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CV0-004 Automatic recovery Practice Question
A cloud administrator is responsible for ensuring the availability of a critical application that runs on a virtual machine. The administrator needs to implement a solution that can automatically restart the virtual machine if it becomes unresponsive due to an operating system crash. Which of the following should the administrator configure?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse a load balancer's health probe (which only reroutes traffic) with automatic VM recovery, or they assume a custom heartbeat script alone is sufficient without understanding that it lacks the built-in execution engine to perform the restart.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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A VM group configured with automatic recovery
Configuring automatic recovery for the VM (or a group of VMs) allows the cloud platform to detect a VM failure and automatically restart it. This is a feature provided by most cloud providers to ensure high availability.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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A snapshot-based backup policy
Why it's wrong here
Snapshots are for data recovery, not for automatically restarting VMs.
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A load balancer with a health probe
Why it's wrong here
A load balancer distributes traffic but does not restart the VM itself.
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A VM group configured with automatic recovery
Why this is correct
Availability sets in cloud platforms can automatically restart VMs that become unhealthy.
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A custom script that sends a heartbeat to a monitoring service
Why it's wrong here
A heartbeat script monitors but does not automatically restart the VM unless integrated with a management tool.
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