PCNE Configuring Network Services Practice Question
An organization uses Cloud DNS with a managed zone for internal resolution. They want to implement a failover routing policy so that if the primary health-checked endpoint is unhealthy, traffic is directed to a secondary endpoint. Which THREE steps are required? (Choose three.)
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Create a health check for the secondary endpoint
Failover routing policy requires a primary and secondary target, each with an associated health check to determine health.
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Create a health check for the secondary endpoint
Why this is correct
Required to know when secondary is healthy.
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Create a routing policy of type FAILOVER
Why this is correct
Specifies failover behavior.
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Create a health check for the primary endpoint
Why this is correct
Required to detect primary endpoint health.
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Create a routing policy of type WEIGHTED
Why it's wrong here
Weighted is for traffic splitting, not failover.
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Create a response policy zone
Why it's wrong here
RPZ is for DNS overrides, not routing.
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