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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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- 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)- A61% (37)
- B11% (7)
- C21% (13)
- F7% (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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