AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty ANS-C00 – Question159

You need to find the MTU used by another instance, but tracepath is not working. You know the instance you are trying to tracepath has open security group and NACL rules. Which protocol do you need to allow to access your instance to remedy this?

A.
Protocol 6: TCP
B. Protocol 47: GRE
C. Protocol 17: UDP
D. Protocol 1: ICMP

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
You need to allow Protocol 1, ICMP, to access your instance. tracepath specifically needs the "destination unreachable" feature of ICMP.