VMware Cloud on AWS Specialist — Question 43

A virtual machine in VMware Cloud on AWS sends a packet to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Linux instance in the associated AWS account. Which device is the next hop for the packet?

Answer options

• A. Edge Virtual Machine
• B. AWS Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on the VMware ESXI host
• C. Tier-0 (T0) Router
• D. Tier-1 (T1) Router

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, Tier-1 (T1) Router, as it is designed to handle east-west traffic between virtual networks and EC2 instances. The other options either refer to devices that do not directly manage packet routing in this scenario or are not the next hop for the packet.