A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure SQL Database (single database) in the East US region. The business requires an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 1 hour in the event of a regional outage. You need to design a disaster recovery solution. What should you configure?

Create a read replica in the same region and use connection string failover.

Enable active geo-replication to a secondary database in a paired region and configure auto-failover group.

Configure long-term retention (LTR) backups with a 35-day retention policy.

Use Azure Backup for Azure SQL Database with a daily backup policy.

What is the primary purpose of Azure Site Recovery?

To replicate workloads to a secondary location for disaster recovery

To monitor the health of virtual machines

To create scheduled backups of virtual machines

To migrate on-premises servers to Azure

A company stores millions of small files (e.g., images and documents) in Azure Blob Storage (hot tier). They need to protect against accidental deletion and corruption with an RPO of 1 hour and an RTO of 15 minutes. The solution must minimize storage costs. What should you configure?

Enable read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) on the storage account.

Enable soft delete for blobs and versioning, and configure a lifecycle management policy to move older versions to cool storage.

Use Azure Backup for Blob Storage with a daily backup policy.

Take manual snapshots of the container every hour using a scheduled Azure Function.

A company has Azure VMs running in the West US region. They want to protect against a regional outage with an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. They also want to test failover without impacting production. What should you configure?

Use Azure Site Recovery with a recovery plan and perform a failover to the secondary region.

Enable Azure Site Recovery for the VMs to a secondary region and perform a test failover using an isolated network.

Enable Azure Backup for the VMs with a 15-minute backup frequency.

Use Azure Migrate to replicate VMs to a secondary region.

What is the purpose of a Recovery Services vault in a hybrid backup scenario?

To store backup data from on-premises and Azure workloads

To monitor the health of on-premises servers

To replicate virtual machines to another region

To provide a network connection between on-premises and Azure

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A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure SQL Database (single database) in the East US region. The business requires an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 1 hour in the event of a regional outage. You need to design a disaster recovery solution. What should you configure?
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A company stores millions of small files (e.g., images and documents) in Azure Blob Storage (hot tier). They need to protect against accidental deletion and corruption with an RPO of 1 hour and an RTO of 15 minutes. The solution must minimize storage costs. What should you configure?
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A company has Azure VMs running in the West US region. They want to protect against a regional outage with an RTO of 1 hour and an RPO of 15 minutes. They also want to test failover without impacting production. What should you configure?
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