YOU ARE CONSIDERING THE LICENSING COSTS FOR YOUR NEW HIGH-AVAILABIL...

9. You are considering the licensing costs for your new high-availability solution.

You will be using the Standard edition of Microsoft SQL Server. Which

solution has the lowest licensing costs?

A. Database mirroring

B. Replication

C. Clustering

D. Log shipping

Answer C is correct. SQL Server clustering has the lowest licensing costs

because you need to license only the active node. With the other three options

the backup machines must also be licensed.