What is the primary purpose of Azure Availability Zones?

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To protect applications and data from datacenter failures.

To replicate data to a different continent for disaster recovery.

To group resources for billing purposes.

To provide a dedicated physical server for compliance.

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Understand what a 'Zone' is within an Azure Region.

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A.To protect applications and data from datacenter failures.✓ Correct

To protect applications and data from datacenter failures.

Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking. They protect your applications from datacenter-level failures.

Common mistakes

Confusing Availability Zones with Region Pairs. Zones protect against datacenter failures; Region Pairs protect against region-wide failures.

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