AZ-104 Certification Practice Question #281

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You need to configure Azure Backup to back up the file shares and virtual machines.
What is the minimum number of Recovery Services vaults and backup policies you should create? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
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1. **Recovery Services Vaults (Box 1):** In Azure Backup, a vault must be in the same region as the resource it protects. Based on the case study resources, the virtual machines are distributed across three distinct regions: West US, Central US, and East US. Therefore, a minimum of **3 Recovery Services vaults** (one for each region) must be created.
2. **Backup Policies (Box 2):** A backup policy is scoped to a single Recovery Services vault and a single data source type (you cannot mix virtual machines and file shares in the same policy). Therefore, in each of the three regions/vaults, we need **2 separate backup policies** (1 for Azure VMs and 1 for Azure File Shares). This results in a total of 3 vaults × 2 policies per vault = **6 backup policies**.

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