SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company is migrating to a multi-account AWS environment. They want to centralize DNS management using Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones. The private zones must be accessible from all VPCs in the organization. Which THREE steps are required to achieve this?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse the need for a public hosted zone or outbound endpoints with the simpler mechanism of sharing a private hosted zone via AWS RAM and associating it with VPCs, leading them to select unnecessary or incorrect options.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Create a private hosted zone in the central networking account.
A private hosted zone must be created in a central networking account to serve as the authoritative DNS namespace for the organization's internal resources. This central account acts as the zone owner, allowing the zone to be associated with VPCs across multiple accounts via AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM).
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Create a private hosted zone in the central networking account.
Why this is correct
Central account holds the zone.
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Share the private hosted zone with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager.
Why this is correct
RAM shares the zone.
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Create a public hosted zone with the same name and configure DNSSEC.
Why it's wrong here
Public zones are not needed for private resolution.
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Associate the private hosted zone with the VPCs in the member accounts.
Why this is correct
VPC association allows DNS resolution.
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Create a Route 53 Resolver outbound endpoint in each account.
Why it's wrong here
Not required for private hosted zones shared via RAM.
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