Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question
An Azure administrator needs to configure a backup policy for virtual machines to take daily backups and retain them for 30 days. Which backup policy setting should be configured to specify the retention duration?
Adjust the Backup Schedule to retain backups for 30 days
Configure the Recovery Point retention to 30 days
Set the Daily Retention in the Retention Policy to 30 days
To keep each daily recovery point for 30 days, the administrator must set the Daily retention value in the Retention policy section of the VM backup policy to 30 days. This field controls how long recovery points that have been transferred to the vault are preserved. The Backup schedule section only decides when backups run; it does not influence retention. Instant Restore retention governs how long local snapshots remain (1-5 days for standard policies and up to 30 days for enhanced policies) and therefore does not satisfy the requirement to keep vault recovery points for 30 days. A field named Recovery Point retention is not present in the VM backup policy UI.
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