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AZ-104 Practice Question 74: Customer Managed Failover GRS

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) · Test 8 · question 4 of 10

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The primary region of a GRS storage account has a prolonged outage. An administrator starts a customer-managed account failover so that the application can write again from the secondary region.

Which statement describes the account after the failover completes?

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Answer:

  • D. The account is LRS in the new primary region, and data written after the last sync time may be lost

Geo-replication to the secondary region is asynchronous, so a failover can lose writes made after the Last Sync Time. After an unplanned failover the account becomes locally redundant (LRS) in the new primary region, and geo-redundancy must be re-enabled afterwards.

Option A is wrong because the copy to the secondary region is asynchronous, not synchronous.

Option B is wrong because the redundancy is not restored automatically; the administrator reconfigures it.

Option C is wrong because the service endpoints of the account do not change; the DNS records are updated to point at the new primary region.

Reference: Initiate a storage account failover

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