Question

Difficulty: MediumAzure Advisor

An enterprise hosts a mission-critical transactional database on Azure Virtual Machines. The operations team wants to identify which of these virtual machines lack backup configurations to protect against accidental data loss and to ensure business continuity. Which Azure tool should the administrator use to obtain proactive, personalized recommendations for enabling virtual machine backups?

  1. Azure AdvisorAnswer
  2. B
    Azure Policy
  3. C
    Azure Monitor
  4. D
    Azure Service Health

Answer

Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor evaluates your resource configuration and telemetry data to provide personalized, actionable recommendations across five categories: Cost, Security, Reliability, Performance, and Operational Excellence. Enabling backups for virtual machines is a key recommendation within the Reliability category.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the requirement to find proactive recommendations for resource reliability and data protection.
Identify that enabling backups for virtual machines directly addresses reliability and business continuity.
Understanding the core requirement points to cloud best practices.
2
Evaluate the management tools that provide configuration recommendations based on best practices.
Recognize that Azure Advisor is the dedicated tool for personalized best-practice recommendations across cost, security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Differentiating tool boundaries determines the correct service.

Key Concept

Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations based on best practices across five pillars, including Reliability.
Rate this question