CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
During a scheduled DR drill, the cloud team fails over a critical application to the secondary region. After the drill, the application is failed back. The application's RTO was 2 hours, but the actual failover took 2.5 hours. Which action should be taken to improve future failover times?
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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Automate the failover process using infrastructure as code and runbooks
Failing the RTO indicates the process is not meeting the target. Automating the failover process with scripts or runbooks reduces manual steps and time. Rehearsing the process more often also helps but automation directly reduces time.
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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Increase the frequency of DR drills
Why it's wrong here
More drills improve familiarity but may not be as effective as automation.
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Increase the bandwidth between regions for data replication
Why it's wrong here
Bandwidth may affect replication time but failover time is often dominated by manual steps.
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Automate the failover process using infrastructure as code and runbooks
Why this is correct
Automation reduces manual intervention and speeds up failover.
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Reduce the RTO to 1 hour to force faster execution
Why it's wrong here
Reducing the target does not improve actual performance.
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