VPC Security Best Practices Quiz

Quiz covering VPC Security

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   Which component acts as a virtual firewall for your VPC to control inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level?

2. 2

   You have a web server in a public subnet and a database in a private subnet. Which configuration is the most secure way to allow the web server to access the database?

3. 3

   What is the primary difference between Security Groups and Network ACLs regarding statefulness?

4. 4

   A developer needs to access instances in a private subnet for troubleshooting without exposing them to the internet. Which solution is most appropriate?

5. 5

   You are auditing a VPC and notice that a specific subnet has an associated Network ACL that explicitly denies all traffic from a specific IP range, yet the instances within that subnet are still receiving traffic from those IPs. What is the most likely cause?