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- Question 1Design business continuity solutions
An application has an RTO of 1 hour and RPO of 15 minutes. Which Azure disaster recovery approach satisfies both requirements?
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What is the difference between RPO and RTO in a disaster recovery plan?
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An architect is designing the RPO/RTO requirements for a business-critical application. RPO = 1 hour, RTO = 4 hours. Which backup/recovery approach meets these requirements at minimum cost?
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A company runs a multi-tier web application on Azure VMs. They need to test their disaster recovery plan without impacting production. Which Azure Site Recovery feature supports this?
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A company needs to regularly test their disaster recovery plan for Azure VMs without impacting production. Which Azure Site Recovery feature supports this?
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An architect designs a disaster recovery solution for a critical Azure VM workload. The RTO requirement is under 15 minutes. Which Azure service should be used?
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An architect designs the disaster recovery strategy for an AKS cluster. The recovery time objective is 4 hours. What approach best meets this RTO?
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A company runs a critical web application. Their SLA requirement is 99.99% availability (~52 minutes downtime per year). Deployments to a single region with availability zones provide 99.99%. What additional protection should be recommended for extra resilience?
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An architect evaluates the RPO for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server with geo-redundant backup enabled. What is the maximum data loss a point-in-time restore provides?
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A company needs to design a high availability solution for Azure SQL Database that requires 99.99% availability SLA with automatic zone-level failover within a single region. Which configuration provides this?
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An architect designs a business continuity plan and must determine the RTO for a Tier-1 application. Stakeholders say the application can be down for no more than 1 hour. Backups take 45 minutes to restore. What is the risk?
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An architect designs a DR solution for an Azure App Service web application. The RTO is 30 minutes and RPO is 1 hour. What is the minimum configuration needed?
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An architect recommends Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective targets. The business says RTO = 2 hours, RPO = 4 hours. Which statement correctly describes these requirements?
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Key Business Continuity Concepts for AZ-305
AZ-305 Business Continuity Exam Tips
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery questions in AZ-305 are typically scenario-based. Focus on solution architecture design, resilience, governance, and data platform trade-offs. Priority concepts: high availability, disaster recovery, backup, site recovery, geo-redundancy, sla.
What AZ-305 Expects
- Anchor your answer in select architecture decisions that balance business continuity, performance, and governance.
- Business Continuity scenarios for AZ-305 are frequently mapped to Domain 3 (10-15%), so read the objective carefully before picking controls or architecture.
- Expect multi-topic scenarios where Business Continuity interacts with identity, networking, governance, or monitoring patterns rather than appearing as an isolated question.
- When two options are both technically valid, prefer the choice that best aligns with the exam's operational scope (Expert) and vendor best practices.
High-Value Business Continuity Concepts
- Know the core Business Continuity building blocks cold: high availability, disaster recovery, backup, site recovery.
- Review the edge-case features and limits for geo-redundancy, sla; these details are commonly used to differentiate answer choices.
- Practice service-integration reasoning: how Business Continuity pairs with Data Storage, Compute in real deployment patterns.
- For AZ-305, explain why the chosen Business Continuity design meets reliability, security, and cost expectations better than the alternatives.
Common AZ-305 Traps
- Watch for designing for feature completeness but not for resilience.
- Questions in Design Business Continuity Solutions often include distractors that look correct for Business Continuity but violate least-privilege, compliance, or availability requirements.
- Avoid picking options purely by feature name; validate data path, failure handling, and governance impact before answering.
- If the prompt hints at automation or repeatability, eliminate manual-only operational answers first.
Fast Review Checklist
- Can you compare at least two Business Continuity implementation paths and justify which one best fits the scenario?
- Can you map the chosen answer back to Design Business Continuity Solutions (10-15%) outcomes for AZ-305?
- Can you explain security and access boundaries for Business Continuity without relying on default-open assumptions?
- Can you describe how Business Continuity integrates with Data Storage and Compute during failure, scaling, and monitoring events?