- A
Economies of scale
Why wrong: Economies of scale describes cost benefits from AWS's purchasing power — not the ability to operate in multiple global locations.
- B
Trade capital expense for variable expense
Why wrong: CapEx to OpEx describes the financial model shift — not the ability to deploy across global regions.
- C
Go global in minutes
AWS's presence in dozens of regions worldwide means deploying in a new geographic location takes minutes via the same console and APIs — not months of hardware procurement.
- D
Increase speed and agility for experiments
Why wrong: Speed and agility describes faster experimentation cycles — the global reach benefit specifically refers to the ability to deploy across multiple geographies rapidly.
Question 113 of 1,024
CLF-C02 Cloud Concepts Practice Question
This CLF-C02 practice question tests your understanding of cloud concepts. Read the scenario carefully and evaluate each option against the stated constraints before committing to an answer. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
A company wants to take advantage of AWS's global infrastructure to replicate their database to a second geographic region for disaster recovery. Which benefit of cloud computing does this leverage?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
Go global in minutes
Option C is correct because AWS's global infrastructure allows you to deploy resources, such as database replicas, across multiple geographic regions in minutes. By using services like Amazon RDS Cross-Region Read Replicas or Aurora Global Database, you can replicate data to a second region for disaster recovery, leveraging the cloud's ability to rapidly expand globally without provisioning physical data centers.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Economies of scale
Why it's wrong here
Economies of scale describes cost benefits from AWS's purchasing power — not the ability to operate in multiple global locations.
- ✗
Trade capital expense for variable expense
Why it's wrong here
CapEx to OpEx describes the financial model shift — not the ability to deploy across global regions.
- ✓
Go global in minutes
Why this is correct
AWS's presence in dozens of regions worldwide means deploying in a new geographic location takes minutes via the same console and APIs — not months of hardware procurement.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- ✗
Increase speed and agility for experiments
Why it's wrong here
Speed and agility describes faster experimentation cycles — the global reach benefit specifically refers to the ability to deploy across multiple geographies rapidly.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates confuse 'go global in minutes' with 'economies of scale' or 'speed and agility,' but the question specifically asks about leveraging global infrastructure for geographic replication, not cost savings or experimental speed.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Under the hood, AWS Global Infrastructure consists of multiple isolated Regions connected via a high-bandwidth, low-latency backbone network. For disaster recovery, you can configure Amazon RDS Cross-Region Read Replicas using asynchronous replication (typically within seconds of lag), or use Aurora Global Database which replicates data across up to five Regions with a typical latency of under one second. This enables failover to a secondary Region in minutes, a capability impossible with on-premises infrastructure without months of planning and construction.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
An e-commerce site experiences heavy traffic on Black Friday and near-zero traffic during off-peak weeks. Rather than provisioning permanent large VMs, the team uses auto-scaling groups that add capacity automatically under load and reduce it overnight. Questions like this test whether you understand elasticity, availability zones, and cloud compute scaling patterns.
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What does this CLF-C02 question test?
Cloud Concepts — This question tests Cloud Concepts — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Go global in minutes — Option C is correct because AWS's global infrastructure allows you to deploy resources, such as database replicas, across multiple geographic regions in minutes. By using services like Amazon RDS Cross-Region Read Replicas or Aurora Global Database, you can replicate data to a second region for disaster recovery, leveraging the cloud's ability to rapidly expand globally without provisioning physical data centers.
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