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C1000-176 · Question #52

For a company that needs to ensure high availability across their hybrid multicloud environment, which strategy is essential?

The correct answer is B. Using a mix of cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions for resilience. Using a mix of cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions (B) directly addresses resilience in hybrid multicloud environments - cloud-native tools maximize each platform's capabilities while cloud-agnostic tools prevent vendor lock-in, enabling workloads to failover across…

Designing Highly Available and Resilient Solutions

Question

For a company that needs to ensure high availability across their hybrid multicloud environment, which strategy is essential?

Options

  • ADeploying all critical applications in a single cloud to simplify management
  • BUsing a mix of cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions for resilience
  • CIgnoring geographic distribution to focus on cost savings
  • DLimiting the use of containers and orchestration tools

How the community answered

(35 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    80% (28)
  • C
    11% (4)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

Using a mix of cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions (B) directly addresses resilience in hybrid multicloud environments - cloud-native tools maximize each platform's capabilities while cloud-agnostic tools prevent vendor lock-in, enabling workloads to failover across providers when one becomes unavailable.

Why the distractors fail:

  • A is the opposite of resilience - concentrating everything in one cloud creates a single point of failure, defeating the purpose of multicloud.
  • C ignores that geographic distribution is a core pillar of high availability; it ensures users are served even when a region goes down.
  • D is counterproductive - containers and orchestration tools (like Kubernetes) are precisely what enable portable, resilient deployments across hybrid environments.

Memory tip: Think "B = Best of Both Worlds" - cloud-native for performance, cloud-agnostic for portability. High availability requires spreading risk, not concentrating it.

Topics

#high availability#hybrid multicloud#cloud-native resilience#vendor agnosticism

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