Alibaba Cloud ACP-Cloud1 Based on Real Exam Environment

When forwarding layer 7 (HTTP) requests, Alibaba Cloud SLB preserves the client’s real IP address by including it in the X-Forwarded-For header. This allows the backend ECS instance to access the client’s actual IP rather than the SLB’s IP address. This practice is common for maintaining accurate client IP information in HTTP forwarding scenarios.

Alibaba Cloud Security Center is designed to enhance the security of ECS instances by providing proactive monitoring, vulnerability detection, and protection against threats such as brute-force attacks. Security Center includes features such as brute-force attack detection, which will alert you to and help mitigate potential threats to your ECS instance.

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When using Alibaba Cloud SLB to forward layer 7 (HTTP) service requests, SLB will replace the IP address in the HTTP header file to forward requests. Therefore, the source IP address that can be seen on the backend ECS instance is the IP address of SLB instead of the client’s real IP address. However, SLB also provides a feature called X-Forwarded-For (XFF) that can help you obtain the real IP address of the client. XFF is a standard HTTP header field that records the original IP address of the client and the proxy servers that the request passes through. You can enable XFF on the SLB console or by using the API, and then configure your backend ECS instance to parse the XFF header field and get the real IP address of the client. References: 1 - SLB overview - Alibaba Cloud Document Center - Layer 7 listeners - X-Forwarded-For

 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.