Question 830

A health check must represent the reachability of a private database endpoint with no public IP. What supported Route 53 design allows this private signal to affect DNS failover?

  1. Publish an application health metric to CloudWatch and base the Route 53 health check on its alarm
  2. Sign the Route 53 public hosted zone and publish its DS information at the parent delegation
  3. Enable DNSSEC validation for the VPC's Route 53 Resolver where supported
  4. Enable Evaluate Target Health for the relevant Route 53 alias records

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Standard Route 53 endpoint health checkers test public endpoints, whereas an alarm-based health check can reflect a custom probe that runs inside private connectivity.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Authoritative DNSSEC signing produces authenticated records, while the parent DS record allows validating resolvers to connect those signatures to the domain's delegation chain; it changes a different aspect of the architecture rather than fulfilling the need to monitor a private endpoint for DNS failover.

C:

Resolver validation checks cryptographic DNSSEC integrity of applicable DNS responses; it is separate from signing the organization's own authoritative hosted zones; the operational gap would remain because the question requires a way to monitor a private endpoint for DNS failover.

D:

Alias target-health evaluation can use the health of supported AWS targets for routing decisions, reducing reliance on separate manually maintained IP-based checks; it is not the action that directly makes the system monitor a private endpoint for DNS failover.

Question 831

A resolver inside a VPC encounters forwarding rules for both corp.example and eu.corp.example. Which rule decides the destination for db.eu.corp.example?

  1. Associate the domain-specific Route 53 Resolver forwarding rule with the workload VPC
  2. Publish the child zone's authoritative NS delegation in the parent public hosted zone
  3. Share the Resolver rule through AWS Resource Access Manager and associate it with authorized VPCs
  4. Use the most-specific matching Resolver rule, eu.corp.example

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Route 53 Resolver chooses the forwarding rule whose domain suffix matches most specifically; the broader parent rule does not override a narrower rule for the nested namespace.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The rule association tells the VPC Resolver which suffix to forward via the outbound endpoint; endpoint creation alone does not redirect DNS requests for that domain; it changes a different aspect of the architecture rather than fulfilling the need to select the correct overlapping forwarding rule.

B:

The parent DNS zone must direct recursive resolvers to the child zone's authoritative name servers; changing the parent zone's registrar NS would delegate the entire parent domain instead; the operational gap would remain because the question requires a way to select the correct overlapping forwarding rule.

C:

Sharing lets other accounts reuse the centrally managed forwarding rule, while each intended VPC still requires association to activate it; it is not the action that directly makes the system select the correct overlapping forwarding rule.

Question 832

A cross-account team associates a private hosted zone containing internal.example with a VPC and expects unanswered names under that suffix to fall back to the identically named public zone. What behavior must be explained?

  1. Publish the child zone's authoritative NS delegation in the parent public hosted zone
  2. Associate the private hosted zone with the inbound endpoint's VPC B or use a supported forwarding architecture
  3. Authorize the cross-account VPC association from the zone account, then associate the VPC from its owning account
  4. Expect an NXDOMAIN from the private zone when no matching private record exists

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Associated private-zone answers take precedence for matching namespaces; a missing name in that zone is not automatically resolved from the public hosted zone of the same name.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The parent DNS zone must direct recursive resolvers to the child zone's authoritative name servers; changing the parent zone's registrar NS would delegate the entire parent domain instead; the operational gap would remain because the question requires a way to avoid split-horizon fallback assumptions.

B:

An inbound Resolver endpoint resolves using the DNS view of its VPC, so a private hosted zone available only in another VPC is not automatically available across the connection; it is not the action that directly makes the system avoid split-horizon fallback assumptions.

C:

The hosted zone owner grants association authorization, and the VPC owner completes the association; IAM trust does not automatically establish private DNS visibility; that still would not establish the requested outcome: avoid split-horizon fallback assumptions.

Question 833

A company requires DNS clients to detect tampering in responses from its public authoritative domain. It owns the domain registration and can publish DS records at the parent. Which capability establishes the chain of trust?

  1. Publish an application health metric to CloudWatch and base the Route 53 health check on its alarm
  2. Enable DNSSEC validation for the VPC's Route 53 Resolver where supported
  3. Sign the Route 53 public hosted zone and publish its DS information at the parent delegation
  4. Associate the domain-specific Route 53 Resolver forwarding rule with the workload VPC

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Authoritative DNSSEC signing produces authenticated records, while the parent DS record allows validating resolvers to connect those signatures to the domain's delegation chain.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Standard Route 53 endpoint health checkers test public endpoints, whereas an alarm-based health check can reflect a custom probe that runs inside private connectivity; it is not the action that directly makes the system establish authoritative DNSSEC trust.

B:

Resolver validation checks cryptographic DNSSEC integrity of applicable DNS responses; it is separate from signing the organization's own authoritative hosted zones; that still would not establish the requested outcome: establish authoritative DNSSEC trust.

D:

The rule association tells the VPC Resolver which suffix to forward via the outbound endpoint; endpoint creation alone does not redirect DNS requests for that domain; those conditions do not produce the required result: establish authoritative DNSSEC trust.

Question 834

A security architect needs to identify all possible configured IPv4 TCP paths from tagged application resources to internet gateways, rather than test one fixed source-destination pair. Which AWS analysis capability fits?

  1. VPC Flow Logs with ACCEPT-only filtering
  2. AWS Network Access Analyzer with a network access scope and an analysis run
  3. A single VPC Reachability Analyzer path between two selected interfaces
  4. AWS CloudTrail data-event logging of DNS queries

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Network Access Analyzer statically evaluates configured network paths against a defined scope and returns matching potential exposure findings without sending test packets.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Flow Logs describe observed packet metadata. A path that configuration permits but that no client has used might not appear in the logs.

C:

Reachability Analyzer is useful for analyzing a specified path, but one pair is not a scope-wide search over all paths matching a policy.

D:

CloudTrail captures supported control-plane and data events, not a comprehensive static graph of possible network flows.

Question 835

A private DNS test shows VPC query logs for most zones but no answers for one application name. The VPC is configured to forward that suffix to on-premises resolvers that are offline. Which corrective design is appropriate?

  1. Examine Resolver query logs for response codes and correlate the failure timestamps
  2. Provide reachable on-premises DNS targets or adjust the matching outbound Resolver forwarding rule
  3. Associate the domain-specific Route 53 Resolver forwarding rule with the workload VPC
  4. Collect Route 53 Resolver query logs together with DNS Firewall rule-group activity where supported

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

A matching forward rule sends those names toward its configured remote DNS servers; it does not silently revert to ordinary public resolution when target resolvers are unavailable.

Incorrect Answers

A:

DNS response-code observations can distinguish nonexistence responses from failed or timed-out upstream resolution, guiding whether to inspect records or network paths; the scenario instead needs an action that will restore resolution for a selectively forwarded suffix.

C:

The rule association tells the VPC Resolver which suffix to forward via the outbound endpoint; endpoint creation alone does not redirect DNS requests for that domain; it changes a different aspect of the architecture rather than fulfilling the need to restore resolution for a selectively forwarded suffix.

D:

Resolver query information can tie source, queried name, response and time to DNS security rule behavior, helping distinguish an actual blocked lookup from application DNS failures; the operational gap would remain because the question requires a way to restore resolution for a selectively forwarded suffix.

Question 836

During an ECS rolling deployment, newly registered ALB targets need time to populate caches; immediately sending a full share of requests causes latency spikes. Which target-group setting is relevant?

  1. Enable Application Load Balancer access logs and compare elb_status_code with target_status_code
  2. Configure an HTTPS target group and compatible certificates/listeners on the targets
  3. Enable an Application Load Balancer target-group slow-start duration
  4. Configure the target group's deregistration delay

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Slow start gradually increases traffic sent to a newly healthy target during its configured warm-up interval, limiting sudden load as the replacement becomes ready.

Incorrect Answers

A:

ALB access logs contain request-level load balancer and target status fields, separating errors generated by the load balancer from application responses; those conditions do not produce the required result: ramp HTTP requests to warm-up targets.

B:

ALB can initiate HTTPS connections to backend targets, protecting the load-balancer-to-target segment; this is distinct from configuring a viewer-side HTTPS listener; it changes a different aspect of the architecture rather than fulfilling the need to ramp HTTP requests to warm-up targets.

D:

The deregistration delay sets how long a deregistering target can continue draining existing requests before being fully removed from service; it is not the action that directly makes the system ramp HTTP requests to warm-up targets.

Question 837

A customer uploads multi-gigabyte files through an ALB. Clients sometimes abandon uploads after the connection sits idle beyond the default timeout despite healthy backends. Which ALB attribute should the team evaluate?

  1. Correlate ALB target-processing-time fields with target application latency logs
  2. Attach multiple compatible certificates to the ALB listener's certificate list for SNI selection
  3. Increase the ALB idle timeout to fit the application's expected inactivity intervals
  4. Use a weighted forward action in the ALB listener rule

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

The load balancer closes connections with no activity for longer than the configured idle timeout; merely increasing target health thresholds cannot keep an idle client connection open.

Incorrect Answers

A:

A gateway timeout can occur when a backend does not respond in time; comparing request timing and target logs tests the hypothesis more directly than DNS registration changes; it changes a different aspect of the architecture rather than fulfilling the need to support legitimate long idle periods.

B:

Server Name Indication lets the load balancer choose the appropriate configured certificate for the requested hostname without requiring one public IP per certificate; the operational gap would remain because the question requires a way to support legitimate long idle periods.

D:

Weighted target groups divide requests at the listener forwarding decision; DNS weighted routing does not control the per-request split within one ALB; that still would not establish the requested outcome: support legitimate long idle periods.

Question 838

A service requires layer-seven HTTPS routing and must authenticate client certificates at the application entry point. Which native load balancer capability satisfies that requirement?

  1. Register the Lambda function as an ALB Lambda target
  2. Configure mutual TLS on an HTTPS listener of an Application Load Balancer
  3. Configure an HTTPS target group and compatible certificates/listeners on the targets
  4. Update the ALB mutual TLS trust store with the appropriate certificate revocation list

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

ALB mutual authentication can verify client certificates for inbound HTTPS sessions while preserving the ability to apply application-layer listener rules.

Incorrect Answers

A:

An Application Load Balancer can transform supported HTTP requests into Lambda events and return its response as HTTP without an EC2 or IP target listener; the operational gap would remain because the question requires a way to authenticate clients during HTTPS termination.

C:

ALB can initiate HTTPS connections to backend targets, protecting the load-balancer-to-target segment; this is distinct from configuring a viewer-side HTTPS listener; that still would not establish the requested outcome: authenticate clients during HTTPS termination.

D:

ALB mutual TLS verification can consult configured CRLs in its trust store; relying only on an unchanged CA certificate would continue accepting a nonexpired certificate unless revocation is enforced; the scenario instead needs an action that will authenticate clients during HTTPS termination.

Question 839

A company advertises its publicly owned prefixes over a Direct Connect public VIF. Policy requires those advertisements to be propagated within only the local AWS Region, not to all AWS Regions. Which BGP community should it tag on those routes?

  1. 7224:9300 for all public AWS Regions
  2. 7224:9200 for continent-wide scope
  3. 7224:9100 for the local AWS Region
  4. 7224:7300 to change the scope of public VIF advertisements

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

For prefixes advertised by customers on a Direct Connect public VIF, AWS documents 7224:9100 as the local AWS Region scope tag.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The 7224:9300 public-VIF scope community requests global AWS Region propagation, which exceeds the stated local-only policy.

B:

The 7224:9200 community limits public virtual interface propagation to AWS Regions on the same continent, which is broader than the one-Region scope requested by the policy.

D:

The 7224:7300 tag is a high local-preference community for private/transit VIF return-path preference, not the public VIF scope requested here.

Question 840

A security appliance fleet must receive encapsulated flows from a Gateway Load Balancer. Which backend protocol and registration model are required?

  1. Add a TGW attachment subnet in the required Availability Zone and verify associated VPC routes
  2. Use Gateway Load Balancer with Gateway Load Balancer endpoints and supported appliance targets
  3. Enable appliance mode on the VPC attachment hosting the stateful inspection appliances
  4. Register appliance IPs or instances in a target group that receives GENEVE traffic on port 6081

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

Gateway Load Balancer encapsulates customer packets using GENEVE so inspection appliances can process the original traffic and return it through the service chain.

Incorrect Answers

A:

TGW VPC attachment data-plane availability depends on enabled attachment AZs; a subnet without an attachment path cannot assume that another AZ's attachment automatically carries its traffic; that still would not establish the requested outcome: connect packet inspection appliances to GWLB.

B:

GWLB uses GENEVE encapsulation to distribute traffic to inspection appliances, while GWLBe provides a private steering endpoint inside service-consumer VPCs; the scenario instead needs an action that will connect packet inspection appliances to GWLB.

C:

TGW appliance mode helps ensure the same appliance AZ is selected for a flow in both directions, which is important for stateful inspection continuity; those conditions do not produce the required result: connect packet inspection appliances to GWLB.

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