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AZURE · objective · 22% of the exam
Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)
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Microsoft — Active Geo-Replication - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn
Forced failover immediately switches the geo-secondary to the primary role without waiting for synchronization with the primary. Any transactions committed on the primary but not
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Microsoft — Backup and disaster recovery for managed disks on Azure VMs - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn
Azure Disk Backup is a crash-consistent backup solution that takes point-in-time backup of a managed disk using incremental snapshots and supports multiple backups per day.
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Microsoft — Configure a failover group - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn
No public internet, gateways, or additional encryption is required in the communication between the peered virtual networks.
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leave the default Latest processed (low RPO) setting for the recovery point. This option provides the lowest recovery point objective (RPO)
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You should use ZRS when sharing a disk between multiple VMs. If you use LRS, the shared disk becomes a single point of failure for
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The probe defines how Azure verifies which of the SQL Server instances currently owns the AG listener. Azure probes the service based on the IP
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Microsoft — Create an Azure scale set that uses availability zones - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Learn
When you expand the scale set to additional zones, the original instances are not migrated or changed.
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Microsoft — Failover Groups Overview & Best Practices - Azure SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Learn
Global virtual network peering (VNet peering) is the recommended way to establish connectivity between two instances in a failover group.