AZ-104 Question 269
Single answerYou manage an Azure subscription with virtual machines (VMs) running in both the East US and West US regions. You want to protect all these VMs using Azure Backup. What is the correct approach to creating a Recovery Services vault that can back up these VMs?
- A
Create a single Recovery Services vault in East US and back up VMs across both regions using cross-region replication
- B
Create a separate Recovery Services vault in each region where you want to protect resources
- C
Create a Recovery Services vault in any region, but link it to your VMs using Azure Resource Manager templates
- D
Use a single Recovery Services vault in East US, but configure geo-redundant storage in the vault to support West US backups automatically
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
A Recovery Services vault must be created in the same region as the resources you plan to back up. Therefore, if you have resources in multiple regions, you need separate vaults, one per region, to properly protect them.
- A. Incorrect.
Incorrect. A Recovery Services vault must reside in the same region as the resources to be backed up. You cannot use one vault in East US to directly protect VMs in West US.
- B. Correct.
Correct. You must create a Recovery Services vault in each region that contains the VMs or other workloads you want to protect.
- C. Incorrect.
Incorrect. The location of the Recovery Services vault is crucial; simply using templates doesn't override the requirement for region alignment.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Geo-redundant storage refers to how backup data is replicated for durability, not the ability to back up VMs in a different region from a single vault.