AZ-104 Question 283
Select 2Your primary Azure region hosting production workloads has experienced a critical outage, and you need to fail over to your secondary region using Azure Site Recovery. Which steps must you take to perform the failover successfully?
- A
Initiate a planned failover operation from the Replicated items blade
- B
Check that replication is healthy, then perform an unplanned failover
- C
Apply the latest recovery point to the secondary VM and commit the failover
- D
Switch the replication direction before initiating the failover
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Correct answers: B, C
Explanation
When the primary region is unavailable, you must initiate an unplanned failover to bring up the secondary region without waiting for final synchronization from the primary. After failover, you need to apply the latest recovery point and commit the failover so the VM is officially running in the secondary region.
- A. Incorrect.
A planned failover is used when the primary site is still accessible, allowing a graceful shutdown and synchronization. In a critical outage, you cannot plan the failover from the primary site.
- B. Correct.
If the primary region is already down, initiating an unplanned failover ensures the secondary region comes online using available replication data.
- C. Correct.
Applying the latest recovery point prepares the secondary VM with the most current data, and committing the failover finalizes the process, ensuring workloads run from the secondary region.
- D. Incorrect.
Switching replication direction is typically done after the failover is completed, not before initiating it.