AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question755

A SysOps Administrator is responsible for maintaining an Amazon EC2 instance that acts as a bastion host. The Administrator can successfully connect to the instance using SSH, but attempts to ping the instance result in a timeout.
What is one reason for the issue?

A.
The instance does not have an Elastic IP address
B. The instance has a security group that does not allow Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traffic
C. The instance is not set up in a VPC using AWS Direct Connect
D. The instance is running in a peered VPC

Correct Answer: D