A company wants to deploy a new environment in a different AWS Region for disaster recovery. The environment includes EC2 instances, an RDS database, and an Application Load Balancer. The company wants to ensure the environment can be recreated quickly and consistently. What should a solutions architect recommend?

Manually create the resources in the new Region and document the steps.

Take AMIs of the EC2 instances and copy them to the new Region.

Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy the application in the new Region.

Use AWS CloudFormation to define the infrastructure and deploy it in the new Region.

A company runs a database on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance. The company wants to protect against accidental deletion of the database and ensure that data can be recovered to a specific point in time. The company also wants to minimize the RPO. What should a solutions architect do?

Enable automated backups and set the backup retention period to 1 day.

Take manual snapshots daily and copy them to another Region.

Enable Multi-AZ and use read replicas.

Enable deletion protection and automated backups with a retention period of 35 days.

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Task 1.3: Design Reliable and Resilient Architectures. SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Content Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity domain, which makes up ~25% of our current practice bank. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 180-minute exam (~70–120 total, ~18–30 in this domain), expect 4–6 from this objective — we provide 34 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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10 Concepts in This Objective

Design for high availability
Design for fault tolerance
Design for disaster recovery
Design for scalability and elasticity
Design for self-healing architectures
Design for data durability and backup
Design for network resilience
Design for application resilience
Design for infrastructure as code resilience
Design for monitoring and observability

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A company wants to deploy a new environment in a different AWS Region for disaster recovery. The environment includes EC2 instances, an RDS database, and an Application Load Balancer. The company wants to ensure the environment can be recreated quickly and consistently. What should a solutions architect recommend?
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2foundation · easy
Which AWS service is used to trace and analyze requests as they travel through an application to identify performance bottlenecks and errors?
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3expert · hard
A company runs a database on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance. The company wants to protect against accidental deletion of the database and ensure that data can be recovered to a specific point in time. The company also wants to minimize the RPO. What should a solutions architect do?
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4foundation · easy
Which application design principle ensures that a client can safely retry an operation without causing unintended side effects?
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5foundation · easy
Which scaling approach increases the capacity of a single EC2 instance by upgrading its instance type?
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Task 1.3: Design Reliable and Resilient Architectures. SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

Which AWS service is used to trace and analyze requests as they travel through an application to identify performance bottlenecks and errors?

A company runs a database on an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance. The company wants to protect against accidental deletion of the database and ensure that data can be recovered to a specific point in time. The company also wants to minimize the RPO. What should a solutions architect do?

Which application design principle ensures that a client can safely retry an operation without causing unintended side effects?

Which scaling approach increases the capacity of a single EC2 instance by upgrading its instance type?

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