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A large company is using an Amazon RDS for Oracle Multi-AZ DB instance with a Java application. As a part of its disaster recovery annual testing, the company would like to simulate an Availability Zo

The correct answer is B. Use the RDS console to reboot the DB instance by choosing the option to reboot with failover. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_RebootInstance.html https://exain.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/amazon-rds-multi-az-setup-failover-simulation/ "Rebooting with failover is beneficial when you want to simulate a failure of a DB instance for testing, or restor

Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations

Question

A large company is using an Amazon RDS for Oracle Multi-AZ DB instance with a Java application. As a part of its disaster recovery annual testing, the company would like to simulate an Availability Zone failure and record how the application reacts during the DB instance failover activity. The company does not want to make any code changes for this activity. What should the company do to achieve this in the shortest amount of time?

Options

  • AUse a blue-green deployment with a complete application-level failover test
  • BUse the RDS console to reboot the DB instance by choosing the option to reboot with failover
  • CUse RDS fault injection queries to simulate the primary node failure
  • DAdd a rule to the NACL to deny all traffic on the subnets associated with a single Availability Zone

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    7% (2)
  • B
    70% (21)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    20% (6)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_RebootInstance.html https://exain.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/amazon-rds-multi-az-setup-failover-simulation/ "Rebooting with failover is beneficial when you want to simulate a failure of a DB instance for testing, or restore operations to the original AZ after a failover occurs."

Topics

#RDS Multi-AZ#Failover testing#Disaster Recovery#Oracle

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