AZ104-Q: receive and investigate backup failures
A backup administrator needs notification when a protected workload’s backup job fails and wants to see trends in job success and protected instances across vaults. Which design best meets the requirement?
- A) Create an NSG rule and inspect VM guest logs weekly.
- B) Use Azure Monitor-based Backup alerts routed through an action group, and send vault diagnostic data to Log Analytics for Backup Reports. ✓
- C) Grant the administrator Owner at every subscription.
- D) Enable Site Recovery for every VM.
Answer: B. Azure Monitor-based alerts provide timely failure notification; Log Analytics and Backup Reports support cross-estate trend and job analysis.
Why not the others: NSGs do not monitor backups. Owner is unrelated. Site Recovery is disaster-recovery replication, not normal backup reporting.