[Security and Compliance] A SysOps administrator needs to configure the Amazon Route 53 hosted zone for example.com and www.example.com to point to…

You are correct that an A record typically points to an IP address. However, in the case of an

Application Load Balancer (ALB), you cannot use an A record with an IP address because the IP

addresses of an ALB can change over time. Instead, you can use an alias record to point to the DNS

name of the ALB. An alias record is a Route 53 extension to DNS that allows you to route traffic to

selected AWS resources, such as an ALB, by using a friendly DNS name, such as example.com, instead

of the resource’s IP address or DNS name.