AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question185

A user has hosted an application on EC2 instances. The EC2 instances are configured with ELB and Auto Scaling. The application server session time out is 2 hours. The user wants to configure connection draining to ensure that all in-flight requests are supported by ELB even though the instance is being deregistered. What time out period should the user specify for connection draining?

A. 5 minutes
B. 1 hour
C. 30 minutes
D. 2 hours

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation: When you enable connection draining, you can specify a maximum time for the load balancer to keep connections alive before reporting the instance as de-registered. The maximum timeout value can be set between 1 and 3,600 seconds (the default is 300 seconds). When the maximum time limit is reached, the load balancer forcibly closes connections to the de-registering instance. Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGui…