Salesforce Certified Heroku Architecture Designer — Question 30

Universal Containers experienced an outage with their production Heroku Postgres database due to a fault with the underlying infrastructure. The database was unavailable for an hour. The database is on the Standard-0 plan.
Which two actions should an Architect recommend to mitigate such database failures and outages in the future? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Create a follower database that uses the same plan as the leader.
• B. Migrate the database to a Premium-tier plan.
• C. Migrate the database to a larger Standard-tier plan.
• D. Create a fork of the database that uses the same plan as the leader.

Correct answer: A, C

Explanation

The correct actions to recommend are A and C. Creating a follower database (A) provides redundancy, allowing for failover in case of an outage, while upgrading to a larger Standard-tier plan (C) can offer improved performance and resources. Options B and D do not address the immediate need for redundancy and may not effectively mitigate future outages.