AZ-301 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Question 1

A company requires their Azure-hosted application to have an RTO of 30 minutes and an RPO of 15 minutes. Which Azure service combination best satisfies these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery with replication interval set to 5 minutes and automated failover runbooks

Answer

Azure Backup with daily snapshots and manual failover

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Azure Blob Storage geo-redundant replication with Traffic Manager

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Azure SQL Database with active geo-replication and manual failover groups

Question 2

Which metric defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time when a disaster occurs?

Accepted Answer

RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

Answer

RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

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MTTR (Mean Time to Recover)

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SLA (Service Level Agreement)

Question 3

An organization needs to replicate Azure VMs to a secondary region for disaster recovery. Which Azure service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery

Answer

Azure Backup

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Azure Traffic Manager

Answer

Azure Blob Storage geo-replication

Question 4

A business wants to ensure that their Azure SQL Database can fail over automatically to a secondary region with minimal data loss. Which feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Auto-failover groups with Azure SQL Database

Answer

Azure SQL Database point-in-time restore

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Azure SQL Database long-term retention backup

Answer

Read replicas in the same region

Question 5

Which Azure Backup vault redundancy option provides the highest level of durability by replicating data across paired regions?

Accepted Answer

Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)

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Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)

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Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS)

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Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS)

Question 6

A solutions architect is designing a multi-region active-passive architecture. Which Azure service should route traffic to the secondary region only when the primary is unavailable?

Accepted Answer

Azure Traffic Manager with Priority routing

Answer

Azure Application Gateway

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Azure Load Balancer

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Azure Front Door with geo-filtering

Question 7

When configuring Azure Site Recovery for Azure-to-Azure replication, where are the replicated VM disks temporarily staged?

Accepted Answer

In a cache storage account in the source region

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In the source region's Recovery Services vault

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Directly in the target region's managed disks

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In Azure Data Box in the source region