A company's disaster recovery plan specifies an RTO of 1 hour for its file server. The current recovery process involves restoring files from backup tapes, which takes 4 hours. The IT team is considering two improvements: (1) using a cloud-based backup service with faster restore, and (2) maintaining a standby file server with replicated data. Which improvement is more likely to meet the RTO?

Using a cloud-based backup service with faster restore.

Maintaining a standby file server with replicated data.

Both improvements are equally effective.

Neither improvement can meet the RTO.

A company runs a stateful application on a single VM. The application stores session data locally on the VM's disk. The company wants to achieve high availability by adding a second VM behind a load balancer. Which additional change is required to make this design work?

Configure the load balancer to use round-robin distribution.

Move session state to a shared, central data store such as a database or cache.

Use sticky sessions on the load balancer.

Increase the disk size on both VMs.

A company's disaster recovery plan states that the database can lose up to 30 minutes of transactions in the event of a failure. The database is currently backed up once every 24 hours. Which change is required to meet the stated RPO?

Use a faster storage tier for the database.

Implement transaction log shipping or replication to a secondary database.

Increase the frequency of full backups to every 12 hours.

Store backups in a different geographic region.

A cloud architect wants to ensure that a critical application continues to operate even if one of its database replicas fails. Which approach best supports this goal?

Deploying multiple database replicas in different availability zones

Moving the database to a single larger cloud region

Increasing the CPU and memory of the single database server

Enabling auto-scaling on the database service

A company's web application is deployed on two virtual machines in the same availability zone. The application experiences downtime when the availability zone fails. The company wants to achieve high availability. What should they do?

Deploy the VMs in different availability zones and place them behind a load balancer.

Enable automatic restart for the VMs.

Add more VMs in the same availability zone.

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A company's disaster recovery plan specifies an RTO of 1 hour for its file server. The current recovery process involves restoring files from backup tapes, which takes 4 hours. The IT team is considering two improvements: (1) using a cloud-based backup service with faster restore, and (2) maintaining a standby file server with replicated data. Which improvement is more likely to meet the RTO?
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A company runs a stateful application on a single VM. The application stores session data locally on the VM's disk. The company wants to achieve high availability by adding a second VM behind a load balancer. Which additional change is required to make this design work?
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18application · medium
A company's disaster recovery plan states that the database can lose up to 30 minutes of transactions in the event of a failure. The database is currently backed up once every 24 hours. Which change is required to meet the stated RPO?
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A cloud architect wants to ensure that a critical application continues to operate even if one of its database replicas fails. Which approach best supports this goal?
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20application · medium
A company's web application is deployed on two virtual machines in the same availability zone. The application experiences downtime when the availability zone fails. The company wants to achieve high availability. What should they do?
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