ANS-C01 Network Design Practice Question
A global company is designing a multi-region architecture with an Active-Passive setup. They want to use Amazon Route 53 to route traffic to the active region and fail over to the passive region during an outage. They need to ensure that the failover is automatic based on health checks. Which routing policy should they use?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse the Failover routing policy with the Weighted or Latency policies, mistakenly thinking those can also provide automatic failover, but only the Failover policy is designed for active-passive setups with health check-driven automatic failover.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Failover routing policy
The Failover routing policy in Amazon Route 53 is specifically designed for active-passive configurations. It allows you to designate one record as primary (active) and another as secondary (passive), and Route 53 automatically routes traffic to the secondary record only when the health check associated with the primary record fails. This meets the requirement for automatic failover based on health checks without manual intervention.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Weighted routing policy
Why it's wrong here
Used for distributing traffic across multiple resources with assigned weights.
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Latency routing policy
Why it's wrong here
Routes traffic to the region with the lowest latency.
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Geolocation routing policy
Why it's wrong here
Routes traffic based on the geographic location of users.
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Failover routing policy
Why this is correct
Designed for active-passive failover using health checks.
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