CV0-004 Cloud Architecture and Design Practice Question
A company needs to choose a disaster recovery strategy with an RTO of 4 hours and an RPO of 15 minutes. Which of the following is the most cost-effective approach that meets these requirements?
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Why each option matters
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Pilot light
Pilot light keeps a minimal environment running and can be scaled up quickly; it offers a balance between cost and recovery time. Warm standby would be more expensive, cold standby would not meet RTO/RPO, and multi-site active-active is overkill.
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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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Multi-site active-active
Why it's wrong here
Highest cost; not necessary for these RTO/RPO values.
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Warm standby
Why it's wrong here
Warm standby is more expensive and may meet RTO but is not most cost-effective.
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Pilot light
Why this is correct
Pilot light can recover in minutes to hours with low RPO.
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Cold standby
Why it's wrong here
Cold standby has high RTO (hours to days) and high RPO.
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