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AZ-900 Practice Question 42: High Availability SLA

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 5 · question 2 of 10

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An operations manager asks what "high availability" means for a workload in Azure, and how a concrete number gets attached to the promise. Which answer is correct?

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Answer:

  • C. It means resources stay available despite disruptions, with uptime set out in an SLA

High availability focuses on ensuring maximum availability, regardless of disruptions or events that may occur. The number comes from the service-level agreement: Azure is a highly available cloud environment with uptime guarantees that depend on the service, and those guarantees are part of the SLA, so "how available" is a published figure per service that you can design against, not a vague assurance.

Option A defines scalability, the ability to adjust resources to meet demand; a service can scale beautifully and still be unavailable. Option B describes data residency within a geography, which is a compliance property rather than an availability one. Option D describes cost predictability, a separate documented benefit concerned with forecasting spend rather than with uptime.

Reference: Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud

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