Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery is a disaster-recovery service that replicates workloads to a secondary region and orchestrates failover. AZ-305 covers it when designing backup and disaster-recovery solutions that meet recovery objectives.

All AZ-305 Terms

Azure Well-Architected Framework

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets — reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency — for designing quality Azure workloads.

Cloud Adoption Framework

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is guidance covering strategy, planning, migration, and governance for adopting Azure.

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud identity and access management service, formerly Azure Active Directory.

Managed identity

A managed identity is a Microsoft Entra identity automatically managed by Azure that lets a resource authenticate to services without storing credentials.

Azure Policy

Azure Policy is a governance service that enforces organizational rules and evaluates resources for compliance.

Management group

A management group is an Azure container above subscriptions used to apply governance such as policy and access across many subscriptions.

Availability zone

An availability zone is a physically separate location within an Azure region with independent power, cooling, and networking, used to build highly available solutions.

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery is a disaster-recovery service that replicates workloads to a secondary region and orchestrates failover.

Recovery objectives

Recovery objectives are the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) that quantify acceptable downtime and data loss.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database with tunable consistency and low-latency access.

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform-as-a-service relational database.

Storage account

A storage account is an Azure resource that provides a namespace for blob, file, queue, and table data with configurable redundancy.

Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate is a hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises servers, databases, and applications to Azure.

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a service for securely storing and controlling access to secrets, keys, and certificates.