Which correctly distinguishes Azure Backup from Azure Site Recovery (ASR)?
A.Backup = failover orchestration; ASR = long-term retention
Roles are reversed — Backup restores data, ASR fails over workloads.
B.Backup = point-in-time restore for data loss/corruption; ASR = replication + failover to keep workloads running during regional outage
Correct — data protection vs business continuity.
C.They are interchangeable — both do both
Different tools for different failure modes.
D.ASR works only for on-premises VMs
ASR supports Azure-to-Azure and hybrid replication.
Why this answer
Backup answers 'my data is gone/corrupt — restore a copy' (RPO hours, retention weeks-years). ASR answers 'my region is down — fail the app over elsewhere' (RPO seconds-minutes, RTO minutes). They complement each other — most production workloads need both.
Correct answer: B · Last reviewed 2026-02-14
Official AWS references
Practice this interactively
Answer without seeing the solution first in the Monitoring & Backup practice session.
Practice Monitoring & Backup