AZ-104 Question 270
Select 2You are managing multiple Azure virtual machines hosted in the East US region for your company’s production environment. Due to strict data residency compliance requirements, all backups must remain in the East US region. You plan to create a new Recovery Services vault to protect these VMs. Which of the following actions are required to ensure that the vault is properly configured for VM backups in the East US region?
- A
Specify East US as the vault location while creating the Recovery Services vault.
- B
Select an existing resource group or create a new resource group in East US that will contain the vault.
- C
Configure the Recovery Services vault for VM backups by selecting each VM and enabling backup once it’s created.
- D
Enable cross-region restore in the vault to ensure enforced data residency.
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
To fulfill your compliance requirement of storing VM backups in East US, you must first specify East US as the Recovery Services vault’s location. Then, enable backups for the targeted VMs by registering them with that vault. Although selecting a resource group in the same region is considered good practice, it is not mandatory for compliance with regional data residency. Cross-region restore is optional and does not ensure that the data remains confined to East US.
- A. Correct.
Setting the vault location to East US ensures that backups remain in the same region, meeting your compliance requirements.
- B. Incorrect.
While it may be a best practice to keep the vault and resource group in the same region, it is not strictly required for data residency compliance.
- C. Correct.
You must enable backups for each VM in the newly created Recovery Services vault to begin protecting those workloads.
- D. Incorrect.
Enabling cross-region restore is an additional feature for disaster recovery scenarios; it does not enforce keeping data in the same region.