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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 3Question 37
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution ArchitectureDomain 1Disaster RecoveryCompute EngineRPO/RTO

    GCP PCA · Question 37 · Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture

    Your company runs a monolithic application on Compute Engine. You need to design a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy that provides a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 1 hour. Which TWO architectural patterns should you implement? (Select TWO)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Take daily snapshots of the Persistent Disks.

    B.

    Take hourly snapshots of the Persistent Disks.

    C.

    Store backups in a single-region Cloud Storage bucket.

    D.

    Deploy the application using a Regional Managed Instance Group (MIG) across multiple zones.

    E.

    Use a Cold DR pattern where infrastructure is provisioned via Terraform only after a disaster is declared.

    How to approach this question

    Match the RPO (data loss) to the backup frequency. Match the RTO (downtime) to the compute architecture.

    Full Answer

    B,D
    RPO (Recovery Point Objective) dictates how much data you can afford to lose. An RPO of 1 hour requires hourly backups (snapshots). RTO (Recovery Time Objective) dictates how quickly the system must be back online. An RTO of 5 minutes requires a 'Warm' or 'Hot' standby architecture. A Regional MIG automatically handles zonal failures instantly, meeting the RTO.

    Common mistakes

    Confusing RPO and RTO. Remember: RPO = Point in time (Data). RTO = Time to recover (Uptime).
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