ACA-Cloud1 Exam Dumps : ACA Cloud Computing Associate

 A is the correct answer because RDS provides whitelist access policies that allow you to set permitted IP addresses and IP network segments to effectively prevent hackers from attacking the server by port scanning. A whitelist is a security feature that specifies the IP addresses or CIDR blocks that are allowed to access your RDS instance. By default, the whitelist is empty, which means that no IP address can access your RDS instance. You can add IP addresses or CIDR blocks to the whitelist according to your business needs. You can also create multiple whitelist groups and assign different IP addresses or CIDR blocks to each group. This can help you manage the access permissions of different users or applications12

References: 1: Configure a whitelist 2: ApsaraDB RDS:Configure an IP address whitelist

Alibaba Cloud does not support intranet communication between products that are not in the same region, which means that ECS instances in different regions cannot communicate with each other on the intranet, and ECS instances and other products in different regions, such as ApsaraDB for RDS and OSS instances, cannot communicate with each other on the intranet. However, this does not mean that Server Load Balancer cannot be deployed for ECS instances in various regions. Server Load Balancer is a service that distributes traffic among multiple ECS instances according to the configured forwarding rules. It can be used to balance the load and improve the service availability and fault tolerance of applications. Server Load Balancer supports cross-region deployment, which means that it can distribute traffic to ECS instances in different regions12. References: 1: ACA Cloud Computing Exam Preparation Course - Alibaba Cloud3 2: Server Load Balancer - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center4

You can upgrade or downgrade an ECS instance’s configuration to meet your business needs. Upgrading an instance’s configuration means increasing the vCPUs, memory, bandwidth, or disk capacity of the instance. Downgrading an instance’s configuration means decreasing the vCPUs, memory, bandwidth, or disk capacity of the instance. You can change the configuration of an ECS instance by using one of the following methods1:

• Change the instance type: You can change the instance type of an ECS instance to adjust the vCPUs and memory of the instance. You can change the instance type of an ECS instance in the following scenarios2:
• Change the bandwidth configuration: You can change the bandwidth configuration of an ECS instance to adjust the network performance of the instance. You can change the bandwidth configuration of an ECS instance in the following scenarios3:
• Change the system disk or data disk: You can change the system disk or data disk of an ECS instance to adjust the disk capacity or performance of the instance. You can change the system disk or data disk of an ECS instance in the following scenarios4: