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220-1202 Practice Question: A technician is configuring a cloud-based backup…
A technician is configuring a cloud-based backup solution for a company's critical data. The company wants to ensure that if the primary cloud provider experiences an outage, the data remains accessible from another provider. Which concept should the technician implement?
⚠ Common exam trap
CompTIA A+ often tests the distinction between high availability (which keeps services running within a single provider) and cloud federation (which ensures data accessibility across providers), leading candidates to mistakenly choose high availability when the question explicitly requires cross-provider access.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud federation
Cloud federation enables the interconnection of multiple cloud providers' environments, allowing data and resources to be shared across them. By implementing cloud federation, the technician can replicate critical data to a secondary provider, ensuring that if the primary provider experiences an outage, the data remains accessible from the federated provider. This directly addresses the requirement for cross-provider data accessibility during a provider outage.
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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High availability
Why it's wrong here
High availability keeps a workload running within one provider's region through redundancy, so a provider-wide outage still takes the data offline. It is tempting because HA sounds like resilience, but it would be correct for component or zone failures; cross-provider accessibility requires replicating backups to a second provider.
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Cloud federation
Why this is correct
Cloud federation links identity and services across multiple providers, so workloads and data remain reachable through a partner provider when the primary one fails. This directly addresses the requirement for continued accessibility during a provider outage.
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Load balancing
Why it's wrong here
Load balancing distributes incoming traffic across identical endpoints; it cannot replicate stored backup data to a second provider, so a provider outage still leaves data unreachable. It is tempting because it does provide resilience, but only for stateless request routing across instances within one environment.
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Disaster recovery plan
Why it's wrong here
A disaster recovery plan is documentation defining recovery procedures, not a mechanism that copies backup data to a second provider, so accessibility during an outage is not achieved. It is tempting because DR planning genuinely addresses provider outages, but it is the correct choice only when the question asks which document to produce.
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