AZ-301 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery 2

Question 1

An architect needs to design a BCDR solution where the secondary site actively serves read traffic during normal operations. Which pattern best describes this?

Accepted Answer

Active-Active (multi-region)

Answer

Active-Passive (cold standby)

Answer

Active-Passive (warm standby)

Answer

Pilot light

Question 2

Which Azure service enables you to define, test, and execute automated recovery plans that sequence the failover of multiple VMs and applications?

Accepted Answer

Azure Automation runbooks integrated with Azure Site Recovery

Answer

Azure Logic Apps triggered by Azure Monitor alerts

Answer

Azure DevOps release pipelines

Answer

Azure Functions with Event Grid triggers

Question 3

A company requires its on-premises VMware VMs to be replicated to Azure for disaster recovery. Which Azure service handles this scenario?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery with the Configuration Server

Answer

Azure Migrate with agentless replication

Answer

Azure Data Box with incremental sync

Answer

Azure Arc-enabled servers with backup extension

Question 4

An organization wants to minimize costs for their disaster recovery environment by keeping Azure resources in a minimal state and scaling up only during failover. Which DR strategy does this represent?

Accepted Answer

Pilot light

Answer

Active-Active

Answer

Warm standby

Answer

Cold standby

Question 5

Which Azure feature allows you to test an Azure Site Recovery failover without affecting production replication or end users?

Accepted Answer

Test failover using an isolated virtual network

Answer

Planned failover

Answer

Unplanned failover

Answer

Failback to the primary region

Question 6

A solutions architect must ensure that an Azure Cosmos DB account can serve reads and writes from multiple regions simultaneously with no single point of failure. Which configuration achieves this?

Accepted Answer

Multi-region account with multi-region writes enabled

Answer

Single-region account with zone redundancy enabled

Answer

Multi-region account with single-write region and multiple read regions

Answer

Geo-redundant backup with manual failover

Question 7

When designing a BCDR strategy for Azure App Service, which combination provides geo-redundancy with automatic failover and lowest RTO?

Accepted Answer

Two App Service instances in different regions behind Azure Traffic Manager with health probes

Answer

App Service with deployment slots and manual swap

Answer

App Service with Azure Backup and point-in-time restore

Answer

App Service Environment with zone redundancy in a single region