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DVA-C02 · Question #576

A company hosts a stateless web application with low data storage in a single AWS Region. The company wants to increase the resiliency of the application to include a multi-Region presence. The…

The correct answer is B. Pilot light. The pilot light strategy keeps a minimal version of the environment in another Region and scales up during a disaster. It achieves an RTO and RPO of hours at a low cost and complexity.

Submitted by sofia.br· Mar 5, 2026Development with AWS Services

Question

A company hosts a stateless web application with low data storage in a single AWS Region. The company wants to increase the resiliency of the application to include a multi-Region presence. The company wants to set the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) to hours. The company needs a low-cost and low-complexity disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Which DR strategy should the company use?

Options

  • AWarm standby
  • BPilot light
  • CBackup and restore
  • DMulti-site active-active

How the community answered

(48 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    75% (36)
  • C
    13% (6)
  • D
    8% (4)

Explanation

The pilot light strategy keeps a minimal version of the environment in another Region and scales up during a disaster. It achieves an RTO and RPO of hours at a low cost and complexity.

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