QUESTION 18 OF 33

How do you define high availability, and what are some steps you take to ensure this?

As the name implies, availability addresses the ability of a user or process to access a computing resource within the network. As you can infer, organizations prefer high availability since this enables their workforce to perform their duties at any time using IT resources. There are several steps you can take to ensure the increased availability of IT Resources. The interviewer is interested in learning about your knowledge of these and ensuring that you can use them within their organization.

"One of the key responsibilities in my role as a solutions architect is to ensure high availability of the IT resources within an organization. I need to do this while still maintaining a reasonable operating budget. Methodologies I employ include building redundancy into the network, designing in backups, using clustering, and utilizing cloud architectures to ensure that the IT resources are always available or can be quickly replaced if they fail."

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