Route 53 DNS Routing Policies Quiz

Quiz covering Reliability Requirements

Questions in this quiz

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1. 1

   Which Route 53 routing policy should you use to distribute traffic across multiple resources based on weighted proportions, such as sending 20% of traffic to a new version of an application and 80% to the current version?

2. 2

   You have a global application and want to route users to the AWS region that provides the fastest response time. Which routing policy is most appropriate?

3. 3

   Your company requires that users from France are always directed to a specific server located in Paris for compliance reasons. Which routing policy allows you to enforce this based on the user's origin?

4. 4

   You need to configure an active-passive setup where traffic is routed to a primary resource, and if that resource fails a health check, traffic is automatically diverted to a secondary standby resource. Which policy should you choose?

5. 5

   You are designing a high-availability architecture where you need to return multiple IP addresses for a single DNS query, and you want Route 53 to perform health checks on each IP and only return the healthy ones. Which policy is the most effective choice?