Design a Business Continuity Strategy (15-20%)

Design a Site Recovery Strategy

Read the Azure Site Recovery Overview and Design a recovery solution articles.

Topic	Link
design a recovery solution	About Site Recovery
	General questions about Azure Site Recovery
design a site recovery replication policy	Configure and manage replication policies for VMware disaster recovery
design for site recovery capacity	Plan capacity and scaling for VMware disaster recovery to Azure
design for storage replication	Design site failover and failback (planned/unplanned)
design site failover and failback	Fail over and reprotect Azure VMs between regions
	Failback of VMware VMs after disaster recovery to Azure
design the site recovery Network	Read all sections of: About networking in Azure VM disaster recovery
recommend recovery objectives (Azure, on-prem, hybrid, Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Level Objective (RLO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO))	About Site Recovery
	Overview of the resiliency pillar
identify resources that require site recovery	Identify resources that require site recovery
identify supported and unsupported workloads	Visit Azure Site Recovery documentation and search for “support” to review all support matrices
recommend a geographical distribution strategy	Move Azure VMs to another region
Experiential Learning	Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
	Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
	Design your site recovery solution in Azure

Design for High Availability

Read the following to prepare for this section of the exam:

Overview of the resiliency pillar

Resiliency checklist for specific Azure services

Using business metrics to design resilient Azure applications

Testing Azure applications for resiliency and availability

• design for application redundancy
• design for autoscaling
• design for data center and fault domain redundancy
• design for network redundancy
• identify resources that require high availability
• identify storage types for high availability
• design a disaster recovery strategy for individual workloads
• design failover/failback scenarios
• document recovery requirements
• identify resources that require backup
• recommend a geographic availability strategy

Design a Data Archiving Strategy

Topic	Link
recommend storage types and methodology for data archiving	Azure Blob storage: hot, cool, and archive access tiers
identify business compliance requirements for data archiving	Azure Storage compliance offerings
identify requirements for data archiving	Backup and archive SOlution Architectures
identify SLA(s) for data archiving	SLA for Storage Accounts
	Azure Blob storage: hot, cool, and archive access tiers

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