Question 1

A company is implementing a disaster recovery strategy. They want to keep a scaled-down version of their core infrastructure running in a secondary region. The database must be continuously replicated, but the application servers will only be provisioned when a disaster is declared. Which DR strategy is this?

Accepted Answer

Understand the 4 DR strategies. Database running + compute off = Pilot Light.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AWS SAA-C03 question?

Accepted Answer

Confusing Pilot Light with Warm Standby. Warm Standby has compute running at a minimum capacity, while Pilot Light has compute turned off entirely.

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