Question 1mediummultiple choice
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Disaster Recovery practice questions
Use this page to practise SAA-C03 Disaster Recovery practice questions. The goal is not to memorise dumps, but to understand the concept, review the explanation and improve your exam readiness.
What the exam tests
What to know about Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.
Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.
How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.
How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.
Practice set
Disaster Recovery questions
20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation
Question 2mediummultiple choice
Full question →A trading dashboard uses Aurora MySQL. The company wants fast cross-Region disaster recovery with low RPO. Which architecture should be considered? The architecture review board prefers a managed AWS-native control.
Question 3easymultiple choice
Full question →A company runs Amazon RDS for MySQL in a Multi-AZ configuration. If the primary database instance fails, what is the expected behavior?
Question 4easymultiple choice
Full question →A company needs an Amazon RDS database that automatically fails over to a standby when the primary DB instance becomes unavailable. Which approach best meets the requirement with minimal operational effort?
Question 5easymultiple choice
Full question →A company has a primary application in us-east-1 and a standby environment in us-west-2. Users should go to the primary site while it is healthy and automatically switch to the standby site if the primary fails. Which Route 53 routing policy should they use?
Question 6easymultiple choice
Full question →A company wants a disaster recovery setup for a web application. They want to keep costs low but still recover within a couple of hours after a regional disruption. They are willing to run only minimal infrastructure in the secondary location and scale it up during the outage. Which DR approach best matches this requirement?
Question 7easymultiple choice
Full question →A company wants to protect a critical application from a full Region outage. The secondary Region should keep only a small amount of infrastructure running most of the time to control cost. Which disaster recovery strategy fits best?
Question 8mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company runs an Amazon Aurora DB cluster with a Multi-AZ deployment. The application is configured with a hard-coded endpoint that points to the current writer *DB instance* (an instance-specific endpoint), rather than the Aurora cluster writer endpoint. During an unexpected AZ failure, Aurora promotes the standby to become the new writer. However, the application continues to fail to connect until an operator updates the hard-coded endpoint. What change most directly improves resiliency so the application automatically reconnects after failover?
Question 9mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company runs a stateful analytics workload on EC2 instances that use EBS volumes. The data must be restorable in another Region after a major outage, with frequent point-in-time recovery. Which approach provides the most suitable replication mechanism for the EBS-backed data?
Question 10mediummultiple choice
Full question →A company runs a stateful analytics workload on EC2 instances that use EBS volumes. The data must be restorable in another Region after a major outage, with frequent point-in-time recovery. Which approach provides the most suitable replication mechanism for the EBS-backed data?
Question 11mediummulti select
Full question →A customer portal must recover from a regional outage within a few hours. The business wants lower ongoing cost than a fully active second Region and does not want to rebuild everything from scratch during the outage. Which two DR patterns best fit that goal? Select two.
Question 12mediummultiple choice
Full question →A fintech startup uses AWS to run a web API and a PostgreSQL database. They must meet an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours for a Region-wide disaster. Budget allows running a small, always-on set of infrastructure in a secondary Region, but not full production capacity. The team wants a DR approach that is regularly testable without large manual effort.
Which disaster recovery strategy is the best fit?
Question 13mediummulti select
Full question →A customer portal must recover from a regional outage within a few hours. The business wants lower ongoing cost than a fully active second Region and does not want to rebuild everything from scratch during the outage. Which two DR patterns best fit that goal? Select two.
Question 14mediummulti select
Full question →A fintech company needs a disaster recovery design for a web application in two Regions. The business requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO under 2 hours, but it cannot afford to keep a full production stack running in both Regions all the time. Which two DR strategies best fit the requirement? Select two.
Question 15mediummultiple choice
Full question →A finance application stores invoices in Amazon S3. Security requires that the data be encrypted with a key they control, and they want the ability to disable access quickly if the application is suspected of compromise. Developers do not want to manage encryption in application code. Which solution best meets these requirements?
Question 16easymultiple choice
Full question →A company wants a disaster recovery setup for a web application. They need relatively quick recovery, but they can't afford running full production in the secondary location at all times. Which option best matches this requirement?
Question 17hardmulti select
Full question →A low-latency market-data engine runs 10 EC2 instances that exchange small messages thousands of times per second. The team wants the lowest possible network latency and jitter, and they can tolerate single-AZ placement for this tier because another layer handles disaster recovery. Which changes should they make? Select three.
Question 18mediummultiple choice
Full question →A fintech startup uses AWS to run a web API and a PostgreSQL database. They must meet an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours for a Region-wide disaster. Budget allows running a small, always-on set of infrastructure in a secondary Region, but not full production capacity. The team wants a DR approach that is regularly testable without large manual effort.
Which disaster recovery strategy is the best fit?
Question 19mediummulti select
Full question →A media company stores daily financial exports in Amazon S3. The files must be protected against accidental overwrite or deletion, and the business also wants a second copy in another Region for recovery after a regional outage. Which two actions should the architect take? Select two.
Question 20mediummulti select
Full question →A media company stores daily financial exports in Amazon S3. The files must be protected against accidental overwrite or deletion, and the business also wants a second copy in another Region for recovery after a regional outage. Which two actions should the architect take? Select two.
Watch out for
Common Disaster Recovery exam traps
- ▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
- ▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
- ▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
- ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does the SAA-C03 exam test about Disaster Recovery?
- Disaster Recovery questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
- How should I use these practice questions?
- Select your answer before revealing the explanation. Then read why each option is right or wrong — this active recall approach builds retention far faster than re-reading notes.
- Can I practise just Disaster Recovery questions in a focused session?
- Yes — the session launcher on this page draws every question from the Disaster Recovery domain. Use a 10-question session first to gauge your baseline, then move to 20 or 30 once the weak spots are clear.
- Where can I practise other SAA-C03 topics?
- Use the topic links above to move to related areas, or go back to the SAA-C03 question bank to see all topics.
- Are these real exam questions or dumps?
- These are original practice questions written to test the same concepts the SAA-C03 exam covers. They are not copied from any real exam or dump site.
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Exam traps to avoid
- ▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
- ▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
- ▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
- ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.