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AZ-305 · Question 34 · Domain 3.1: Backup and Disaster Recovery
A malicious actor gains access to your Azure environment and deletes several critical Azure VM backups from the Recovery Services vault. You need to ensure that deleted backups are retained for 14 days before being permanently destroyed, allowing you time to recover them. What should you enable?
A malicious actor gains access to your Azure environment and deletes several critical Azure VM backups from the Recovery Services vault. You need to ensure that deleted backups are retained for 14 days before being permanently destroyed, allowing you time to recover them. What should you enable?
Answer options:
A.
Resource locks.
B.
Soft delete for Azure Backup.
C.
Multi-user authorization (MUA).
D.
Azure Policy.
How to approach this question
Identify the feature that acts as a recycle bin for backup data.
Full Answer
B.Soft delete for Azure Backup.✓ Correct
Soft delete for Azure Backup.
Soft delete for Azure Backup protects backup data from accidental or malicious deletion. With soft delete, even if a malicious actor deletes a backup, the backup data is retained for 14 additional days.
Common mistakes
Selecting Resource Locks, which prevent deletion entirely but don't help if the lock is removed by a compromised admin account.
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