Azure DevOps Academy · Disaster Recovery Center

Failover Exercise

Plan and execute controlled failover testing for infrastructure and services.

Objective: Prove that failover procedures work without unacceptable risk.

Practical guidance

Prepare and design

01

Define scope and success criteria

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02

Confirm roles, approvals and rollback

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03

Prepare monitoring and communications

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Practical guidance

Operate and improve

01

Execute failover and validation

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02

Measure recovery timings

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03

Restore normal operation safely

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Practical guidance

Evidence and governance

01

Document findings

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02

Assign corrective actions

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03

Update runbooks and architecture

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