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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
You have an Azure SQL Database configured with active geo-replication to a secondary region. A regional outage occurs in the primary region. You need to manually fail over to the secondary database with the least amount of data loss. Which PowerShell cmdlet should you run?
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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Set-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary -ResourceGroupName ... -ServerName ... -DatabaseName ... -PartnerResourceGroupName ... -Failover
Set-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary with -Failover initiates a planned failover that synchronizes data before failing over, minimizing data loss. Option A (Start-AzSqlDatabaseFailover) is for failing over a single database within the same region, not geo-failover. Option C (Invoke-AzSqlDatabaseFailover) does not exist. Option D (Switch-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary) is not a valid cmdlet.
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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Start-AzSqlDatabaseFailover -ResourceGroupName ... -ServerName ... -DatabaseName ...
Why it's wrong here
This cmdlet is for failing over a database within the same region, not geo-failover.
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Set-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary -ResourceGroupName ... -ServerName ... -DatabaseName ... -PartnerResourceGroupName ... -Failover
Why this is correct
This cmdlet initiates a planned failover with synchronization to minimize data loss.
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Invoke-AzSqlDatabaseFailover -ResourceGroupName ... -ServerName ... -DatabaseName ... -Secondary
Why it's wrong here
Invoke-AzSqlDatabaseFailover is not a valid cmdlet.
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Switch-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary -ResourceGroupName ... -ServerName ... -DatabaseName ...
Why it's wrong here
Switch-AzSqlDatabaseSecondary is not a valid cmdlet.
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Azure SQL Performance Tuning
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