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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Exam 3Question 03
    Hard1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 1.3: Reliable ArchitecturesReliabilityAuroraDisaster Recovery

    AWS SAP-C02 · Question 03 · Domain 1.3: Reliable Architectures

    An application uses Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. To meet disaster recovery requirements, the database must survive a region failure with an RPO of 1 second and RTO of 1 minute. Which architecture meets these requirements?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Take hourly automated snapshots and copy them to a secondary region.

    B.

    Implement Aurora Global Database with a secondary region.

    C.

    Use AWS DMS to continuously replicate data to an RDS instance in another region.

    D.

    Configure cross-region read replicas using standard PostgreSQL logical replication.

    How to approach this question

    Match the strict RPO/RTO requirements to the native Aurora feature designed for cross-region DR.

    Full Answer

    B.Implement Aurora Global Database with a secondary region.✓ Correct
    Aurora Global Database is specifically designed for globally distributed applications, offering sub-second RPO and sub-minute RTO.

    Common mistakes

    Selecting standard cross-region replicas which do not guarantee sub-second RPO.
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