A university's research lab has a vSphere cluster. A researcher's laptop, infected with ransomware, was connected to the lab network and encrypted several VMs. The IT team needs to recover these VMs. Which DR use case does this scenario represent, and what is a critical consideration for the recovery strategy?

Site failure; the primary consideration is RTO

Ransomware attack; the primary consideration is a clean recovery point

Hardware failure; the primary consideration is redundancy

Data corruption; the primary consideration is RPO

A vSphere administrator is investigating a reported issue where a VM is not responding. Upon investigation, they find that the VM's virtual disk has been corrupted due to a storage controller failure. Which DR use case does this represent, and what is the most appropriate recovery method?

Data corruption; restore the VM from a recent backup

Hardware failure; use vSphere High Availability to restart the VM

Site failure; use Site Recovery Manager to fail over to a secondary site

Ransomware attack; use vSphere Replication to fail over

A company has a vSphere environment with a critical application that requires an RPO of 0 and an RTO of 15 minutes. They have a secondary site that is 10 km away. The network latency between the sites is 2 ms. Which solution should they implement?

vSphere High Availability with a stretched cluster

vSphere Replication with a 5-minute RPO and Site Recovery Manager

Synchronous array-based replication with Site Recovery Manager

Backup to a remote site every hour

A hospital runs its electronic health records (EHR) system on vSphere. A recent audit found that a database administrator accidentally deleted a critical patient table, and the corruption went unnoticed for 6 hours. The hospital must now restore the database to a point no more than 15 minutes before the deletion. Which DR use case does this scenario represent, and what is the primary requirement?

Data corruption; requires a low RPO

Ransomware attack; requires immutable snapshots

Site failure; requires a low RTO

Planned migration; requires a zero RPO

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A university's research lab has a vSphere cluster. A researcher's laptop, infected with ransomware, was connected to the lab network and encrypted several VMs. The IT team needs to recover these VMs. Which DR use case does this scenario represent, and what is a critical consideration for the recovery strategy?
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A vSphere administrator is investigating a reported issue where a VM is not responding. Upon investigation, they find that the VM's virtual disk has been corrupted due to a storage controller failure. Which DR use case does this represent, and what is the most appropriate recovery method?
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An administrator needs to replicate individual virtual machines to a secondary site with a recovery point objective of 15 minutes. Which VMware feature is designed for this purpose?
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A company has a vSphere environment with a critical application that requires an RPO of 0 and an RTO of 15 minutes. They have a secondary site that is 10 km away. The network latency between the sites is 2 ms. Which solution should they implement?
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A hospital runs its electronic health records (EHR) system on vSphere. A recent audit found that a database administrator accidentally deleted a critical patient table, and the corruption went unnoticed for 6 hours. The hospital must now restore the database to a point no more than 15 minutes before the deletion. Which DR use case does this scenario represent, and what is the primary requirement?
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A vSphere administrator is investigating a reported issue where a VM is not responding. Upon investigation, they find that the VM's virtual disk has been corrupted due to a storage controller failure. Which DR use case does this represent, and what is the most appropriate recovery method?

An administrator needs to replicate individual virtual machines to a secondary site with a recovery point objective of 15 minutes. Which VMware feature is designed for this purpose?

A company has a vSphere environment with a critical application that requires an RPO of 0 and an RTO of 15 minutes. They have a secondary site that is 10 km away. The network latency between the sites is 2 ms. Which solution should they implement?

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