SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company is migrating a critical application to AWS and must ensure business continuity with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The application runs on a single on-premises server with a 500 GB disk. The current data changes at a rate of 10 MB per minute. Which solution will meet the RTO and RPO requirements with the least operational overhead?
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Use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to replicate the server continuously and automate cutover.
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) continuously replicates data with near-zero RPO and supports automated testing and cutover. It can achieve an RTO of less than 1 hour for a single server. AWS DMS is for database migration, not full server. AWS Backup has a minimum RPO of 1 hour for continuous backups. Manual snapshots cannot achieve 15-minute RPO due to the rate of change and manual intervention.
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Use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to replicate the server continuously and automate cutover.
Why this is correct
AWS MGN provides continuous replication, automated testing, and fast cutover, meeting both RTO and RPO with low overhead.
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Use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to replicate the database continuously.
Why it's wrong here
AWS DMS is designed for database migration, not full server migration, and does not cover application and OS data.
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Use AWS DataSync to replicate the server every 15 minutes to an EBS volume.
Why it's wrong here
AWS DataSync is for file-level sync, not block-level replication of an entire server, and cannot achieve the required RPO consistently.
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Take hourly snapshots of the server using AWS Backup and restore in a new EC2 instance.
Why it's wrong here
Hourly snapshots cannot achieve a 15-minute RPO, and AWS Backup does not support sub-hourly scheduling for EC2.
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