CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A company is migrating on-premises workloads to a public cloud. The disaster recovery plan requires an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 minutes. Which replication strategy should be used for a critical database?
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Continuous replication to a standby instance in another region
Continuous replication with synchronous or near-synchronous updates can achieve very low RPO (minutes) and low RTO. Cross-region replication may have higher latency, and snapshot-based backup typically has higher RPO and RTO.
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Weekly full backups with daily incrementals stored in the same region
Why it's wrong here
This does not meet RPO/RTO and lacks cross-region protection.
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Continuous replication to a standby instance in another region
Why this is correct
Continuous replication can achieve near-zero RPO and fast failover, meeting the requirements.
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Scheduled snapshots every hour with cross-region copy
Why it's wrong here
Hourly snapshots give RPO up to 60 minutes, not 5 minutes.
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Daily snapshots replicated cross-region
Why it's wrong here
Daily snapshots provide RPO of up to 24 hours, far exceeding 5 minutes.
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