A company has two applications: Application A requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. Application B requires an RPO of 24 hours and an RTO of 24 hours. The budget is limited, and the storage team must design a data protection strategy. Which approach is MOST cost-effective while meeting both requirements?

Use the same replication frequency and recovery infrastructure for both applications

Use frequent replication for both applications but slower recovery for Application B

Use frequent replication and fast recovery for Application A, and less frequent replication and slower recovery for Application B

Use infrequent replication for both applications but fast recovery for Application A

A workload has variable performance needs: high IOPS during business hours and low IOPS at night. Which cost-effective strategy is most appropriate?

Use a low-performance system that meets the night-time needs only

Move the workload to a backup system at night

Provision a high-performance system that runs 24/7

Use a system that can scale performance dynamically based on demand

A company runs a nightly batch process that reads large portions of a data warehouse, performs complex aggregations, and writes summarized results. The process is not latency-sensitive but must complete within a fixed time window. Which workload classification best describes this process, and which metric is most important for sizing?

File services; prioritize latency

A company runs a database that experiences a daily batch load in the evening and interactive queries during the day. Monitoring shows the storage system has high IOPS during the batch load and high throughput during the day. The storage system is currently sized for the peak of both metrics simultaneously, leading to high cost. Which approach BEST balances cost and performance?

Move the batch load to a separate storage system

Reduce the IOPS requirement by optimizing the batch load

Size the storage system for the highest peak of either IOPS or throughput

Use a storage system that can dynamically adjust performance characteristics based on time of day

A startup is deploying a new web application that has unpredictable traffic spikes. The application is stateless and can tolerate occasional latency. The team wants to minimize cost while ensuring the application can handle spikes. Which approach is MOST cost-effective?

Use a single powerful VM with high specifications

Use a serverless platform that scales automatically

Use on-premises hardware with excess capacity

Provision a large fixed cluster to handle peak load

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21expert · hard
A company has two applications: Application A requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. Application B requires an RPO of 24 hours and an RTO of 24 hours. The budget is limited, and the storage team must design a data protection strategy. Which approach is MOST cost-effective while meeting both requirements?
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22foundation · easy
A workload has variable performance needs: high IOPS during business hours and low IOPS at night. Which cost-effective strategy is most appropriate?
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23application · medium
A company runs a nightly batch process that reads large portions of a data warehouse, performs complex aggregations, and writes summarized results. The process is not latency-sensitive but must complete within a fixed time window. Which workload classification best describes this process, and which metric is most important for sizing?
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24expert · hard
A company runs a database that experiences a daily batch load in the evening and interactive queries during the day. Monitoring shows the storage system has high IOPS during the batch load and high throughput during the day. The storage system is currently sized for the peak of both metrics simultaneously, leading to high cost. Which approach BEST balances cost and performance?
Select an answer first
25application · medium
A startup is deploying a new web application that has unpredictable traffic spikes. The application is stateless and can tolerate occasional latency. The team wants to minimize cost while ensuring the application can handle spikes. Which approach is MOST cost-effective?
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A workload has variable performance needs: high IOPS during business hours and low IOPS at night. Which cost-effective strategy is most appropriate?

A startup is deploying a new web application that has unpredictable traffic spikes. The application is stateless and can tolerate occasional latency. The team wants to minimize cost while ensuring the application can handle spikes. Which approach is MOST cost-effective?

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