AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 107

A user has launched an EBS backed instance with EC2-Classic. The user stops and starts the instance. Which of the below mentioned statements is not true with respect to the stop/start action?

Answer options

• A. The instance gets new private and public IP addresses
• B. The volume is preserved
• C. The Elastic IP remains associated with the instance
• D. The instance may run on a new host computer

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because when an instance is stopped and started, it loses its association with the Elastic IP, which must be re-associated. Options A, B, and D are true because the instance will receive new IP addresses, the EBS volume is preserved, and the instance may indeed run on a new host after being restarted.