Design Resilient Architectures Practice Question

Question

For a mission-critical API, an architect is reviewing RDS Multi-AZ requirement set 1. Which design choice best fits the requirement while following AWS architectural best practices?

Answer choices

1. A. Place all components on a single large instance to simplify troubleshooting.
2. B. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
3. C. Provide synchronous standby failover for relational databases.
4. D. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.

Correct Answer

C. Provide synchronous standby failover for relational databases.

Explanation

The best answer applies RDS Multi-AZ: provide synchronous standby failover for relational databases. The other options increase operational risk, weaken security, or remove observability that an AWS Solutions Architect should preserve.

Question details

• Difficulty: medium
• Domain: Design Resilient Architectures
• Objective: RDS Multi-AZ

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