Chapter 6 - Content Delivery: Amazon Route 53, Amazon Cloudfront Flashcards
What are the three functions provided by Amazon Route 53? Choose 3.
- Domain registration
- Digital Certificates
- DNS routing
- Health checking
- Domain registration
- Digital Certificates
- DNS routing
- Health checking
Which of the following AWS resource you can route traffic to using Route 53? Choose 3.
- Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EC2
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS
- AWS Step Functions , AWS CloudFormation , AWS OpsWorks
- Amazon S3, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon WorkMail
- Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EC2
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon RDS
- AWS Step Functions , AWS CloudFormation , AWS OpsWorks
- Amazon S3, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon WorkMail
What are the different types of hosted zone that can be created in Amazon Route 53?
- Public hosted zone
- VPC hosted zone
- Private hosted zone
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1,2,3
- 1 and 3
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1,2,3
- 1 and 3
Which of the following statements are correct about Route 53 hosted zone? Choose 4.
- A hosted zone is a container for records, and records contain information about how you want to route traffic for a specific domain.
- A hosted zone and the corresponding domain have the same name.
- A hosted zone and the corresponding domain name can be different.
- Public hosted zones contain records that specify how you want to route traffic on the internet.
- Private hosted zones contain records that specify how you want to route traffic in an Amazon VPC.
- A hosted zone is a container for records, and records contain information about how you want to route traffic for a specific domain.
- A hosted zone and the corresponding domain have the same name.
- A hosted zone and the corresponding domain name can be different.
- Public hosted zones contain records that specify how you want to route traffic on the internet.
- Private hosted zones contain records that specify how you want to route traffic in an Amazon VPC.
Which of the following records can be in the hosted zone example.com? Choose 3.
- www.example.com
- www.example.us
- accounting.tokyo.example.com
- ichiro@example.com
- www.example.com
- www.example.us
- accounting.tokyo.example.com
- ichiro@example.com
You have registered the DNS name example.com, for which of the following you cannot create a CNAME record type in the hosted zone?
- example.com
- www.example.com
- newproduct.example.com
- mail.example.com
- example.com
- www.example.com
- newproduct.example.com
- mail.example.com
Which DNS record type is used to route traffic to an IPv4 address?
- An A record
- An AAAA record
- A CNAME record
- A PTR record
- An A record
- An AAAA record
- A CNAME record
- A PTR record
Which DNS record type is used to resolve a domain name to another domain name?
- A NS record
- A SOA record
- A CNAME record
- A PTR record
- A NS record
- A SOA record
- A CNAME record
- A PTR record
Which DNS record type is used to resolve a domain name to another domain name?
- A NS record
- A SOA record
- A CNAME record
- A PTR record
- A NS record
- A SOA record
- A CNAME record
- A PTR record
Which DNS record type is used to resolve an ip address to another domain name?
- A NS record
- A SOA record
- An Alias record
- A PTR record
- A NS record
- A SOA record
- An Alias record
- A PTR record
Which DNS record type is used to define the mail server used for a domain and ensure the email messages are routed correctly?
- An A record
- A MX record
- An Alias record
- A PTR record
- An A record
- A MX record
- An Alias record
- A PTR record
Which DNS record type is used by mail server to combat spam and tells a receiving mail server what IP addresses are authorized to send an email from a particular domain?
- An SPF record
- A MX record
- A Text record
- A PTR record
- An SPF record
- A MX record
- A Text record
- A PTR record
Which DNS record type is used to store text information?
- An SPF record
- A MX record
- A Text record
- A PTR record
- An SPF record
- A MX record
- A Text record
- A PTR record
Which of the following statements are correct for Route 53 Alias record type? Choose 2.
- An alias record can only redirect DNS queries to selected AWS resources.
- An alias record can redirect DNS queries to any DNS record.
- In most configurations, you can create an alias record that has the same name as the hosted zone (the zone apex).
- You can’t create an alias record that has the same name as the hosted zone (the zone apex).
- An alias record can only redirect DNS queries to selected AWS resources.
- An alias record can redirect DNS queries to any DNS record.
- In most configurations, you can create an alias record that has the same name as the hosted zone (the zone apex).
- You can’t create an alias record that has the same name as the hosted zone (the zone apex).
For which of the following you can create route 53 alias record? Choose 3.
- Amazon API Gateway custom regional API or edge-optimized API, Amazon VPC interface endpoint, CloudFront distribution, Elastic Beanstalk environment
- ELB load balancer, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon S3 bucket
- Another Route 53 record in the same hosted zone
- AWS OpsWorks, Aws CodePipeline, AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon API Gateway custom regional API or edge-optimized API, Amazon VPC interface endpoint, CloudFront distribution, Elastic Beanstalk environment
- ELB load balancer, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon S3 bucket
- Another Route 53 record in the same hosted zone
- AWS OpsWorks, Aws CodePipeline, AWS CloudFormation
You are using Amazon Route 53 for domain registration and DNS service for your web application which you will be deploying on EC2 instances behind an ELB. The domain name of your web application is mywebapp.com which you have registered in the Route 53. You know that you can create an alias record with ‘A’ record type for both zone apex mywebapp.com and sub-domain www.mywebapp.com pointing to ELB load balancer DNS url lb1-1234.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com. If the IP address of the load balancer changes what you need to do?
- Instead of A record type create a CNAME record type.
- Instead of A record type create a PTR record type.
- You don’t need to do anything, Route 53 automatically starts to respond to DNS queries using the new IP address.
- You can’t create an alias for ELB which doesn’t have static ip address.
- Instead of A record type create a CNAME record type.
- Instead of A record type create a PTR record type.
- You don’t need to do anything, Route 53 automatically starts to respond to DNS queries using the new IP address.
- You can’t create an alias for ELB which doesn’t have static ip address.
In your route 53 hosted zone, you have created two record sets associated with one DNS name—one with weight 3 and one with weight 1. Which of the following is true.
- 30% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1 and 10% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3
- 30% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3 and 10% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1
- 75% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1 and 25% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3
- 75% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3 and 25% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1
- 30% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1 and 10% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3
- 30% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3 and 10% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1
- 75% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1 and 25% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3
- 75% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 3 and 25% of the time Route 53 will return the record set with weight 1
You are the solution architect for a global financial services company providing banking and stock market trading to its customers. Because of compliance and regulatory reasons the application must be hosted in respective country of the users. For example a U.S citizen request must be routed to application hosted in US-East region and for a European Union user it must be routed to application hosted in EU-Central region. Which routing policy you will configure in the Route 53 to achieve this requirement?
- Geolocation Routing
- Geoproximity Routing
- User Location Routing
- User Profile Routing
- Geolocation Routing
- Geoproximity Routing
- User Location Routing
- User Profile Routing
You host a global sports news website across multiple regions in the world. The primary criteria for you while configuring the Route 53 routing policy is to ensure that users will get fastest performance. Which routing policy you will use?
- Geolocation routing
- Geoproximity routing
- Latency based routing
- Performance based routing
- Geolocation routing
- Geoproximity routing
- Latency based routing
- Performance based routing
You are planning to roll out two new version of your SaaS web application for your users but you don’t want to make it accessible to all the users. Your company’s plan is to have three versions of application two new and one existing running simultaneously with 20% of traffic going to new version I, 30% of traffic going to version II and 50% of traffic going to existing version. Which routing policy will you configure in Route 53?
- Version routing
- % Allocation routing
- Simple routing
- Weighted routing
- Version routing
- % Allocation routing
- Simple routing
- Weighted routing
Which of the following best describes the difference between Geolocation routing and Geoproximity routing? Choose 2.
- Geoproximity routing lets Amazon Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of your users and your resources. Geolocation routing lets you choose the resources that serve your traffic based on the geographic location of your users, meaning the location that DNS queries originate from.
- In Geoproximity routing you can specify geographic locations by continent, by country, or by state in the United States to map user location to resources. You create Geolocation rules for your resources and specify the AWS Region that you created the resource in or the latitude and longitude of the resource.
- Geolocation routing lets Amazon Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of your users and your resources. Geoproximity routing lets you choose the resources that serve your traffic based on the geographic location of your users, meaning the location that DNS queries originate from.
- In Geolocation routing you can specify geographic locations by continent, by country, or by state in the United States to map user location to resources. You create Geoproximity rules for your resources and specify the AWS Region that you created the resource in or the latitude and longitude of the resource
5.
- Geoproximity routing lets Amazon Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of your users and your resources. Geolocation routing lets you choose the resources that serve your traffic based on the geographic location of your users, meaning the location that DNS queries originate from.
- In Geoproximity routing you can specify geographic locations by continent, by country, or by state in the United States to map user location to resources. You create Geolocation rules for your resources and specify the AWS Region that you created the resource in or the latitude and longitude of the resource.
- Geolocation routing lets Amazon Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of your users and your resources. Geoproximity routing lets you choose the resources that serve your traffic based on the geographic location of your users, meaning the location that DNS queries originate from.
- In Geolocation routing you can specify geographic locations by continent, by country, or by state in the United States to map user location to resources. You create Geoproximity rules for your resources and specify the AWS Region that you created the resource in or the latitude and longitude of the resource
Your disaster recovery plan for a web application is to have a production environment behind one domain and a standby environment behind another domain. Which Route 53 routing policy should you configure in the hosted zone so that if the production environment is down, requests are automatically served from the standby server?
- Health Check Routing
- Failover Routing
- Latency Routing
- Weighted Routing
- Health Check Routing
- Failover Routing
- Latency Routing
- Weighted Routing
Which routing policy you will use when you want Route 53 to respond to DNS queries with up to eight healthy records selected at random?
- Latency Routing
- Weighted Routing
- Multivalue answer Routing
- Failover Routing
- Latency Routing
- Weighted Routing
- Multivalue answer Routing
- Failover Routing
To comply with DNS standards, Route 53 responses sent over UDP are limited to 512 bytes in size. Responses exceeding 512 bytes are truncated and the resolver must re-issue the request in which protocol?
- HTTPS
- TCP
- MQTT
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- TCP
- MQTT
- HTTP
You have developed your own blog website ‘www.mycloudblogs.com’ in which you write about AWS, Cloud and Digital topics. It also has other features of discussion forums and ability for the user to take mock tests. You have deployed it in a VPC, web server on EC2 instances with Auto Scaling group and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the front. The domain name ‘www.mycloudblogs.com’ will be pointing to the ALB. You are also using Route 53 to manage DNS Which record types will you create in Route 53 assuming you have configured your VPC and ALB to route only IPv4 traffic?
- ‘AAAA’ Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘A’ Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘A’ Non Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘AAAA’ Non Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- CNAME record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘AAAA’ Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘A’ Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘A’ Non Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- ‘AAAA’ Non Alias record with Alias Target as the ALB
- CNAME record with Alias Target as the ALB
You have a fleet of identical five web servers to serve your user requests. You are using Route 53 to serve traffic. Which routing policy you will use so that traffic is served from any of the five servers randomly?
- Latency Routing
- Weighted Routing
- Failover Routing
- Multivalue answer Routing
- Latency Routing
- Weighted Routing
- Failover Routing
- Multivalue answer Routing
Which of the following statements are correct about Route 53 Traffic flow? Choose 3.
- Route 53 traffic flow provides a visual editor that helps you create complex trees in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the effort or to quickly find resources that you need to update and apply the updates to one or more DNS names.
- A traffic policy includes information about the routing configuration that you want to create: the routing policies that you want to use and the resources that you want to route DNS traffic to, such as the IP address of each EC2 instance and the domain name of each ELB load balancer.
- A policy record includes information about the routing configuration that you want to create, the routing policies that you want to use and the resources that you want to route DNS traffic to, such as the IP address of each EC2 instance and the domain name of each ELB load balancer.
- A traffic policy is where you specify the hosted zone in which you want to create the configuration that you defined in your policy record and to specify the DNS name that you want to associate the configuration with.
- A policy record is where you specify the hosted zone in which you want to create the configuration that you defined in your traffic policy and to specify the DNS name that you want to associate the configuration with.
- Route 53 traffic flow provides a visual editor that helps you create complex trees in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the effort or to quickly find resources that you need to update and apply the updates to one or more DNS names.
- A traffic policy includes information about the routing configuration that you want to create: the routing policies that you want to use and the resources that you want to route DNS traffic to, such as the IP address of each EC2 instance and the domain name of each ELB load balancer.
- A policy record includes information about the routing configuration that you want to create, the routing policies that you want to use and the resources that you want to route DNS traffic to, such as the IP address of each EC2 instance and the domain name of each ELB load balancer.
- A traffic policy is where you specify the hosted zone in which you want to create the configuration that you defined in your policy record and to specify the DNS name that you want to associate the configuration with.
- A policy record is where you specify the hosted zone in which you want to create the configuration that you defined in your traffic policy and to specify the DNS name that you want to associate the configuration with.
How does the geoproximity bias value of an endpoint affect DNS traffic routing to other endpoints? Choose 2.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint can expands the area from which Route 53 routes traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint doesn’t have any effect on the area from which Route 53 routes traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint can shrinks the area from which Route 53 routes traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint improves the latency of traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint can expands the area from which Route 53 routes traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint doesn’t have any effect on the area from which Route 53 routes traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint can shrinks the area from which Route 53 routes traffic to a resource.
- Changing the geoproximity bias value on an endpoint improves the latency of traffic to a resource.
What is difference between Availability Zone and Edge Location? Choose 2.
- Availability Zones is a data center site around the world that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location.
- Edge location consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.
- Edge location is a data center site around the world that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location.
- Availability Zones consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.
- Availability Zones is a data center site around the world that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location.
- Edge location consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.
- Edge location is a data center site around the world that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location.
- Availability Zones consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.