🔄 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - AZ-305 Practice Questions

Design high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions including SLA design and geo-redundancy.

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  1. 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?

    ACold standby with weekly backups restored manually
    BAzure Site Recovery with continuous replication and pre-provisioned target environment
    CManual VM snapshots every hour
    DAzure Backup with daily recovery points

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  2. Question 2Design business continuity solutions

    What is the difference between RPO and RTO in a disaster recovery plan?

    ARPO is the maximum tolerable downtime; RTO is the maximum tolerable data loss
    BRPO is the maximum tolerable data loss (age); RTO is the maximum tolerable downtime
    CBoth measure downtime at different service tiers
    DRPO applies to databases only; RTO applies to applications

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  3. Question 3Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AReal-time replication to a hot standby
    BAzure Backup with hourly snapshots and Azure Site Recovery for VM failover
    CDaily backup to Azure Storage
    DActive-active multi-region deployment

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  4. Question 4Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AReplication health check
    BTest failover to an isolated network
    CPlanned failover
    DUnplanned failover

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  5. Question 5Design business continuity solutions

    A company needs to regularly test their disaster recovery plan for Azure VMs without impacting production. Which Azure Site Recovery feature supports this?

    APlanned failover with production impact
    BTest failover to an isolated network with no production impact
    CReplication health check only
    DNon-disruptive DR testing is not possible

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  6. Question 6Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AAzure Backup with daily snapshots
    BAzure Site Recovery with continuous replication and near-instant failover
    CVM snapshots stored in Azure Storage
    DAzure Backup with GRS storage

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  7. Question 7Design business continuity solutions

    An architect designs the disaster recovery strategy for an AKS cluster. The recovery time objective is 4 hours. What approach best meets this RTO?

    AAzure Site Recovery for AKS nodes
    BStore cluster configuration in source control (GitOps) and restore from IaC; use Azure Backup for persistent volume snapshots
    CAzure Backup of the entire AKS cluster
    DManually recreate the cluster after failure

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  8. Question 8Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AIncrease to Premium SKU within the same region
    BAdd a secondary region in an active-passive or active-active configuration for disaster recovery
    CAdd more replicas in the same availability zone
    DEnable Azure DDoS Protection Standard

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  9. Question 9Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AZero — synchronous replication to backup storage
    BUp to the interval between the last WAL log backup (typically minutes)
    CUp to 24 hours (daily backup only)
    DUp to 7 days (minimum retention period)

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  10. Question 10Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AGeneral Purpose with LRS storage
    BBusiness Critical or General Purpose with Zone Redundant Configuration (ZRC) enabled
    CActive geo-replication to a secondary region
    DSQL Managed Instance with zone redundancy

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  11. Question 11Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    ANo risk — 45 minutes is under 1 hour
    BRisk — restore time alone is 45 minutes, leaving only 15 minutes for failover validation, cutover, and testing, which may not be sufficient
    CThe RTO should be extended to 2 hours
    DUse warm standby to completely eliminate restore time

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  12. Question 12Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    ADaily Azure Backup of the App Service
    BApp Service with deployment slots for staging/production swap
    CBackup/restore of App Service to a secondary region using App Service built-in backup (hourly) + Azure Traffic Manager for failover
    DAzure Site Recovery for App Service

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  13. Question 13Design business continuity solutions

    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?

    AThe system can be offline for up to 4 hours and can lose up to 2 hours of data
    BThe system can be offline for up to 2 hours and can lose up to 4 hours of data
    CRTO and RPO are the same concept
    DRPO determines how quickly the system resumes; RTO determines how much data can be lost

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Key Business Continuity Concepts for AZ-305

high availabilitydisaster recoverybackupsite recoverygeo-redundancyslartorpoavailability zones

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?

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