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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
You have a SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine running a critical OLTP workload. You need to achieve high availability with automatic failover and no shared storage. The solution must use Azure features and avoid complex clustering configurations. What should you implement?
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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Configure an Always On Availability Group with automatic failover.
Always On Availability Groups provide high availability and automatic failover without requiring shared storage, and they leverage Azure features like internal load balancer. Option B (log shipping) offers disaster recovery but not automatic failover. Option C (database mirroring) is deprecated and not recommended for new implementations. Option D (Failover Cluster Instance) requires shared storage, which is not desired.
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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Configure an Always On Availability Group with automatic failover.
Why this is correct
Availability Groups provide automatic failover without shared storage.
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Set up log shipping to a secondary VM.
Why it's wrong here
Log shipping does not provide automatic failover.
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Use database mirroring with automatic failover.
Why it's wrong here
Database mirroring is deprecated and not supported on Azure VMs.
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Deploy a Windows Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) using Azure Shared Disks.
Why it's wrong here
FCI requires shared storage, which adds complexity.
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