AZ-305 - Design Business Continuity Solutions - Section 3.2

Design for high availability using availability zones, availability sets, and multi-region architectures.

Distinguish availability zones, availability sets, and zone-redundant services and select the right pattern to meet a target SLA for virtual machines, databases, and platform services. Design active-active and active-passive multi-region topologies and compose individual service SLAs to predict end-to-end availability.

availability zonesavailability setszone-redundant servicesactive-active and active-passiveSLA composition

Practice question for this objective

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Your AZ-305 design must support a mission-critical workload with an RPO of 0 across zones and an RTO under 60 seconds across regions. The Availability Zones documentation recommends that mission-critical workloads use both multi-region and multi-zone solutions together. Is this statement correct?

  • AYes Correct
  • BNo
Mission-critical = multi-region AND multi-zone in the documented Availability Zones guidance. Azure Availability Zones guidance states that production workloads should use multiple availability zones if the region supports them, and that for mission-critical workloads architects should consider a solution that is both multi-region and multi-zone.

Why A is correct: Correct. Azure Availability Zones guidance states that production workloads should use multiple availability zones if the region supports them, and that for mission-critical workloads architects should consider a solution that is both multi-region and multi-zone.

Why B is wrong: Choosing multi-zone without multi-region leaves the workload exposed to a full-region outage; choosing multi-region without multi-zone keeps the in-region SLA capped below 99.99% for VM tiers. The documented mission-critical pattern combines both.

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