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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
You are designing a disaster recovery plan for an Azure SQL Database that stores critical financial data. The RPO must be 5 seconds, and the RTO must be 30 seconds. Which solution should you recommend?
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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Failover groups with automatic failover policy.
Failover groups with automatic failover policy can achieve an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 30 seconds for Azure SQL Database. Active geo-replication also achieves an RPO of 5 seconds but requires manual failover, increasing RTO beyond 30 seconds. Zone-redundant configuration only protects within a region and does not provide disaster recovery across regions. Automated backups with geo-restore have much higher RPO and RTO (typically hours).
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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Zone-redundant configuration within the primary region.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: Does not protect against regional disaster.
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Failover groups with automatic failover policy.
Why this is correct
Correct: Provides low RPO and RTO with automatic failover.
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Active geo-replication with manual failover.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: Manual failover increases RTO beyond 30 seconds.
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Automated backups with geo-restore.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: RPO and RTO are much higher.
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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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