A company has an on-premises data center connected to AWS via a single AWS Direct Connect connection. The connection is used for all traffic to a VPC. The company wants to ensure that if the Direct Connect connection fails, traffic can still flow to the VPC. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?

Enable Multi-AZ on the Direct Connect connection.

Provision a second Direct Connect connection and configure a VPN as a backup.

Create a second VPC and peer it with the existing VPC.

Use a NAT gateway in each Availability Zone.

A company runs a critical application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The company wants to be notified immediately when the application becomes unavailable and to automatically trigger a recovery process. What should a solutions architect do?

Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm on the ALB's HealthyHostCount metric and use it to trigger an SNS notification.

Create a CloudWatch alarm on the EC2 CPUUtilization metric and trigger an SNS notification.

Configure the Auto Scaling group to use EC2 health checks and replace unhealthy instances, and create a CloudWatch alarm on the group's metrics to send an SNS notification.

Use Amazon EventBridge to detect EC2 instance status checks and invoke an AWS Lambda function to replace the instance.

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Task 1.3: Design Reliable and Resilient Architectures. SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 2)

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

Questions 6–10

6foundation · easy
Which AWS service allows you to define and provision AWS infrastructure using declarative templates, enabling reproducible deployments?
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7foundation · easy
A solutions architect is designing a system that must continue to operate correctly even if one of its components fails. Which design principle is most directly related to this requirement?
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8foundation · easy
A company's disaster recovery plan requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes for a critical application. Which disaster recovery strategy is most appropriate to meet these objectives?
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9application · medium
A company has an on-premises data center connected to AWS via a single AWS Direct Connect connection. The connection is used for all traffic to a VPC. The company wants to ensure that if the Direct Connect connection fails, traffic can still flow to the VPC. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?
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10application · medium
A company runs a critical application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The company wants to be notified immediately when the application becomes unavailable and to automatically trigger a recovery process. What should a solutions architect do?
Select an answer first

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Questions 6–10

Which AWS service allows you to define and provision AWS infrastructure using declarative templates, enabling reproducible deployments?

A solutions architect is designing a system that must continue to operate correctly even if one of its components fails. Which design principle is most directly related to this requirement?

A company's disaster recovery plan requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes for a critical application. Which disaster recovery strategy is most appropriate to meet these objectives?

A company runs a critical application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The company wants to be notified immediately when the application becomes unavailable and to automatically trigger a recovery process. What should a solutions architect do?

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