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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 5Question 23
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Subtask 1.1: Business RequirementsDisaster RecoveryArchitectureWarm Standby

    GCP PCA · Question 23 · Business Requirements

    You are designing a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan for a critical application. The business requires a 'Warm Standby' approach to balance cost and recovery time. How should you architect this in GCP?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Keep the DR region completely empty and deploy the application via Terraform only after a disaster is declared.

    B.

    Run a scaled-down version of the application in the DR region, and scale it up only when a disaster occurs.

    C.

    Run the application at full capacity in both regions simultaneously and load balance between them.

    D.

    Store daily backups in Cloud Storage and restore them to a new region during a disaster.

    How to approach this question

    Understand the definitions of Cold, Warm, and Hot DR strategies.

    Full Answer

    B.Run a scaled-down version of the application in the DR region, and scale it up only when a disaster occurs.✓ Correct
    In a Warm Standby architecture, a scaled-down version of the environment is always running in the DR region. This allows for a much faster RTO than Cold Standby, but costs significantly less than a Hot Standby (Active-Active) setup.

    Common mistakes

    Confusing Warm Standby with Active-Active (C).
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