CV0-004 Cloud Architecture and Design Practice Question
A cloud architect is designing a web application that must remain available during a full region outage. They plan to deploy identical resources in two separate geographical regions. Which high availability architecture is described?
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Why each option matters
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Active-active
Active-active means both regions handle traffic simultaneously, providing load sharing and failover. This matches deploying identical resources in two regions.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Cold standby
Why it's wrong here
Cold standby involves backup resources that are not running until needed.
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Active-passive
Why it's wrong here
In active-passive, one region is idle until failover.
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Active-active
Why this is correct
Both regions are active, handling traffic and providing full redundancy.
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Warm standby
Why it's wrong here
Warm standby has some resources running but not fully scaled.
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