Route 53 DNS Routing Policies Quiz

What you'll be asked

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. 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. 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. 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. 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?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.