Route53 - Simple Routing Policy Lab

Question 1

Route53 Routing Policies

Answer 1

Simple, Weighted, Latency, Failover, Geolocation

Question 2

Simple Routing Policy

Answer 2

This is the default routing policy when you create a new record set.

Question 3

When is a simple routing policy most commonly used?

Answer 3

When you have a single resource that performs a given function for your domain. For example, one web serves content for the http://acloud.guru website

Question 4

Pictoral example of Simple Routing Policy

Answer 4

User makes DNS request > Request hits Route53 > Route53 forwards request to EC2 instances in your region

Question 5

When you register a domain name, why are there multiple NS records?

Answer 5

For redundancy

Question 6

To link a domain name with an EC2 instance…

Answer 6

…create a record set in Route53, specify whether you want an alias record. If you specify an alias record, select an endpoint (either ELB, S3 bucket, or CloudFront distribution). Select routing policy

Question 7

Alias records are supported for…

Answer 7

A (IPv4), AAAA (IPv6)