DEA-C01 Data Store Management Practice Question
A company uses Amazon Redshift for its data warehouse. The cluster has multiple node types and is configured with automated snapshots. The company needs to ensure high availability and disaster recovery across AWS Regions. Which THREE actions should the company take to meet these requirements? (Choose THREE.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often confuse high availability (multi-AZ) with disaster recovery (cross-Region snapshot copy), or assume that local automated snapshots alone satisfy cross-Region DR requirements without explicitly enabling cross-Region copy.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Restore a snapshot from the secondary Region in the event of a disaster.
Restoring a snapshot from a secondary Region is the core disaster recovery action in a cross-Region DR strategy. When a primary Region fails, you can restore the cross-Region snapshot copy to a new Redshift cluster in the secondary Region, ensuring business continuity. This leverages the automated cross-Region copy configured in Option E to make the snapshot available in the DR Region.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Enable automated snapshots with a retention period of at least 1 day.
Why it's wrong here
Automated snapshots are already configured; this step is already in place.
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Restore a snapshot from the secondary Region in the event of a disaster.
Why this is correct
Restoring from a cross-Region snapshot provides DR capability.
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Create manual snapshots on a daily basis and copy them to another Region.
Why it's wrong here
Automated snapshots with cross-Region copy achieve the same goal without manual effort.
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Configure the cluster to use multiple Availability Zones (multi-AZ) for high availability.
Why this is correct
Multi-AZ configuration provides high availability within a Region.
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Configure cross-Region snapshot copy to replicate snapshots to another Region.
Why this is correct
Cross-Region snapshot copy enables DR by replicating snapshots to another Region.
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