AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question087

A user has created an ELB with three instances. How many security groups will ELB create by default?

A.
3
B. 5
C. 2
D. 1

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation: Elastic Load Balancing provides a special Amazon EC2 source security group that the user can use to ensure that back-end EC2 instances receive traffic only from Elastic Load Balancing. This feature needs two security groups: the source security group and a security group that defines the ingress rules for the back-end instances. To ensure that traffic only flows between the load balancer and the back-end instances, the user can add or modify a rule to the back-end security group which can limit the ingress traffic. Thus, it can come only from the source security group provided by Elastic Load Balancing.