AI-200 Data Management Services And Vector Search Practice Question
You are designing an enterprise RAG application that stores vector embeddings in Azure AI Search. You want to ensure that if the primary Azure region goes down, your search service automatically fails over with minimal data loss. How should you design your geo-replication strategy?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Configure geo-replication with replica services in a paired Azure region, enabling read-only failover and re-indexing capabilities
Deploying Azure AI Search with geo-replication across paired Azure regions ensures read availability, while writes can be resubmitted to the primary region upon recovery.
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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Export search indexes to CSV files hourly and upload them manually
Why it's wrong here
Manual CSV exports are not an automated geo-replication strategy.
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Configure geo-replication with replica services in a paired Azure region, enabling read-only failover and re-indexing capabilities
Why this is correct
Geo-replication creates secondary replicas in paired regions for high availability.
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Rely on Azure Blob Storage geo-redundancy to automatically mirror search index memory
Why it's wrong here
Blob storage GRS does not replicate internal search index HNSW graph structures.
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Configure synchronous multi-region write master locks across 10 regions simultaneously
Why it's wrong here
Azure AI Search does not support multi-master write replication across regions.
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