4 - Design Business Continuity (10-15%).md

AZ-304: Design Business Continuity (10-15%)

Design a solution for backup and recovery

• Recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that meets recovery objectives:
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
  • Recovery Level Objective (RLO)
  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Design and Azure Site Recovery solution
  • General questions about Azure Site Recovery
  • SLA for Azure Site Recovery
• Recommend a solution for recovery in different regions
• Recommend a solution for Azure Backup management
  • Azure Backup architecture and components
• Design a solution for data archiving and retention
  • Access tiers for Azure Blob Storage - hot, cool, and archive
  • Optimize costs by automating Azure Blob Storage access tiers
  • Azure Storage redundancy

Design for high availability

• Recommend a solution for application and workload redundancy, including:
  • Compute
    • Regions and Availability Zones in Azure
    • Create and deploy virtual machines in an availability set using Azure PowerShell
  • Database
    • High availability for Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance
    • Overview of business continuity with Azure SQL Database
  • Storage
    • Azure Storage redundancy
• Recommend a solution for autoscaling
  • Overview of Autoscale in Azure
  • Dynamically scale database resources with minimal downtime
  • Scaling out with Azure SQL Database
  • What are virtual machine scale sets?
• Identify resources that require high availability
  • Enabling Data Residency and Data Protection in Microsoft Azure Regions
  • Review your data options
• Identify storage types for high availability
  • Disaster recovery and storage account failover

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