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SOA-C02 · Question #155

A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance in a production VPC. Client connections to the application are failing. A SysOps administrator inspects the VPC flow logs and finds the…

The correct answer is C. The network ACL is blocking HTTPS traffic. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs-records-examples.html#flow-log- example-accepted-rejected

Submitted by hassan_iq· Mar 30, 2026Networking and Content Delivery

Question

A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance in a production VPC. Client connections to the application are failing. A SysOps administrator inspects the VPC flow logs and finds the following entry:

What is a possible cause of these failed connections?

Options

  • AA security group deny rule is blocking traffic on port 443.
  • BThe EC2 instance is shut down.
  • CThe network ACL is blocking HTTPS traffic.
  • DThe VPC has no internet gateway attached.

How the community answered

(20 responses)
  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    15% (3)
  • C
    75% (15)
  • D
    5% (1)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs-records-examples.html#flow-log- example-accepted-rejected

Topics

#VPC flow logs#network ACL#REJECT action#traffic troubleshooting

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