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Exam AZ900 Topics: architecture Difficulty: medium

A fintech's transaction platform runs in an Azure region that is paired. During an onboarding session, a new compliance officer asks what Microsoft's region-pairing design provides. Which statement is accurate?

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  1. A. Only one region in a pair can host customer workloads, because Microsoft reserves the second region for failover
  2. B. Azure staggers planned updates across a region pair, rolling them out to one region at a time to reduce downtime risk
  3. C. Deploying resources to a region in a pair automatically replicates them to the paired region and provides automatic failover
  4. D. Paired regions are located in different geographies, so replication crosses compliance borders by design
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Correct answer: Azure staggers planned updates across a region pair, rolling them out to one region at a time to reduce downtime risk

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-paired

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