Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Describe Azure management and governanceHard
A development team is deploying a new application that processes sensitive customer data. They need to ensure that the data is protected against potential loss due to accidental deletion, corruption, or cyberattacks. The solution must allow for point-in-time recovery and long-term retention of data. Which Azure data protection service should they utilize?
- AAzure Data Lake Storage
- BAzure DDoS Protection
- CAzure Site Recovery
- DAzure Backup
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: D. Azure Backup
Azure Backup is a cost-effective, one-click backup solution that helps protect your data from accidental deletion, corruption, and cyberattacks. It supports various Azure services and provides capabilities for point-in-time recovery and long-term retention.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Azure Data Lake Storage is a scalable storage repository for big data analytics, not a dedicated data protection service for backup and recovery.
- B. Azure DDoS Protection provides protection against Distributed Denial of Service attacks, focusing on network availability, not data backup and recovery capabilities.
- C. Azure Site Recovery is a disaster recovery service that orchestrates replication, failover, and recovery of workloads (VMs) to keep applications running during outages, but it's not primarily for granular data backup and long-term retention.
Azure Backup
A cloud-based backup solution that protects your data in Azure and on-premises. It provides capabilities for point-in-time recovery, long-term retention, and protection against accidental deletion or corruption.
- Cloud-based backup solution
- Point-in-time recovery
- Long-term retention
- Protects various Azure services
Memory trick: Backup: your 'safety copy' for data.