What is the purpose of having separate environments such as dev, test, and prod?

To allow testing and validation before production release

To increase the cost of the deployment

To eliminate the need for monitoring

To combine all environments into one for simplicity

A company is deploying a new version of its application using a blue/green deployment. The team wants to automatically validate the new environment before switching traffic. The validation must include health checks, synthetic tests, and a review of error rates. If any validation fails, the deployment should be stopped. Which approach should the team use?

Use AWS CodeDeploy with a blue/green deployment and configure pre-traffic hooks to run validation tests

Use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to run canary tests and then update the load balancer

Use AWS CloudFormation with a custom resource to run validation tests

Use AWS Lambda to run validation tests and then manually switch traffic

A company runs a production application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The team wants to deploy a new version with minimal cost impact while maintaining availability. The application can tolerate a brief reduction in capacity during the deployment. Which deployment strategy should the team use?

Immutable deployment with a new Auto Scaling group

Blue/green deployment with a full new environment

Rolling deployment that updates instances in batches

Canary deployment with a small percentage of traffic to the new version

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Task 2.1: Design a Deployment Strategy to Meet Business Requirements SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 6)

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26foundation · easy
Which AWS service is used to orchestrate a CI/CD pipeline by defining stages such as build, test, and deploy?
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27foundation · easy
What is the purpose of having separate environments such as dev, test, and prod?
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A company is deploying a new version of its application using a blue/green deployment. The team wants to automatically validate the new environment before switching traffic. The validation must include health checks, synthetic tests, and a review of error rates. If any validation fails, the deployment should be stopped. Which approach should the team use?
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A company runs a production application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The team wants to deploy a new version with minimal cost impact while maintaining availability. The application can tolerate a brief reduction in capacity during the deployment. Which deployment strategy should the team use?
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30foundation · easy
A company needs to deploy a new version of its application with zero downtime and the ability to switch back to the previous version instantly if a critical issue is detected. Which deployment strategy best meets these requirements?
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Task 2.1: Design a Deployment Strategy to Meet Business Requirements SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–30

Which AWS service is used to orchestrate a CI/CD pipeline by defining stages such as build, test, and deploy?

What is the purpose of having separate environments such as dev, test, and prod?

A company runs a production application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The team wants to deploy a new version with minimal cost impact while maintaining availability. The application can tolerate a brief reduction in capacity during the deployment. Which deployment strategy should the team use?

A company needs to deploy a new version of its application with zero downtime and the ability to switch back to the previous version instantly if a critical issue is detected. Which deployment strategy best meets these requirements?

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