A company runs a customer-facing web application on EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The compliance team requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours for the application data, which is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The application is not required to be active in another Region, but the data must be recoverable in the us-west-2 Region if the primary Region fails. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Take daily snapshots of the RDS DB instance and copy them to us-west-2.

Deploy a second RDS instance in us-west-2 and use synchronous replication between the two.

Enable RDS automated backups and set the backup retention period to 15 minutes.

Configure a cross-Region read replica in us-west-2 and promote it during a disaster.

A company runs a web application in the us-east-1 Region with an RDS database. The company wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy that can recover the application and database in the us-west-2 Region with an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The application is stateless and can be deployed using an AMI. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Use a multi-site active-active strategy: run the full application in both Regions and use Route 53 latency-based routing.

Use backup and restore: copy RDS snapshots to us-west-2 daily and restore during a disaster.

Use a pilot light strategy: keep the AMI and RDS snapshots in us-west-2, and deploy the application and restore the database from snapshots during a disaster.

Use a warm standby strategy: run a scaled-down version of the application in us-west-2 and use a cross-Region read replica for the database.

A company runs a global web application that serves users in North America and Europe. The application runs on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group in the us-east-1 Region. The company wants to improve availability and reduce latency for European users. What should a solutions architect do?

Use Amazon CloudFront with the existing application as the origin.

Increase the Auto Scaling group's desired capacity in us-east-1.

Deploy the application in the eu-west-1 Region and use Route 53 latency-based routing.

Use an Application Load Balancer with cross-zone load balancing enabled.

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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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26application · medium
A company runs a customer-facing web application on EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The compliance team requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours for the application data, which is stored in an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The application is not required to be active in another Region, but the data must be recoverable in the us-west-2 Region if the primary Region fails. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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27foundation · easy
Which AWS service can be used to automatically detect and replace an unhealthy EC2 instance in a self-healing architecture?
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28application · medium
A company runs a web application in the us-east-1 Region with an RDS database. The company wants to implement a disaster recovery strategy that can recover the application and database in the us-west-2 Region with an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. The application is stateless and can be deployed using an AMI. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
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29application · medium
A company runs a global web application that serves users in North America and Europe. The application runs on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group in the us-east-1 Region. The company wants to improve availability and reduce latency for European users. What should a solutions architect do?
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30foundation · easy
Which AWS service is used to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms?
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Questions 26–30

Which AWS service can be used to automatically detect and replace an unhealthy EC2 instance in a self-healing architecture?

A company runs a global web application that serves users in North America and Europe. The application runs on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group in the us-east-1 Region. The company wants to improve availability and reduce latency for European users. What should a solutions architect do?

Which AWS service is used to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms?

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