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DBS-C01 · Question #101

A database specialist at a large multi-national financial company is in charge of designing the disaster recovery strategy for a highly available application that is in development. The application…

The correct answer is B. Use a DynamoDB global table replica in another Region. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GlobalTables.html

Submitted by certguy· Mar 6, 2026Deployment and Migration

Question

A database specialist at a large multi-national financial company is in charge of designing the disaster recovery strategy for a highly available application that is in development. The application uses an Amazon DynamoDB table as its data store. The application requires a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 minute and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 2 minutes. Which operationally efficient disaster recovery strategy should the database specialist recommend for the DynamoDB table?

Options

  • ACreate a DynamoDB stream that is processed by an AWS Lambda function that copies the data
  • BUse a DynamoDB global table replica in another Region.
  • CUse a DynamoDB Accelerator table in another Region.
  • DCreate an AWS Backup plan and assign the DynamoDB table as a resource.

How the community answered

(26 responses)
  • A
    19% (5)
  • B
    65% (17)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    12% (3)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GlobalTables.html

Topics

#DynamoDB#Disaster Recovery#RTO/RPO#Global Tables#Cross-Region DR

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