Route 53

Question 1

Common Record A

Answer 1

Hostname to IPv4

Question 2

Common Record AAAA

Answer 2

Hostname to IPv6

Question 3

Common Record CNAME

Answer 3

Hostname to Hostname

Question 4

Common Record Alias

Answer 4

Hostname to AWS resource

Question 5

High TTL (24hr)

Answer 5

• Less traffic on DNS

- Possibly outdated records

Question 6

Low TTL (60sec)

Answer 6

• More traffic on DNS

- Records outdated for less time

Question 7

Works for root domain and non root domain

Answer 7

Alias

Question 8

Works for non root domain

Answer 8

CNAME

Question 9

Routing policy that controls the % of the requests that go to specific endpoint

Answer 9

Weighted Routing Policy

Question 10

Routing policy that redirects to the server that has the least latency close to us

Answer 10

Latency Routing Policy

Question 11

Different types of Health Checks

Answer 11

HTTP, HTTPS, TCP

Question 12

Routing Policy based on user location

Answer 12

Geo Location Routing Policy

Question 13

Routing Policy that failovers to secondary

Answer 13

Failover Routing Policy

Question 14

Routing Policy that routes to multiple resources

Answer 14

MultiValue Routing Policy

Question 15

Routing Policy based on the geographic location of users and resources

Answer 15

Geoproximity