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SOA-C02 · Question #507

A company has a large on-premises tape backup solution. The company has started to use AWS Storage Gateway. The company created a Tape Gateway to replace the existing on-premises hardware. The…

The correct answer is D. Configure tape auto-create on the Tape Gateway. In the auto-create settings, configure a. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/tgw/managing-automatic-tape-creation.html The Tape Gateway automatically creates new virtual tapes to maintain the minimum number of available tapes that you configure. It then makes these new tapes available for import by the…

Submitted by yuriko_h· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity

Question

A company has a large on-premises tape backup solution. The company has started to use AWS Storage Gateway. The company created a Tape Gateway to replace the existing on-premises hardware. The company's backup engineer noticed that some of the backup jobs that were supposed to write to AWS failed to run because of a "Not Enough Space" error. The company does not want these failures to happen again. The company also wants to consistently have enough tape available on AWS. What is the MOST operationally efficient way for a SysOps administrator to meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate an AWS Lambda function that runs on an hourly basis and checks how many tapes have
  • BInstall the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the on-premises system. Push the log files to a
  • CCreate an additional Tape Gateway with its own set of tapes. Configure Amazon Simple
  • DConfigure tape auto-create on the Tape Gateway. In the auto-create settings, configure a

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  • A
    10% (2)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • C
    5% (1)
  • D
    81% (17)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/tgw/managing-automatic-tape-creation.html The Tape Gateway automatically creates new virtual tapes to maintain the minimum number of available tapes that you configure. It then makes these new tapes available for import by the backup application so that your backup jobs can run without interruption. Automatic tape creation removes the need for custom scripting in addition to the manual process for creating new virtual

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#Storage Gateway#Tape Gateway#tape auto-create#backup reliability

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