Medium Apply System Design Interview Framework Multiple Choice
A database primary server goes down. What is the standard recovery sequence?
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Answer Options
A Restart the primary server and replay the WAL log
B Health check detects failure → promote a replica to primary → retry queued writes
C Delete the failed node and provision a new one from a backup
D Route all traffic to the cache until the primary recovers
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