Knowledge check

  • 3 minutes

Your company has critical virtual machine workloads running on Azure. You're using Azure Backup and other Azure services to help protect your virtual machines. You're tasked with developing a configuration plan to recover virtual machines and backup items. A few teams have submitted configuration requirements and questions for your consideration:

  • The infrastructure team has a mix of Azure virtual machines running production workloads, including Windows Servers and Linux servers.

  • The Engineering team has requested backup support for their development database disks.

  • You're researching how backups in a soft delete state can be restored to recover from machine failures.

Answer the following questions

Choose the best response for each of the following questions. Then select Check your answers.

1.

What's the best backup method for the company's production virtual machines?

2.

Which option should you recommend to back up the Engineering database disks?

3.

A recent malware attack deleted several virtual machine backups. How long are backup items available in a soft delete state?