ISC Contingency Management Practice Question
Your organization has adopted a cloud-native microservices architecture. Which strategy is most appropriate for maintaining business continuity in the event of a regional cloud provider outage?
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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Multi-region active-active deployment with global load balancing.
Multi-region deployment with active-active traffic distribution provides the highest level of resilience for cloud-native apps.
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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Multi-region active-active deployment with global load balancing.
Why this is correct
This architecture ensures that if one region goes down, traffic is automatically routed to another.
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Cross-region cold standby snapshots.
Why it's wrong here
Cold standby results in high RTO, which is not suitable for modern microservices expectations.
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On-premises hot-site failover.
Why it's wrong here
Hybrid-cloud egress and latency issues make this a poor choice for cloud-native apps.
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Single-region immutable backups.
Why it's wrong here
If the whole region fails, a single-region backup strategy will fail.
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