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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
Which TWO of the following are benefits of using Azure SQL Database failover groups for high availability?
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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Automatic failover to a secondary region based on a grace period.
Failover groups provide automatic failover to a secondary region based on a grace period (option B), allowing for continuous availability during regional outages. They also support routing read-only queries to the secondary region (option C) to offload read workloads and improve performance. Option A is incorrect because synchronous replication across availability zones is achieved through zone-redundant configuration, not failover groups. Option D is incorrect because load balancing read-write traffic across replicas is not a feature of failover groups; that is handled by read-scale replicas or connection policies. Option E is incorrect because geo-redundant backup storage is a separate feature (geo-redundant storage), not a direct benefit of failover groups.
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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Synchronous replication of data across availability zones.
Why it's wrong here
Zone-redundancy provides that, not failover groups.
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Automatic failover to a secondary region based on a grace period.
Why this is correct
Failover groups support automatic failover.
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Routing of read-only queries to the secondary region.
Why this is correct
Failover groups can route read-only queries to the secondary.
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Load balancing read-write traffic across multiple replicas.
Why it's wrong here
Failover groups do not load balance; only one primary is used.
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Geo-redundant backup storage for disaster recovery.
Why it's wrong here
Backup storage redundancy is separate from failover groups.
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