Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question

An Availability Set ensures that the virtual machines are placed in different fault domains and update domains within the same datacenter, protecting them from hardware failures and maintenance events. This configuration satisfies the requirement without adding unnecessary complexity. Placing the VMs in different Availability Zones would protect against datacenter failures but is not needed here and could increase latency. Deploying VMs to different regions is unnecessary and complicates management. A Resource Group is a logical container for resources and does not provide availability features.