AWS Route 53 Quiz with Answers

Question 1:

You have purchased mycoolcompany.com on Amazon Route 53 Registrar and would like the domain 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?

✅ Correct Answer: Alias

🔘 CNAME

🔘 Alias ✅

Explanation:

Alias records allow Route 53 to map a domain to AWS resources such as Elastic Load Balancers, CloudFront distributions, and S3 buckets.

Question 2:

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 CloudWatch metrics and ensure there are no bugs in your new environment. Which Route 53 Record type allows you to do so?

✅ Correct Answer: Weighted

🔘 Simple

🔘 Weighted ✅

🔘 Latency

🔘 Failover

Explanation:

Weighted routing allows you to distribute traffic based on percentages, making it ideal for canary deployments or A/B testing.