Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Cloud CCSE Practice Questions (Page 9)

Questions 41–45

1. 41application · medium

   A financial services firm runs a critical database in a single cloud region. Regulatory requirements mandate that in the event of a regional outage, the database must be recoverable with no more than 15 minutes of data loss and be available within 2 hours. The database currently uses daily snapshots stored in the same region. Which combination of changes should the firm implement to meet these requirements?

   • AIncrease snapshot frequency to every 15 minutes and store snapshots in a different region, then restore from the latest snapshot during a disaster.
   • BUse a cold site in another region and restore the most recent daily backup, accepting up to 24 hours of data loss.
   • CKeep the database in the primary region and rely on automated failover to a standby instance in the same availability zone.
   • DEnable cross-region replication with a recovery point objective of 15 minutes and maintain a warm standby database in the secondary region.
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2. 42foundation · easy

   Which type of disaster recovery site is fully operational and ready to take over immediately after a disaster?

   • AHot site
   • BBackup site
   • CWarm site
   • DCold site
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4. 43application · medium

   A multinational company must comply with data residency regulations that require customer data to remain within a specific country. The company is designing a disaster recovery plan and needs to ensure that backups and recovery sites also comply. Which approach should the company take?

   • AUse a cold site in the same country but store backups in a different country to save money.
   • BUse a secondary region in a neighboring country to reduce costs, and encrypt all backups.
   • CStore backups in the primary region only and rely on the provider's internal redundancy.
   • DSelect a secondary region within the same country for backups and disaster recovery failover.
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5. 44expert · hard

   A company has an automated failover orchestration that switches traffic to a secondary region when a health check fails. During a routine test, the team discovers that the failover triggered accidentally due to a false positive health check, causing a brief outage. The RTO is 15 minutes and the RPO is 5 minutes. Which change should be made to reduce false failovers while still meeting the RTO?

   • AIncrease the frequency of health checks to every 5 seconds.
   • BUse a single health check endpoint and failover immediately on any error.
   • CRequire multiple consecutive health check failures before triggering failover.
   • DDisable automated failover and rely on manual intervention.
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6. 45application · medium

   A company uses a cloud backup service for its file servers. The compliance team requires that backups be stored in a geographically separate location and be available for restoration within 4 hours. Which backup configuration best meets these requirements?

   • AUse locally redundant storage and increase backup frequency.
   • BKeep backups only in the primary region and rely on the cloud provider's internal redundancy.
   • CEnable cross-region replication on the backup vault and test restoration quarterly.
   • DStore backups in the same region but on a different storage account.
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