Question 2
You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company. You have two servers in the same data center that hosts your production database.
You need to ensure that the database remains available if a catastrophic server failure or a disk failure occurs.
You also need to maintain transactional consistency of the data across both servers.
You need to achieve these goals without manual intervention.
Which configuration should you use?
Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
Two servers configured in the same data centerA primary server configured to perform log-shipping every 10 minutes A backup server configured as a warm standby
Two servers configured in different data centersSQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode One server configured as an Active Secondary
Two servers configured in the same data centerSQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode One server configured as an Active Secondary
Two servers configured in different data centersSQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
Two servers configured on the same subnetSQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
Correct answer: H
Explanation:
Always On availability groups supports two availability modes—asynchronous-commit mode and synchronous-commit mode Synchronous-commit mode emphasizes high availability over performance, at the cost of increased transaction latency. References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/availability-modes-always-on-availability-groups#SyncCommitAvMode
Always On availability groups supports two availability modes—asynchronous-commit mode and synchronous-commit mode
Synchronous-commit mode emphasizes high availability over performance, at the cost of increased transaction latency.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/availability-modes-always-on-availability-groups#SyncCommitAvMode