A SysOps Administrator Is Responsible for Maintaining an Amazon EC2

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Multiple Choice

A SysOps Administrator is responsible for maintaining an Amazon EC2 instance that acts as a bastion host. The Administrator can successfully connect to the instance using SSH, but attempts to ping the instance result in a timeout. What is one reason for the issue?

• A) The instance does not have an Elastic IP address
• B) The instance has a security group that does not allow Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traffic
• C) The instance is not set up in a VPC using AWS Direct Connect
• D) The instance is running in a peered VPC

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