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Difficulty: MediumAzure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

A logistics company needs to provide a secure environment for its external claims adjusters to access a desktop-based claims processing application from their personal devices. They also need to migrate a legacy database workload that requires administrative access for custom operating system patches. Which two statements are correct regarding the use of Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop in this scenario? (Select two.)

  1. Azure Virtual Desktop supports multi-session Windows 11 configurations, which allows multiple claims adjusters to sign in and share a single host virtual machine concurrently.Answer
  2. Azure Virtual Machines are appropriate for the database workload because they provide the company with full administrative access to the operating system to install custom patches.Answer
  3. C
    The claims adjusters can run concurrent multi-session Windows 11 environments on standard Azure Virtual Machines without deploying Azure Virtual Desktop.
  4. D
    Microsoft automatically manages and applies operating system updates and patches for the virtual machines hosting the legacy database.
  5. E
    To handle a variable number of claims adjusters, Azure Virtual Desktop relies on vertical scaling (scaling up the size of a single VM) rather than horizontal scaling (scaling out by adding more VM instances).

Answer

Azure Virtual Desktop supports multi-session Windows 11 configurations, which allows multiple claims adjusters to sign in and share a single host virtual machine concurrently. Also, Azure Virtual Machines are appropriate for the database workload because they provide the company with full administrative access to the operating system to install custom patches.
The correct statements recognize that Azure Virtual Desktop uniquely supports multi-session Windows 11 configurations to allow multiple users to concurrently share VM resources, and that Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS) provide full administrative control to manage and patch the operating system.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the claims adjuster requirement.
Claims adjusters require secure desktop access to an application from their personal devices. This fits Azure Virtual Desktop, which supports cost-effective multi-session Windows 11 configurations.
Azure Virtual Desktop is specifically designed for remote desktop virtualization and supports multi-session client operating systems.
2
Analyze the database migration requirement.
The database workload requires custom OS patches and full administrative control. This fits Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS).
Azure Virtual Machines are an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resource where the customer has full administrative access and responsibility for OS patching.

Key Concept

Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop capabilities and their alignment with the shared responsibility model.
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