Percent of Exam 15%
Domain Focus Areas
- Demonstrate ability to architect the appropriate level of availability based on stakeholder requirements
- Demonstrate ability to implement DR for systems based on RPO and RTO
- Determine appropriate use of multi-Availability Zones vs. multi-Region architectures
- Demonstrate ability to implement self-healing capabilities
- Content may include the following: High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance
AWS Services
- Storage Gateway
- Import/Export
- Backups
- DR and BC for Databases
AWS Documentation
- Using Amazon Web Services and DFS Replication for Disaster Recovery of File Servers
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/implementing-windows-file-server-disaster-recovery.pdf
- Enterprise Backup and Recovery On-Premises to AWS
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/best-practices-for-backup-and-recovery-on-prem-to-aws.pdf
- Backup and Recovery Approaches Using AWS
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Backup_Archive_and_Restore_Approaches_Using_AWS.pdf
- Using AWS for Disaster Recovery
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-disaster-recovery.pdf
- Migrating AWS Resources to a New Region
- https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-migrate-resources-to-new-region.pdf
- Import/Export FAQ
- https://aws.amazon.com/importexport/faqs/
- Import/Export Disk FAQ
- http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/disk/faqs/
- Storage Gateway FAQ
- https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/faqs/
- Using OpsWorks Auto Healing
- http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/workinginstances-autohealing.html
AWS Presentations
- How to Enable Disaster Recovery and Migrate to AWS
- https://youtu.be/NoSwvJ18tMM
- Deploying a Disaster Recovery Site on AWS
- https://youtu.be/bXrGUlgbl-s
- Rapid Recovery Solution for Disaster Recovery
- https://youtu.be/5hCAwEQpWNc
- Multi-Region Application Using Amazon VPC
- https://youtu.be/xA97GUzLAls
- Deploy High Availability & Disaster Recovery Architectures with AWS
- https://youtu.be/XU6KDBQiwEM
- Introducing AWS Solutions for Backup and Archiving
- https://youtu.be/zYI4Gx0D54U
- AWS Storage Gateway: Secure, Cost-Effective Backup & Archive
- https://youtu.be/VmjDfz-MIZE
3rd Party Docs
3rd Party Presentations
- Disaster Recovery for VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS
- http://www.zerto.com/disaster-recovery-for-vmware-hyper-v-and-aws-that-actually-works/
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