Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Domain 3.1: Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

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A company runs a critical 3-tier application on Azure Virtual Machines (Web, App, and Database tiers). You are designing a disaster recovery solution using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate the VMs to a secondary region. Requirements: - During a failover, the Database tier VMs must boot up first. - The App tier VMs must boot only after the Database VMs are fully running. - The Web tier VMs must boot last. - The failover process must be automated with a single click. What should you configure in Azure Site Recovery?

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You are designing a backup strategy for an Azure Virtual Machine running SQL Server. The business requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes for the database. You decide to use Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure VMs. Which TWO statements describe the capabilities and requirements of this solution? (Select TWO)

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A company uses Azure Backup to protect its Azure Virtual Machines. The Recovery Services vault is configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS). The company wants the ability to restore virtual machines to the secondary region immediately if the primary region experiences an outage, without waiting for Microsoft to declare a regional disaster. Which feature must you enable?

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A financial institution is designing a defense-in-depth strategy against ransomware. They use Azure Backup for their critical servers. An attacker who gains Global Administrator privileges must not be able to permanently delete backup data immediately. Which two features should you ensure are enabled on the Recovery Services vault?

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You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for an application hosted on Azure Virtual Machines. The application is highly sensitive to data loss and requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes. The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 30 minutes. The solution must automatically orchestrate the failover of the VMs, including network reconfiguration and startup order. Which Azure service should you recommend?

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Your company uses Azure Backup to protect 100 Azure Virtual Machines. The security team is concerned about ransomware attacks where an attacker might gain administrative access to Azure and maliciously delete the VM backups. You need to design a solution to ensure that even if an administrator deletes a backup, the data can still be recovered for at least 14 days. Which feature should you enable?

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You are designing the backup architecture for a hybrid environment. You need to back up on-premises VMware VMs, Azure VMs, and Azure PostgreSQL databases. You want to centralize the management of these backups. Which TWO vault types must you provision to support all these workloads? (Select TWO)

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