Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question

Initiating a planned failover using Azure Site Recovery is the correct action in this scenario. A planned failover synchronizes all recent changes from the primary site to the secondary site, ensuring data consistency and no data loss. It gracefully shuts down the primary virtual machines before starting them in the secondary region, resulting in minimal downtime. An unplanned failover is used when the primary site is unexpectedly unavailable and may not have the latest data synchronized, leading to potential data loss. Disabling replication and manually starting virtual machines in the other region is not a recommended approach and can cause configuration issues. Modifying the virtual machines' configuration to change the primary region does not initiate the failover process and will not ensure data synchronization or minimal downtime.