Which configuration should you use?

Topic 1, Volume A

You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company.

You need to ensure that an OLTP database that includes up-to-the-minute reporting requirements can be off-loaded from the primary database to another server. You also need to be able to add indexes to the secondary database.

Which configuration should you use?
A . • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
B . • Two servers configured in the same data center
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
C . • Two servers configured in the same data center
• A primary server configured to perform log-shipping every 10 minutes
• A backup server configured as a warm standby
D . • Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
E . • Two servers configured on the same subnet
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
F . • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
G . • SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
H . • Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center
• SQL Server configured as a clustered instance

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Answer: F

Explanation:

Reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj542414.aspx