CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A company needs to back up a critical database with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours. Which disaster recovery strategy should be implemented?
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
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Cross-region replication with a read replica
Continuous replication (such as using database replication) can achieve a very low RPO like 15 minutes.
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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Weekly backups to an external tape library
Why it's wrong here
Weekly backups would not meet RPO of 15 minutes.
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Daily snapshots stored in the same region
Why it's wrong here
Daily snapshots would result in an RPO up to 24 hours, not 15 minutes.
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Cold standby with hourly snapshots
Why it's wrong here
Hourly snapshots would have an RPO up to 1 hour, not 15 minutes.
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Cross-region replication with a read replica
Why this is correct
Continuous replication (e.g., MySQL cross-region replica) can achieve RPO of seconds/minutes and RTO within hours.
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