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Deploy a Database to Meet Business Requirements

As a cloud solution architect, you will be required to design and deploy solutions to meet business requirements. Your solutions should strike a balance between requirements and align to the well-architected framework. In this hands-on lab, you will analyze business requirements and then deploy an Azure SQL Database to meet those requirements.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Sep 24, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Deploy a Database to Meet Business Requirements
    1. Deploy a single Azure SQL Database to meet the following requirements:

      • Use only Entra-based authentication
      • SLA of 99.99%
      • Storage up to 1TB, set to 10GB at deployment
      • Support up to 3000 DTUs, set to 50 DTUs at deployment
      • Backups must be geo-redundant
      • Costs must be minimized
  2. Challenge

    Verify the Business Requirements have been met
    • Confirm that the database can scale to the required capacity: 1 TB
    • Confirm that the database can scale to the required DTUs: 3000
    • Confirm the backup storage redundancy is set to: Geo-redundant backup storage
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