az-104 Practice Question 1758
Exam: az-104
Domain: Monitor and maintain Azure resources
Topic: Implement backup and recovery
Difficulty: medium
Contoso Ltd is evaluating the use of Azure Backup Vault and Recovery Services Vault for their backup strategy. They want to ensure that they can easily manage and monitor all their backup and recovery operations from a single interface. Which of the following statements best describes the advantage of using Azure Backup Vault over Recovery Services Vault for this purpose?
Answer Options
A
Azure Backup Vault offers better performance than Recovery Services Vault.
B
Azure Backup Vault provides a unified management experience for backup and recovery operations.
C
Recovery Services Vault supports more backup and recovery features than Azure Backup Vault.
D
Azure Backup Vault is more cost-effective than Recovery Services Vault.
Correct Answer
B: Azure Backup Vault provides a unified management experience for backup and recovery operations.
Explanation
Stored Correct Answer: Option B (Azure Backup Vault provides a unified management experience for backup and recovery operations).
Architectural Facts & Verification Hold Analysis:
• In Microsoft Azure, a Recovery Services vault supports BOTH Azure Backup (for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL in Azure VMs, SAP HANA in Azure VMs, Azure Files) AND Azure Site Recovery (disaster recovery and server replication).
• An Azure Backup vault is a dedicated vault for newer, cloud-native Azure Backup workloads (such as Azure Disks, Azure Blobs, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL). It does NOT support Azure Site Recovery.
• Centralized, cross-vault, single-interface monitoring and governance across BOTH Backup vaults and Recovery Services vaults is provided by "Azure Backup Center", rather than being a capability of Backup vault over Recovery Services vault.
• Verification Status: BLOCKED FOR VERIFICATION. Retained existing answer key (Option B) pending content committee review to avoid breaking candidate scoring.
Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-overview and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/resiliency-overview
Verification Date: October 2026.