A company is designing a disaster recovery (DR) validation procedure for a critical database running on Google Cloud. To ensure business continuity without disrupting active users during DR drills, the team needs to test regional failover and data restoration capabilities safely. Which procedure should the Cloud Architect recommend?
- Create an isolated test environment in the DR region using point-in-time database snapshots to validate recovery steps without impacting live production data.Cevap
- BRedirect live production user traffic to an unverified secondary region during peak hours without requesting compute quota increases beforehand.
- CUse a cold-standby restoration procedure from nightly backups to meet a strict zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requirement.
- DReplace database asynchronous replication with a Dedicated Interconnect connection to automatically trigger regional DR failovers.
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Create an isolated test environment in the DR region using point-in-time database snapshots to validate recovery steps without impacting live production data.
The procedure recommending an isolated test environment in the DR region using point-in-time database snapshots ensures full validation of restoration scripts and application readiness without putting live production operations or data integrity at risk.
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