Design Resilient Architectures Practice Question
Question
For a disaster recovery exercise, an architect is reviewing RDS Multi-AZ requirement set 8. 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. Provide synchronous standby failover for relational databases.
- C. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
- D. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.
Correct Answer
B. 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