AZ-305 Design business continuity solutions Practice Test 6 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company uses Azure Backup to protect their critical Azure VMs. An administrator accidentally deleted a file from one of the VMs. They need to restore that specific file quickly without restoring the entire VM. Which Azure Backup feature should they use?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Azure Backup file recovery. Azure Backup's file recovery feature allows you to mount a recovery point as a drive on the VM (or another machine) using iSCSI, enabling you to browse and copy individual files without restoring the entire VM. This is the correct choice because it meets the requirement for a quick, granular restore of a single deleted file.

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Azure Backup full VM restore

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Azure Site Recovery

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Azure Storage snapshots

Question 2

A company runs a critical application using Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that automatically fails over to a secondary region (East US) with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 seconds and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 minute. The secondary region must also be able to serve read-only queries for reporting purposes. Which Azure SQL Database feature should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Azure SQL Database active geo-replication with auto-failover group. Active geo-replication with auto-failover groups is the correct choice because it provides automatic, synchronous failover to a secondary region with an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 1 minute. Additionally, the secondary database can be used for read-only reporting by connecting with the 'ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly' connection string, meeting both the disaster recovery and reporting requirements.

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Azure SQL Database geo-restore

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Azure SQL Database copy

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Azure SQL Managed Instance failover group

Question 3

A company runs a critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine. They need a high-availability solution within a single region that provides automatic failover, zero data loss (synchronous replication), and support read-only routing for reporting workloads. Which solution should they implement?

Accepted Answer

SQL Server Always On Availability Group with synchronous replication across availability zones. SQL Server Always On Availability Group with synchronous replication across availability zones meets all requirements: it provides automatic failover, zero data loss through synchronous commit mode, and supports read-only routing by directing reporting workloads to readable secondary replicas. This solution operates within a single Azure region using availability zones for high availability.

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SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) with shared disks

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Azure SQL Database Managed Instance with active geo-replication

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Azure SQL Database with active geo-replication

Question 4

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They want to protect against a regional disaster by replicating VMs to East US using Azure Site Recovery. They have both managed and unmanaged disks. They need to ensure that after failover, the recovery VMs are automatically placed in a specific availability set to support the application's multi-tier architecture. Additionally, they want to minimize downtime during planned failover. Which configuration should they use?

Accepted Answer

Configure a recovery plan that includes the VMs and specifies the target availability set and failover order. A recovery plan in Azure Site Recovery allows you to group VMs, specify the target availability set, and define the failover order. This ensures that after failover, the recovery VMs are automatically placed in the specified availability set, supporting the application's multi-tier architecture. Additionally, recovery plans enable you to automate and sequence failover steps, minimizing downtime during planned failover by orchestrating the process efficiently.

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Set the target availability set in each VM's replication settings individually without a recovery plan

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Use Azure Traffic Manager to route traffic to the secondary region after manual failover

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Enable consistency groups across the VMs using a replication policy

Question 5

A company runs a critical web application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the VMs to the East US region. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be 30 minutes, and the recovery time objective (RTO) must be 1 hour. The company also needs to perform quarterly disaster recovery drills without impacting the production environment. Additionally, after a failover, the solution must automatically update traffic management to route users to the East US region. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery and Azure Traffic Manager. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) orchestrates replication, failover, and failback of Azure VMs from West US to East US, meeting the 30-minute RPO and 1-hour RTO. Azure Traffic Manager automatically updates DNS-based traffic routing to the East US region after failover, ensuring users are redirected without manual intervention. This combination satisfies all requirements: DR replication, RPO/RTO, quarterly drills (via test failover), and automated traffic management.

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Azure Backup and Azure Traffic Manager

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Azure Site Recovery and Azure Front Door

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Azure Backup and Azure Front Door

Question 6

A company runs a critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the database to a secondary region (East US) with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The solution must also support non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. The company currently uses SQL Server Standard Edition. Which Azure service should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) replicates the entire VM, including the SQL Server database, to the secondary region with an RPO as low as 15 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours when using a recovery plan. It supports non-disruptive disaster recovery drills by allowing test failovers that run in an isolated network without impacting the production environment. This makes ASR the correct choice for a SQL Server Standard Edition VM requiring cross-region DR with drills.

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SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

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Azure Backup with cross-region restore

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Azure SQL Database geo-replication

Question 7

A company runs a critical line-of-business application on Azure VMs within a single region. The application tier is deployed across multiple VMs. They need to protect against a failure of an entire Azure datacenter within that region. The solution should automatically distribute the VMs across physically separate locations with independent power, cooling, and networking. The company also requires the lowest possible latency between application and database tiers within the same location. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Accepted Answer

Deploy the VMs across multiple availability zones. Availability zones are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking. Deploying the application tier VMs across multiple zones protects against an entire datacenter failure while keeping all resources within the same region, ensuring the lowest possible latency between application and database tiers when they are placed in the same zone.

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Deploy the VMs in an availability set

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Use Azure Site Recovery to replicate VMs to a paired region

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Use Azure Proximity Placement Groups

Question 8

A company runs a mission-critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine using SQL Server Standard Edition. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the database to a secondary Azure region with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution must support non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. The company cannot modify the SQL Server configuration or use Always On features due to licensing constraints. Which Azure service should they use?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) replicates the entire VM (including the SQL Server database) to a secondary Azure region, meeting the RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour. It supports non-disruptive disaster recovery drills by allowing test failovers in an isolated network without affecting the production environment. ASR does not require any changes to SQL Server configuration or licensing, as it operates at the hypervisor level using continuous replication.

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SQL Server log shipping to a VM in the secondary region

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Azure Backup with cross-region restore

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Azure SQL Database geo-replication

Question 9

A company uses Azure Site Recovery to replicate critical Azure virtual machines (VMs) to a secondary Azure region for disaster recovery. The VMs use managed disks and are part of a multi-tier application. After a failover, the recovery VMs must be automatically placed into a specific availability set to maintain the application architecture. How should the administrator configure this in Azure Site Recovery?

Accepted Answer

Configure the target availability set in the VM replication settings in the Recovery Services vault. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) allows you to configure the target availability set directly in the replication settings for each VM. When you enable replication for a VM, under the 'Target availability set' setting, you can select an existing availability set in the target region. ASR will then automatically place the recovered VM into that availability set during failover, ensuring the multi-tier application architecture is maintained without manual intervention.

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Create a recovery plan and add a manual step or script to move VMs to the availability set after failover

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Convert the managed disks to unmanaged disks for replication, then specify the availability set

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Azure Site Recovery does not support placing VMs into an availability set in the target region

Question 10

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They need to protect against a regional disaster using Azure Site Recovery. The VMs use unmanaged disks. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be 15 minutes and the recovery time objective (RTO) must be 1 hour. Additionally, they must be able to perform quarterly disaster recovery drills that do not affect the production environment. Which configuration should they use in Azure Site Recovery?

Accepted Answer

Set up replication with a 15-minute snapshot frequency and perform test failover for drills.. Azure Site Recovery supports replication of Azure VMs with unmanaged disks, and a 15-minute snapshot frequency meets the RPO requirement. Test failover allows quarterly disaster recovery drills without impacting the production environment, as it creates isolated copies of VMs in a separate network for validation.

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Use Azure Backup for VM replication and perform restore drills.

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Configure a recovery plan with a pre-script to take a snapshot every 15 minutes.

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Enable multi-VM consistency group with a 15-minute consistency frequency.

Question 11

A company runs a multi-tier application on Azure VMs. The application has front-end and back-end VMs that must be started in a specific order during failover (front-end first, then back-end). The company uses Azure Site Recovery to replicate to a secondary region. After failover, they also need to run custom PowerShell scripts to update DNS records. Which Azure Site Recovery feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Recovery plan with automation runbooks and order groups. Azure Site Recovery recovery plans support order groups to enforce the startup sequence of VMs (front-end first, then back-end) and can include automation runbooks to execute custom PowerShell scripts, such as updating DNS records after failover. This provides a structured, automated failover workflow that meets both the sequencing and scripting requirements.

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Recovery plan with manual steps

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Failover with network mapping

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Test failover with isolation

Question 12

A company runs SQL Server on Azure VMs using SQL Server Standard Edition. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the database to a secondary Azure region with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. They cannot use Always On Availability Groups due to licensing constraints. They also need to perform non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. Which Azure service should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) replicates entire SQL Server VMs (including their databases) to a secondary Azure region, supporting RPOs as low as 30 seconds and RTOs of 2 hours or less. It allows non-disruptive disaster recovery drills by performing test failovers in an isolated network without affecting the production environment. This solution avoids the licensing constraints of Always On Availability Groups and works with SQL Server Standard Edition.

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Azure Backup for SQL Server

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SQL Server Log Shipping to an Azure VM

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Geo-replication for Azure SQL Database

Question 13

A company runs critical Azure VMs. They want to protect against accidental deletion or corruption of data by implementing a retention policy for Azure Backup. They need to keep daily backups for 30 days, weekly backups for 12 weeks, and monthly backups for 12 months. Which Azure Backup feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Backup policy with long-term retention. A backup policy with long-term retention (LTR) in Azure Backup allows you to define granular retention rules for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backup points. This directly meets the requirement to keep daily backups for 30 days, weekly for 12 weeks, and monthly for 12 months by configuring the retention duration for each frequency in the backup policy.

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Immutable vault

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Backup tiering

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Soft delete

Question 14

A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure VMs in West US. They need a disaster recovery plan with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 30 minutes. The application consists of multiple VMs that must be recovered in a specific order: the database VM first, then the front-end VMs. They also need to ensure that after failover, the IP addresses of the VMs are retained to avoid DNS propagation delays. The company wants to test the recovery process periodically without affecting production. Which Azure Site Recovery features should they use?

Accepted Answer

Use recovery plans with virtual machine group ordering and failover network settings to assign static IPs.. Azure Site Recovery recovery plans allow you to define the order of VM recovery using groups, and you can assign static IP addresses via failover network settings to retain IPs after failover. This meets the RPO of 5 minutes (via continuous replication) and RTO of 30 minutes (via orchestrated failover), while test failover can be performed without impacting production.

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Use failover settings with retention IP and test failover.

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Use recovery plans with custom scripts for ordering and Azure Traffic Manager for IP retention.

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Use Azure Site Recovery with Application Consistent Snapshots and ignore IP retention.

Question 15

A company runs several Azure virtual machines (VMs) that host SQL Server databases. The databases are stored on data disks attached to the VMs. The company needs to back up the databases and VMs separately. They require application-consistent backups for SQL Server to ensure transactional integrity. Additionally, they need to retain backups for up to 7 years to meet compliance requirements. The solution must minimize administrative overhead and support long-term retention of database backups. Which Azure service or feature should they use for the database backups?

Accepted Answer

Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure VMs. Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure VMs is the correct choice because it provides native, application-consistent backups specifically for SQL Server databases running on Azure VMs. It integrates directly with SQL Server VSS writer to ensure transactional integrity, supports long-term retention up to 10 years (exceeding the 7-year requirement), and minimizes administrative overhead by automating backup scheduling, retention management, and point-in-time restore. This service is purpose-built for SQL Server database backups, separate from VM-level backups.

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Azure Backup for Azure VMs with application-consistent snapshots

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Azure Site Recovery

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Azure Files