What should you recommend?

Topic 3, Contoso, Ltd.Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a national scientific research company that has sales, marketing, and research departments.

Contoso has a main office in Dallas and more than 20 satellite offices across the United States. Some employees work off-site at customer locations.

Contoso is expected to double in size during the next two years.

Existing Environment

The Microsoft SQL Server environment contains the servers configured as shown in the following table.

Contoso currently uses SQL Server 2008 R2 on all of the database servers. SQL01 currently

requires six cores and 50 GB of memory. Once a day, database snapshots are taken on the mirror to provide ad hoc reporting and to load the data warehouse.

One report is used for ad hoc reporting by using the mirrored copy of the OLTP database. Research Gen II is a Windows application that users currently access by using Remote Desktop.

Requirements

Business Goals

Contoso identifies the following business goals:

Planned changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

Departmental Requirements

Senior research project leaders must be able to upload databases to the cloud. Initially, the databases will be less than 3 GB. Some databases may grow to 50 GB. The databases must be recoverable to any point during the past two weeks.

The research project leaders must monitor the performance of their databases. They must view statistics, such as query performance and overall database performance.

The marketing department plans to use cloud services to host web applications for marketing campaigns.

The databases for the web applications have the requirements shown in the following table.

Technical Requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

A solution for the data warehouse system must be created to provide disaster recovery between SQL03 and an Azure virtual machine named SQL04. You are designing the data warehouse. You need to recommend a solution that meets the business goals and the technical requirements.

What should you recommend?
A . Create an AlwaysOn availability group between SQL03 and SQL04.
B . Host the data warehouse on an Azure virtual machine.
C . Create an Azure HDInsight cluster.
D . Create an Azure DocumentDB database.

View Answer

Answer: A