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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
Your company has an Azure SQL Managed Instance in the UK South region. You need to implement a disaster recovery solution that provides automatic failover to a secondary region and allows read-only workloads to use the secondary replica. The solution must minimize data loss. What should you configure?
⚠ Common exam trap
Option C is tempting because it appears to describe the same solution as A, but it omits the critical step of deploying the second managed instance. The question asks what to configure; you must first deploy the secondary instance before configuring the failover group.
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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Deploy a second managed instance and use auto-failover groups
For Azure SQL Managed Instance, failover groups provide automatic failover to a secondary region and allow read-only workloads to use the secondary replica, minimizing data loss. Option B is incorrect because availability groups are not supported for Azure SQL Managed Instance; they are for SQL Server on Azure VMs. Option C is essentially the same as A but less precise; the standard solution is to deploy a second managed instance in the secondary region and configure a failover group. Option D is incorrect because active geo-replication is a feature of Azure SQL Database, not Azure SQL Managed Instance.
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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Deploy a second managed instance and use auto-failover groups
Why this is correct
Failover groups for Managed Instance provide automatic failover and readable secondary.
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Create an availability group in the secondary region and configure automatic failover
Why it's wrong here
Availability groups are for SQL Server on Azure VMs, not for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
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Configure a failover group between two managed instances
Why it's wrong here
It assumes the second managed instance already exists. The correct implementation requires first deploying a second managed instance in the secondary region, then configuring a failover group (auto-failover groups). Option A explicitly includes both steps.
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Enable active geo-replication and configure auto-failover using PowerShell
Why it's wrong here
Active geo-replication is for Azure SQL Database, not for Managed Instance.
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