Question 1hardmulti select
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A customer portal must stay online if an entire site fails, and the company must also be able to recover if data is corrupted or encrypted by ransomware. Which two design choices best satisfy both requirements? Select two.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Good practice is not just finding the correct option. The wrong answers often show the exact trap the exam wants you to fall into.
A
Best answer
Use active-active or automatic failover between two sites with health checks.
A second site with automatic failover or active-active traffic handling preserves availability when one location goes offline. Health checks let the load balancer or orchestration layer stop sending traffic to a failed site quickly. This directly addresses the requirement to keep the portal online during a total site outage.
B
Distractor review
Keep only RAID 1 inside each server, because mirroring alone handles site outages.
RAID improves local disk resilience, but it does not protect against an entire site failure. It also does not provide recovery from corruption or ransomware. Disk mirroring is useful, but it is only one layer and cannot satisfy the full availability and recovery requirement by itself.
C
Best answer
Maintain immutable offsite backups and test restores on a regular schedule.
Immutable backups protect recovery copies from tampering, deletion, or encryption by an attacker. Offsite storage adds geographic separation, which helps if the primary site is lost. Restore testing proves the backups are usable, so the organization knows it can actually recover rather than merely store copies.
D
Distractor review
Store nightly backups on the same storage array as the production data.
Backups on the same storage array may be fast, but they are vulnerable to the same outage, corruption, or ransomware event as production data. This does not provide meaningful site independence or recovery assurance. Backup location and immutability matter as much as backup frequency.
E
Distractor review
Replace the load balancer with a static DNS record for each server.
Static DNS records do not provide rapid health-based failover and are slow to react to outages. They also place too much responsibility on clients or manual updates during an incident. A resilient design needs automated failover, not just name resolution.
Common exam trap
Common exam trap: NAT rules depend on direction and matching traffic
NAT is not only about the public address. The inside/outside interface roles and the ACL or rule that matches traffic are just as important.
Technical deep dive
How to think about this question
NAT questions usually test address translation, overload/PAT behaviour, static mappings and whether the right traffic is being translated. Read the interface direction and address terms carefully.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
- PAT allows many inside hosts to share one public address using ports.
- Inside local and inside global describe the private and translated addresses.
- NAT ACLs identify traffic for translation, not always security filtering.
TExam Day Tips
- Identify inside and outside interfaces first.
- Check whether the scenario needs static NAT, dynamic NAT or PAT.
- Do not confuse NAT matching ACLs with normal packet-filtering intent.
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FAQ
Questions learners often ask
What does this SY0-701 question test?
Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Use active-active or automatic failover between two sites with health checks. — To meet both uptime and recovery goals, the design needs two layers. First, a second site with active-active handling or automatic failover keeps the portal reachable when one site fails. Second, immutable offsite backups with restore testing provide a safe recovery path if data is damaged, encrypted, or otherwise unusable. RAID and same-array backups help less than these choices because they do not address full site loss or destructive attacks well. Why others are wrong: RAID is only a local storage control, and same-array backups fail with the same storage event as production data. Static DNS does not deliver true high availability. The correct answers cover both continuity of service and trustworthy recovery from bad data.
What should I do if I get this SY0-701 question wrong?
Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.
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