Exam AZ-104 Topic 4 Question 428 Discussion

Actual exam question for Microsoft's AZ-104 exam
Question #: 428
Topic #: 4
You have an Azure virtual machine named VM1 and a Recovery Services vault named Vault1.
You create a backup Policy1 as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.) You configure the backup of VM1 to use Policy1 on Thursday, January 1.
You need to identify the number of available recovery points for VM1.
How many recovery points are available on January 8 and on January 15? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Exhibit

Exhibit

Suggested Answer:


Explanation:
Detailed Explanation
Because the backup runs Daily, one recovery point is created every day starting the day the policy takes effect (Thursday, January 1), and the daily retention rule keeps every daily recovery point for 30 days, so no recovery points have expired yet by January 8 or January 15 - every day ' s backup since January 1 is still within its 30-day daily retention window. On January 8, the policy has run once daily for January 1 through January 7 (the 8th ' s backup has not yet completed/is not yet counted as available), giving 7 available recovery points. On January 15, daily backups have run for January 1 through January 14, giving 14 available recovery points. The weekly, monthly, and yearly retention rules do not add extra distinct recovery points at this stage - they simply extend how long specific daily recovery points (the ones that also happen to fall on a qualifying Sunday, month-day, or year-day) are kept beyond 30 days; they do not create additional physical backups on non-scheduled days. This exhibit ' s exact numeric dropdown choices were not fully captured in the source material, so the reasoning above should be checked against the exhibit ' s available answer choices.
Official Reference
Configure Azure VM backups with the enhanced policy - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup
/backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy

by Galee at Oct 06, 2026, 05:44 PM

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