Q62 — AWS SAP-C02 Ch.2

Question 62 of 75 | ← Chapter 2

Q212. A company recently started hosting new application workloads in the AWS Cloud. The company is using Amazon EC2 instances,Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, and Amazon RDS DB instances. To meet regulatory and business requirements, the company must make the following changes for data backups: -Backups must be retained based on custom daily, weekly, and monthly requirements. -Backups must be replicated to at least one other AWS Region immediately after capture. -The backup solution must provide a single source of backup status across the AWS environment. -The backup solution must send immediate notifications upon failure of any resource backup. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead? (Select THREE)

• A. Create an AWS Backup plan with a backup rule for each of the retention requirements. ✓
• B. Configure an AWS Backup plan to copy backups to another Region ✓
• C. Create an AWS Lambda function to replicate backups to another Region and send notification if a failure occurs.
• D. Add an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to the backup plan to send a notification for finished jobs that have any status except BACKUP_JOB COMPLETED ✓
• E. Create an Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) snapshot lifecycle policy for each of the retention requirements.
• F. Set up RDS snapshots on each database.

Correct Answer: A. Create an AWS Backup plan with a backup rule for each of the retention requirements., B. Configure an AWS Backup plan to copy backups to another Region, D. Add an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to the backup plan to send a notification for finished jobs that have any status except BACKUP_JOB COMPLETED

Explanation

Option C suggests creating an AWS Lambda function to replicate backups to another Region and send notifications if a failure occurs, but this approach would require additional management overhead and is not necessary since AWS Backup provides a built-in feature to replicate backups to another Region. Option E suggests creating an Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) snapshot lifecycle policy for each of the retention requirements, but this option is not applicable to all resources such as Amazon EFS file systems and does not provide a single source of backup status across the AWS environment. Option F suggests setting up RDS snapshots on each database, but this approach would not meet the requirement of having a single source of backup status across the AWS environment. Therefore, options A, B, and D provide the most suitable solution by creating an AWS Backup plan with backup rules for each of the retention requirements, configuring the plan to copy backups to another Region for disaster recovery purposes, and adding an Amazon SNS topic to the backup plan to send immediate notifications upon failure of any resource backup. This approach meets all the regulatory and business requirements while also ensuring ease of management with the least amount of operational overhead.