SCS-C02 Question #51: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A security engineer is working with a company to design an ecommerce application. The application will run on Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The application will use an Amazon RDS DB instance for its database. The only required connectivity from the internet is for HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the application. The application must communicate with an external payment provider that allows traffic only from a preconfigured allow list of IP addresses. The company must ensure that communications with the external payment provider are not interrupted as the environment scales. Which combination of actions should the security engineer recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)

Options

• ADeploy a NAT gateway in each private subnet for every Availability Zone that is in use.
• BPlace the DB instance in a public subnet.
• CPlace the DB instance in a private subnet.
• DConfigure the Auto Scaling group to place the EC2 instances in a public subnet.
• EConfigure the Auto Scaling group to place the EC2 instances in a private subnet.
• FDeploy the ALB in a private subnet.