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DP-300 Practice Question: Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment
Your company uses Azure SQL Database with active geo-replication. You need to ensure that in the event of a regional disaster, the failover to the secondary region occurs automatically with minimal downtime. The secondary region must be in a different Azure geography for compliance. What should you configure?
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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Create a failover group with automatic failover policy.
Failover groups with automatic failover policy enable automatic failover to a secondary region in the same or paired region, meeting the requirement for minimal downtime. Option B is incorrect because auto-failover groups are not a separate concept; failover groups already support automatic failover. Option C is incorrect because active geo-replication alone requires manual failover, not automatic. Option D is incorrect because 'always failover groups' is not a valid Azure SQL Database feature, and Microsoft Entra ID authentication is unrelated to failover.
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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Create a failover group with automatic failover policy.
Why this is correct
Correct: Failover groups support automatic failover across regions.
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Create an auto-failover group using Azure CLI and set cross-geography replication.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: Auto-failover is inherent in failover groups, but cross-geography requires explicit configuration.
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Configure active geo-replication and set auto-failover policy.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: Active geo-replication does not support auto-failover.
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Configure an always failover group with Microsoft Entra ID authentication.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect: Always failover group is not a valid concept.
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