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What to know about Cloud Architecture and Design

Cloud concepts questions usually test the service model (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS) and deployment model (public/private/hybrid/community) appropriate for a given scenario.

IaaS, PaaS and SaaS responsibilities and examples.

Public, private, hybrid and community cloud deployment models.

On-premises vs cloud trade-offs: cost, control, scalability.

How cloud connectivity options (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute) work.

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Common Cloud Architecture and Design exam traps

▸IaaS gives you infrastructure control; SaaS gives you only the application.
▸Hybrid cloud combines on-premises and public cloud — not two public clouds.
▸Cloud does not automatically mean cheaper or more secure.
▸Management responsibility shifts with each service model (IaaS → PaaS → SaaS).

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Cloud Architecture and Design questions

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Question 1hardmultiple choice

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An organization needs to recover its critical database within 15 minutes and lose at most 1 minute of data. Which configuration meets these requirements?

Trap 1: Active-active with asynchronous replication

Asynchronous replication may lose data, potentially exceeding 1-minute RPO.

Trap 2: Warm standby with hourly backups

Hourly backups exceed 1-minute RPO, and warm standby may not meet 15-minute RTO.

Trap 3: Cold standby with daily backups

Daily backups cannot achieve 1-minute RPO, and cold standby recovery time is too long.

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A
Active-active with asynchronous replication
Why wrong: Asynchronous replication may lose data, potentially exceeding 1-minute RPO.
B
Warm standby with hourly backups
Why wrong: Hourly backups exceed 1-minute RPO, and warm standby may not meet 15-minute RTO.
C
Hot standby with synchronous replication
Synchronous replication ensures RPO near zero, and hot standby allows fast failover.
D
Cold standby with daily backups
Why wrong: Daily backups cannot achieve 1-minute RPO, and cold standby recovery time is too long.

Cloud Architecture and Design practice questions

What to know about Cloud Architecture and Design

Common Cloud Architecture and Design exam traps

Cloud Architecture and Design questions

An organization needs to recover its critical database within 15 minutes and lose at most 1 minute of data. Which configuration meets these requirements?

A company wants to migrate its on-premises workload to the cloud and needs to maintain full control over the operating system, middleware, and applications. Which cloud service model should the company choose?

Which cloud deployment model connects an on-premises data center to a public cloud using VPN or dedicated connections like AWS Direct Connect?

A company runs a stateless web application on virtual machines. To handle increased traffic, they add more virtual machines and distribute incoming requests among them. What is this scaling method called?

A cloud engineer needs to store database backups that must be retained for seven years. The backups are rarely accessed. Which storage type is most cost-effective for this use case?

A company uses AWS and Azure for redundancy. They deploy the same application on both clouds to avoid vendor lock-in and improve disaster recovery. Which cloud deployment model is this?

Which of the following is a characteristic of serverless computing (FaaS)?

A company wants to minimize cloud costs for a batch processing job that runs for a few hours each night and can be interrupted. Which pricing model is most appropriate?

A company hosts a web application on AWS and wants to improve latency for global users. Which service should they use to cache static content at edge locations?

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?

A company is designing a hybrid cloud architecture connecting their on-premises data center to AWS. Which TWO options provide dedicated, private network connectivity? (Select TWO.)

A cloud architect is evaluating a multi-cloud strategy to improve resilience. Which THREE factors should be considered when designing multi-cloud architecture? (Select THREE.)

A company is designing stateless application tiers to support horizontal scaling. Which TWO design principles support statelessness? (Select TWO.)

A company wants to migrate its on-premises virtualized workloads to the cloud while maintaining control over the operating system and middleware. Which cloud service model should they choose?

A financial services firm requires low latency between on-premises resources and its public cloud VPC. They also need a dedicated, consistent network connection that bypasses the internet. Which connectivity option should they use?

An e-commerce application experiences variable traffic with sudden spikes during flash sales. The application is designed to be stateless. Which scaling approach should the cloud architect implement to handle these spikes efficiently?

A cloud architect is designing a multi-region application with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The application runs on virtual machines in a public cloud. Which disaster recovery strategy best meets these objectives?

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