Quiz - Chapter 10 - Route 53

Question 1

What type of DNS record does Route 53 NOT support?

Answer 1

AAAAA (IPv5 address record)

Question 2

Using Route 53, how would you direct example.com traffic to various IPs based on the country the user was sending traffic from?

Answer 2

Use a geolocation routing policy

Question 3

Using Route 53, how would you direct example.com to 2 different IPs with an even distribution in traffic?

Answer 3

Use a weighted routing policy.

Question 4

What is a Route 53 health check?

Answer 4

It’s a test that allows you to determine if your endpoint is online.

Question 5

Using Route 53, how would you direct example.com to a single IP address?

Answer 5

Use a simple routing policy.

Question 6

True or False? Route 53 only supports IPv4.

Answer 6

FALSE

Question 7

What is the purpose of DNS?

Answer 7

DNS allows you to assign something that’s easy to remember to an IP address (e.g., example.com —> 1.2.3.4).

Question 8

True or False? Route 53 only provides DNS for public IPs.

Answer 8

FALSE

Question 9

Using Route 53, how would you direct example.com traffic to 1 primary IP with a second one for backup?

Answer 9

Use a failover routing policy.

A failover routing policy would allow you to have a backup endpoint