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CV0-004 Practice Question: Which TWO of the following are key components of…
Which TWO of the following are key components of a disaster recovery plan in the cloud? (Select TWO.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates mistakenly think load balancing is part of disaster recovery, but load balancing is for high availability within a single region, not for cross-region DR. Recovery point objective (RPO) and cross-region replication are key DR components.
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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Recovery point objective (RPO)
Option C (Recovery point objective, RPO) is correct because a disaster recovery plan must define the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time, which directly drives backup frequency and replication strategy in the cloud. Option E (Cross-region replication) is correct because replicating data and workloads to a geographically separate region is a core mechanism for surviving a regional outage and meeting the plan's recovery targets. Options A (Network performance monitoring), B (Billing alerts), and D (Load balancing) are not key components of a DR plan: monitoring and load balancing support availability and performance within normal operations, and billing alerts are cost-management controls, none of which define or enable recovery from a disaster.
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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Network performance monitoring
Why it's wrong here
Network performance monitoring observes latency and throughput for operational tuning, not the restoration of services or data following a disaster. It is tempting because monitoring underpins incident detection, and would be correct if the question concerned day-to-day performance visibility rather than recovery planning components.
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Billing alerts
Why it's wrong here
Billing alerts notify on cost thresholds; they neither replicate data nor restore workloads after an outage. It is tempting because cost governance matters in cloud DR planning, and would be the right answer if the question asked about controlling spend, not the components that enable recovery.
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Recovery point objective (RPO)
Why this is correct
The recovery point objective defines the maximum tolerable data loss measured in time, directly determining backup frequency and replication strategy. It is a core disaster recovery plan component because it translates business tolerance for lost transactions into concrete cloud backup and retention configurations.
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Load balancing
Why it's wrong here
Load balancing distributes live traffic across healthy instances for availability and scaling, not recovery of data or workloads after an outage. It is tempting because it supports resilience during partial failures, and would be the right answer if the question asked about maintaining service continuity, not disaster recovery components.
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Cross-region replication
Why this is correct
Cross-region replication copies data and workloads to a geographically separate cloud region, providing the geographic redundancy a disaster recovery plan requires. It satisfies the constraint that a regional outage must not halt operations, and its configuration is driven by the stated recovery point and recovery time objectives.
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