Pass the Alibaba Cloud Computing ACP-Cloud1 Questions and answers with ValidTests

Using a single PUT upload through the console, the maximum file size is 5GB. For larger files, multipart uploading should be used, which allows uploads up to 5TB by splitting files into smaller parts.

Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances in different security groups are isolated from each other by default, but they can communicate with each other if the security group rules allow it. A security group is a virtual firewall that controls the inbound and outbound traffic of ECS instances. You can configure security group rules to specify which IP addresses, protocols, and ports can access the ECS instances in a security group. You can also authorize other security groups to access the ECS instances in a security group, which enables cross-security group communication. References: Manage ECS instances in security groups, Security FAQ, ECS Security Groups - Alibaba Fundamentals

An event-triggered task is necessary when creating scaling rules based on specific metrics such as CPU utilization. This allows Auto Scaling to monitor real-time metrics and trigger scaling actions when thresholds are met. Scheduled tasks, by contrast, are based on specific times rather than performance metrics.

Intelligent DNS resolution is a feature of Alibaba Cloud DNS that allows users to configure different IP addresses for the same domain name based on the geographic locations or ISPs of the visitors. This way, visitors can access the nearest or optimal server for better performance and availability. Intelligent DNS resolution does not support web page content caching, which is a function of Alibaba Cloud CDN. Alibaba Cloud CDN is a distributed network that delivers content from the origin server to the edge nodes closest to the end users, reducing the network latency and bandwidth consumption. Alibaba Cloud CDN caches the static content of the web pages, such as images, CSS, and JavaScript files, on the edge nodes, so that the users can access them faster and reduce the load on the origin server. A user will receive data from the cache in the first-time access, and then will be updated from the origin site in subsequent requests based on the cache expiration time.

References:

1: Intelligent DNS resolution - Alibaba Cloud DNS - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

4: Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) performs content acceleration with the support of intelligent DNS resolution The following function_________is NOT included in intelligent DNS resolution.

5: Alibaba Cloud DNS:Alibaba Cloud line for intelligent DNS resolution (September 16, 2020) - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

The difference between public and private Server Load Balancers (SLBs) is that private SLBs connect to their backend ECS instances using the private network (Intranet) while public SLBs connect to their backend ECS instances using the public network (Internet). This is true according to the Alibaba Cloud documentation on SLB1. Public SLBs are used to distribute traffic from the Internet to ECS instances, while private SLBs are used to distribute traffic within a VPC or a classic network2. References: 1: Server Load Balancer - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center 2: Create a Server Load Balancer instance - Server Load Balancer - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

 A DDoS attack is a type of cyberattack that aims to exhaust the resources of a target server or network, such as bandwidth, CPU, memory, or disk space, by sending a large amount of malicious traffic or requests. This can cause the server or network to slow down, crash, or become unavailable to legitimate users. A DDoS attack is not intended to steal confidential information, crack passwords, or target databases, although these may be secondary objectives or consequences of some attacks. A DDoS attack is one of the most common and powerful threats to website security, as it can be launched from multiple sources, use various attack methods, and evade traditional defense mechanisms. According to the DDoS Attack Statistics and Trend Report by Alibaba Cloud, the proportion of volumetric attacks at 50Gbps and above has doubled, and the resources exhaustion attack reached a peak value of 3 million QPS in 2020-2021. References: DDoS Attacks: Sources, Strategies and Practices - Alibaba Cloud, DDoS Attack Statistics and Trend Report by Alibaba Cloud, Use Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS Service to Defend DoS Attack, Anti-DDoS Basic - Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) is designed to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple ECS instances within Alibaba Cloud, enhancing fault tolerance and application reliability. Backend servers for SLB must be Alibaba Cloud ECS instances, as SLB is specifically optimized to work within the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem. While it does not support instances from other cloud providers, it ensures integration and performance with Alibaba Cloud’s ECS instances.

Alibaba Cloud provides two main options for securely connecting a VPC with a traditional IDC: VPN (Virtual Private Network) and a dedicated leased line connection. These methods enable stable and secure communication between the VPC and on-premises environments. HTTP agents and stepping stones (options B and C) are not standard or secure methods for IDC-VPC connectivity.

 According to the Alibaba Cloud SLB documentation1, SLB provides a health check feature that monitors the availability and performance of the backend servers. If a backend server fails the health check, SLB stops routing requests to it and redirects the traffic to other healthy servers. This way, SLB can improve the system’s availability by eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs). Therefore, option A is a correct statement about SLB.

According to the same documentation1, SLB instances are assigned with public IP addresses or private IP addresses based on the network type. If you delete an SLB instance and create a new one, a new IP address will be allocated to the new instance. You cannot specify or reserve an IP address for an SLB instance. Therefore, option B is also a correct statement about SLB.

Option C is incorrect, because SLB does not require you to install or configure any SLB agent on the backend servers. You only need to add the backend servers to the SLB instance and configure the listener and the server group. SLB will automatically distribute the traffic to the backend servers based on the load balancing algorithm and the health check status2.

Option D is also incorrect, because SLB does not provide a function to automatically synchronize data among backend servers. SLB only handles the network traffic distribution and does not interfere with the data on the backend servers. You need to use other methods or tools to synchronize data among backend servers, such as rsync, lsyncd, or Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission Service (DTS)3.

References: Server Load Balancer:SLB overview, Add backend servers, and Data Transmission Service.

To isolate ECS instances within different VSwitches in a VPC while allowing them to access the internet and other intranet resources, each VSwitch's instances should be in separate Security Groups. By configuring each group to allow all VPC CIDR blocks first and then restricting access to other VSwitch CIDR blocks with a higher priority rule, instances in each VSwitch are isolated without affecting the VPC's external connections. This approach follows Alibaba Cloud's Security Group best practices and CIDR-based access control within VPC environments.

=================