Correct Answer: Application Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer operates at Layer 7 (application layer) and supports advanced routing based on URL paths, hostnames, and headers....
Correct Answer
Application Load Balancer
Why This Answer Is Correct
Application Load Balancer operates at Layer 7 (application layer) and supports advanced routing based on URL paths, hostnames, and headers.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Application Load Balancer — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Understanding Application Load Balancer 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.
A company has a microservices architecture and wants to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path (e.g., /orders vs /users). Which load balancer type is best suited for this?
Can an Application Load Balancer direct traffic to targets in different VPCs?
What is 'Sticky Sessions' (Session Affinity) in the context of an ALB?
Which ALB feature allows for serverless integration by routing requests to AWS Lambda functions?
A company wants to authenticate users via Google or Facebook before they can access the application behind the ALB. How can this be done at the load balancer level?