You are designing cross-region disaster recovery for an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment in North Europe. The business requires an RTO under 2 hours and an RPO under 15 minutes for user profiles. Session hosts run Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session. Which two design decisions meet the requirements with the least operational complexity? (Select two answers.)
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Correct answer: Create Azure NetApp Files volumes for FSLogix profiles and enable cross-region replication to the DR region. Provision a secondary host pool there and, during failover, break replication and mount the volumes to the session hosts., Replicate the golden image to the DR region using Azure Compute Gallery and pre-provision a secondary host pool with session hosts kept in drain mode..
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The first correct option meets the RPO and RTO for user profiles. Azure NetApp Files (ANF) cross-region replication provides an RPO of under 10 minutes and an RTO of under 2 hours, aligning with the requirements. Breaking replication and mounting volumes is a standard failover procedure. The second correct option addresses the session host availability. Replicating the golden image via Azure Compute Gallery ensures the necessary image is available in the DR region. Pre-provisioning a secondary host pool with hosts in drain mode allows for rapid activation during a disaster, meeting the RTO. Azure Files Standard with GRS has a higher RPO than 15 minutes for large filesystems and automatic account failover is not suitable for active-active or rapid failover scenarios with FSLogix. Azure Site Recovery is not designed for replicating ANF volumes; ANF has its own built-in replication. Availability zones provide high availability within a region, not cross-region disaster recovery.
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