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DOP-C02 · Question #390

A company needs to update its order processing application to improve resilience and availability. The application requires a stateful database and uses a single-node Amazon RDS DB instance to store c

The correct answer is D. Modify the RDS DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment. Verify automatic failover to the standby. Enabling Multi-AZ on the existing RDS instance provisions a synchronous standby in a different Availability Zone. AWS automatically fails over to the standby if the primary becomes unavailable, delivering high availability with minimal operational effort.

Submitted by skyler.x· Mar 6, 2026Reliability & Resilience

Question

A company needs to update its order processing application to improve resilience and availability. The application requires a stateful database and uses a single-node Amazon RDS DB instance to store customer orders and transaction history. A DevOps engineer must make the database highly available. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Options

  • AMigrate the database to Amazon DynamoDB global tables. Configure automatic failover between
  • BMigrate the database to Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones. Use Amazon
  • CUse the RDS DB instance as the source instance to create read replicas in multiple Availability
  • DModify the RDS DB instance to be a Multi-AZ deployment. Verify automatic failover to the standby

How the community answered

(35 responses)
  • A
    14% (5)
  • B
    9% (3)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    71% (25)

Explanation

Enabling Multi-AZ on the existing RDS instance provisions a synchronous standby in a different Availability Zone. AWS automatically fails over to the standby if the primary becomes unavailable, delivering high availability with minimal operational effort.

Topics

#RDS#Multi-AZ#high availability#database resilience

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