ABC Company develops its Own database applications. ABC is considering migrating to cloud services to accommodate the company's growth. What strategy should ABC use to ensure continuous data…

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Options

• ACloud-only solution
• BRegional systems solution
• CLocation systems solution
• DMultiple cloud-service providers

• A
  13% (5)
• B
  8% (3)
• C
  76% (29)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

A location systems solution ensures continuous data protection by distributing and replicating data across multiple geographic locations, so if one site experiences an outage or failure, data remains accessible from another - this is the core principle of continuous data protection in a hybrid or cloud environment.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Cloud-only) creates a single point of failure; if the cloud provider experiences downtime, all data access is lost.
• B (Regional systems) limits redundancy to one geographic region, leaving data vulnerable to region-wide events (natural disasters, power failures).
• D (Multiple cloud providers) adds vendor diversity but doesn't inherently guarantee continuous data availability without a location-redundant architecture underpinning it.

Memory tip: Think "Location = Always On" - the more places your data lives, the harder it is to lose access to it entirely. Link "location" to "location, location, location" in real estate: what matters most is where (and how many places) your data resides.

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