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Design Resilient Architectures Questions

Practice questions for Design Resilient Architectures topic in AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. 52 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
medium

A company needs a disaster recovery strategy that maintains a scaled-down but fully functional environment in another Region and can be scaled up quic...

Q2
medium

A company stores critical data in S3 and requires automatic replication to another AWS Region for disaster recovery. What should be configured?

Q3
hard

An application requires a shared, POSIX-compliant file system that can be mounted concurrently from multiple EC2 instances across multiple Availabilit...

Q4
hard

Which configuration provides the lowest cross-Region RPO and RTO for an Aurora MySQL workload?

Q5
medium

A web application must remain available if one Availability Zone fails. Which architecture best meets this requirement?

Q6
easy

What is the difference between RTO and RPO?

Q7
hard

A company must achieve an RTO of under 15 minutes after a full Regional failure. Which disaster recovery architecture is the minimum sufficient choice...

Q8
medium

An application runs in two AWS Regions. Traffic should automatically fail over to the secondary Region if the primary Region becomes unhealthy. Which ...

Q9
medium

A company can tolerate several hours of downtime during a disaster and wants the lowest-cost disaster recovery strategy. Which option is most appropri...

Q10
medium

A microservices application must continue operating even if a downstream service becomes temporarily unavailable. Which AWS service best supports this...

Q11
medium

A fraud detection system requires a cross-Region database design with an RPO of less than 1 second. Which architecture should be recommended?

Q12
easy

A relational database must automatically fail over to a standby instance in another Availability Zone with minimal data loss. Which Amazon RDS feature...

Q13
easy

Which S3 feature protects against accidental deletion by allowing previous versions of an object to be recovered?

Q14
easy

Aurora supports up to how many Aurora Replicas per cluster for read scaling and automatic failover targets?

Q15
medium

An Application Load Balancer has registered targets in two AZs. With cross-zone load balancing enabled, what is the result?

Q16
medium

A globally distributed app needs low-latency reads and writes from multiple Regions on the same DynamoDB table. What should the architect enable?

Q17
hard

A consumer Lambda repeatedly fails on a small subset of malformed SQS messages, blocking other processing. How should the architect isolate the bad me...

Q18
hard

An on-premises application needs low-latency local file access while keeping the authoritative copy in Amazon S3. Which Storage Gateway type should th...

Q19
medium

Within an Aurora cluster, what is the typical RTO when the writer instance fails and Aurora performs automatic failover to a replica?

Q20
medium

An e-commerce platform must publish a single order event so multiple subsystems (inventory queue, fraud Lambda, email) process it independently in par...

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