AZ-305 Azure Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Design 2

Question 1

Your organization needs automated, policy-driven backup for all Azure VMs across 20 subscriptions from a single interface. Which Azure service provides this centralized management?

Accepted Answer

Azure Backup Center with a Backup policy at management group scope

Answer

Azure Backup Center provides a unified view and governance console to monitor, manage, and enforce backup policies across multiple vaults and subscriptions.

Question 2

An Azure SQL Managed Instance needs to meet an RPO of 1 hour and an RTO of 4 hours for cross-region disaster recovery. Which feature should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Auto-failover groups with a secondary in a paired region

Answer

Auto-failover groups for SQL Managed Instance continuously replicate data to a secondary region and support automated or manual failover to meet RTO/RPO requirements.

Question 3

You need to design a backup strategy for Azure Blob Storage where accidental deletions can be recovered within 30 days. Which feature provides this at no additional storage cost for the retention period?

Accepted Answer

Azure Blob soft delete

Answer

Blob soft delete retains deleted blobs for a configurable retention period and is built into Azure Blob Storage without requiring a separate backup vault.

Question 4

Which Azure Cosmos DB feature provides continuous backup and allows you to restore your database to any point in the past 30 days?

Accepted Answer

Continuous backup mode with point-in-time restore (PITR)

Answer

Cosmos DB Continuous backup mode captures changes continuously allowing point-in-time restore to any second within the past 30 days.

Question 5

Your organization's RPO for a critical application is zero — no data can be lost. Which Azure SQL Database deployment option meets this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Azure SQL Database Business Critical tier with zone-redundant configuration

Answer

SQL Database Business Critical uses synchronous replication across Availability Zones so all committed transactions are written to multiple nodes before acknowledgment, ensuring RPO=0.

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AZ-305 - Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Practice Test

AZ-305 Azure Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Design 2