VPC Security Design Quiz

5 questions • Pass: 70% • +25 pts

Quiz covering Secure Workloads

VPC Security Design Quiz

5 questions | Pass: 70% | Earn 25 points

Questions in this quiz

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  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    When designing a multi-tier application, why is it recommended to place your database instances in a private subnet?

  3. 3

    A Network Access Control List (NACL) is considered 'stateless'. What does this mean in the context of VPC security?

  4. 4

    You have a fleet of web servers in a public subnet that need to download security patches from the internet, but they must not be reachable from the internet for incoming traffic. What is the most secure architecture?

  5. 5

    You are auditing a VPC architecture where a Security Group is configured with a rule allowing inbound traffic on port 22 from '0.0.0.0/0'. Why is this a critical security misconfiguration?