AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty ANS-C00 – Question285

Your boss decides to assign an Elastic IP to a production instance. Once he does this, access to the URL for that website fails. What happened?

A.
The original IP address was released back to AWS when the Elastic IP was assigned.
B. Your boss only needs to restart the Apache service.
C. Your boss should have turned off the server before assigning the IP address.
D. Your boss needs to restart the server.

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
The original IP address was released back to AWS when the Elastic IP was assigned. If you attach an EIP, you lose the address originally assigned to the instance unless you add it to another interface.