ICA Advanced Scenarios Practice Question
What is the main advantage of using Istio's 'locality-aware load balancing'?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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It minimizes latency and egress costs by routing to local endpoints.
It prioritizes traffic to endpoints in the same zone or region to reduce latency and egress costs.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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It minimizes latency and egress costs by routing to local endpoints.
Why this is correct
This is the primary goal of locality-aware routing.
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It enables automatic retries.
Why it's wrong here
Retries are independent of the load balancing algorithm.
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It increases the number of available endpoints.
Why it's wrong here
It reorders the existing pool, it does not add new ones.
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It prevents cross-cluster communication.
Why it's wrong here
It manages traffic distribution, not hard isolation.
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