Question 260
An AWS network engineer must address this specific condition: A service alias at the zone apex must target an AWS load balancer without using a CNAME record at the apex. Which implementation or operational change BEST meets the requirement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A DNS apex cannot use an ordinary CNAME together with required apex records, but AWS alias records support supported targets. Confirm the change by checking that the apex hostname resolves to the target load balancer address without a CNAME apex conflict.
Incorrect Answers
Signing a hosted zone alone does not establish validation if the parent delegation lacks the needed DS chain. The needed control instead targets Route 53 alias records can point an apex name at supported AWS resources where a CNAME is not allowed; it succeeds when the apex hostname resolves to the target load balancer address without a CNAME apex conflict.
Inbound endpoint existence does not grant resolution of private zones absent from its resolver view. The needed control instead targets Route 53 alias records can point an apex name at supported AWS resources where a CNAME is not allowed; it succeeds when the apex hostname resolves to the target load balancer address without a CNAME apex conflict.
Inbound endpoints bring permitted DNS queries into the VPC resolver, unlike outbound endpoints sending them out. That adjustment does not address the controlling condition: a DNS apex cannot use an ordinary CNAME together with required apex records, but AWS alias records support supported targets. Verify the apex hostname resolves to the target load balancer address without a CNAME apex conflict.






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