Elastic Load Balancing Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. What is the primary purpose of an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) in a cloud architecture?
2. Which type of load balancer is most appropriate for handling traffic at the transport layer (Layer 4) when you need extremely high performance and low latency?
3. An application requires routing traffic based on the content of the request, such as path-based routing (e.g., /images vs /api). Which load balancer should you choose?
4. What is the function of a 'Health Check' in an Elastic Load Balancing environment?
5. You have an application that requires a static IP address to allow clients to whitelist your traffic through a firewall. Which load balancer configuration supports this natively?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.