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DP-300 · Question #421

You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains three virtual machines that run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). You plan to implement a highly available deployment of Microsoft SQL Server…

The correct answer is C. Install the cluster resource manager and the FCI resource agent. To prepare for implementing a highly available deployment of Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on the virtual machines using failover cluster instances (FCIs), the first step you should take on each server is install the cluster resource manager and the FCI resource agent. Before…

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

Question

You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains three virtual machines that run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). You plan to implement a highly available deployment of Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on the virtual machines by using failover cluster instances (FCIs). You need to prepare for the implementation. What should you do first on each server?

Options

  • ACreate the FCI disk and network resources.
  • BInstall a named SQL Server instance.
  • CInstall the cluster resource manager and the FCI resource agent.
  • DInstall the default SQL Server instance.

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    15% (6)
  • C
    72% (28)
  • D
    10% (4)

Explanation

To prepare for implementing a highly available deployment of Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on the virtual machines using failover cluster instances (FCIs), the first step you should take on each server is install the cluster resource manager and the FCI resource agent. Before setting up a failover cluster instance, you need to ensure that the cluster infrastructure is in place. This involves installing the cluster resource manager (such as Pacemaker on Linux) and the FCI resource agent, which are essential for managing the failover clustering and ensuring high

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