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SOA-C02 · Question #212
A company has a web application with a database tier that consists of an Amazon EC2 instance that runs MySQL. A SysOps administrator needs to minimize potential data loss and the time that is…
The correct answer is D. Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) to take a snapshot of the Amazon Elastic. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot-lifecycle.html
Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity
Question
A company has a web application with a database tier that consists of an Amazon EC2 instance that runs MySQL. A SysOps administrator needs to minimize potential data loss and the time that is required to recover in the event of a database failure. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
Options
- ACreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm for the StatusCheckFailed_System metric to invoke an
- BCreate an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. Use a MySQL native backup that is
- CCreate an Amazon RDS for MySQL Single-AZ DB instance with a read replica. Use a MySQL
- DUse Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) to take a snapshot of the Amazon Elastic
How the community answered
(42 responses)- A10% (4)
- B5% (2)
- C5% (2)
- D81% (34)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot-lifecycle.html
Topics
#RDS Multi-AZ#MySQL#high availability#data recovery
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