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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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Question

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)
  • A
    94% (16)
  • B
    6% (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.

AHot siteCorrect

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.

BActive/passive clustering at the same site

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.

CDisk-to-disk replication in the same server

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.

DWarm site

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

Topics

#fault tolerance#disaster recovery#replication methods#hot site

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