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title: ECE09488 Assignment #5
author: Aidan Sharpe
date: March 13th, 2025
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### 1. Which VPN topology is the best fit for a connection between an on-prem database and a cloud based application?
c. Point-to-site

### 2. Which network configuration must be adjusted to support VXLAN and GENEVE?
b. UDP

### 3. What type of virtual network can peer many other virtual networks to allow communication between all connected networks?
d. Hub

### 4. Why are VLANs restricted to layer 3 communications?
c. VLAN tags are added at layer 2.

### 5. Suppose you have a large cluster of web servers in one availability zone and a much smaller cluster in a different availability zone. You want to make sure your larger cluster takes a larger portion of the website traffic. Which load-balancing method is the best fit?
d. Weighted round robin

### 6. What would you need to change in your VPC configurations to ensure VM instances use DNS servers hosted by your organization?
a. Scope options

### 7. At what level is an IP address space typically defined in the public cloud?
a. VPC
c. Subnet

### 8. What misconfiguration will result in failed health checks from a load balancer's server cluster?
a. Incorrect IP address

### 9. Which load-balancing method is the best fit for a server cluster where workloads can be highly unpredictable in the time required to complete each series of tasks?
a. Least connection

### 10. Which utility will help you identify the port a network service is using?
b. ss