Exam AZ-140 topic 5 question 14 discussion

Only D?

To meet the disaster recovery requirements for your Azure Virtual Desktop host pool, you should enable Azure Site Recovery replication of the virtual machines to the West US region (Option D). This solution allows you to replicate your VMs to another region and manually initiate failover in the event of a disaster, ensuring minimal downtime.

C To set up disaster recovery for Azure Virtual Desktop with "minimal failover times" and "manual initiation", creating a secondary host pool in the West US region is the best option. Having a pre-configured host pool in the secondary region allows users to access the failover environment with minimal delay, as the infrastructure is already in place and does not need to be restored or replicated in real-time. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery-concepts

C. Create an additional host pool in the West US region Explanation: To meet the disaster recovery requirements, you should set up a separate host pool in the West US region. Users can then be configured to connect to either the East US or West US resources through a single feed URL, ensuring they see just one icon in their Remote Desktop client. In case of a disaster, failover can be manually initiated by an administrator, and since the resources are pre-configured, failover times will be minimized.

ChatGPT chose D, assuming one answer: "To implement a disaster recovery solution for your Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) host pool that meets the specified requirements, you can utilize Azure Traffic Manager for traffic routing and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for disaster recovery failover."

D. Enable Azure Site Recovery replication of the virtual machines to the West US region

Needs to be the same icon, a 2nd hostpool will give you a 2nd workspace and appgroup.

Correct Answer is D Active-passive plans are when you have a region with one set of resources that's active and one that's turned off until it's needed (passive). If the active region is taken offline by an outage or disaster, the organization can switch to the passive region by turning it on and directing all the users there. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery

Answer is B - Having an additional session host in the same pool meets the single icon criteria. The additional host can be put into drain mode (and off) until required and immediately available in the event a host is required in West US. "Must be intiated manually" is also met, as all an admin needs to do is turn on the VM. There is nothing suggesting that the East US region DC is unavailable, so the hostpool resource will still be usable. There is also no mention of minimizing administrative effort so, albeit this is an admin overhead, it meets all the requirements. This is known as an Active-Passive BCDR plan. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery-concepts#disaster-recovery-for-shared-host-pools

Only D. C is incorrect because a single icon in the Remote Desktop client is required. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery

It's C. A Second Host Pool = another icon. From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery you have the option to build the VMs ahead of time and keep them powered off. You can also choose to only provision new VMs in the secondary region while a disaster is happening. If you choose these methods, you'll only need to set up one host pool and its related app groups and workspaces

This one is D&E. RSV for ASR needs to be deployed in failover region . Post deployment then need to enable VM's for replication.

There is no need for C, the users need a single icon...

see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/disaster-recovery

Yeah, the answers are right... but the question was kind of confusing due to it didn't specify you could choose more than one option. C and D.

C and D is right. C is needed as the statement says users need an icon with both East and West US, for that you need 2 hp's