Correct Answer: Yes, it uses Google Cloud health checks to ensure traffic is only sent to healthy and available instances
Without health checks, the load balancer cannot know if a backend instance has failed....
Correct Answer
Yes, it uses Google Cloud health checks to ensure traffic is only sent to healthy and available instances
Why This Answer Is Correct
Without health checks, the load balancer cannot know if a backend instance has failed.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Cloud Network Load Balancing — a core concept tested in Associate Cloud Engineer. Understanding Cloud Network Load Balancing is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your high-traffic application requires ultra-low latency and needs to handle millions of requests per second at the network level. Which load balancer is best?
Which Google Cloud load balancer is an external, regional, non-proxied (pass-through) load balancer that supports TCP/UDP traffic and uses Maglev for distribution?
What is the primary technical difference between a 'Proxy' load balancer and a 'Pass-through' load balancer in GCP?
How does an External Network Load Balancer identify its backend instances to distribute traffic to?
What is 'Session Affinity' in the context of Network Load Balancing?