Route 53

Question 1

Global Domain Name System (DNS) web service that routes traffic to various targets with a single database

Answer 1

Route 53

Question 2

Container for DNS records, and these records contain information about how you want to route traffic for a specific domain

Answer 2

Zones

Question 3

indicates which DNS server is authoritative for that domain (i.e. which server contains the actual DNS records)

Answer 3

Nameserver Records

Question 4

Record that maps host onto a IPv4 address

Answer 4

A record

Question 5

Record that maps host onto a IPv6 address

Answer 5

AAAA record

Question 6

Record that maps host to host

Answer 6

CNAME record

Question 7

Indicates how email messages should be routed in accordance with the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP, the standard protocol for all email)

Answer 7

MX records

Question 8

Lets a domain administrator enter text into the Domain Name System (DNS) and prove ownership

Answer 8

TXT Records

Question 9

Server setting that tells a cache how long to store DNS records before refreshing the search to get an answer again from a nameserver

Answer 9

TTL

Question 10

Name Servers for the Hosted Zone

Answer 10

NS

Question 11

Contains records that specify how to route traffic on the Internet (public domain names)

Answer 11

Public Hosted Zones

Question 12

contain records that specify how you route traffic within one or more VPCs

Answer 12

Private Hosted Zones

Question 13

Less traffic on Route 53, with possibly outdated record

Answer 13

High TTL

Question 14

More traffic on Route 53, records are outdated for less
time and easy to change

Answer 14

Low TTL

Question 15

Points a hostname to an AWS Resource

Answer 15

Alias

Question 16

Can you set the TTL of Alias records?

Answer 16

No

Question 17

Routing policy lets you route traffic to a resource when the resource is healthy or to a different resource when the first resource is unhealthy.

Answer 17

Failover Routing

Question 18

Define how Route 53 responds to DNS queries

Answer 18

Routing Policies

Question 19

Routing policy to configure Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to a single
resource

Answer 19

Simple Routing

Question 20

Routing policy that lets you associate multiple resources with a single domain name and choose how much traffic is routed to each resource based on the the weights you assign for each target

Answer 20

Weighted Policy

Question 21

Routing policy for when you have resources in multiple AWS Regions and you want to route traffic to the region that provides the fastest performance

Answer 21

Latency-Based policy

Question 22

Routing policy 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.

Answer 22

Geolocation Policy

Question 23

Monitor the health and performance of your web applications, web servers, and other resources

Answer 23

Health-Check

Question 24

Routing lets Amazon Route 53 (using traffic flow) route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of your users and your resources and, optionally, shift traffic from resources in one location to resources in another

Answer 24

Geoproximity routing

Question 25

Routing is based on clients’ IP addresses

Answer 25

IP-based routing

Question 26

Routing traffic to multiple resources

Answer 26

Multi-Value routing