AI-200 Data Management Services And Vector Search Practice Question
You are designing a high-availability RAG architecture where search queries must succeed even if an entire Azure region experiences an outage. You deploy Azure AI Search in a primary region and a secondary region. How should client applications handle failover?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Use Azure Traffic Manager or Azure Front Door in front of regional search service endpoints with health probes
Applications implement traffic routing via Azure Traffic Manager or Azure Front Door pointing to both search service regional endpoints, combined with geo-replication of search indexes.
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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Hardcode the secondary search IP address in client application configuration files
Why it's wrong here
Hardcoding IP addresses requires manual intervention during outages, violating high availability principles.
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Rely on Cosmos DB automatic failover to replicate search indices
Why it's wrong here
Cosmos DB does not replicate Azure AI Search indexes.
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Use Azure Traffic Manager or Azure Front Door in front of regional search service endpoints with health probes
Why this is correct
Global load balancers like Traffic Manager or Front Door route traffic to healthy regional endpoints automatically.
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Configure SQL replication between search indexes
Why it's wrong here
SQL replication does not apply to Azure AI Search.
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