CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A cloud architect is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application that requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The application runs on GCP Compute Engine with persistent disks. Which backup strategy best meets these requirements?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Schedule snapshots every 15 minutes and store in a different region
Snapshot schedules can be as frequent as every 10 minutes, and snapshots can be restored quickly, meeting the RPO and RTO.
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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Use gcloud compute instances move to move instances to another region
Why it's wrong here
Move command is for migration, not continuous backup.
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Use persistent disk synchronous replication to another zone
Why it's wrong here
Synchronous replication is for high availability within a region, not DR.
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Schedule daily snapshots to a different region
Why it's wrong here
Daily snapshots give RPO of 24 hours, too high.
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Schedule snapshots every 15 minutes and store in a different region
Why this is correct
Frequent snapshots achieve RPO of 15 minutes; cross-region storage supports DR.
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