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Difficulty: MediumAzure Virtual Machines and Azure Virtual Desktop

An organization is planning to migrate its IT training workloads and student remote lab environments to Azure. The migration must meet the following requirements:

* Provide IT instructors with full administrative access to the operating system and hypervisor to run custom nested virtualization environments.
* Provide 500 remote students with simultaneous access to a shared Windows 11 desktop environment running academic applications, while minimizing costs.

Which two Azure services should the organization deploy to meet these requirements? (Select two.)

  1. Azure Virtual Machines to host the instructor workloadsAnswer
  2. Azure Virtual Desktop to host the student desktop sessionsAnswer
  3. C
    Azure Container Instances to host the instructor workloads
  4. D
    Azure Virtual Machine scale sets running standard Windows 11 Pro to host the student desktop sessions

Answer

Azure Virtual Machines to host the instructor workloads, and Azure Virtual Desktop to host the student desktop sessions.
Deploying Azure Virtual Machines provides the necessary IaaS control, including administrative access to the operating system and hypervisor required for nested virtualization. Implementing Azure Virtual Desktop provides multi-session Windows 11 hosting, enabling multiple students to connect concurrently to the same virtual machine to share resources and control costs.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the IT instructor requirement.
The instructors require full administrative access to the operating system and the hypervisor for nested virtualization.
This is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) requirement met by Azure Virtual Machines, which allow full OS configuration.
2
Analyze the remote student requirement.
The students require simultaneous access to a shared Windows 11 desktop environment.
Windows 11 multi-session capability is a specific feature of Azure Virtual Desktop that allows multiple users to share compute resources, reducing hosting costs.

Key Concept

Azure Virtual Machines provides full virtualized OS control (IaaS), while Azure Virtual Desktop enables centralized multi-session desktop hosting.
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