What is the first task that a secondary would perform on being prompted by another secondary for an election?

Question

Options

• AStart the election process for primary
• BVote for the first secondary so that it would become the next primary
• CVote for itself and then call for election
• DConnect to primary to confirm its availability

• A
  10% (3)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  83% (24)

Explanation

When a secondary receives an election prompt from a peer, its first responsibility is to independently verify whether the primary is actually unreachable - this prevents unnecessary elections triggered by network partitions or false alarms that only affect one node. Option D is correct because a secondary should not blindly participate in an election without confirming the primary's unavailability from its own perspective.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is the role of the initiating secondary, not the one being prompted - it already started the process.
• B skips the verification step entirely; voting without confirming the primary is down could disrupt a healthy cluster.
• C confuses the prompted secondary with the candidate; only the secondary seeking election votes for itself.

Memory tip: Think of it as a "second opinion" rule - before joining any election, a secondary must personally check if the primary is gone, just like a voter verifying an office is truly vacant before holding a new election.

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