AZ-104 Question 280
Single answerYou are an Azure Administrator for a company that hosts a critical application in a VM in the East US region. Management wants to replicate this VM to the West US region using Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery. You have already created the target network in West US. Which of the following steps must you perform first to replicate the VM using Azure Site Recovery?
- A
Create a Recovery Services vault in the West US region
- B
Deploy a new VM in the West US region to serve as the failover instance
- C
Enable replication directly from the VM in East US to the West US region
- D
Configure a Recovery Plan in the Recovery Services vault
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The essential first step is to create a Recovery Services vault in the target region. The vault orchestrates and manages replication, failover, and failback of your Azure VM.
- A. Correct.
A Recovery Services vault is required before you can enable replication. It serves as the core component for managing replication and failover settings.
- B. Incorrect.
You do not need to deploy a new VM in the target region as a separate step. Site Recovery handles replica creation automatically during the replication process.
- C. Incorrect.
Enabling replication from the source VM to the target region requires that a Recovery Services vault already exists to manage and orchestrate the replication.
- D. Incorrect.
While configuring a Recovery Plan is important, it is not the first step. You must first set up the Recovery Services vault and enable replication before creating a Recovery Plan.