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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
You administer a SQL Managed Instance in the West Europe region. You need to create a disaster recovery replica in North Europe with automated failover. The replica must be readable and support backups. What should you configure?
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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Create a failover group with the secondary instance in North Europe.
SQL Managed Instance supports failover groups for automated failover between regions, and the secondary instance in a failover group is readable and supports backups. Option A is incorrect because log shipping is not supported for SQL Managed Instance. Option B is incorrect because active geo-replication is not supported for SQL Managed Instance; failover groups are the appropriate solution. Option C is incorrect because the secondary instance in a failover group is readable and can be used for read-only workloads.
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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Set up log shipping from West Europe to North Europe.
Why it's wrong here
Log shipping is not a built-in feature of Managed Instance.
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Configure active geo-replication between the instances.
Why it's wrong here
Managed Instance does not support active geo-replication; it uses failover groups.
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Create a failover group, but note the secondary is not readable.
Why it's wrong here
The secondary in a failover group is readable when using Business Critical tier.
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Create a failover group with the secondary instance in North Europe.
Why this is correct
Failover groups provide automated failover and readable secondary for Managed Instance.
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