AZ-104 Question 274
Single answerYour organization runs several Azure VMs hosting critical workloads. You need to back up these VMs to an Azure Recovery Services vault on a daily schedule at midnight and retain those daily backups for 14 days. Additionally, you’d like to keep a monthly backup for 12 months. Which approach should you use to create and configure the backup policy in Azure Backup?
- A
Create a custom policy in the Recovery Services vault specifying daily backups at midnight with a retention of 14 days, plus a monthly retention policy for 12 months.
- B
Use the built-in DefaultPolicy in the vault and update its daily retention to 14 days, ignoring monthly retention as it’s enabled by default.
- C
Configure a single retention rule for daily backups at midnight with a 12-month retention period to simplify policy management.
- D
Grant the Azure Backup service the built-in Recovery Services Contributor role and rely on it to automatically create daily backups with monthly retention.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Creating a custom backup policy in the Recovery Services vault allows you to define the required daily backup schedule at midnight, retain those backups for 14 days, and also add monthly retention for 12 months, all within one comprehensive policy.
- A. Correct.
Azure Backup supports custom scheduling and retention configurations. Creating a policy with both daily and monthly retention settings satisfies all requirements in a single configuration.
- B. Incorrect.
While you can modify certain parameters of the DefaultPolicy, it does not inherently meet the custom monthly retention requirements, and simply renaming it won’t achieve the 12-month monthly retention.
- C. Incorrect.
A single retention rule for the entire 12-month period does not provide a distinct 14-day short-term retention separate from monthly retention settings.
- D. Incorrect.
Role assignment alone does not define or create the required daily and monthly backup schedules. You still need to configure a custom backup policy to meet those retention requirements.