A company runs a stateless web application on a VM Scale Set. The scale set is configured with a single availability zone. The application must remain available if a zone fails. What should you do?

Reconfigure the scale set to span multiple availability zones

Place the scale set in an availability set

Enable autoscale rules based on CPU

Add a second scale set in the same zone

A company uses Azure Blob Storage to store critical business documents. The documents must be available for read access even if the primary region fails. The company wants to minimize the cost while meeting this requirement. What should you configure?

Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)

Locally redundant storage (LRS)

A company runs an Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need to ensure that if the entire region becomes unavailable, the database can be failed over to a secondary region with minimal data loss. The secondary region must not be used for reads until failover occurs. What should you configure?

An active geo-replication secondary in a paired region and a failover group with automatic failover policy.

An Azure SQL Database zone-redundant configuration within the West US region.

A failover group with a secondary in the same region and automatic failover enabled.

A long-term backup retention policy with point-in-time restore to a new server in another region.

A company runs an Azure SQL Database in the East US region. They need to ensure that if the primary region fails, the database can be failed over to a secondary region with minimal data loss. The secondary region should also be able to serve read-only queries before failover. What should you configure?

Active geo-replication with a readable secondary in a paired region and a failover group with automatic failover.

A failover group with a secondary in the same region and automatic failover enabled.

A long-term backup retention policy with point-in-time restore to a new server in another region.

Azure SQL Database zone redundancy in the Premium tier.

An architect is deploying SQL Server on Azure VMs and needs to ensure that the database remains available if one VM fails. Which configuration should be implemented?

Place the VMs in a single availability set without any database-level configuration

Use Azure Site Recovery for the VMs

Configure an Always On Availability Group with at least two replicas

Enable Azure SQL Database geo-replication

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Design for High Availability AZ-305 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the Design business continuity solutions domain, which makes up ~13% of our current practice bank. Microsoft does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~7–10 in this domain), expect 4–5 from this objective — we provide 23 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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11application · medium
A company runs a stateless web application on a VM Scale Set. The scale set is configured with a single availability zone. The application must remain available if a zone fails. What should you do?
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12application · medium
A company uses Azure Blob Storage to store critical business documents. The documents must be available for read access even if the primary region fails. The company wants to minimize the cost while meeting this requirement. What should you configure?
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13application · medium
A company runs an Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need to ensure that if the entire region becomes unavailable, the database can be failed over to a secondary region with minimal data loss. The secondary region must not be used for reads until failover occurs. What should you configure?
Select an answer first
14application · medium
A company runs an Azure SQL Database in the East US region. They need to ensure that if the primary region fails, the database can be failed over to a secondary region with minimal data loss. The secondary region should also be able to serve read-only queries before failover. What should you configure?
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15foundation · easy
An architect is deploying SQL Server on Azure VMs and needs to ensure that the database remains available if one VM fails. Which configuration should be implemented?
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Questions 11–15

A company runs a stateless web application on a VM Scale Set. The scale set is configured with a single availability zone. The application must remain available if a zone fails. What should you do?

A company uses Azure Blob Storage to store critical business documents. The documents must be available for read access even if the primary region fails. The company wants to minimize the cost while meeting this requirement. What should you configure?

An architect is deploying SQL Server on Azure VMs and needs to ensure that the database remains available if one VM fails. Which configuration should be implemented?

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