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You are deploying a Microsoft SQL Server architecture to support a new mission-critical application. The application includes a dedicated reporting component that performs read-only operations against the application’s databases.
You need to implement a solution that meets the following requirements:
• Provide maximum uptime for the databases.
• Include automatic failover in the event of a hardware problem on the primary server.
• Separate the reporting workload from the read/write transactional processing workload and contain real-time data.
Modifications to the application to support the new architecture are not permitted.
What should you implement?
A. a Microsoft Azure Stretch Database
B. log shipping
C. an Always On Availability Group with all replicas in synchronous-commit mode
D. a file share witness
E. a SQL Server failover cluster instance (FCI)
F. a Windows Cluster with a shared-nothing architecture
G. an Always On Availability group with secondary replicas in asynchronous-commit mode
