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An organization hosts a business-critical retail application on Azure utilizing Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cosmos DB. The operations team is reviewing the Azure Advisor dashboard to improve the system's overall resilience against potential outages and data loss. Which of the following recommendations would Azure Advisor provide under its Reliability category? Select TWO.

  1. Configure Azure Backup for virtual machines to protect application data from accidental deletion or corruption.Answer
  2. Enable multi-region replication for the Azure Cosmos DB account to ensure database availability during regional outages.Answer
  3. C
    Apply a ReadOnly resource lock to the virtual machines to prevent administrators from modifying configurations.
  4. D
    Deploy Azure Policy definitions to automatically deny the creation of resources that lack specific tags.
  5. E
    Check Azure Service Health to view live updates on global Azure infrastructure outages and planned maintenance.

Answer

The correct recommendations are configuring Azure Backup for virtual machines and enabling multi-region replication for Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Advisor's Reliability category focuses on improving the continuity of your business-critical applications. Configuring virtual machine backup protects data against loss, and enabling multi-region database replication ensures database availability during regional outages. Both are official Advisor Reliability recommendations.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the target Azure Advisor category
The target category is Reliability (formerly High Availability), which focuses on application continuity, disaster recovery, and data protection.
The scenario asks specifically for recommendations under the Advisor Reliability category.
2
Evaluate the Virtual Machine recommendation option
Configuring Azure Backup is a core Advisor Reliability recommendation to protect VM data.
Backup ensures data protection and recovery capability, aligning directly with the Reliability pillar.
3
Evaluate the Azure Cosmos DB recommendation option
Enabling multi-region replication ensures database availability during regional outages, which is an Advisor Reliability recommendation.
Multi-region replication provides high availability and disaster recovery, which are key components of reliability.
4
Differentiate between Advisor recommendations and other Azure governance/monitoring tools
Resource locks, Azure Policy, and Azure Service Health are distinct Azure tools rather than Advisor recommendations.
This rules out the incorrect options by establishing tool boundaries.

Key Concept

Azure Advisor Reliability recommendations and boundary differentiation from other Azure management tools.
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