Question 170
A team is choosing AWS services for a specific workload, the decisive constraint is: Backups report success but recovery procedures have never been timed against the four-hour SLA. Which architecture decision most directly satisfies the requirement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Conduct staged restore exercises and measure actual end-to-end RTO. Successful backup jobs alone do not prove an application can meet its recovery time objective.
Incorrect Answers
Enable DynamoDB point-in-time recovery and restore to a new table solves the related scenario An organization needs point-in-time rollback of a DynamoDB table after accidental writes; pITR provides continuous recovery within the available retention window.
Perform a supported encrypted snapshot copy specifying an authorized destination KMS key would address a different requirement: An encrypted database snapshot must be copied to a Region with a different customer-managed KMS key. Snapshot copies can reencrypt eligible data under the destination Region key.
This alternative, Configure cross-account snapshot or AWS Backup copy policies and destination key access, is appropriate when An audit-controlled workload needs copies of EBS backups in an independent security account. Separate-account recovery copies reduce exposure to production-account compromise.