An e-commerce company wants to ensure its website remains available even if an entire data center fails. The solution must automatically redirect traffic to a healthy location without manual intervention. Which design should the company implement?

Use a single large instance in one region and rely on the provider's hardware warranty.

Configure a scheduled job to copy the database to a secondary region every hour.

Deploy identical application instances in two different regions and use a global load balancer with health checks.

Create a backup of the application code and store it in object storage.

What does Recovery Time Objective (RTO) measure in a disaster recovery plan?

The maximum acceptable amount of data loss

The maximum acceptable downtime after a disaster

The time required to create a backup

The frequency of backup testing

A company's disaster recovery plan specifies an RPO of 1 hour for its customer database. The database is backed up every 6 hours. What is the most appropriate action to meet the RPO?

Implement transaction log backups every 15 minutes.

Store backups in a different region.

What is the primary goal of high availability in a cloud environment?

To ensure data is encrypted at rest

To reduce the cost of cloud resources

To increase the speed of individual transactions

To minimize downtime and ensure service continuity

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1application · easy
A financial services company is designing a disaster recovery plan for its transaction database. The compliance team requires that no more than 5 minutes of transaction data can be lost in a disaster. Which recovery point objective (RPO) should the plan specify?
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2application · medium
An e-commerce company wants to ensure its website remains available even if an entire data center fails. The solution must automatically redirect traffic to a healthy location without manual intervention. Which design should the company implement?
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What does Recovery Time Objective (RTO) measure in a disaster recovery plan?
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4application · medium
A company's disaster recovery plan specifies an RPO of 1 hour for its customer database. The database is backed up every 6 hours. What is the most appropriate action to meet the RPO?
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What is the primary goal of high availability in a cloud environment?
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