Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Question
You administer two Windows Server 2022 Azure virtual machines that run a mission-critical workload in an availability set. The business dictates that, in the event of data corruption, you must be able to recover either the whole VM or individual files. The recovery point objective (RPO) for workload data must not exceed 15 minutes, and the solution must rely only on native Azure capabilities with minimal operational overhead. Which approach should you recommend?
Enable Azure Site Recovery for the virtual machines and also enable Azure Backup with a daily backup policy.
Enable Azure Backup on the virtual machines with the shortest (hourly) backup schedule.
Configure Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to continuously replicate the virtual machines to a secondary Azure region.
Create an Azure Automation runbook that triggers managed disk incremental snapshots every 15 minutes and copies them to Azure Storage.
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can continuously replicate an Azure VM to another Azure region with an effective RPO measured in minutes, easily meeting the 15-minute requirement. However, ASR replicas are crash-consistent images of the entire VM and do not provide item-level recovery. Enabling Azure Backup on the same VMs adds daily application-consistent backups that support file-level restore. Using ASR together with Azure Backup therefore satisfies both the aggressive RPO for full-VM recovery and the need to restore individual files, while remaining fully managed by Azure. The other options fail to meet one or more requirements: Azure Backup alone cannot deliver a 15-minute RPO; ASR alone lacks file-level recovery; and a custom Automation-driven snapshot strategy introduces extra management overhead and does not provide built-in file recovery.
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