Route 53

Question 1

You have purchased a domain on GoDaddy and would like to use Route 53 as the DNS Service Provider. What should you do to make this work?

Answer 1

Create a Public Hosted Zone and update the NS record on GoDaddy

Question 2

Route 53 can be set up to route traffic into different regions. True or false?

Answer 2

True, Route 53 is a global service, therefore it’s not locked to any particular region

Question 3

Which type of DNS record should you use to resolve an IP address to a domain name?

Answer 3

PTR record

Question 4

Route 53 can route requests to an EC2 instance. True or false?

Answer 4

False

Question 5

What’s the advantage of Multi-Value over Simple routing policy?

Answer 5

Multi-Value only return healthy endpoints

Question 6

Can an EC2 Instance Health Check be used by Route53?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

Which type of record should you use to resolve a domain name to another domain name?

Answer 7

CNAME

Question 8

Which protocol is primarily used by DNS to serve requests?

Answer 8

UDP

Question 9

An Alias record can have multiple target. True or false?

Answer 9

False

Question 9

An Alias record can have multiple target. True or false?

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Can an Alias record point to a VPC endpoint?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Can you create a CNAME record to route from domain example1.com to example2.com?

Answer 11

No, CNAME are not allowed for root domains as a source, you could route though from something.example1.com to example2.com

Question 12

Which types of routing policies can have health checks to give you healthy results?

Answer 12

Everyone except Simple

Question 13

What can you use as a health check in Route 53?

Answer 13

Endpoint, other health checks (calculated health check), CloudWatch Alarms