A company runs a mission-critical application in a primary cloud region and replicates data to a secondary region. The RTO is 30 minutes. The current failover process requires an administrator to manually promote the secondary database and update DNS records. Which improvement would most directly help meet the RTO?

Increase the frequency of database backups to every 15 minutes.

Automate the database promotion and DNS update using an orchestration runbook triggered by a health check.

Use a larger VM in the primary region to handle more load.

Train more administrators to perform the manual failover procedure.

A company runs a batch processing workload that is not time-critical. The workload can tolerate up to 24 hours of downtime and up to 12 hours of data loss. The company wants to minimize ongoing costs while still being able to recover from a regional outage. Which BCDR strategy is most appropriate?

Use synchronous replication to a hot standby in another region.

Use daily backups stored in a different region and a cold site for recovery.

Use hourly snapshots stored in the same region and a warm site.

Use a pilot light approach with a small standby environment and continuous replication.

Which regulatory consideration is most likely to impact where a cloud BCDR backup is stored?

Data residency requirements that mandate data be stored within specific geographic boundaries

The number of users accessing the application

The type of cloud service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

The color of the cloud provider's logo

A company runs a web application on virtual machines in a single region. The application must be available even if an entire availability zone fails. The company also wants to minimize the cost of idle resources. Which architecture should the company use?

Deploy a single instance in one zone and use a standby instance in another zone that is powered off.

Deploy active-active instances in two availability zones behind a load balancer.

Deploy instances in two regions and use DNS failover.

Deploy all instances in one zone but use multiple load balancers.

Which statement correctly defines recovery time objective (RTO)?

The maximum time allowed to restore systems and services after a disruption

The time between the last backup and the occurrence of a disaster

The minimum amount of time required to back up all critical data

The maximum amount of data loss that is acceptable after a disruption

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A company runs a mission-critical application in a primary cloud region and replicates data to a secondary region. The RTO is 30 minutes. The current failover process requires an administrator to manually promote the secondary database and update DNS records. Which improvement would most directly help meet the RTO?
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A company runs a batch processing workload that is not time-critical. The workload can tolerate up to 24 hours of downtime and up to 12 hours of data loss. The company wants to minimize ongoing costs while still being able to recover from a regional outage. Which BCDR strategy is most appropriate?
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Which regulatory consideration is most likely to impact where a cloud BCDR backup is stored?
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A company runs a web application on virtual machines in a single region. The application must be available even if an entire availability zone fails. The company also wants to minimize the cost of idle resources. Which architecture should the company use?
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