Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Practice Exam

What is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures?

1. Azure Datacenters

2. Availability Zones

3. Resource Groups

4. Virtual Networks

The correct answer is: Availability Zones

The correct answer is focused on the concept of Availability Zones, which are a key component of Azure's high-availability offerings. Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region that provide high availability and resilience. By distributing applications across multiple zones, you can ensure that if one zone experiences a failure, your application remains operational, leveraging resources from another zone. This architecture protects applications and data from datacenter-level failures, which is crucial for maintaining uptime and reliability in critical applications. In contrast, Azure Datacenters refer more broadly to the infrastructure that houses the resources and services, but do not specifically emphasize high availability through separation. Resource Groups, on the other hand, are primarily organizational constructs that help manage and group resources within Azure but do not inherently provide any availability guarantees. Finally, Virtual Networks enable communication between Azure resources but do not provide the redundancy or fault tolerance that Availability Zones offer.