Correct Answer: A virtual firewall for your EC2 instances to control inbound and outbound traffic
An AWS Security Group acts as a stateful, virtual firewall at the EC2 instance level, allowing you to explicitly control inbound and outbound traffic through custom IP protocol rul...
Correct Answer
A virtual firewall for your EC2 instances to control inbound and outbound traffic
Why This Answer Is Correct
An AWS Security Group acts as a stateful, virtual firewall at the EC2 instance level, allowing you to explicitly control inbound and outbound traffic through custom IP protocol rules.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Security Groups — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02). Understanding Security Groups 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.
You need stateful firewall rules at the Amazon EC2 instance level. What should you configure?
Are AWS Security Groups 'Stateful' or 'Stateless'?
By default, what is the inbound traffic rule for a newly created Security Group?
By default, what is the outbound traffic rule for a newly created Security Group?
How many Amazon EC2 instances can you associate with a single Security Group?