "Newestlnstance"

Use lifecycle hooks

Set the termination policy to "OldestlaunchConfiguration"

Question 44 1/1pts

There are two basic ways to trigger changes to an EC2 Auto Scaling group.
Define a scaling policy that either scales out or scales in based on a CloudWatch alarm
AND
Define a scheduled action

True

False

Question 45 1/1pts

EC2 Auto Scaling policy can specify one of two options

1. To add or remove a fixed number of instances.
2. Adjust the number of running instances as a percentage of the desired capacity for the EC2 Auto Scaling
group.

True

False

Question 46 1/1pts

Auto Scale Uses Amazon EC2 instance health status checks by default

True

False

Question 47 1/1pts

Scale IN means New Instance Added

True

False

Question 48 0/1pts

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling does not support cooldown periods for step scaling policies.

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Question 49 1/1pts

You want to configure Route 53 to automatically route traffic to backup servers in another region in case your
primary servers fail. How can you achieve this?

Use latency-based routing with geoproximity routing

Use geolocation routing with a health check

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Use failover routing with health checks

Use weighted routing with health checks

Question 50 1/1pts

You need to configure Route 53 to route traffic to multiple instances of your application, each hosted in a
different AWS region. Which routing policy will ensure that users are routed to the region with the lowest
latency?

Failover routing

Weighted routing

Geoproximity routing

Latency-based routing

Question 51 1/1pts

Your application requires that users in Europe are directed to servers in Europe, while users in the US are
directed to servers in the US. What type of routing policy should you configure in Route 53?

Latency-based routing

Simple routing

Geolocation routing

Weighted routing

Question 52 1/1pts

You want to distribute DNS traffic between two web servers located in different regions. Server A should
receive 70% of the traffic, and Server B should receive 30%. Which routing policy should you use?

Geolocation routing

Weighted routing

Failover routing

Latency-based routing

Question 53 1/1pts

Your Route 53 hosted zone has multiple records pointing to different resources. If you want all requests to be
distributed equally across these resources, which routing policy should you use?

Latency-based routing

Weighted routing

Simple routing

Geolocation routing