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You need to deploy a new Microsoft SQL Server environment that meets the following requirements:
The SQL Server instance must be highly available.

There must be minimal downtime incurred during hardware failure or operating system maintenance.

All instance-level security settings and SQL Server Agent jobs must be available without additional

synchronization tasks.
What should you implement?
Correct Answer: E
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
As part of the SQL Server Always On offering, Always On Failover Cluster Instances leverages Windows
Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) functionality to provide local high availability through redundancy at the
server-instance level-a failover cluster instance (FCI). An FCI is a single instance of SQL Server that is
installed across Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) nodes and, possibly, across multiple
subnets.
When there is hardware or software failure of a server, the applications or clients connecting to the server
will experience downtime. When a SQL Server instance is configured to be an FCI (instead of a standalone
instance), the high availability of that SQL Server instance is protected by the presence of redundant
nodes in the FCI.
References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/failover-clusters/windows/always-on-failover-
cluster-instances-sql-server