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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
You are planning a disaster recovery strategy for an Azure SQL Database that supports a critical application. The database is 500 GB in size and you need to recover it within 1 hour (RTO) with a maximum data loss of 5 minutes (RPO). Which Azure SQL Database feature should you use?
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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Active geo-replication to a secondary server in a paired region.
Active geo-replication provides asynchronous replication with an RPO of a few seconds to a few minutes, and failover can be initiated manually within minutes, meeting the RTO and RPO. Option A is wrong because point-in-time restore does not provide a separate secondary region. Option B is wrong because long-term retention is for archival, not DR. Option C is wrong because failover groups use geo-replication but the RPO is still asynchronous; the question asks for the feature, and geo-replication is the core.
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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Long-term retention (LTR) backups.
Why it's wrong here
LTR is for archival retention beyond 35 days, not for DR with low RTO/RPO.
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Point-in-time restore (PITR) with geo-redundant backup storage.
Why it's wrong here
PITR can take hours to restore a large database and does not meet the RTO of 1 hour.
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Auto-failover group with a secondary in a different region.
Why it's wrong here
Auto-failover groups use geo-replication; the underlying feature is geo-replication.
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Active geo-replication to a secondary server in a paired region.
Why this is correct
Active geo-replication offers low RPO (seconds to minutes) and fast failover, meeting the requirements.
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