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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
You are responsible for a SQL Server 2019 instance on an Azure VM. The VM is part of a failover cluster instance (FCI) using Azure shared disks. During a recent failover test, the cluster took 15 minutes to bring the database online. You need to reduce the failover time to under 5 minutes. What should you do?
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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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Remove unnecessary databases from the FCI and distribute them to other instances.
Removing unnecessary databases from the FCI reduces the number of databases that need to be recovered during failover, thereby decreasing the overall failover time. Option A is correct. Option B is incorrect because upgrading the VM does not directly reduce the number of databases to recover. Option C is incorrect because increasing disk size does not improve failover time. Option D is incorrect because instant file initialization helps with file growth, not failover recovery.
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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Remove unnecessary databases from the FCI and distribute them to other instances.
Why this is correct
Fewer databases to recover reduces failover time.
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Upgrade the VM to a larger size with more CPU and memory.
Why it's wrong here
While more resources can help, the primary factor is database recovery time.
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Increase the size of the Azure shared disks.
Why it's wrong here
Disk size does not affect failover recovery time.
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Enable instant file initialization on all SQL Server instances.
Why it's wrong here
Instant file initialization affects data file creation, not recovery.
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