Elastic Load Balancing — AWS Solutions Architect Associate Practice Questions
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions, within one or more Availability Zones. The Solutions Architect Associate exam covers all three load balancer types: Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, and Gateway Load Balancer, each suited to different traffic types and use cases. ELB integrates with Auto Scaling to support both high availability and fault tolerance, and the exam tests your ability to select the right load balancer type for a given scenario. Key exam topics include listener rules, target groups, health checks, and cross-zone load balancing behavior.
Free questions on elastic load balancing
A solutions architect needs to design a highly available web application across multiple Availability Zones. Which Elastic Load Balancer type operates at the application layer?
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