What is the primary purpose of Azure Availability Zones?

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To protect applications and data from datacenter-level failures.

To replicate data to a different continent for disaster recovery.

To automatically scale virtual machines based on CPU usage.

To group resources for billing and access control.

How to approach this question

Understand the scope of an Availability Zone (datacenter level) vs a Region (geography level).

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A.To protect applications and data from datacenter-level failures.✓ Correct

Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Common mistakes

Confusing Availability Zones with Region Pairs (which protect against region-wide failures).

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