Design Infrastructure Solutions
360 questions
An enterprise is modernizing a global HR SaaS application. The application consists of two main tiers:
1. A web application tier (HTTP/HTTPS) that requires SSL/TLS termination, URL path-based routing (e.g., routing `/benefits/*` and `/payroll/*` to different backend pools), and global optimization to route users to the closest region (either East US or West Europe).
2. A background data-sync tier that communicates using a custom TCP protocol on port 9090, requiring high-throughput regional layer 4 load balancing in the East US region.
The existing virtual machines for the background data-sync tier in East US are configured with Basic SKU Public IP addresses.
You need to design the application load balancing and delivery solution to meet these requirements while preventing configuration validation errors.
Which of the following actions should you recommend? (Select TWO.)
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A company named Zephyr Retail is designing a network security solution for an Azure virtual network subnet named ProcessingSubnet. Virtual machines in ProcessingSubnet must be able to securely access Azure Storage and Azure Key Vault in the same Azure region. All other outbound access to the public internet must be blocked. The solution must minimize administrative overhead and ensure that network rules do not require manual updates when Azure service IP ranges change. Which configuration should you recommend for the Network Security Group (NSG) associated with ProcessingSubnet?
An organization plans to migrate its legacy inventory management application to Azure. The current workload runs on physical bare-metal servers hosting Windows Server . The application uses a backend Microsoft SQL Server instance containing multiple databases that rely on SQL Server Agent jobs and cross-database queries.
You need to design a migration assessment and transition strategy that meets the following requirements:
1. Identify and map all network dependencies, process communication paths, and ports across the physical servers using Azure Migrate.
2. Recommend a fully managed Azure SQL database hosting option that natively supports SQL Server Agent and cross-database queries.
3. Configure a hybrid identity synchronization method that allows on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) users to authenticate to Azure resources without deploying any on-premises federation servers.
Which combination of solutions should you recommend?
An enterprise is designing an Azure hub-and-spoke virtual network topology to support their internal workloads. The topology is configured as follows:
* The hub virtual network, `vnet-hub-core`, has an address space of and hosts an Azure Firewall at .
* A spoke virtual network, `vnet-spoke-app`, has an address space of and contains a subnet named `subnet-app` ().
* A second spoke virtual network, `vnet-spoke-shared`, has an address space of .
* Both spoke virtual networks are peered directly with `vnet-hub-core`. Spoke-to-spoke peering is not configured.
To meet corporate security policies, all traffic originating from `subnet-app` that is destined for the Internet, `vnet-spoke-shared`, and `vnet-hub-core` must be routed through the Azure Firewall for inspection.
An administrator associates a route table with `subnet-app` containing the following custom routes:
* Route 1: Address prefix , Next hop: Virtual appliance ()
* Route 2: Address prefix , Next hop: Virtual appliance ()
Which routing behavior will occur for traffic originating from `subnet-app`?
A shipping logistics company is designing an Azure compute solution for its new transit tracking application. The application consists of two main components:
1. Real-time Route Calculator: A stateful service that runs continuously to update delivery estimates. It requires stable, predictable CPU performance and must meet a strict service level agreement (SLA) for uptime.
2. Historical Analytics Processor: A processing job that runs nightly to analyze route efficiency. The job can be interrupted and resumed without impact, and minimizing compute cost is the highest priority.
Which of the following compute virtualization configurations should you recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
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A company named Aetheris Manufacturing is designing the network security architecture for a new web application. The application runs on Azure Virtual Machines deployed in a subnet named AppSubnet within a virtual network named VNet1. The application requires access to an Azure SQL Database and must retrieve configuration secrets from an Azure Key Vault. The application must also authenticate users using Microsoft Entra ID. You need to design a security solution that meets the following requirements:
- Restrict all outbound internet access from AppSubnet, except for the traffic required for Microsoft Entra ID authentication and Azure Key Vault access.
- Ensure the virtual machines access the Azure SQL Database using private IP addresses.
- Minimize the administrative and operational effort required to maintain network security rules.
- Avoid manually defining and updating public IP address ranges in network security rules.
Which two actions should you include in the design?
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An enterprise is modernizing a media streaming platform in Azure. The system consists of two primary endpoints:
1. A management API endpoint that receives HTTP/HTTPS control messages on port 443. The API requires URL path-based routing (e.g., `/stream/start` vs `/stream/stop`) and SSL/TLS termination.
2. A real-time video stream ingestion endpoint that receives continuous UDP traffic on port 8080.
The backend virtual machines (VMs) processing both workloads are deployed within a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) across multiple Availability Zones for high availability. To reduce costs, the networking team proposes deploying:
* An Azure Application Gateway (Standard v2) to load balance the HTTP/HTTPS management API.
* A Basic SKU Azure Load Balancer to load balance the UDP streaming traffic.
Why will the proposed load balancing configuration fail to deploy?
A company plans to migrate its on-premises environment to Azure. The environment consists of ten virtual machines running on a Nutanix AHV cluster, four physical servers running Oracle Solaris, and a Microsoft SQL Server 2016 failover cluster instance hosting databases that utilize cross-database queries. You need to design a migration assessment and dependency mapping strategy. The strategy must discover all server workloads, assess their readiness, identify all network and application dependencies, and identify the correct database migration target while preserving database features. Which two actions should you include in the strategy? Choose two.
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A retail company is designing a serverless architecture for a new inventory management system. The architecture must support two workloads:
1. A public-facing REST API that serves product catalog details, which experiences unpredictable traffic spikes and must minimize costs by scaling to zero during idle periods.
2. A nightly batch synchronization job that updates inventory levels from an external warehouse database, which runs to completion, takes up to 45 minutes to execute, and requires a custom runtime environment.
To minimize administrative overhead and runtime hosting costs, which hosting configuration should you recommend?
An enterprise is designing a hub-and-spoke virtual network topology in Azure. The hub virtual network, `vnet-hub-central`, uses the IP address space and hosts an Azure Firewall at . There are two spoke virtual networks: `vnet-app-prod` () and `vnet-db-prod` (). Both spokes are peered directly to `vnet-hub-central`. You need to ensure that all network traffic between `vnet-app-prod` and `vnet-db-prod` is routed through the Azure Firewall for security inspection, while ensuring that resources within `vnet-app-prod` can communicate with each other directly without routing local traffic through the firewall. Which two configurations should you implement? (Select two.)
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A financial services company is designing the Azure compute virtualization solution for a new core payment processing application. The application will run continuously () and requires a highly available infrastructure with a SLA. Due to strict regulatory compliance, the application must run on isolated physical hardware dedicated to the company, and the virtual machines require a high memory-to-vCPU ratio to support caching massive transaction tables. Which compute solution should you recommend to meet these requirements?
You are conducting an architectural review for a smart city traffic monitoring system. The system requires two primary workloads to be hosted in Azure:
1. A public API endpoint for transit queries that experiences severe traffic spikes during rush hours and long periods of inactivity overnight. To optimize cost, it must scale to zero instances when idle.
2. A background analytics worker that processes traffic camera footage. Each execution is triggered by a file upload, runs a custom computer vision model, and takes up to 20 minutes to complete.
To meet these requirements with the lowest operational overhead and cost, which two components should you include in your design? (Select TWO.)
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An organization plans to migrate a legacy three-tier web application hosted on-premises on a Hyper-V failover cluster to Azure. The application database tier consists of two Microsoft SQL Server virtual machines that execute cross-database queries. The application tier has strict low-latency requirements for database communication. The company wants to implement Microsoft Entra ID for hybrid identity but does not have any regulatory or technical requirements for federated authentication methods.
Which two actions should you include in the migration assessment and strategy? (Choose two.)
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An enterprise is modernizing a legacy web application in a single Azure region. The application requires routing incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic to different virtual machine scale sets based on the URL path (such as routing `/api/*` to a dedicated API pool and `/web/*` to a web pool). The design must support SSL/TLS termination at the load balancing tier to offload decryption overhead from the backend instances. Additionally, administrative access to individual virtual machines must be preserved via Basic SKU Public IP addresses currently assigned directly to their network interfaces, and the load balancing solution must be restricted to regional distribution within the primary virtual network. Which of the following configuration options should the architect recommend?
A legal services company is implementing a serverless worker that compiles large case files into a single PDF document. The compilation process is CPU-intensive and typically runs for 11 to 14 minutes per request. The company wants a fully managed serverless compute option that scales to zero to minimize costs during periods of inactivity, and they want to avoid the administrative overhead of managing underlying container clusters or virtual machines. Which Azure service should you select to meet these requirements?
Solaria Energy is designing a secure architecture for a cloud-based analytics system. The system consists of a virtual network named VNet-Analytics containing a subnet named Processing-Subnet. Virtual machines in Processing-Subnet must securely access an Azure SQL Database instance and an Azure Key Vault.
The design must meet the following requirements:
- All traffic to Azure SQL Database and Azure Key Vault must remain within the Microsoft backbone network.
- Virtual machines in Processing-Subnet must resolve the database and key vault hostnames using their private IP addresses.
- Public endpoint access to the Azure SQL Database and Azure Key Vault must be fully disabled.
- The solution must minimize administrative overhead.
Which two actions should you include in the design to meet the requirements?
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An enterprise is designing a routing architecture in Azure. The topology consists of the following components:
* A hub virtual network named `vnet-hub-eus` () that hosts a security Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) at .
* A spoke virtual network named `vnet-prod-eus` () containing two subnets: `subnet-app` () and `subnet-db` ().
* Virtual network peering is established between `vnet-hub-eus` and `vnet-prod-eus` with gateway transit disabled.
The design requires that all traffic from `vnet-prod-eus` to the Internet is routed through the NVA in `vnet-hub-eus` for inspection. However, to minimize latency and costs, traffic between `subnet-app` and `subnet-db` must route directly within the virtual network, bypassing the NVA.
To implement this, an administrator plans to associate a route table with both `subnet-app` and `subnet-db`.
Which route configuration should the administrator define in the route table to satisfy the requirements?
An organization plans to migrate an on-premises payroll application hosted on VMware vSphere. The application comprises three web servers and a backend database server running SQL Server 2016. The database uses SQL Server Agent for scheduled maintenance and performs cross-database queries. Users authenticate via an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain. The application interacts with external services, but the specific network connections are undocumented.
You need to design a migration assessment and transition strategy that meets the following requirements:
- Identify all application network dependencies before migration to prevent service disruptions.
- Minimize administrative overhead and infrastructure complexity for both the database tier and identity synchronization.
- Maintain support for the legacy database features.
Which migration strategy should you recommend?
An enterprise is designing a hub-and-spoke network topology in Azure. The hub virtual network, `vnet-hub-weur` (), hosts an Azure Firewall at and an ExpressRoute gateway. The spoke virtual network, `vnet-prod-weur` (), contains a subnet named `subnet-app` (). The on-premises network uses the IP address space .
The routing design must meet the following requirements:
1. All internet-bound traffic from `subnet-app` must be routed through the Azure Firewall in the hub.
2. All traffic from `subnet-app` destined for the on-premises network must be routed through the ExpressRoute gateway.
3. Local traffic within `vnet-prod-weur` must bypass the Azure Firewall.
Which two configurations should you recommend to meet these requirements? (Select TWO)
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A company is designing the compute infrastructure on Azure for a legacy background processing application. The application has the following characteristics and requirements:
- It processes long-running batch jobs that take up to 45 minutes to complete.
- It must run continuously 24/7 and cannot tolerate unexpected interruptions or evictions.
- The solution must be highly available and resilient to datacenter outages within an Azure region.
Which compute solution should you recommend to meet these requirements?