AZ-104 Certification Practice Question #269

Question

You have an Azure virtual machine named VM1 and a Recovery Services vault named Vault1.
You create a backup policy named Policy1 as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

You configure the backup of VM1 to use Policy1 on Thursday, January 1 at 1:00 AM.
You need to identify the number of available recovery points for VM1.
How many recovery points are available on January 8 and January 15? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Accepted Answer

In Azure Backup, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backup policies are evaluated against the same recovery points. When multiple policies apply to the same day, they flag the same recovery point rather than creating separate duplicates.
1. **On January 8 at 2:00 PM:** The daily policy retains the last 5 days (Jan 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8). The weekly policy retains Sunday (Jan 4), which is already included in the daily count. The monthly policy retains the backup from Jan 2. The yearly backup (Jan 9) has not run yet. This yields 5 daily + 1 monthly = **6** recovery points.
2. **On January 15 at 2:00 PM:** The daily policy retains the last 5 days (Jan 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15). The weekly policy retains Sunday Jan 11 (already in daily count) and Sunday Jan 4. The monthly policy retains Jan 2. The yearly policy retains Jan 9. This yields 5 daily + 1 weekly (Jan 4) + 1 monthly (Jan 2) + 1 yearly (Jan 9) = **8** recovery points.

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