Route 53 Flashcards

1
Q

What is an A Name

A

Alias Record

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2
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Can an A Record map on to a naked domain name?

A

Yes

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3
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Can an A Record map onto a naked domain name?

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Yes

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4
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Can a CNAME

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5
Q

Can a CNAME map on to a naked domain name?

A

No

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6
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What is an SOA Record?

A

Start Of Authority Record

Where your DNS starts

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7
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What is a CNAME Record?

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A record that lets you route one domain to another.

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8
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What is an NS Record?

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9
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What is a CNAME Record?

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A record that lets you route one domain name to another.

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10
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What is an NS Record?

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Name Server Record
Where you domain name is stored

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11
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What is an A Record?

A

Address record it allows you to associate a name to an IP Address.

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12
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What is a Simple Routing Policy?

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If you choose a simple routing policy you can only have one record with multiple IP Addresses. If you specify multiple values in a record, Route 53 returns all values to the user in a random order.

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12
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What is a Simple Routing Policy?

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If you choose a simple routing policy you can only have one record with multiple IP Addresses. If you specify multiple values in a record, Route 53 returns all values to the user in a random order.

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13
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What is a Weighted Routing Policy?

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A policy where you can split the percentage of traffic between multiple regions / IP’s

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14
Q

What happens if a Route 53 Health Check fails?

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The record will be removed from Route 53 until is passes the health check.

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15
Q

Can you set an SNS notification to alert you on a failed health check?

A

Yes

16
Q

What is the Failover Routing Policy?

A

If you have an active and passive site it will send all traffic to passive when your active site fails

17
Q

What is a Geolocation Routing Policy?

A

When you need to send people to a location based on their geo location

18
Q

What is Route 53 Traffic Flow?

A

A product that allows you to customize the routing of your IP’s

19
Q

What is geoproximity routing?

A

Lets Amazon Route 53 route traffic to your resources based on the geographic location of users and your resources.

20
Q

What is a bias in Route53 Geoproximity routing?

A

The ability to route more or less traffic to a geolocation. a bias shrinks or expands the size of the geographic region from which traffic is routed to a resource

21
Q

Can you use Geoproximity routing without Route 53 Traffic Flow?

A

No

22
Q

What is latency based routing?

A

A routing option that will check the users latency on endpoints and choose the one with the least amount of latency.

23
Q

What is Multivalue Answer Routing?

A

Its simple routing with health checks