You plan to migrate on-premises Microsoft SQL Server databases to Azure.
You need to identify which deployment and resiliency options meet the following requirements:
Support user-initiated backups.
Support multiple automatically replicated instances across Azure regions.
Minimize administrative effort to implement and maintain business continuity.
What should you identify? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Box 1: SQL Server on Azure VMs
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can take advantage of Automated Backup, which regularly creates backups of your database to blob storage. You can also manually use this technique.
Box 2: Active geo-replication
Geo-replication for services such as Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB will create secondary replicas of your data across multiple regions. While both services will automatically replicate data within the same region, geo-replication protects you against a regional outage by enabling you to fail over to a secondary region.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/virtual-machines/windows/sql-server-on-azure-vm-iaas-what-is
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/cloud-native/infrastructure-resiliency-azure

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You have an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server 2016 server named Server1 that contains a database named DB1.
You need to perform an online migration of DB1 to an Azure SQL Database managed instance by using Azure Database Migration Service.
How should you configure the backup of DB1? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE:Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Box 1: Full and log backups only
Make sure to take every backup on a separate backup media (backup files). Azure Database Migration Service doesn't support backups that are appended to a single backup file. Take full backup and log backups to separate backup files.
Box 2: WITH CHECKSUM
Azure Database Migration Service uses the backup and restore method to migrate your on-premises databases to SQL Managed Instance. Azure Database Migration Service only supports backups created using checksum.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dms/known-issues-azure-sql-db-managed-instance-online

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HOTSPOT
You have an Azure SQL database that contains a table named Customer. Customer has the columns shown in the following table.

You plan to implement a dynamic data mask for the Customer_Phone column. The mask must meet the following requirements:
* The first six numerals of each customer's phone number must be masked.
* The last four digits of each customer's phone number must be visible.
* Hyphens must be preserved and displayed.
How should you configure the dynamic data mask? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Hot Area:

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Section: [none]
Explanation:
Box 1: 0
Custom String : Masking method that exposes the first and last letters and adds a custom padding string in the middle. prefix,[padding],suffix Box 2: xxx-xxx Box 3: 5 Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/dynamic-data-masking

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You need to recommend a configuration for ManufacturingSQLDb1 after the migration to Azure. The solution must meet the business requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Scenario: Business Requirements
Litware identifies business requirements include: meet an SLA of 99.99% availability for all Azure deployments.
Box 1: Cloud witness
If you have a Failover Cluster deployment, where all nodes can reach the internet (by extension of Azure), it is recommended that you configure a Cloud Witness as your quorum witness resource.
Box 2: Azure Basic Load Balancer
Microsoft guarantees that a Load Balanced Endpoint using Azure Standard Load Balancer, serving two or more Healthy Virtual Machine Instances, will be available 99.99% of the time.
Note: There are two main options for setting up your listener: external (public) or internal. The external (public) listener uses an internet facing load balancer and is associated with a public Virtual IP (VIP) that is accessible over the internet. An internal listener uses an internal load balancer and only supports clients within the same Virtual Network.
Reference:
https://technet.microsoft.com/windows-server-docs/failover-clustering/deploy-cloud-witness
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/load-balancer/v1_0/

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You have SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine named SQL1.
SQL1 has an agent job to back up all databases.
You add a user named dbadmin1 as a SQL Server Agent operator.
You need to ensure that dbadmin1 receives an email alert if a job fails.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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Step 1: Enable the email settings for the SQL Server Agent.
To send a notification in response to an alert, you must first configure SQL Server Agent to send mail.
Step 2: Create a job alert
Step 3: Create a job notification
Example:
-- adds an e-mail notification for the specified alert (Test Alert)
-- This example assumes that Test Alert already exists
-- and that Francois Ajenstat is a valid operator name.
USE msdb ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_add_notification
@alert_name = N'Test Alert',
@operator_name = N'Francois Ajenstat',
@notification_method = 1 ;
GO
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/agent/notify-an-operator-of-job-status
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/agent/assign-alerts-to-an-operator

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