SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company is migrating a critical workload to AWS and needs to ensure business continuity. The workload runs on a single EC2 instance with a 500 GB EBS volume. The company requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which solution meets these requirements with the least operational overhead?
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
✓
Use Amazon EBS snapshots with a 15-minute frequency and automate recovery with AWS Backup.
EBS snapshots can be taken every 15 minutes to meet the RPO, and restoring from a snapshot can meet the 2-hour RTO. AWS Backup automates the snapshot schedule and recovery, minimizing operational overhead. Option A is incorrect because creating AMIs every 15 minutes is impractical and would not meet the RTO efficiently. Option B is incorrect because RDS Multi-AZ is designed for database workloads, not general EC2 instances. Option D is incorrect because AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery introduces higher complexity and cost compared to the simpler snapshot-based approach for a single-instance workload.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
Create an AMI of the instance every 15 minutes and launch a new instance from the latest AMI in case of failure.
Why it's wrong here
AMIs are not designed for frequent creation and slower to restore.
- ✗
Deploy the workload on Amazon RDS Multi-AZ and enable automatic failover.
Why it's wrong here
RDS is not suitable for non-database workloads.
- ✓
Use Amazon EBS snapshots with a 15-minute frequency and automate recovery with AWS Backup.
Why this is correct
EBS snapshots provide cost-effective backups with low RPO and RTO.
- ✗
Use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to continuously replicate the EC2 instance to another Region.
Why it's wrong here
Elastic Disaster Recovery incurs higher overhead and cost.
Go deeper
Related to this question
About these practice questions
This SAP-C02 question is part of Courseiva's 1,660-question bank — original exam-style content with full explanations and wrong-answer analysis, never real exam questions or exam dumps. Learn why practice questions differ from exam dumps →
JA
Written by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
This SAP-C02 practice question is part of Courseiva's free Amazon Web Services certification practice question bank. Courseiva provides original exam-style practice questions with explanations, topic-based practice, mock exams, readiness tracking, and study analytics to help learners prepare for the SAP-C02 exam.