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DP-300 · Question #215

Your company has an Azure SQL Database instance. This database is going to be added to a failover group. It has to be ensured that the database becomes available as quickly as possible if a major…

The correct answer is A. If a dataceter or Azure regional outage does occur , then the databases can fail over automatically. D. If an outage does occur, you can set a different grace period to fail over each database. If you set the Read/Write failover policy as Automatic, in the event of a datacenter or Azure regional outage, the databases will failover automatically. For Automatic failover, you can also set the Read/Write grace period as shown below. Option B is incorrect because this is…

Submitted by kim_seoul· Mar 6, 2026Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) environment

Question

Your company has an Azure SQL Database instance. This database is going to be added to a failover group. It has to be ensured that the database becomes available as quickly as possible if a major outage occurs. The Read/Write failover policy is set to Automatic. Which of the following can occur as a result of this configuration? (Select TWO)

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Options

  • AIf a dataceter or Azure regional outage does occur , then the databases can fail over automatically.
  • BIf an outage does occur , then the databases in the primary instance can fail over immediately.
  • CIf an outage does occur, you can selectively failover databases
  • DIf an outage does occur, you can set a different grace period to fail over each database.

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    74% (29)
  • B
    8% (3)
  • C
    18% (7)

Explanation

If you set the Read/Write failover policy as Automatic, in the event of a datacenter or Azure regional outage, the databases will failover automatically. For Automatic failover, you can also set the Read/Write grace period as shown below. Option B is incorrect because this is based on a dataceter or Azure regional outage Option C is incorrect since the policy is set as Automatic, so the databases can't be failed over https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/auto-failover-group- overview?tabs=azure-powershell

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