Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity (15%)

SAP-C03 · 45 questions

• A manufacturing firm runs on-premises VMware hosting a critical order system with a 15-minute RPO and 1-hour RTO to AWS eu-central-1. The system changes constantly, has limited bandwidth, and must support non-disruptive failover drills. Which continuous replication configuration recovers quickly from incidents within objectives?
• A healthcare company must survive ransomware that compromises admin credentials and deletes backups, meet 7-year immutable retention, and allow recovery testing without altering locked data. Primary data lives in S3 and EBS-backed databases. Which data protection design ensures recoverable immutable backups?
• A logistics company with 450 on-premises servers plans to migrate to AWS in six waves over nine months. Leadership needs a data-driven wave plan that groups applications by dependencies, business criticality, and migration complexity to avoid breaking freight tracking during cutover. What discovery approach creates this plan?
• A payment platform must prove its multi-Region failover meets a 15-minute RTO before a regulatory audit, but the team fears real outages and has no measured recovery evidence. Failover uses Route 53 health checks to an active-passive API. Which failover testing approach safely measures achievable recovery time?
• A bank runs a 30-year-old COBOL core banking system on a mainframe with VSAM files and nightly batch jobs. Leadership requires AWS migration with minimal rewrite risk, phased modernization, automated refactoring where possible, and preserved business logic. Which migration strategy best modernizes this legacy mainframe workload?
• A logistics firm hosts a self-managed PostgreSQL fleet and containerized dispatch services on VMs that drain operations staff. It must migrate to AWS with minimal code changes, gain automated backups and failover, and run containers without managing servers or clusters. Which replatforming combination reduces overhead while preserving compatibility?
• A media company runs a monolithic ticketing app on EC2 with tight coupling and scaling bottlenecks during premieres. It must incrementally extract showtime and payment features to serverless microservices with no big-bang rewrite and safely retire legacy paths after validation. Which refactor approach enables incremental modernization with lowest risk?
• A regional bank must prove quarterly that its payment platform meets RTO and RPO, document gaps, and provide operators with one-click recovery steps for database failover and DNS switchover during audits. Which disaster recovery assessment and recovery procedure combination satisfies testing and execution?
• A regional bank must evacuate 120 VMware VMs running branch teller systems to AWS within 8 weeks with minimal downtime and no application rewrites. Regulators require pilot testing of critical ledgers, staged cutovers by branch, and rollback ability if transactions fail. What migration strategy meets the deadline?
• A fintech runs payment authorization on EKS across two AZs with ALB health checks and CloudWatch latency alarms. Leaders want proof a single AZ loss keeps p99 under 400ms before peak season, with automatic rollback if steady state breaks. Which chaos engineering approach validates AZ resilience with controlled failure?
• A regional grocery chain runs online ordering on EC2 and RDS MySQL in eu-west-1. The board requires RTO under 20 minutes, RPO under 1 minute, and rejects the cost of full active-active. Pilot-light restore tested at 55 minutes. Which disaster recovery strategy meets the stated RTO, RPO, and cost requirements?
• A fintech payment API runs on EC2 across two AZs in one Region and must survive AZ loss, instance failures, and traffic spikes without manual intervention while keeping p99 latency low. Auditors require proven failover and automatic replacement of unhealthy hosts. Which technically resilient architecture delivers redundancy, fault tolerance, and self-healing?
• A manufacturer must protect 80 on-premises VMware VMs running Windows and Linux, needing failback after drills and RTO measured in minutes after a site loss. Snapshots copied nightly miss the recovery window and stall cutover testing. Which continuous replication approach enables rapid, orchestrated recovery into AWS?
• A 40-year-old insurer runs COBOL policy admin on a mainframe with VSAM files and nightly batch windows, facing retiring operators and a mandate to add web APIs and move off the data center in 14 months. Which migration strategy best modernizes this legacy mainframe and database workload?
• A global ticketing platform must survive Regional failure with under five minutes of transaction loss, reroute users automatically within minutes, and prove failover readiness for auditors. The primary runs on ALB with Aurora in us-east-1 and standby in eu-west-1. Which multi-Region disaster recovery solution best meets these replication and failover requirements?
• A university research lab runs a 2 TB on-premises MySQL database for enrollments that must stay writable during term plus 12 TB of genomics datasets on an SMB share that must move with checksum validation. Leadership requires near-zero downtime cutover and post-migration integrity verification. Which database and data migration strategy using DMS and DataSync meets these needs?
• A logistics firm plans to migrate 400 servers from two data centers with undocumented dependencies, tight cutover windows, and business-critical batch jobs that cannot move together. Leadership needs dependency mapping and phased waves. Which discovery design plans migration waves?
• A law firm with strict retention faces ransomware and accidental deletions across S3 case files and EBS volumes backing document servers, requiring immutability, locked backups, and time-bound recovery points. Which data-protection design best resists ransomware and deletion?
• A regional bank runs a three-tier app on EC2, RDS and ALB in eu-west-1 with RTO 1 hour and RPO 15 minutes. Auditors require a scored resiliency assessment and tested recovery steps before go-live. Which disaster recovery assessment procedure using Resilience Hub and Systems Manager delivers both proof and automation?
• A regional retailer runs an Oracle workload on EC2 with 500 GB data in us-east-1. Business requires RPO under 1 hour, RTO under 4 hours for regional outage, with minimal standby cost and no rewrite. Which disaster recovery design meets the stated RTO, RPO, and cost constraints?
• A bank runs multi-tier payments on EC2, RDS Multi-AZ and ALB in eu-west-1 with a 4-hour RTO and must prove recovery quarterly without disrupting production. Which disaster recovery testing approach validates RTO compliance with Resilience Hub?
• A manufacturing firm must exit its on-premises data center in 12 weeks and move 200 VMware virtual machines to AWS without refactoring applications or changing IP dependencies. Continuous replication with minimal cutover downtime is required. Which rehosting migration strategy achieves rapid lift-and-shift with minimal downtime?
• An e-commerce team must validate that losing one Availability Zone does not drop checkout success below 99.9%, needs a controlled blast radius with automatic rollback if latency spikes, and wants reusable hypotheses comparing steady-state metrics before and after faults. Which resilience validation approach proves AZ tolerance safely?
• A manufacturer runs aging MySQL on VMs and containerized schedulers on VMs, spending weekends patching OS and databases while planning an AWS migration with minimal code changes and lower operational overhead. Downtime windows are short and staff is small. Which replatforming strategy using managed services should the migration architect recommend?
• A trading platform runs active-passive in us-east-1 and eu-west-1 with Aurora Global Database, requiring automatic DNS failover in 60 seconds and controlled traffic shifting with rollback. Which multi-Region disaster recovery design using replication and failover features achieves rapid automated recovery?
• A retailer runs checkout on Amazon EKS in us-east-1, needs survival of Regional failure with under 5-minute failover and consistent container images in both sites. Which multi-cluster container strategy provides high availability and disaster recovery?
• A logistics firm runs 80 Windows and Linux servers on VMware on-premises needing sub-5-minute RPO and under 1-hour RTO to eu-west-1 after ransomware. Bandwidth is limited and cutover must be tested non-disruptively. Which continuous replication design enables rapid tested recovery?
• A manufacturer must move a 4 TB Oracle database with continuous plant writes and 80 TB of NFS engineering files to AWS with minimal downtime, preserving permissions and enabling validation before cutover. Which database and data migration strategy best fits this workload?
• A retailer runs a ten-year-old monolithic order system on EC2 with frequent outages. Leadership wants to decompose to microservices and serverless incrementally without a risky big-bang rewrite, keeping the storefront online during migration. Which refactor strategy enables incremental modernization?
• A healthcare SaaS must prove RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 15 minutes for its multi-tier workload, document repeatable failover steps, and continuously assess drift from recovery targets across accounts. Which disaster recovery assessment and procedure design meets audit requirements?
• A retailer runs an Aurora and EKS commerce stack with RTO of one hour and RPO of 15 minutes across Regions. Auditors found restores were never timed and runbooks are untested. Leadership wants repeatable proof of recovery targets. Which disaster recovery testing and validation procedure meets the requirement using Resilience Hub?
• A retail group must migrate 240 VMware, Hyper-V, and bare-metal store and e-commerce applications in seven waves over ten months. Leaders need agentless data collection, visualized service dependencies, cost estimates, and a sequenced wave plan with minimal store disruption. Which discovery and portfolio assessment solution maps dependencies and plans migration waves?
• A healthcare group runs 40 member accounts with PHI databases that require daily backups, cross-account vault copies, and evidence that retention cannot be shortened by workload owners. Which centralized backup governance design meets these business continuity and compliance needs?
• A bank runs core ledgers on an on-premises mainframe with COBOL and VSAM plus Oracle databases. It must reduce data-center exit risk, unlock agile releases, and retain auditability during phased modernization with minimal downtime. Which legacy modernization path fits mainframe and database needs?
• A logistics firm must relocate 200 Windows and Linux servers to AWS in eight weeks with minimal code changes, preserve IP addresses, and allow test cutovers. Which rehosting strategy moves servers with continuous replication and controlled cutover?
• A logistics firm runs shipment tracking on self-managed PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ on EC2 with heavy patching overhead, needing HA, automated backups, and simpler deployment without rewriting apps. Which replatforming strategy best reduces operational overhead?
• A fintech runs a payment API in us-east-1 with an Aurora Global Database standby in eu-west-1 and requires RTO under 5 minutes, automated health-based failover, and a manual safety gate to prevent flapping. Which disaster recovery failover design using health checks and routing controls meets these continuity requirements?
• A national retailer runs checkout microservices on Amazon EKS in us-east-1 with stateless services, ECR images, and DynamoDB global tables. Leadership requires survival of a full Regional outage with minutes-level failover and identical Kubernetes manifests in both Regions. Which multi-cluster container strategy provides high availability and disaster recovery for Amazon EKS?
• A bank must prove its multi-Region payment API meets a 15-minute RTO and 1-minute RPO for auditors. The architecture uses Route 53 failover, Aurora Global Database, and Application Load Balancers. Failover has never been tested under load. Which failover test design measures true recovery times for business continuity?
• A financial group runs 40 accounts under Organizations with PCI data in RDS and EFS across two Regions. Auditors require centrally enforced backup schedules, immutable copies, and cross-account recovery testing without local overrides. Which centralized backup governance design using AWS Backup meets business continuity needs?
• A manufacturer must migrate a 4 TB Oracle database with stored procedures to Aurora PostgreSQL with under 30 minutes downtime, plus 12 TB of NFS engineering files to S3 with permissions preserved. Cutover is in 6 weeks. Which database and data migration strategy combines DMS with DataSync?
• A bank must prove its multi-Region loan system meets RTO and RPO targets, needs quarterly non-disruptive recovery validation, gap reports, and tracked improvements across application stacks. Which disaster recovery testing design provides continuous validation and audit evidence?
• A food-delivery platform processes orders through API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS during peak dinners. A single AZ outage or Lambda throttle must not drop orders, and failed tasks must recover without manual steps. Which design delivers redundancy, fault tolerance, and self-healing?
• A bank runs a 12-year-old .NET monolith for payments that cannot tolerate downtime or big-bang rewrites. Leaders want incremental moves to microservices and serverless for fraud checks first, then other domains over 18 months. Which refactor modernization pattern enables low-risk incremental decomposition of the monolith?
• A manufacturer runs an ordering system on RDS PostgreSQL and EC2 in eu-central-1 needing RTO under 2 hours, RPO under 15 minutes, and low standby cost. Full active-active is too expensive. Which disaster recovery control meets these business requirements for this workload?