Exam AZ-900 topic 1 question 341 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's AZ-900

Question #: 341
Topic #: 1

You have an Azure application that uses the services shown in the following table.

How should you calculate the composite SLA for the application?

A. 0.999 * 0.9999 = 0.9989001 = 99.89001%
B. 0.999 / 0.9999 = 0.9991 = 99.91%
C. Max(0.999, 0.9999) = 0.9999 = 99.99%
D. Min(0.999, 0.9999) = 0.999 = 99.9%

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
Composite SLAs involve multiple services supporting an application, each with differing levels of availability. For example, consider an App Service web app that writes to Azure SQL Database. At the time of this writing, these Azure services have the following SLAs:
✑ App Service web apps = 99.95%
✑ SQL Database = 99.99%
What is the maximum downtime you would expect for this application? If either service fails, the whole application fails. The probability of each service failing is independent, so the composite SLA for this application is 99.95% ֳ— 99.99% = 99.94%. That's lower than the individual SLAs, which isn't surprising because an application that relies on multiple services has more potential failure points.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reliability/requirements#understand-service-level-agreements

by akp1000 at Jan. 16, 2022, 9:52 a.m.