Use of DataGuard in a testing environement

Hi all,
whenever an incident occurs on our production system, we import a dump from our production database into our test database to reproduce the incident and to find a solution for the issue.
Taking a dump and import this into a test database takes several hours.
Now I'm thinking about a solution using DataGuard to speed up this scenario. It is quiet important for us to solve production incidents as soon as possible (banking environement).
So I think about the following:
DB PROD => master
DB TEST1 => standby
When an incident occurs I want to
- remove DB TEST1 from DataGuard and use this DB as an independent DB where we can reproduce the incident.
- add a new stand by to DataGuard to have a test DB for the next incidents
Does anyone use DataGuard in the same manner or does anyone can tell me if this would be a possible way?
Many thanks in advance fpr your support.
Andreas

Its a thought, but its not the best use of Data Guard (in my humble opinion). When I think Data Guard I think:
Recovery Plan
Read-only services
Minimize downtime
You are looking for a quick way to refresh your test environment and I believe RMAN Duplicate might be a better answer. You can have everything setup in advance just like Data Guard.
If you do decide to use Data Guard for this sooner or later you will probably trash your standby setup and have to use RMAN Duplicate to fix it.
However if your database is really huge it might be a great idea to have the standby the way you say with a short delay on apply on the standby end.
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