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SOA-C02 · Question #458

A company hosts a production database on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) backed Amazon EC2 instance. As part of an annual disaster recovery exercise, the company needs to restore recent…

The correct answer is A. Enable EBS fast snapshot restore (FSR) on the snapshots for the second Availability Zone. "To get started, enable fast snapshot restore for specific snapshots in specific Availability Zones. Each snapshot and Availability Zone pair refers to one fast snapshot restore." "When you create a volume from one of these snapshots in one of its enabled Availability Zones…

Submitted by haru.x· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity

Question

A company hosts a production database on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) backed Amazon EC2 instance. As part of an annual disaster recovery exercise, the company needs to restore recent EBS snapshots to a new EC2 instance in a second Availability Zone. After the snapshots are restored to EBS volumes, the resulting volumes must deliver all of their provisioned performance. The company must perform validation tests on the restored data as quickly as possible. Which configuration will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AEnable EBS fast snapshot restore (FSR) on the snapshots for the second Availability Zone.
  • BEnable EBS fast snapshot restore (FSR) on the snapshots for the current Availability Zone.
  • CSpecify Provisioned IOPS on the snapshots, Create new EBS volumes in the second Availability
  • DSpecify Provisioned IOPS on the existing EBS volumes. Create the snapshots. After the

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    82% (27)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    9% (3)

Explanation

"To get started, enable fast snapshot restore for specific snapshots in specific Availability Zones. Each snapshot and Availability Zone pair refers to one fast snapshot restore." "When you create a volume from one of these snapshots in one of its enabled Availability Zones, the volume is restored using fast snapshot restore." https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-fast-snapshot-restore-fsr/

Topics

#EBS fast snapshot restore#disaster recovery#EBS snapshots#Availability Zone

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