Design Business Continuity Solutions Flashcards
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Flashcards

| Front | Back |
| Define Disaster Recovery | The process of restoring critical systems and data after a failure or disaster. |
| Define Fault Tolerance | The ability of a system to continue operating despite failures or errors. |
| Define Recovery Point Objective (RPO) | The maximum amount of data loss allowed during a recovery scenario. |
| Describe Azure Managed Disks' role in high availability | Provides durable, scalable storage with built-in redundancies for improved resilience. |
| Describe Azure Traffic Manager | A tool for directing traffic to optimal endpoints to ensure resilience and performance. |
| Describe the concept of Business Continuity Planning | Ensuring operations can continue during and after a disruption. |
| Describe the importance of encrypting backups | Protects sensitive data from unauthorized access during storage and recovery. |
| Describe the use of Azure Blob Storage for backups | Provides scalable, secure, and cost-efficient storage for backup data. |
| Explain Azure Auto-scaling | Automatically adjusts resources based on demand to maintain performance and availability. |
| Explain Azure Backup Service | A cost-effective, scalable solution to prepare backups and restore data in Azure environments. |
| Explain Geo-Redundancy in Azure | Storing and replicating data in multiple locations to ensure accessibility during regional failures. |
| Explain the concept of Load Balancing in high availability solutions | Distributing traffic across multiple resources to optimize performance and ensure service availability. |
| Explain the importance of Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Strategies | Reduces risk by ensuring services can failover to geographically diverse regions. |
| Explain the role of database mirroring in disaster recovery | Ensures continuous database availability by maintaining synchronous copies. |
| What are Azure Availability Zones? | Physically separate datacenters within a region offering high availability and redundancy. |
| What are the benefits of Azure Site Recovery? | It provides disaster recovery by replicating workloads to different regions for fast recovery. |
| What is a Failover in disaster recovery? | Switching to a redundant or standby system when the primary system fails. |
| What is Application Gateway in Azure? | A load balancer that improves availability and security of web applications. |
| What is Azure Shared Responsibility Model? | Clarifies the responsibilities between Azure and customers in securing and maintaining solutions. |
| What is High Availability in cloud solutions? | Ensuring applications and databases remain accessible with minimal downtime. |
| What is the purpose of a Disaster Recovery Plan | A detailed strategy outlining procedures to restore operations after a disruption. |
| What is the purpose of a testing schedule for disaster recovery? | Ensures plans and systems are effective and can be reliably implemented during crises. |
| What is the purpose of hot and cold data storage in Azure? | Hot storage provides immediate access, while cold storage is for infrequent access at lower costs. |
| What is the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)? | The maximum acceptable time to restore a system after a disruption. |
| What is the role of VM backups in business continuity? | Ensures virtual machines can be restored quickly in case of failure or disaster. |
| What is the significance of monitoring and alerting in business continuity solutions? | Proactively identifies issues to minimize downtime and maintain system health. |
| Why is data replication essential for business continuity? | It ensures copies of data are available in case of corruption or loss. |
| Why is network redundancy important in high availability? | It eliminates single points of failure and maintains connectivity during outages. |
| Why use Azure ExpressRoute for business continuity? | Provides reliable and fast connections between on-premises environments and Azure. |
| Why use Incremental Backups? | They back up only changes since the last backup, saving storage and time. |
About the Flashcards
This study set provides a comprehensive review of essential concepts for ensuring service resilience and availability. These flashcards for the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert exam are designed to help you master key terminology and fundamental principles related to business continuity and disaster recovery. The topics explore high availability solutions, failover strategies, and critical metrics like Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). You will also cover specific Azure services that enable these capabilities, such as Azure Site Recovery and Availability Zones, solidifying your understanding of how to maintain robust, fault-tolerant systems.
Topics covered in this flashcard deck:
- Business Continuity Planning
- Disaster Recovery Concepts
- High Availability Solutions
- Recovery Objectives (RTO & RPO)
- Azure Backup and Replication
- Failover and Load Balancing