Another question has wrong possible correct answer

[Sungpill Han]

Your company eCommerce website is deployed in an Azure virtual machine named TD-BGC.

You created a backup of the TD-BGC and implemented the following changes:

– Change the local admin password.

– Create and attach a new disk.

– Resize the virtual machine.

– Copy the log reports to the data disk.

You received an email that the admin restore the TD-BGC using the replace existing configuration.

Which of the following options should you perform to bring back the changes in TD-BGC?

The answer is admin password because the backup will restore OS drive.

Resizing VM machine is the property of Azure, so it will not change.

Since, the new disk is attached and the logs are copied to the disk, and the backup does’t have any backup point to the disk, the disk will stay if the new disk is the data disk.

If the answer should be log reports, then the question should have stated ‘existing deta disk’. But again even that is true, local admin password is gone too because OS disk is replaced.

[Irene-TutorialsDojo]

Hello Sungpill Han,

Thanks for raising your concern.

When an administrator restores a virtual machine using the Replace existing option, Azure Backup replaces the OS disk (and any backed-up data disks) from the selected recovery point while keeping the VM’s current configuration settings—such as the VM size and local administrator password—unchanged.

Any changes made after the backup point, including attaching a new disk or copying log files to it, are not included in the restore because they were not part of the recovery point. As a result, the log reports must be copied back to the data disk to restore the latest changes.

We hope this answers your query. Please let us know if you have any further questions or need additional clarification.

Cheers,

Irene @ Tutorials Dojo