Route 53 Flashcards
You have purchased mycoolcompany.com on Amazon Route 53 Registrar and would like to point to your Elastic Load Balancer my-elb-1234567890.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com. Which Route 53 Record type must you use here?
Alias
You have deployed a new Elastic Beanstalk environment and would like to direct 5% of your production traffic to this new environment. This allows you to monitor for CloudWatch metrics and ensuring that there are no bugs existing with your new environment. Which Route 53 record type allows you to do so?
Weighted Routing Policy
What Route 53 Record type allows you to redirect part of the traffic based on weight (e.g., percentage)? It’s a common use case to send part of traffic to a new version of your application.
Weighted Routing Policy
You have updated a Route 53 Record’s myapp.mydomain.com value to point to a new Elastic Load Balancer, but it looks like users are still redirected to the old ELB. What is a possible cause for this behavior?
Because of the TTL
You have an application that is hosted in two different AWS Regions, us-west-1 and eu-west-2. You want your users to get the best possible user experience by minimizing the response time from application servers to your users. Which Route 53 Routing Policy should you choose?
Latency Routing Policy
What Route 53 Routing Policy will evaluate the latency between your users and AWS Regions, and help them get a DNS response that will minimize their latency (e.g. response time)
Latency Routing Policy
You have a legal requirement that people in any country but France should not be able to access your website. Which Route 53 Routing Policy helps you in achieving this?
Geolocation Routing Policy
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?
Create a Public Hosted Zone and update the 3rd party Registrar NS records
What are meant to be used for people requesting your website through the Internet?
Public Hosted Zones
