az-900 Practice Question 559
Exam: az-900
Domain: Describe cloud concepts
Topic: Describe cloud computing
Difficulty: medium
What is guaranteed in an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA) for virtual machines?\nA. uptime\nB. feature availability\nC. bandwidth\nD. performance
Answer Options
A
uptime
B
feature availability
C
bandwidth
D
performance
Correct Answer
A: uptime
Explanation
The SLA for virtual machines guarantees 'uptime'. The amount of uptime guaranteed depends on factors such as whether the VMs are in an\navailability set or availability zone if there is more than one VM, the distribution of the VMs if there is more than one or the disk type if it is a\nsingle VM.\nThe SLA for Virtual Machines states:\n✑ For all Virtual Machines that have two or more instances deployed across two or more Availability Zones in the same Azure region, we\nguarantee you will have\nVirtual Machine Connectivity to at least one instance at least 99.99% of the time.\n✑ For all Virtual Machines that have two or more instances deployed in the same Availability Set or in the same Dedicated Host Group, we\nguarantee you will have Virtual Machine Connectivity to at least one instance at least 99.95% of the time.\n✑ For any Single Instance Virtual Machine using Premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all Operating System Disks and Data Disks, we guarantee you\nwill have Virtual\nMachine Connectivity of at least 99.9%.