AZ104-Q: Azure Backup vs Site Recovery
Q: Which service provides disaster recovery (ongoing replication of VMs to a secondary region and failover/failback) rather than on-demand point-in-time backups?
- A) Azure Backup
- B) Azure Files
- C) Azure Site Recovery ✓
- D) Azure Resource Manager
Answer: C — Azure Site Recovery. Azure Backup does scheduled point-in-time backups for restore. Azure Site Recovery provides continuous replication + orchestrated failover/failback for disaster recovery (DR). The question’s keywords — “secondary region”, “failover” — point to Site Recovery. (Both use a Recovery Services vault.)
Why it helps
Backup = point-in-time copies to restore. Site Recovery = DR replication + failover. This contrast is tested.
Related
azure-backup · azure-site-recovery · recovery-services-vault