Exam 70-765 topic 3 question 36 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's 70-765

Question #: 36
Topic #: 3

You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company. You have two servers in the same data center that hosts your production database.
You need to ensure that the database remains available if a catastrophic server failure or a disk failure occurs.
You also need to maintain transactional consistency of the data across both servers.
You need to achieve these goals without manual intervention.
Which configuration should you use?

A. Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
B. SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
C. Two servers configured in the same data center A primary server configured to perform log-shipping every 10 minutes A backup server configured as a warm standby
D. Two servers configured in different data centers SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode One server configured as an Active Secondary
E. Two servers configured in the same data center SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode One server configured as an Active Secondary
F. Two servers configured in different data centers SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
G. SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
H. Two servers configured on the same subnet

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Suggested Answer: H 🗳️
Always On availability groups supports two availability modesasynchronous-commit mode and synchronous-commit mode
Synchronous-commit mode emphasizes high availability over performance, at the cost of increased transaction latency.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/availability-modes-always-on-availability- groups#SyncCommitAvMode

by Kashif at Aug. 26, 2019, 8:20 a.m.

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Varad

Highly Voted 5 years, 8 months ago

H. Two servers configured on the same subnet SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode

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Eric163

Most Recent 5 years, 2 months ago

How about option B with a peer-to-peer replication?

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Hoglet

4 years, 5 months ago

B, Replication does not meet the following requirement "You need to ensure that the database remains available if a catastrophic server failure or a disk failure occurs"

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Kashif

5 years, 10 months ago

h is the right answer but h is not complete written

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