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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
Your company uses Azure SQL Database in a General Purpose service tier. You need to minimize downtime during a planned patching event. Which feature should you enable?
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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Zone-redundant configuration
Zone-redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database provides high availability by replicating across zones, minimizing downtime during planned patching events. Option A is incorrect because auto-failover groups are primarily for disaster recovery across regions. Option B is incorrect because read scale-out only offloads read workloads to a readable secondary replica, which does not reduce downtime during patching of the primary. Option C is incorrect because active geo-replication is for disaster recovery, not for reducing downtime during patching within a region.
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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Auto-failover group
Why it's wrong here
For geo-failover, not for planned patching.
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Read scale-out
Why it's wrong here
Offloads read workloads, does not reduce patching downtime.
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Active geo-replication
Why it's wrong here
Used for disaster recovery, not for patching.
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Zone-redundant configuration
Why this is correct
Provides high availability across zones, minimizing patching downtime.
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Last reviewed: Jun 21, 2026
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