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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
Which TWO of the following are valid methods to recover an Azure SQL Database after a regional outage?
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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Fail over to a secondary region using a failover group.
Options B and E are correct. Failover groups with automatic failover allow recovery by failing over to a secondary region (B). Geo-restore from geo-redundant backups restores the database to any Azure region using the most recent geo-redundant backup (E). Option A is incorrect because log shipping is not supported for Azure SQL Database. Option C is incorrect because point-in-time restore can only restore to a point in time within the same region. Option D is incorrect because copying a database from a geo-redundant backup is not a direct method; you must perform a geo-restore.
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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Replicate the database from a backup to a secondary region using log shipping.
Why it's wrong here
Log shipping is not a built-in Azure SQL Database feature.
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Fail over to a secondary region using a failover group.
Why this is correct
Failover groups provide automatic or manual failover.
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Point-in-time restore to a time before the outage.
Why it's wrong here
Point-in-time restore is within the same region; if the region is down, you cannot restore.
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Copy the database from a geo-redundant backup to a new server.
Why it's wrong here
Copy is not available directly from backup; you must perform a geo-restore.
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Geo-restore from geo-redundant backups.
Why this is correct
Geo-restore allows restoring to any Azure region.
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Azure SQL Performance Tuning
Azure SQL Performance Tuning is the process of optimizing the speed and efficiency of queries and database operations in Microsoft Azure SQL Database or SQL Managed Instance to reduce latency and improve throughput.
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