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AWS SAA Practice: Design Resilient Architectures

SAA-C0312 questions~6 min26% of the exam

Original scenario questions on multi-AZ and multi-region design, backups and disaster recovery, decoupling with queues, and fault-tolerant storage for the SAA-C03 exam.

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SourceAWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Blueprint
Domain 2 of 4
Weight
26% of SAA-C03
Questions
12 original
AWS pass
720 / 1,000
Written for QuizGen, never copied from the real exam.SAA-C03 exam guidePDF, opens d1.awsstatic.com in a new tab
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4 drills, 12 questions each. Your readiness score then weights them 30/26/24/20, the way the SAA-C03 guide does.

One question, worked through

This is question 12 of the 12 below, solved in the open — deliberately, so you can judge the questions before you play. The other 11 stay hidden until you answer them, then reveal the same explanation.

Worked example

A rarely used internal reporting app must be recoverable within 24 hours after a regional disaster, and leadership wants the lowest possible standby cost. Which DR approach is most appropriate?

  • ABackup and restore from cross-region snapshotsCorrect
  • BActive-active across two regions
  • CWarm standby in a second region
  • DPilot light with a running database replica

Why A

With a generous 24-hour RTO and cost as the priority, backup-and-restore keeps almost nothing running in the second region and simply rebuilds from replicated snapshots. Warm standby, pilot light, and active-active all keep resources running, raising cost needlessly.

Our blueprint tag — not a source

SAA-C03 · Domain 2 of 4 · Design Resilient Architectures

We wrote this question and filed it under that domain. The domain name and its position in the outline come from the SAA-C03 exam guide (PDF, opens d1.awsstatic.com in a new tab).

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All 12 questions — including the one worked through above — in about 6 minutes. Instant feedback after every answer, and your score stays on this device.

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Practice

Question 1

An e-commerce site runs on a single RDS MySQL instance. During maintenance and hardware failures the database becomes unavailable. They need automatic failover with minimal downtime and no app changes. What should they enable?

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After this drill

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