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Which Azure VM HA configuration should an architect recommend to keep a workload available DURING A DATACENTER FAILURE within a region?
AAzure DNS round-robin
BSpread VM instances across Availability Zones (an Availability Zone deployment in a VM Scale Set or as zonal VMs)
CNo HA
DSingle-zone deployment in one datacenter
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Spread VM instances across Availability Zones (an Availability Zone deployment in a VM Scale Set or as zonal VMs)
Availability Zones are Azure's intra-region datacenter-failure protection (per AZ-305 §3 HA). The other options don't survive a DC failure.
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