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SOA-C02 · Question #208

A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability for an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server an

The correct answer is C. Create an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the. "Evaluate health of an AWS resource (alias records)" "If you're using alias records to route traffic to selected AWS resources, such as ELB load balancers, you can configure Route 53 to evaluate the health of the resource and to route traffic only to resources that are healthy."

Submitted by jakub_pl· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity

Question

A SysOps administrator is evaluating Amazon Route 53 DNS options to address concerns about high availability for an on-premises website. The website consists of two servers: a primary active server and a secondary passive server. Route 53 should route traffic to the primary server if the associated health check returns 2xx or 3xx HTTP codes. All other traffic should be directed to the secondary passive server. The failover record type, set ID, and routing policy have been set appropriately for both primary and secondary servers. Which next step should be taken to configure Route 53?

Options

  • ACreate an A record for each server. Associate the records with the Route 53 HTTP health
  • BCreate an A record for each server. Associate the records with the Route 53 TCP health check.
  • CCreate an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the
  • DCreate an alias record for each server with evaluate target health set to yes. Associate the

How the community answered

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  • A
    6% (1)
  • B
    12% (2)
  • C
    76% (13)
  • D
    6% (1)

Explanation

"Evaluate health of an AWS resource (alias records)" "If you're using alias records to route traffic to selected AWS resources, such as ELB load balancers, you can configure Route 53 to evaluate the health of the resource and to route traffic only to resources that are healthy." https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover-simple-configs.html

Topics

#Route 53 failover#health checks#active-passive#DNS routing policy

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