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Case Study 2 - Contoso, Ltd Overview Contoso, Ltd. is a manufacturing company that has 15,000 employees. The company uses SAP for sales and manufacturing. Contoso has sales offices in New York and Lon

The correct answer is A. The backup policy meets the technical requirements. (Yes) D. The backup policy meets the business requirements. (No) E. If the backup policy is implemented, a deleted file can be restored to the running virtual machine one year after the file was deleted. (Yes). A (Yes), D (No), and E (Yes) are correct because the backup policy satisfies Contoso's specific technical requirements - it retains 21 days of daily backups and enables instant restore within 15 minutes for the last 5 days - but it also includes extended weekly, monthly, and year

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Case Study 2 - Contoso, Ltd Overview Contoso, Ltd. is a manufacturing company that has 15,000 employees. The company uses SAP for sales and manufacturing. Contoso has sales offices in New York and London and manufacturing facilities in Boston and Seattle. Existing Environment Active Directory The network contains an on-premises Active Directory domain named ad.contoso.com. User email addresses use a domain name of contoso.com. SAP Environment The current SAP environment contains the following components: - SAP Solution Manager - SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) - SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) - SAP application servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2 - SAP HANA database servers that run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) Problem Statements Contoso identifies the following issues in its current environment: - The SAP HANA environment lacks adequate resources. - The Windows servers are nearing the end of support. - The datacenters are at maximum capacity. Requirements Planned Changes Contoso identifies the following planned changes: - Deploy Azure Virtual WAN. - Migrate the application servers to Windows Server 2016. - Deploy ExpressRoute connections to all of the offices and manufacturing facilities. - Deploy SAP landscapes to Azure for development, quality assurance, and production. All resources for the production landscape will be in a resource group named SAPProduction. Business goals Contoso identifies the following business goals: - Minimize costs whenever possible. - Migrate SAP to Azure without causing downtime. - Ensure that all SAP deployments to Azure are supported by SAP. - Ensure that all the production databases can withstand the failure of an Azure region. - Ensure that all the production application servers can restore daily backups from the last 21 days. Technical Requirements Contoso identifies the following technical requirements: - Inspect all web queries. - Deploy an SAP HANA cluster to two datacenters. - Minimize the bandwidth used for database synchronization. - Use Active Directory accounts to administer Azure resources. - Ensure that each production application server has four 1-TB data disks. - Ensure that an application server can be restored from a backup created during the last five days within 15 minutes. - Implement an approval process to ensure that an SAP administrator is notified before another administrator attempts to make changes to the Azure virtual machines that host SAP. It is estimated that during the migration, the bandwidth required between Azure and the New York office will be 1 Gbps. After the migration, a traffic burst of up to 3 Gbps will occur. Proposed Backup Policy An Azure administrator proposes the backup policy shown in the following exhibit. Azure Resource Manager Template An Azure administrator provides you with the Azure Resource Manager template that will be used to provision the production application servers. You are planning replication of the SAP HANA database for the disaster recovery environment in Azure. For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Answer:

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Options

  • AThe backup policy meets the technical requirements. (Yes)
  • BThe backup policy meets the technical requirements. (No)
  • CThe backup policy meets the business requirements. (Yes)
  • DThe backup policy meets the business requirements. (No)
  • EIf the backup policy is implemented, a deleted file can be restored to the running virtual machine one year after the file was deleted. (Yes)
  • FIf the backup policy is implemented, a deleted file can be restored to the running virtual machine one year after the file was deleted. (No)

How the community answered

(61 responses)
  • A
    61% (37)
  • B
    11% (7)
  • C
    21% (13)
  • F
    7% (4)

Explanation

A (Yes), D (No), and E (Yes) are correct because the backup policy satisfies Contoso's specific technical requirements - it retains 21 days of daily backups and enables instant restore within 15 minutes for the last 5 days - but it also includes extended weekly, monthly, and yearly retention tiers that go beyond what the technical requirements demand, adding unnecessary storage costs that violate the business goal of minimizing costs whenever possible (making D the right choice over C). The yearly retention tier is also precisely why E is correct: Azure Backup's file-level recovery feature lets you mount an old recovery point and restore individual files, so a file deleted a year ago is still recoverable from that yearly snapshot.

Why the distractors fail:

  • B (No) is wrong because the policy genuinely does cover the 5-day instant restore and 21-day daily backup requirements.
  • C (Yes) is wrong because keeping year-long retention when only 21 days are required contradicts the cost-minimization goal.
  • F (No) is wrong because the yearly recovery point is retained, making one-year file restoration entirely possible.

Memory tip: Separate "technical fit" from "business fit" - a policy can be technically compliant while still being financially wasteful. If retention exceeds what requirements specify, it fails the minimize-costs goal even if it checks every technical box.

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