Azure Backup, Restore and Site Recovery
Maintenance questions test Recovery Services vaults, Backup vaults, backup policies, restore operations, Azure Site Recovery, secondary-region failover, backup alerts, and recovery reporting.
How to study for AZ-104
Treat each AZ-104 item as an admin workflow: identify the scope, resource type, access boundary, deployment method, monitoring signal, or recovery requirement.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Azure Backup, Restore and Site Recovery questions reward operational Azure administration judgment rather than simple service-name recall.
Exam cue: Identify the Azure scope: tenant, management group, subscription, resource group, resource, subnet, or identity.
Concept 2
The best answer identifies the scope, resource type, access path, deployment method, monitoring signal, and recovery requirement.
Exam cue: Match the tool to the administrative task: manage access, deploy, secure, monitor, back up, or troubleshoot.
Concept 3
Eliminate answers that confuse RBAC with policy, public access with private access, monitoring with backup, or templates with manual changes.
Exam cue: Prefer least privilege, repeatable deployment, protected storage, private networking, and validated recovery.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Using Azure Policy when the question asks who is allowed to perform an action.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that confuse RBAC with Policy, tags with network controls, dashboards with backup, or public exposure with secure private access.
Opening public access when private endpoints, service endpoints, or NSGs meet the requirement.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that confuse RBAC with Policy, tags with network controls, dashboards with backup, or public exposure with secure private access.
Assuming backup exists before checking vault, policy, retention, and restore validation.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that confuse RBAC with Policy, tags with network controls, dashboards with backup, or public exposure with secure private access.
Memory anchors
Recovery Services Vault
A Recovery Services vault stores backup and Site Recovery data for supported workloads.
Backup Vault
A Backup vault stores backup data for supported newer Azure backup scenarios.
Backup Policy
A backup policy defines schedule, retention, and protection settings.
Restore Operation
A restore operation recovers protected data or workloads from a backup point.
Azure Backup
Azure Backup protects supported Azure and hybrid workloads with managed backup capabilities.
Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery supports replication and failover for disaster recovery.
Failover
Failover moves workload operation to a recovery location during an outage or test.
Test Failover
Test failover validates recovery without disrupting production workloads.
Retention
Retention defines how long backup points are kept.
Backup Alert
Backup alerts notify teams about protection, failure, or reporting conditions.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A company must protect Azure VMs and configure Azure-to-Azure Site Recovery. Which vault type supports these workloads?
An administrator needs policy-based snapshot protection for individual Azure managed disks without backing up the entire VM. Which vault should be evaluated?
Answer all questions to submit.
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