SK0-003 · Question #84
Which of the following replication methods is MOST fault tolerant?
The correct answer is A. Hot site. A hot site offers the highest level of fault tolerance among the options by providing a fully equipped, continuously updated, and immediately available duplicate production environment at a separate geographic location. This setup ensures business continuity with minimal…
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Which of the following replication methods is MOST fault tolerant?
Options
- AHot site
- BActive/passive clustering at the same site
- CDisk-to-disk replication in the same server
- DWarm site
How the community answered
(17 responses)- A94% (16)
- B6% (1)
Why each option
A hot site offers the highest level of fault tolerance among the options by providing a fully equipped, continuously updated, and immediately available duplicate production environment at a separate geographic location. This setup ensures business continuity with minimal downtime in the event of a major disaster affecting the primary site.
A hot site is a fully operational, geographically separate duplicate of the primary data center, with real-time data replication and readily available infrastructure. This configuration offers the most robust fault tolerance, allowing for immediate failover and business continuity with minimal data loss and downtime in a disaster scenario.
Active/passive clustering at the same site provides high availability against component failures within that site but offers no protection against site-wide disasters like power outages, natural disasters, or fires.
Disk-to-disk replication within the same server provides data redundancy against a single disk failure but offers no protection against server failure, power outages, or site-wide disasters.
A warm site has the necessary infrastructure but requires some setup, data restoration, and configuration before it can become fully operational, resulting in a longer recovery time objective (RTO) than a hot site.
Concept tested: Disaster recovery site types
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/resiliency/recovery-readiness#recovery-site-types
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