Design Resilient Architectures Practice Question
Question
For a disaster recovery exercise, an architect is reviewing fault isolation requirement set 17. Which design choice best fits the requirement while following AWS architectural best practices?
Answer choices
- A. Place all components on a single large instance to simplify troubleshooting.
- B. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
- C. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.
- D. Use cells, queues, and bulkheads to limit failure blast radius.
Correct Answer
D. Use cells, queues, and bulkheads to limit failure blast radius.
Explanation
The best answer applies fault isolation: use cells, queues, and bulkheads to limit failure blast radius. The other options increase operational risk, weaken security, or remove observability that an AWS Solutions Architect should preserve.
Question details
- Difficulty: hard
- Domain: Design Resilient Architectures
- Objective: fault isolation