Every backup job for a newly deployed Azure VM fails immediately and reports that the VM agent is not ready. Which two checks should the administrator perform first? Select two.

Increase the recovery point retention in the backup policy.

Retention settings do not affect whether the VM agent is ready to participate in backup operations.

Recreate the Recovery Services vault in another region.

The vault location is not the root cause of a VM agent readiness error on a single new VM.

Disable the backup policy until the VM is rebooted several times.

Turning off the policy does not fix the underlying agent or connectivity issue that causes the immediate failure.

What does this AZ-104 question test?

Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.

What is the correct answer to this question?

The correct answer is: Verify that the Azure VM Agent is installed and the service is running inside the guest. — When Azure Backup reports that the VM agent is not ready, the first places to check are the in-guest Azure VM Agent and the network path to Azure backup services. The agent must be present and healthy so Azure can communicate with the VM during backup, and outbound HTTPS connectivity must be available so the job can reach the required Azure endpoints. These checks target the most common causes of immediate backup failure on newly deployed VMs. Why others are wrong: Retention changes, vault recreation, and policy disablement do not address the root cause of an unavailable or unhealthy VM agent. They may be valid administrative tasks in other contexts, but they will not turn a nonresponsive guest integration point into a ready one. Because the error appears immediately, the agent and connectivity path are the first things to validate, not backup retention or vault placement.

What should I do if I get this AZ-104 question wrong?

Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.