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Testlet

Case study

This is a case study.

Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case.

However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirement, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an

All Information

tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a US-based financial services company that has a main office in New York and a branch office in San Francisco.

Existing Environment Payment Processing System

Contoso hosts a business-critical payment processing system in its New York data center. The system has three tiers: a front-end web app, a middle-tier web API, and a back-end data store implemented as a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.

The front-end and middle-tier components are hosted by using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The application code is written in C# and ASP.NET. The middle-tier API uses the Entity Framework to communicate to the SQL Server database. Maintenance of the database is performed by using SQL Server Agent jobs.

The database is currently 2 TB and is not expected to grow beyond 3 TB.

The payment processing system has the following compliance-related requirements:

Encrypt data in transit and at rest. Only the front-end and middle-tier components must be able to access the encryption keys that protect the data store. Keep backups of the data in two separate physical locations that are at least 200 miles apart and can be restored for up to seven years.

Support blocking inbound and outbound traffic based on the source IP address, the destination IP address, and the port number.

Collect Windows security logs from all the middle-tier servers and retain the logs for a period of seven years. Inspect inbound and outbound traffic from the front-end tier by using highly available network appliances.

Only allow all access to all the tiers from the internal network of Contoso.

Tape backups are configured by using an on-premises deployment of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), and then shipped offsite for long term storage.

Historical Transaction Query System

Contoso recently migrated a business-critical workload to Azure. The workload contains a .NET web service for querying the historical transaction data residing in Azure Table Storage. The .NET web service is accessible from a client app that was developed in-house and runs on the client computers in the New York office. The data in the table storage is 50 GB and is not expected to increase.

Current Issues

The Contoso IT team discovers poor performance of the historical transaction query system, at the queries frequently cause table scans.

Requirements Planned Changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

Migrate the payment processing system to Azure.

Migrate the historical transaction data to Azure Cosmos DB to address the performance issues.

Migration Requirements

Contoso identifies the following general migration requirements:

Infrastructure services must remain available if a region or a data center fails. Failover must occur without any administrative intervention. Whenever possible, Azure managed services must be used to minimize management overhead.

Whenever possible, costs must be minimized.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the payment processing system:

If a data center fails, ensure that the payment processing system remains available without any administrative intervention. The middle-tier and the web front end must continue to operate without any additional configurations.

Ensure that the number of compute nodes of the front-end and the middle tiers of the payment processing system can increase or decrease automatically based on CPU utilization.

Ensure that each tier of the payment processing system is subject to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99 percent availability. Minimize the effort required to modify the middle-tier API and the back-end tier of the payment processing system.

Generate alerts when unauthorized login attempts occur on the middle-tier virtual machines. Ensure that the payment processing system preserves its current compliance status.

Host the middle tier of the payment processing system on a virtual machine.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the historical transaction query system: Minimize the use of on-premises infrastructure services.

Minimize the effort required to modify the .NET web service querying Azure Cosmos DB. Minimize the frequency of table scans.

If a region fails, ensure that the historical transactions query system remains available without any administrative intervention.

Information Security Requirements

The IT security team wants to ensure that identity management is performed by using Active Directory. Password hashes must be stored on-premises only.

Access to all business-critical systems must rely on Active Directory credentials. Any suspicious authentication attempts must trigger a multi-factor authentication prompt automatically. legitimate users must be able to authenticate successfully by using multi-factor authentication.

QUESTION 1

You need to recommend a solution for the collection of security logs for the middle tier of the payment processing system. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure Event Hubs

B.    Azure Notification Hubs

C.    the Azure Diagnostics agent

D.   the Microsoft Monitoring agent

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Scenario: Collect Windows security logs from all the middle-tier servers and retain the logs for a period of seven years. The Azure Diagnostics agent should be used when you want to archive logs and metrics to Azure storage.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/agents-overview

QUESTION 1

Your company uses Microsoft System Center Service Manager on its on-premises network. You plan to deploy several services to Azure.

You need to recommend a solution to push Azure service health alerts to Service Manager. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure Notification Hubs

B.    Azure Event Hubs

C.    IT Service Management Connector (ITSM)

D.   Application Insights Connector

Correct Answer: C

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/itsmc-overview

QUESTION 2

You have an on-premises Hyper-V cluster. The cluster contains Hyper-V hosts that run Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. The hosts are licensed under a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that has Software Assurance.

The Hyper-V cluster hosts 30 virtual machines that run Windows Server 2012 R2. Each virtual machine runs a different workload. The workloads have predictable consumption patterns.

You plan to replace the virtual machines with Azure virtual machines that run Windows Server 2016. The virtual machines will be sized according to the consumption pattern of each workload.

You need to recommend a solution to minimize the compute costs of the Azure virtual machines.

Which two recommendations should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A.    Purchase Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for the Azure virtual machines

B.    Create a virtual machine scale set that uses autoscaling

C.    Configure a spending limit in the Azure account center

D.   Create a lab in Azure DevTest Labs and place the Azure virtual machines in the lab

E.    Activate Azure Hybrid Benefit for the Azure virtual machines

Correct Answer: AE

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

A: With Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) you reserve virtual machines in advance and save up to 80 percent.

E: For customers with Software Assurance, Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server allows you to use your on-premises Windows Server licenses and run Windows virtual machines on Azure at a reduced cost. You can use Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server to deploy new virtual machines with Windows OS.

Reference:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/reserved-vm-instances/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/hybrid-use-benefit-licensing

QUESTION 3

You have an on-premises Active Directory forest and an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. All Azure AD users are assigned a Premium P1 license. You deploy Azure AD Connect.

Which two features are available in this environment that can reduce operational overhead for your company’s help desk? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A.    Azure AD Privileged Identity Management policies

B.    access reviews

C.    self-service password reset

D.   Microsoft Cloud App Security Conditional Access App Control

E.    password writeback

Correct Answer: CE

QUESTION 4

You are planning the implementation of an order processing web service that will contain microservices hosted in an Azure Service Fabric cluster.

You need to recommend a solution to provide developers with the ability to proactively identify and fix performance issues. The developers must be able to simulate user connections to the order processing web service from the Internet, as well as simulate user transactions. The developers must be notified if the goals for the transaction response times are not met.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    container health

B.    Azure Network Watcher

C.    Application Insights

D.   Service Fabric Analytics

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 5

You need to recommend a solution to generate a monthly report of all the new Azure Resource Manager resource deployments in your subscription. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure Analysis Services

B.    Azure Activity Log

C.    Azure Monitor action groups

D.   Azure Advisor

E.    Azure Monitor metrics

F.     Azure Log Analytics

G.   Application Insights

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Through activity logs, you can determine:

what operations were taken on the resources in your subscription who started the operation

when the operation occurred the status of the operation

the values of other properties that might help you research the operation

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-audit

QUESTION 6

You plan to deploy 200 Microsoft SQL Server databases to Azure by using Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.

You need to recommend a monitoring solution that provides a consistent monitoring approach for all deployments. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Support current-state analysis based on metrics collected near real-time, multiple times per minute, and maintained for up to one hour Support longer term analysis based on metrics collected multiple times per hour and maintained for up to two weeks.

Support monitoring of the number of concurrent logins and concurrent sessions.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    dynamic management views

B.    trace flags

C.    Azure Monitor

D.   SQL Server Profiler

Correct Answer: C

Testlet

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirement, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a US-based financial services company that has a main office in New York and a branch office in San Francisco.

Existing Environment Payment Processing System

Contoso hosts a business-critical payment processing system in its New York data center. The system has three tiers: a front-end web app, a middle-tier web API, and a back-end data store implemented as a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.

The front-end and middle-tier components are hosted by using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The application code is written in C# and ASP.NET. The middle-tier API uses the Entity Framework to communicate to the SQL Server database. Maintenance of the database is performed by using SQL Server Agent jobs.

The database is currently 2 TB and is not expected to grow beyond 3 TB.

The payment processing system has the following compliance-related requirements:

Encrypt data in transit and at rest. Only the front-end and middle-tier components must be able to access the encryption keys that protect the data store. Keep backups of the data in two separate physical locations that are at least 200 miles apart and can be restored for up to seven years.

Support blocking inbound and outbound traffic based on the source IP address, the destination IP address, and the port number.

Collect Windows security logs from all the middle-tier servers and retain the logs for a period of seven years. Inspect inbound and outbound traffic from the front-end tier by using highly available network appliances.

Only allow all access to all the tiers from the internal network of Contoso.

Tape backups are configured by using an on-premises deployment of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), and then shipped offsite for long term storage.

Historical Transaction Query System

Contoso recently migrated a business-critical workload to Azure. The workload contains a .NET web service for querying the historical transaction data residing in Azure Table Storage. The .NET web service is accessible from a client app that was developed in-house and runs on the client computers in the New York office. The data in the table storage is 50 GB and is not expected to increase.

Current Issues

The Contoso IT team discovers poor performance of the historical transaction query system, at the queries frequently cause table scans.

Requirements Planned Changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

Migrate the payment processing system to Azure.

Migrate the historical transaction data to Azure Cosmos DB to address the performance issues.

Migration Requirements

Contoso identifies the following general migration requirements:

Infrastructure services must remain available if a region or a data center fails. Failover must occur without any administrative intervention. Whenever possible, Azure managed services must be used to minimize management overhead.

Whenever possible, costs must be minimized.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the payment processing system:

If a data center fails, ensure that the payment processing system remains available without any administrative intervention. The middle-tier and the web front end must continue to operate without any additional configurations.

Ensure that the number of compute nodes of the front-end and the middle tiers of the payment processing system can increase or decrease automatically based on CPU utilization.

Ensure that each tier of the payment processing system is subject to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99 percent availability. Minimize the effort required to modify the middle-tier API and the back-end tier of the payment processing system.

Generate alerts when unauthorized login attempts occur on the middle-tier virtual machines. Ensure that the payment processing system preserves its current compliance status.

Host the middle tier of the payment processing system on a virtual machine.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the historical transaction query system: Minimize the use of on-premises infrastructure services.

Minimize the effort required to modify the .NET web service querying Azure Cosmos DB. Minimize the frequency of table scans.

If a region fails, ensure that the historical transactions query system remains available without any administrative intervention.

Information Security Requirements

The IT security team wants to ensure that identity management is performed by using Active Directory. Password hashes must be stored on-premises only.

Access to all business-critical systems must rely on Active Directory credentials. Any suspicious authentication attempts must trigger a multi-factor authentication prompt automatically. legitimate users must be able to authenticate successfully by using multi-factor authentication.

Testlet

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirement, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is an engineering company that has offices throughout Europe. The company has a main office in London and three branch offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Rome.

Existing Environment

Active Directory Environment

The network contains two Active Directory forests named corp.fabrikam.com and rd.fabrikam.com. There are no trust relationships between the forests. Corp.fabrikam.com is a production forest that contains identities used for internal user and computer authentication.

Rd.fabrikam.com is used by the research and development (R&D) department only.

Network Infrastructure

Each office contains at least one domain controller from the corp.fabrikam.com domain. The main office contains all the domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest.

All the offices have a high-speed connection to the Internet.

An existing application named WebApp1 is hosted in the data center of the London office. WebApp1 is used by customers to place and track orders.

WebApp1 has a web tier that uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and a database tier that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016. The web tier and the database tier are deployed to virtual machines that run on Hyper-V.

The IT department currently uses a separate Hyper-V environment to test updates to WebApp1.

Fabrikam purchases all Microsoft licenses through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that includes Software Assurance.

Problem Statements

The use of Web App1 is unpredictable. At peak times, users often report delays. At other times, many resources for WebApp1 are underutilized.

Requirements Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to move most of its production workloads to Azure during the next few years.

As one of its first projects, the company plans to establish a hybrid identity model, facilitating an upcoming Microsoft Office 365 deployment. All R&D operations will remain on-premises.

Fabrikam plans to migrate the production and test instances of WebApp1 to Azure.

Technical Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements:

Web site content must be easily updated from a single point.

User input must be minimized when provisioning new app instances.

Whenever possible, existing on-premises licenses must be used to reduce cost. Users must always authenticate by using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity. Any new deployments to Azure must be redundant in case an Azure region fails.

Whenever possible, solutions must be deployed to Azure by using platform as a service (PaaS).

An email distribution group named IT Support must be notified of any issues relating to the directory synchronization services.

Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on- premises network.

Database Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following database requirements:

Database metrics for the production instance of WebApp1 must be available for analysis so that database administrators can optimize the performance settings. To avoid disrupting customer access, database downtime must be minimized when databases are migrated.

Database backups must be retained for a minimum of seven years to meet compliance requirements.

Security Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:

Company information including policies, templates, and data must be inaccessible to anyone outside the company. Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an Internet link fails.

Administrators must be able authenticate to the Azure portal by using their corp.fabrikam.com credentials. All administrative access to the Azure portal must be secured by using multi-factor authentication.

The testing of WebApp1 updates must not be visible to anyone outside the company.

QUESTION 1

What should you include in the identity management strategy to support the planned changes?

A.    Move all the domain controllers from corp.fabrikam.com to virtual networks in Azure.

B.    Deploy domain controllers for corp.fabrikam.com to virtual networks in Azure.

C.    Deploy a new Azure AD tenant for the authentication of new R&D projects.

D.   Deploy domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest to virtual networks in Azure.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on- premises network. (This requires domain controllers in Azure)

Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an Internet link fails. (This requires domain controllers on-premises)

QUESTION 1

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an Azure subscription named Project1. Only a group named Project1admins is assigned roles in the Project1 subscription. The Project1 subscription contains all the resources for an application named Application1.

Your company is developing a new application named Application2. The members of the Application2 development team belong to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named App2Dev.

You identify the following requirements for Application2:

The members of App2Dev must be prevented from changing the role assignments in Azure.

The members of App2Dev must be able to create new Azure resources required by Application2.

All the required role assignments for Application2 will be performed by the members of Project1admins.

You need to recommend a solution for the role assignments of Application2.

Solution: Create a new Azure subscription named Project2. Assign Project1admins the Owner role for the Project2 subscription. Assign App2Dev the Contributor role for the Project2 subscription.

Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 2

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an Azure subscription named Project1. Only a group named Project1admins is assigned roles in the Project1 subscription. The Project1 subscription contains all the resources for an application named Application1.

Your company is developing a new application named Application2. The members of the Application2 development team belong to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named App2Dev.

You identify the following requirements for Application2:

The members of App2Dev must be prevented from changing the role assignments in Azure.

The members of App2Dev must be able to create new Azure resources required by Application2.

All the required role assignments for Application2 will be performed by the members of Project1admins.

You need to recommend a solution for the role assignments of Application2.

Solution: Create a new Azure subscription named Project2. Assign Project1admins the User Access Administrator role for the Project2 subscription. Assign App2Dev the Owner role for the Project2 subscription.

Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead, assign Project1admins the Owner role for the Project2 subscription. Assign App2Dev the Contributor role for the Project2 subscription.

QUESTION 3

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an Azure subscription named Project1. Only a group named Project1admins is assigned roles in the Project1 subscription. The Project1 subscription contains all the resources for an application named Application1.

Your company is developing a new application named Application2. The members of the Application2 development team belong to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named App2Dev.

You identify the following requirements for Application2:

The members of App2Dev must be prevented from changing the role assignments in Azure.

The members of App2Dev must be able to create new Azure resources required by Application2.

All the required role assignments for Application2 will be performed by the members of Project1admins.

You need to recommend a solution for the role assignments of Application2.

Solution: In Project1, create a resource group named Application2RG. Assign Project1admins the Owner role for Application2RG. Assign App2Dev the Contributor role for Application2RG.

Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You should use a separate subscription for Project2.

QUESTION 4

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an Azure subscription that contains a resource group named RG1.

You create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named ResearchUsers that contains the user accounts of all researchers. You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

The researchers must be allowed to create Azure virtual machines.

The researchers must only be able to create Azure virtual machines by using specific Azure Resource Manager templates.

Solution: Create a lab in Azure DevTest Lab. Configure the DevTest Labs settings. Assign the DevTest Labs User role to the ResearchUsers group. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead: On RG1, assign the Contributor role to the ResearchUsers group. Create a custom Azure Policy definition and assign the policy to RG1.

QUESTION 5

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an Azure subscription that contains a resource group named RG1.

You create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named ResearchUsers that contains the user accounts of all researchers. You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

The researchers must be allowed to create Azure virtual machines.

The researchers must only be able to create Azure virtual machines by using specific Azure Resource Manager templates.

Solution: Create an Azure DevOps Project. Configure the DevOps Project settings. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead: On RG1, assign the Contributor role to the ResearchUsers group. Create a custom Azure Policy definition and assign the policy to RG1.

QUESTION 6

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have an Azure subscription that contains a resource group named RG1.

You create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named ResearchUsers that contains the user accounts of all researchers. You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

The researchers must be allowed to create Azure virtual machines.

The researchers must only be able to create Azure virtual machines by using specific Azure Resource Manager templates.

Solution: On RG1, assign the Contributor role to the ResearchUsers group. Create a custom Azure Policy definition and assign the policy to RG1. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 7

A company named Contoso Ltd., has a single-domain Active Directory forest named contoso.com.

Contoso is preparing to migrate all workloads to Azure. Contoso wants users to use single sign-on (SSO) when they access cloud-based services that integrate with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

You need to identify any objects in Active Directory that will fail to synchronize to Azure AD due to formatting issues. The solution must minimize costs.

What should you include in the solution?

A.    Azure Advisor

B.    Microsoft Office 365 IdFix

C.    Azure AD Connect Health

D.   Password Export Server version 3.1 (PES v3.1) in Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 8

You have an Azure subscription.

You need to recommend a solution to provide developers with the ability to provision Azure virtual machines. The solution must meet the following requirements: Only allow the creation of the virtual machines in specific regions.

Only allow the creation of specific sizes of virtual machines.

What should include in the recommendation?

A.    conditional access policies

B.    Azure Policy

C.    Azure Resource Manager templates

D.   role-based access control (RBAC)

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 9

Your network contains an on-premises Active Directory forest.

You discover that when users change jobs within your company, the membership of the user groups are not being updated. As a result, the users can access resources that are no longer relevant to their job.

You plan to integrate Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) by using Azure AD Connect.

You need to recommend a solution to ensure that group owners are emailed monthly about the group memberships they manage. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure AD access reviews

B.    Tenant Restrictions

C.    Azure AD Identity Protection

D.   conditional access policies

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/governance/access-reviews-overview

QUESTION 10

A company named Contoso, Ltd. has an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that is integrated with Microsoft Office 365 and an Azure subscription.

Contoso has an on-premises identity infrastructure. The infrastructure includes servers that run Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Azure AD Connect, and Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM).

Contoso has a partnership with a company named Fabrikam, Inc. Fabrikam has an Active Directory forest and an Office 365 tenant. Fabrikam has the same on- premises identity infrastructure as Contoso.

A team of 10 developers from Fabrikam will work on an Azure solution that will be hosted in the Azure subscription of Contoso. The developers must be added to the Contributor role for a resource in the Contoso subscription.

You need to recommend a solution to ensure that Contoso can assign the role to the 10 Fabrikam developers. The solution must ensure that the Fabrikam developers use their existing credentials to access resources.

What should you recommend?

A.    Configure an AD FS claims provider trust between the AD FS infrastructures of Fabrikam and Contoso.

B.    In the Azure AD tenant of Contoso, enable Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS). Create a one-way forest trust that uses selective authentication between the Active Directory forests of Contoso and Fabrikam.

C.    In the Azure AD tenant of Contoso, create guest accounts for the Fabrikam developers.

D.   In the Azure AD tenant of Contoso, create cloud-only user accounts for the Fabrikam developers.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Trust configurations - Configure trust from managed forests(s) or domain(s) to the administrative forest

* A one-way trust is required from production environment to the admin forest.

* Selective authentication should be used to restrict accounts in the admin forest to only logging on to the appropriate production hosts. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/securing-privileged-access/securing-privileged-access-reference-material

QUESTION 11

You have a hybrid deployment of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

You need to recommend a solution to ensure that the Azure AD tenant can be managed only from the computers on your on-premises network. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure AD roles and administrators

B.    a conditional access policy

C.    Azure AD Application Proxy

D.   Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 12

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com that contains two administrative user accounts named Admin1 and Admin2. You create two Azure virtual machines named VM1 and VM2

You need to ensure that Admin1 and Admin2 are notified when more than five events are added to the security log of VM1 or VM2 during a period of 120 seconds. The solution must minimize administrative tasks.

What should you create?

A.    two action groups and one alert rule

B.    one action group and one alert rule

C.    five action groups and one alert rule

D.   two action groups and two alert rules

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 13

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com that contains several administrative user accounts. You need to recommend a solution to identify which administrative user accounts have NOT signed in during the previous 30 days. Which service should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure AD Identity Protection

B.    Azure Activity Log

C.    Azure Advisor

D.   Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 14

You manage a single-domain, on-premises Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest functional level is Windows Server 2016.

You have several on-premises applications that depend on Active Directory. You plan to migrate the applications to Azure.

You need to recommend an identity solution for the applications. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Eliminate the need for hybrid network connectivity. Minimize management overhead for Active Directory.

What should you recommend?

A.    In Azure, deploy an additional child domain to the contoso.com forest.

B.    In Azure, deploy additional domain controllers for the contoso.com domain.

C.    Implement a new Active Directory forest in Azure.

D.   Implement Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS).

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 15

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You have an Azure subscription named Project1. Only a group named Project1admins is assigned roles in the Project1 subscription. The Project1 subscription contains all the resources for an application named Application1.

Your company is developing a new application named Application2. The members of the Application2 development team belong to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named App2Dev.

You identify the following requirements for Application2:

The members of App2Dev must be prevented from changing the role assignments in Azure.

The members of App2Dev must be able to create new Azure resources required by Application2.

All the required role assignments for Application2 will be performed by the members of Project1admins.

You need to recommend a solution for the role assignments of Application2.

Solution: In Project1, create a network security group (NSG) named NSG1. Assign Project1admins the Owner role for NSG1. Assign the App2Dev the Contributor role for NSG1.

Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You should use a separate subscription for Project2.

QUESTION 16

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You have an Azure subscription that contains a resource group named RG1.

You create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group named ResearchUsers that contains the user accounts of all researchers. You

need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

The researchers must be allowed to create Azure virtual machines.

The researchers must only be able to create Azure virtual machines by using specific Azure Resource Manager templates.

Solution: On RG1, assign a custom role-based access control (RBAC) role to the ResearchUsers group. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead: On RG1, assign the Contributor role to the ResearchUsers group. Create a custom Azure Policy definition and assign the policy to RG1.

QUESTION 17

A company deploys Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect to synchronize identity information from their on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) directory to their Azure AD tenant. The identity information that is synchronized includes user accounts , credential hashes for authentication (password sync), and group membership. The company plans to deploy several Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) to support their applications.

The VMs have the following requirements:

Support domain join, LDAP read, LDAP bind, NTLM and Kerberos authentication, and Group Policy.

Allow users to sign in to the domain using their corporate credentials and connect remotely to the VM by using Remote Desktop.

You need to support the VM deployment. Which service should you use?

A.    Azure AD Domain Services

B.    Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

C.    Azure AD Managed Service Identity

D.   Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Azure AD Domain Services provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos/NTLM authentication that are fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/active-directory-ds-overview

QUESTION 18

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Your company has deployed several virtual machines (VMs) on-premises and to Azure. Azure ExpressRoute has been deployed and configured for on-premises to Azure connectivity.

Several VMs are exhibiting network connectivity issues.

You need to analyze the network traffic to determine whether packets are being allowed or denied to the VMs. Solution: Use the Azure traffic analytics solution in Azure Log Analytics to analyze the network traffic.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead use Azure Network Watcher to run IP flow verify to analyze the network traffic.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-ip-flow-verify-overview

QUESTION 19

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Your company has deployed several virtual machines (VMs) on-premises and to Azure. Azure ExpressRoute has been deployed and configured for on-premises to Azure connectivity.

Several VMs are exhibiting network connectivity issues.

You need to analyze the network traffic to determine whether packets are being allowed or denied to the VMs. Solution: Use Azure Network Watcher to run IP flow verify to analyze the network traffic.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

The Network Watcher Network performance monitor is a cloud-based hybrid network monitoring solution that helps you monitor network performance between various points in your network infrastructure. It also helps you monitor network connectivity to service and application endpoints and monitor the performance of Azure ExpressRoute.

Note:

IP flow verify checks if a packet is allowed or denied to or from a virtual machine. The information consists of direction, protocol, local IP, remote IP, local port, and remote port. If the packet is denied by a security group, the name of the rule that denied the packet is returned. While any source or destination IP can be chosen, IP flow verify helps administrators quickly diagnose connectivity issues from or to the internet and from or to the on-premises environment.

IP flow verify looks at the rules for all Network Security Groups (NSGs) applied to the network interface, such as a subnet or virtual machine NIC. Traffic flow is then verified based on the configured settings to or from that network interface. IP flow verify is useful in confirming if a rule in a Network Security Group is blocking ingress or egress traffic to or from a virtual machine.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-ip-flow-verify-overview

QUESTION 20

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Your company has deployed several virtual machines (VMs) on-premises and to Azure. Azure ExpressRoute has been deployed and configured for on-premises to Azure connectivity.

Several VMs are exhibiting network connectivity issues.

You need to analyze the network traffic to determine whether packets are being allowed or denied to the VMs.

Solution: Install and configure the Log Analytics and Dependency Agents on all VMs. Use the Wire Data solution in Azure Log Analytics to analyze the network traffic.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead use Azure Network Watcher to run IP flow verify to analyze the network traffic.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-ip-flow-verify-overview

QUESTION 21

Your network contains an on-premises Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest is synced to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com and an Azure AD Domain Services (Azure AD DS) domain named contoso-aad.com.

You have an Azure Storage account named Storage1 that contains a file share named Share1.

You configure NTFS permissions on Share1. You plan to deploy a virtual machine that will be used by several users to access Share1. You need to ensure that the users can access Share1.

Which type virtual machine should you deploy?

A.    a virtual machine that runs Windows Server 2016 and is joined to the contoso.com domain

B.    a virtual machine that runs Windows 10 and is joined to the contoso-add.com domain

C.    a virtual machine that runs Windows 10 and is hybrid Azure AD joined to the contoso.com domain

D.   an Azure virtual machine that runs Windows Server 2016 and is joined to the contoso-add.com domain

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You join the Windows Server virtual machine to the Azure AD DS-managed domain, here named contoso-aad.com.

Note: Azure Files supports identity-based authentication over SMB (Server Message Block) (preview) through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Domain Services. Your domain-joined Windows virtual machines (VMs) can access Azure file shares using Azure AD credentials.

Incorrect Answers:

B, C: Azure AD authentication over SMB is not supported for Linux VMs for the preview release. Only Windows Server VMs are supported.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-active-directory-enable#mount-a-file-share-from-a-domain-joined-vm

QUESTION 22

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Your company has an on-premises data center and an Azure subscription. The on-premises data center contains a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Your network contains an Active Directory domain that is synchronized to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant.

The company is developing an application named Application1. Application1 will be hosted in Azure by using 10 virtual machines that run Windows Server 2016. Five virtual machines will be in the West Europe Azure region and five virtual machines will be in the East US Azure region. The virtual machines will store sensitive company information. All the virtual machines will use managed disks.

You need to recommend a solution to encrypt the virtual machine disks by using BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker).

Solution: Deploy one Azure Key Vault to each region. Create two Azure AD service principals. Configure the virtual machines to use Azure Disk Encryption and specify a different service principal for the virtual machines in each region.

Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You would also have to import Import the security keys from the HSM into each Azure key vault.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/azure-security-disk-encryption-prerequisites-aad

QUESTION 23

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Your company has an on-premises data center and an Azure subscription. The on-premises data center contains a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Your network contains an Active Directory domain that is synchronized to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant.

The company is developing an application named Application1. Application1 will be hosted in Azure by using 10 virtual machines that run Windows Server 2016. Five virtual machines will be in the West Europe Azure region and five virtual machines will be in the East US Azure region. The virtual machines will store sensitive company information. All the virtual machines will use managed disks.

You need to recommend a solution to encrypt the virtual machine disks by using BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker).

Solution: Export a security key from the on-premises HSM. Create one Azure AD service principal. Configure the virtual machines to use Azure Storage Service Encryption.

Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

We use the Azure Premium Key Vault with Hardware Security Modules (HSM) backed keys. The Key Vault has to be in the same region as the VM that will be encrypted.

Reference:

https://www.ciraltos.com/azure-disk-encryption-v2/

QUESTION 24

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Your company has an on-premises data center and an Azure subscription. The on-premises data center contains a Hardware Security Module (HSM). Your network contains an Active Directory domain that is synchronized to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant.

The company is developing an application named Application1. Application1 will be hosted in Azure by using 10 virtual machines that run Windows Server 2016. Five virtual machines will be in the West Europe Azure region and five virtual machines will be in the East US Azure region. The virtual machines will store sensitive company information. All the virtual machines will use managed disks.

You need to recommend a solution to encrypt the virtual machine disks by using BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker). Solution:

Deploy one Azure key vault to each region

Export two security keys from the on-premises HSM

Import the security keys from the HSM into each Azure key vault Create two Azure AD service principals

Configure the virtual machines to use Azure Disk Encryption

Specify a different service principal for the virtual machines in each region Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

We use the Azure Premium Key Vault with Hardware Security Modules (HSM) backed keys. The Key Vault has to be in the same region as the VM that will be encrypted.

Note: If you want to use a key encryption key (KEK) for an additional layer of security for encryption keys, add a KEK to your key vault. Use the Add-AzKeyVaultKey cmdlet to create a key encryption key in the key vault. You can also import a KEK from your on-premises key management HSM.

Reference:

https://www.ciraltos.com/azure-disk-encryption-v2/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/azure-security-disk-encryption-prerequisites-aad

QUESTION 25

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Your company has deployed several virtual machines (VMs) on-premises and to Azure. Azure ExpressRoute has been deployed and configured for on-premises to Azure connectivity.

Several VMs are exhibiting network connectivity issues.

You need to analyze the network traffic to determine whether packets are being allowed or denied to the VMs. Solution: Use Azure Advisor to analyze the network traffic.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead use Azure Network Watcher to run IP flow verify to analyze the network traffic.

Note: Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources.

With Advisor, you can:

Get proactive, actionable, and personalized best practices recommendations.

Improve the performance, security, and high availability of your resources, as you identify opportunities to reduce your overall Azure spend. Get recommendations with proposed actions inline.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-overview

QUESTION 26

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com that is federated to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. The on-premises domain contains a VPN server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2016.

You have a single on-premises location that uses an address space of 172.16.0.0/16.

You need to implement two-factor authentication for users who establish VPN connections to Server1. What should you include in the implementation?

A.    In Azure AD, create a conditional access policy and a trusted named location

B.    Install and configure Azure MFA Server on-premises

C.    Configure an Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) server on-premises

D.   In Azure AD, configure the authentication methods. From the multi-factor authentication (MFA) service settings, create a trusted IP range

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You need to download, install and configure the MFA Server.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-mfaserver-deploy

QUESTION 27

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Your company has an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain and an established Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment.

Your company would like users to be automatically signed in to cloud apps when they are on their corporate desktops that are connected to the corporate network. You need to enable single sign-on (SSO) for company users.

Solution: Install and configure an Azure AD Connect server to use password hash synchronization and select the Enable single sign-on option. Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 28

You have an Azure subscription that contains a custom application named Application1. Application1 was developed by an external company named Fabrikam, Ltd. Developers at Fabrikam were assigned role-based access control (RBAC) permissions to the Application1 components. All users are licensed for the Microsoft 365 E5 plan.

You need to recommend a solution to verify whether the Fabrikam developers still require permissions to Application1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

To the manager of the developers, send a monthly email message that lists the access permissions to Application1. If the manager does not verify an access permission, automatically revoke that permission.

Minimize development effort. What should you recommend?

A.    In Azure Active Directory (AD) Privileged Identity Management, create a custom role assignment for the Application1 resources

B.    Create an Azure Automation runbook that runs the Get-AzureADUserAppRoleAssignment              cmdlet

C.    Create an Azure Automation runbook that runs the Get-AzureRmRoleAssignment              cmdlet

D.   In Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), create an access review of Application1

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 29

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Your company has an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain and an established Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment.

Your company would like users to be automatically signed in to cloud apps when they are on their corporate desktops that are connected to the corporate network. You need to enable single sign-on (SSO) for company users.

Solution: Install and configure an Azure AD Connect server to use pass-through authentication and select the Enable single sign-on

option. Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 30

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Your company has an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain and an established Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment.

Your company would like users to be automatically signed in to cloud apps when they are on their corporate desktops that are connected to the corporate network. You need to enable single sign-on (SSO) for company users.

Solution: Configure an AD DS server in an Azure virtual machine (VM). Configure bidirectional replication. Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 31

You are designing a security solution for a company’s Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The company currently uses Azure AD Premium for all employees. Contractors will periodically access the corporate network based on demand.

You must ensure that all employees and contractors are required to log on by using two-factor authentication. The solution must minimize costs. You need to recommend a solution.

What should you recommend?

A.    Purchase Azure Multi-Factor Authentication licenses for the employees and the contractors

B.    Use the Multi-Factor Authentication provider in Azure and configure the usage model for each authentication type

C.    Use the Multi-Factor Authentication provider in Azure and configure the usage model for each enabled user

D.   Purchase Azure Multi-Factor Authentication licenses for the contractors only

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 32

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You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AZD) tenant named contoso.com. The tenant contains a group named Group1. Group1 contains all the administrative user accounts.

You discover several login attempts to the Azure portal from countries where administrative users do NOT work.

You need to ensure that all login attempts to the Azure portal from those countries require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Solution: Create an Access Review for Group1.

Does this solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 33

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You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AZD) tenant named contoso.com. The tenant contains a group named Group1. Group1 contains all the administrative user accounts.

You discover several login attempts to the Azure portal from countries where administrative users do NOT work.

You need to ensure that all login attempts to the Azure portal from those countries require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Solution: You implement an access package.

Does this solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 34

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You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AZD) tenant named contoso.com. The tenant contains a group named Group1. Group1 contains all the administrative user accounts.

You discover several login attempts to the Azure portal from countries where administrative users do NOT work.

You need to ensure that all login attempts to the Azure portal from those countries require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Solution: Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management.

Does this solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 35

Your company has several Azure subscriptions that are part of a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. The company’s compliance team creates automatic alerts by using Azure Monitor.

You need to recommend a solution to apply the alerts automatically when new subscriptions are added to the Enterprise Agreement. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure Automation runbooks

B.    Azure Log Analytics alerts

C.    Azure Monitor action groups

D.   Azure Resource Manager templates

E.    Azure Policy

Correct Answer: E

QUESTION 36

You store web access logs data in Azure Blob storage. You plan to generate monthly reports from the access logs.

You need to recommend an automated process to upload the data to Azure SQL Database every month. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA)

B.    Azure Data Factory

C.    Data Migration Assistant

D.   AzCopy

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 37

Your company has the offices shown in the following table.

The network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com that is synced to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). All users connect to an application hosted in Microsoft 365.

You need to recommend a solution to ensure that all the users use Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to connect to the application from one of the offices. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    a named location and two Microsoft Cloud App Security policies

B.    a conditional access policy and two virtual networks

C.    a virtual network and two Microsoft Cloud App Security policies

D.   a conditional access policy and two named locations

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 38

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Your company has an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain and an established Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment.

Your company would like users to be automatically signed in to cloud apps when they are on their corporate desktops that are connected to the corporate network. You need to enable single sign-on (SSO) for company users.

Solution: Install and configure an on-premises Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) server with a trust established between the AD FS server and Azure AD.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Seamless SSO is not applicable to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). Instead install and configure an Azure AD Connect server.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-sso

QUESTION 39

You have an Azure subscription that contains several resource groups, including a resource group named RG1. RG1 contains several business-critical resources. A user named admin1 is assigned the Owner role to the subscription.

You need to prevent admin1 from modifying the resources in RG1. The solution must ensure that admin1 can manage the resources in the other resource groups. What should you use?

A.    a management group

B.    an Azure policy

C.    a custom role

D.   an Azure blueprint

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Role-based access control (RBAC) focuses on user actions at different scopes. You might be added to the contributor role for a resource group, allowing you to make changes to that resource group.

Incorrect Answers:

A: If your organization has many subscriptions, you may need a way to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for those subscriptions. Azure management groups provide a level of scope above subscriptions.

B: There are a few key differences between Azure Policy and role-based access control (RBAC). Azure Policy focuses on resource properties during deployment and for already existing resources. Azure Policy controls properties such as the types or locations of resources. Unlike RBAC, Azure Policy is a default allow and explicit deny system.

D: Azure Blueprints enables cloud architects and central information technology groups to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that implements and adheres to an organization's standards, patterns, and requirements.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/overview

QUESTION 40

A company has deployed several applications across Windows and Linux Virtual machines in Azure. Log Analytics are being used to send the required data for alerting purposes for the Virtual Machines.

You need to recommend which tables need to be queried for security related queries. Which of the following would you query for events from Windows Event Logs?

A.    Azure Activity

B.    Azure Diagnostics

C.    Event

D.   Syslog

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

This is also given in the Microsoft documentation, wherein you would use the Event Table for the queries on events from Windows Virtual machines

Since this is clearly mentioned, all other options are incorrect

For more information on collecting event data from windows virtual machines, please go ahead and visit the below URL.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/data-sources-windows-events

QUESTION 41

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You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com. The tenant contains a group named Group1. Group1 contains all the administrative

user accounts.

You discover several login attempts to the Azure portal from countries where administrative users do NOT work.

You need to ensure that all login attempts to the Azure portal from those countries require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Solution: Implement Azure AD Identity Protection for Group1.

Does this solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management.

Note: Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a service that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/privileged-identity-management/pim-configure

QUESTION 42

You are designing a solution that will host 20 different web applications.

You need to recommend a solution to secure the web applications with a firewall that protects against common web-based attacks including SQL injection, cross- site scripting attacks, and session hijacks. The solution must minimize costs.

Which three Azure features should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A.    VPN Gateway

B.    URL-based content routing

C.    Multi-site routing

D.   Web Application Firewall (WAF)

E.    Azure ExpressRoute

F.     Azure Application Gateway

Correct Answer: DEF

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

The web application firewall (WAF) in Azure Application Gateway helps protect web applications from common web-based attacks like SQL injection, cross-site scripting attacks, and session hijacks. It comes preconfigured with protection from threats identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) as the top 10 common vulnerabilities.

ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet and thus can be considered more secure than VPN-based solutions. This allows ExpressRoute connections to offer more reliability, faster speeds, lower latencies, and higher security than typical connections over the Internet.

Reference:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/application-gateway-web-application-firewall-in-public-preview/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/fundamentals/overview

QUESTION 43

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After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

Your company has deployed several virtual machines (VMs) on-premises and to Azure. Azure ExpressRoute has been deployed and configured for on-premises to Azure connectivity.

Several VMs are exhibiting network connectivity issues.

You need to analyze the network traffic to determine whether packets are being allowed or denied to the VMs.

Solution: Install and configure the Microsoft Monitoring Agent and the Dependency Agent on all VMs. Use the Wire Data solution in Azure Monitor to analyze the network traffic.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead use Azure Network Watcher to run IP flow verify to analyze the network traffic.

Note: Wire Data looks at network data at the application level, not down at the TCP transport layer. The solution doesn't look at individual ACKs and SYNs. Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-monitoring-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-ip-flow-verify-overview

QUESTION 44

A company has deployed several applications across Windows and Linux Virtual machines in Azure. Log Analytics are being used to send the required data for alerting purposes for the Virtual Machines.

You need to recommend which tables need to be queried for security related queries. Which of the following would you query for events from Linux system logging?

A.    Azure Activity

B.    Azure Diagnostics

C.    Event

D.   Syslog

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

This is also given in the Microsoft documentation, wherein you would use the Syslog Table for the queries on events from Linux Virtual machines

Note: Syslog is an event logging protocol that is common to Linux. Applications will send messages that may be stored on the local machine or delivered to a Syslog collector. When the Log Analytics agent for Linux is installed, it configures the local Syslog daemon to forward messages to the agent. The agent then sends the message to Azure Monitor where a corresponding record is created.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platform/data-sources-syslog

QUESTION 45

A company named Contoso, Ltd. has an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that is integrated with Microsoft Office 365 and an Azure subscription.

Contoso has an on-premises identity infrastructure. The infrastructure includes servers that run Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Azure AD Connect, and Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM).

Contoso has a partnership with a company named Fabrikam, Inc. Fabrikam has an Active Directory forest and an Office 365 tenant. Fabrikam has the same on- premises identity infrastructure as Contoso.

A team of 10 developers from Fabrikam will work on an Azure solution that will be hosted in the Azure subscription of Contoso. The developers must be added to the Contributor role for a resource in the Contoso subscription.

You need to recommend a solution to ensure that Contoso can assign the role to the 10 Fabrikam developers. The solution must ensure that the Fabrikam developers use their existing credentials to access resources.

What should you recommend?

A.    Configure an AD FS relying party trust between the Fabrikam and Contoso AD FS infrastructures.

B.    Configure an organization relationship between the Office 365 tenants of Fabrikam and Contoso.

C.    In the Azure AD tenant of Contoso, create guest accounts for the Fabrikam developers.

D.   Configure a forest trust between the on-premises Active Directory forests of Contoso and Fabrikam.

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Trust configurations - Configure trust from managed forests(s) or domain(s) to the administrative forest A one-way trust is required from production environment to the admin forest.

Selective authentication should be used to restrict accounts in the admin forest to only logging on to the appropriate production hosts.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/securing-privileged-access/securing-privileged-access-reference-material

QUESTION 46

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com that has a security group named Group1. Group1 is configured for assigned membership. Group1 has 50 members, including 20 guest users.

You need to recommend a solution for evaluating the membership of Group1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

The evaluation must be repeated automatically every three months. Every member must be able to report whether they need to be in Group1.

Users who report that they do not need to be in Group1 must be removed from Group1 automatically Users who do not report whether they need to be in Group1 must be removed from Group1 automatically.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Implement Azure AD Identity Protection.

B.    Change the Membership type of Group1 to Dynamic User.

C.    Create an access review.

D.   Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

In Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), you can create complex attribute-based rules to enable dynamic memberships for groups. Dynamic group membership reduces the administrative overhead of adding and removing users.

When any attributes of a user or device change, the system evaluates all dynamic group rules in a directory to see if the change would trigger any group adds or removes. If a user or device satisfies a rule on a group, they are added as a member of that group. If they no longer satisfy the rule, they are removed.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-dynamic-membership

Testlet

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

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Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a US-based financial services company that has a main office in New York and a branch office in San Francisco.

Existing Environment Payment Processing System

Contoso hosts a business-critical payment processing system in its New York data center. The system has three tiers: a front-end web app, a middle-tier web API, and a back-end data store implemented as a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.

The front-end and middle-tier components are hosted by using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The application code is written in C# and ASP.NET. The middle-tier API uses the Entity Framework to communicate to the SQL Server database. Maintenance of the database is performed by using SQL Server Agent jobs.

The database is currently 2 TB and is not expected to grow beyond 3 TB.

The payment processing system has the following compliance-related requirements:

Encrypt data in transit and at rest. Only the front-end and middle-tier components must be able to access the encryption keys that protect the data store. Keep backups of the data in two separate physical locations that are at least 200 miles apart and can be restored for up to seven years.

Support blocking inbound and outbound traffic based on the source IP address, the destination IP address, and the port number.

Collect Windows security logs from all the middle-tier servers and retain the logs for a period of seven years. Inspect inbound and outbound traffic from the front-end tier by using highly available network appliances.

Only allow all access to all the tiers from the internal network of Contoso.

Tape backups are configured by using an on-premises deployment of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), and then shipped offsite for long term storage.

Historical Transaction Query System

Contoso recently migrated a business-critical workload to Azure. The workload contains a .NET web service for querying the historical transaction data residing in Azure Table Storage. The .NET web service is accessible from a client app that was developed in-house and runs on the client computers in the New York office. The data in the table storage is 50 GB and is not expected to increase.

Current Issues

The Contoso IT team discovers poor performance of the historical transaction query system, at the queries frequently cause table scans.

Requirements Planned Changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

Migrate the payment processing system to Azure.

Migrate the historical transaction data to Azure Cosmos DB to address the performance issues.

Migration Requirements

Contoso identifies the following general migration requirements:

Infrastructure services must remain available if a region or a data center fails. Failover must occur without any administrative intervention. Whenever possible, Azure managed services must be used to minimize management overhead.

Whenever possible, costs must be minimized.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the payment processing system:

If a data center fails, ensure that the payment processing system remains available without any administrative intervention. The middle-tier and the web front end must continue to operate without any additional configurations.

Ensure that the number of compute nodes of the front-end and the middle tiers of the payment processing system can increase or decrease automatically based on CPU utilization.

Ensure that each tier of the payment processing system is subject to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99 percent availability. Minimize the effort required to modify the middle-tier API and the back-end tier of the payment processing system.

Generate alerts when unauthorized login attempts occur on the middle-tier virtual machines. Ensure that the payment processing system preserves its current compliance status.

Host the middle tier of the payment processing system on a virtual machine.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the historical transaction query system: Minimize the use of on-premises infrastructure services.

Minimize the effort required to modify the .NET web service querying Azure Cosmos DB. Minimize the frequency of table scans.

If a region fails, ensure that the historical transactions query system remains available without any administrative intervention

Information Security Requirements

The IT security team wants to ensure that identity management is performed by using Active Directory. Password hashes must be stored on-premises only.

Access to all business-critical systems must rely on Active Directory credentials. Any suspicious authentication attempts must trigger a multi-factor authentication prompt automatically. legitimate users must be able to authenticate successfully by using multi-factor authentication.

QUESTION 1

You need to recommend a solution for implementing the back-end tier of the payment processing system in Azure. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    an Azure SQL Database managed instance

B.    a SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine

C.    an Azure SQL Database single database

D.   an Azure SQL Database elastic pool

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 2

You need to recommend a solution for protecting the content of the payment processing system. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

B.    Azure Storage Service Encryption

C.    Always Encrypted with randomized encryption

D.   Always Encrypted with deterministic encryption

Correct Answer: D

Testlet

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirement, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is an engineering company that has offices throughout Europe. The company has a main office in London and three branch offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Rome.

Existing Environment

Active Directory Environment

The network contains two Active Directory forests named corp.fabrikam.com and rd.fabrikam.com. There are no trust relationships between the forests. Corp.fabrikam.com is a production forest that contains identities used for internal user and computer authentication.

Rd.fabrikam.com is used by their research and development (R&D) department only.

Network Infrastructure

Each office contains at least one domain controller from the corp.fabrikam.com domain. The main office contains all the domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest.

All the offices have a high-speed connection to the Internet An existing application named WebApp1 is hosted in the data center of the London office. WebApp1 is used by customers to place and track orders. WebApp1 has a web tier that uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and a database tier that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016. The web tier and the database tier are deployed to virtual machines that run on Hyper-V.

The IT department currently uses a separate Hyper-V environment to test updates to WebApp1.

Fabrikam purchases all Microsoft licenses through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that includes Software Assurance.

Problem Statements

The use of WebApp1 is unpredictable. At peak times, users often report delays. At other times, many resources for WebApp1 are underutilized.

Requirements Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to move most of its production workloads to Azure during the next few years.

As one of its first projects, the company plans to establish a hybrid identity model, facilitating an upcoming Microsoft Office 365 deployment. All R&D operations will remain on-premises.

Fabrikam plans to migrate the production and test instances of WebApp1 to Azure.

Technical Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements:

Web site content must be easily updated from a single point.

User input must be minimized when provisioning new web app instances. Whenever possible, existing on-premises licenses must be used to reduce cost. Users must always authenticate by using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity. Any new deployments to Azure must be redundant in case an Azure region fails.

Whenever possible, solutions must be deployed to Azure by using platform as a service (PaaS).

An email distribution group named IT Support must be notified of any issues relating to the directory synchronization services.

Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on- premises network.

Database Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following database requirements:

Database metrics for the production instance of WebApp1 must be available for analysis so that database administrators can optimize the performance settings. To avoid disrupting customer access, database downtime must be minimized when databases are migrated.

Database backups must be retained for a minimum of seven years to meet compliance requirements.

Security Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:

Company information including policies, templates, and data must be inaccessible to anyone outside the company. Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an Internet link fails.

Administrators must be able authenticate to the Azure portal by using their corp.fabrikam.com credentials. All administrative access to the Azure portal must be secured by using multi-factor authentication.

The testing of WebApp1 updates must not be visible to anyone outside the company.

QUESTION 1

You need to recommend a data storage strategy for WebApp1. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    a fixed-size DTU Azure SQL database

B.    an Azure virtual machine that runs SQL Server

C.    an Azure SQL Database elastic pool

D.   a vCore-based Azure SQL database

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 1

You are designing a data protection strategy for Azure virtual machines. All the virtual machines are in the Standard tier and use managed disks. You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

The use of encryption keys is audited. All the data is encrypted at rest always.

You manage the encryption keys, not Microsoft. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker)

B.    Azure Storage Service Encryption

C.    client-side encryption

D.   Azure Disk Encryption

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/azure-security-disk-encryption-overview

QUESTION 2

You have 100 servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2 and host Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2 instances. The instances host databases that have the following characteristics:

The largest database is currently 3 TB. None of the databases will ever exceed 4 TB. Stored procedures are implemented by using CLR.

You plan to move all the data from SQL Server to Azure.

You need to recommend an Azure service to host the databases. The solution must meet the following requirements: Whenever possible, minimize management overhead for the migrated databases.

Minimize the number of database changes required to facilitate the migration. Ensure that users can authenticate by using their Active Directory credentials.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure SQL Database single databases

B.    Azure SQL Database Managed Instance

C.    Azure SQL Database elastic pools

D.   SQL Server 2016 on Azure virtual machines

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-managed-instance

QUESTION 3

You plan to create an Azure Cosmos DB account that uses the SQL API. The account will contain data added by a web application. The web application will send data daily.

You need to recommend a notification solution that meets the following requirements: Sends email notification when data is received from IoT devices.

Minimizes compute cost.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Deploy an Azure logic app that has the Azure Cosmos DB connector configured to use a SendGrid action.

B.    Deploy a function app that is configured to use the Consumption plan and a SendGrid binding.

C.    Deploy an Azure logic app that has a SendGrid connector configured to use an Azure Cosmos DB action.

D.   Deploy a function app that is configured to use the Consumption plan and an Azure Event Hubs binding.

E.    Deploy an Azure logic app that has a webhook configured to use a SendGrid action.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

You can send email by using SendGrid bindings in Azure Functions. Azure Functions supports an output binding for SendGrid.

Note: When you're using the Consumption plan, instances of the Azure Functions host are dynamically added and removed based on the number of incoming events.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-sendgrid https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-scale#consumption-plan

QUESTION 4

You have Azure virtual machines that run a custom line-of-business web application.

You plan to use a third-party solution to parse event logs from the virtual machines stored in an Azure storage account.

You need to recommend a solution to save the event logs from the virtual machines to the Azure Storage account. The solution must minimize costs and complexity.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure VM Diagnostics Extension

B.    Azure Monitor Metrics

C.    event log subscriptions

D.   Azure Monitor Logs

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

The Azure Diagnostics VM extension enables you to collect monitoring data, such as performance counters and event logs, from your Windows VM. You can granularly specify what data you want to collect and where you want the data to go, such as an Azure Storage account or an Azure Event Hub.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/extensions-diagnostics

QUESTION 5

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You are designing an Azure solution for a company that has four departments. Each department will deploy several Azure app services and Azure SQL databases.

You need to recommend a solution to report the costs for each department to deploy the app services and the databases. The solution must provide a consolidated view for cost reporting.

Solution: Create a resources group for each resource type. Assign tags to each resource group. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different resource groups. This approach is helpful when you need to organize resources for billing or management.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-using-tags

QUESTION 6

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After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are designing an Azure solution for a company that has four departments. Each department will deploy several Azure app services and Azure SQL databases.

You need to recommend a solution to report the costs for each department to deploy the app services and the databases. The solution must provide a consolidated view for cost reporting.

Solution: Place all resources in the same resource group. Assign tags to each resource. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead, create a resources group for each resource type. Assign tags to each resource

Note: Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different resource groups. This approach is helpful when you need to organize resources for billing or management.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-using-tags

QUESTION 7

Note: This question is a part of series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are designing an Azure solution for a company that has four departments. Each department will deploy several Azure app services and Azure SQL databases.

You need to recommend a solution to report the costs for each department to deploy the app services and the databases. The solution must provide a consolidated view for cost reporting.

Solution: Create a new subscription for each department. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead, create a resources group for each resource type. Assign tags to each resource

Note: Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different resource groups. This approach is helpful when you need to organize resources for billing or management.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-using-tags

QUESTION 8

You have an Azure subscription that contains 100 virtual machines.

You plan to design a data protection strategy to encrypt the virtual disks.

You need to recommend a solution to encrypt the disks by using Azure Disk Encryption. The solution must provide the ability to encrypt operating system disks and data disks.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    a passphrase

B.    a certificate

C.    a key

D.   a secret

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

For enhanced virtual machine (VM) security and compliance, virtual disks in Azure can be encrypted. Disks are encrypted by using cryptographic keys that are secured in an Azure Key Vault. You control these cryptographic keys and can audit their use.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/encrypt-disks

QUESTION 9

You deploy Azure App Service Web Apps that connect to on-premises Microsoft SQL Server instances by using Azure ExpressRoute. You plan to migrate the SQL Server instances to Azure.

Migration of the SQL Server instances to Azure must:

Support automatic patching and version updates to SQL Server.

Provide automatic backup services.

Allow for high-availability of the instances. Provide a native VNET with private IP addressing. Encrypt all data in transit.

Be in a single-tenant environment with dedicated underlying infrastructure (compute, storage) You need to migrate the SQL Server instances to Azure.

Which Azure service should you use?

A.    Azure SQL Database with elastic pools

B.    SQL Server in Docker containers running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

C.    SQL Server Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) virtual machine (VM)

D.   SQL Server in a Docker container running on Azure Container Instances (ACI)

E.    Azure SQL Database Managed Instance

Correct Answer: E

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance configured for Hybrid workloads. Use this topology if your Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is connected to your on-premises network. This approach provides the most simplified network routing and yields maximum data throughput during the migration.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dms/resource-network-topologies

QUESTION 10

You are designing an Azure Web App that includes many static content files.

The application is accessed from locations all over the world by using a custom domain name.

You need to recommend an approach for providing access to the static content with the least amount of latency. Which two actions should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A.    Configure a custom domain name that is an alias for the Azure Storage domain.

B.    Configure a CNAME DNS record for the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) domain.

C.    Place the static content in Azure Table storage.

D.   Place the static content in Azure Blob storage and enable Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the account.

Correct Answer: BD

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

D: Add Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to a web app in Azure App Service.

B: When you use a CDN endpoint to deliver content, a custom domain is necessary if you would like your own domain name to be visible in your CDN URL. Having a visible domain name can be convenient for your customers and useful for branding purposes.

Create a CNAME DNS record, and associate the custom domain with your CDN endpoint.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-map-content-to-custom-domain https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cdn/cdn-add-to-web-app

QUESTION 11

You are developing a sales application that will contain several Azure cloud services and will handle different components of a transaction. Different cloud services will process customer orders, billing, payment, inventory, and shipping.

You need to recommend a solution to enable the cloud services to asynchronously communicate transaction information by using REST messages. What would you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure Traffic Manager

B.    Azure Data Lake

C.    Azure Blob storage

D.   Azure Service Bus

E.    Azure Application Gateway

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Asynchronous messaging can be implemented in a variety of different ways. With queues, topics, and subscriptions, Azure Service Bus supports asynchronism via a store and forward mechanism.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-async-messaging

QUESTION 12

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are designing an Azure solution for a company that has four departments. Each department will deploy several Azure app services and Azure SQL databases.

You need to recommend a solution to report the costs for each department to deploy the app services and the databases. The solution must provide a consolidated view for cost reporting.

Solution: Create a separate resource group for each department. Place the resources for each department in its respective resource group. Does this meet the goal?

A.    Yes

B.    No

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Instead create a resources group for each resource type. Assign tags to each resource group.

Note: Tags enable you to retrieve related resources from different resource groups. This approach is helpful when you need to organize resources for billing or management.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-using-tags

QUESTION 13

You are developing a sales application that will contain several Azure cloud services and will handle different components of a transaction. Different cloud services will process customer orders, billing, payment, inventory, and shipping.

You need to recommend a solution to enable the cloud services to asynchronously communicate transaction information by using REST messages. What would you include in the recommendation?

A.    Azure Traffic Manager

B.    Azure Notification Hubs

C.    Azure Blob storage

D.   Azure Queue storage

Correct Answer: D

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Asynchronous messaging can be implemented in a variety of different ways. With queues, topics, and subscriptions.

The queue service REST API: The Queue service stores messages that may be read by any client who has access to the storage account.

Incorrect Answers:

B: Azure Notification Hubs provide an easy-to-use and scaled-out push engine that allows you to send notifications to any platform. This communication is not asynchronous, however.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-async-messaging https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/queue-service-rest-api

QUESTION 14

You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure Cosmos DB account.

You need to recommend a solution to generate an alert from Azure Log Analytics when a request charge for a query exceeds 50 request units more than 20 times within a 15-minute window.

What should you recommend?

A.    Create a search query to identify when requestCharge_s exceeds 50. Configure an alert threshold of 20 and a period of 15.

B.    Create a search query to identify when duration_s exceeds 20 and requestCharge_s exceeds 50. Configure a period of 15.

C.    Create a search query to identify when requestCharge_s exceeds 20. Configure a period of 15 and a frequency of 20.

D.   Create a search query to identify when duration_s exceeds 20. Configure a period of 15.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 15

You have 70 TB of files on your on-premises file server.

You need to recommend solution for importing data to Azure. The solution must minimize cost. What Azure service should you recommend?

A.    Azure StorSimple

B.    Azure Stack

C.    Azure Data Box

D.   Azure Batch

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Microsoft has engineered an extremely powerful solution that helps customers get their data to the Azure public cloud in a cost-effective, secure, and efficient manner with powerful Azure and machine learning at play. The solution is called Data Box.

Data Box and is in general availability status. It is a rugged device that allows organizations to have 100 TB of capacity on which to copy their data and then send it to be transferred to Azure.

Incorrect Answers:

A: StoreSimple would not be able to handle 70 TB of data.

References:

https://www.vembu.com/blog/what-is-microsoft-azure-data-box-disk-edge-heavy-gateway-overview/

QUESTION 16

You have an Azure subscription.

Your on-premises network contains a file server named Server1. Server1 stores 5 TB of company files that are accessed rarely.

You plan to copy the files to Azure Storage.

You need to implement a storage solution for the files that meets the following requirements: The files must be available within 24 hours of being requested.

Storage costs must be minimized.

Which two possible storage solutions achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A.    Create a general-purpose v2 storage account that is set to the Cool access tier. Create a file share in the storage account and copy the files to the file share.

B.    Create a general-purpose v2 storage account that is set to the Host access tier. Create a blob container, copy the files to the blob container, and set each file to the Archive access tier.

C.    Create a general-purpose v1 storage account. Create a file share in the storage account and copy the files to the file share.

D.   Create an Azure Blob storage account that is set to the Cool access tier. Create a blob container, copy the files to the blob container, and set each file to the

Archive access tier.

E.    Create a general-purpose v1 storage account. Create a blob container and copy the files to the blob container.

Correct Answer: AE

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

A: Azure storage offers different access tiers, which allow you to store blob object data in the most cost-effective manner. The Cool access tier is optimized for storing data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days.

E: Using a file share is cheaper than using a blob container. Incorrect Answers:

B, D: The Archive tier is optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days with flexible latency requirements (on the order of hours). C: Using a Blob container would be cheaper than using a file share.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-storage-tiers

Testlet

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirement, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a US-based financial services company that has a main office in New York and a branch office in San Francisco.

Existing Environment Payment Processing System

Contoso hosts a business-critical payment processing system in its New York data center. The system has three tiers: a front-end web app, a middle-tier web API, and a back-end data store implemented as a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.

The front-end and middle-tier components are hosted by using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The application code is written in C# and ASP.NET. The middle-tier API uses the Entity Framework to communicate to the SQL Server database. Maintenance of the database is performed by using SQL Server Agent jobs.

The database is currently 2 TB and is not expected to grow beyond 3 TB.

The payment processing system has the following compliance-related requirements:

Encrypt data in transit and at rest. Only the front-end and middle-tier components must be able to access the encryption keys that protect the data store. Keep backups of the data in two separate physical locations that are at least 200 miles apart and can be restored for up to seven years.

Support blocking inbound and outbound traffic based on the source IP address, the destination IP address, and the port number.

Collect Windows security logs from all the middle-tier servers and retain the logs for a period of seven years. Inspect inbound and outbound traffic from the front-end tier by using highly available network appliances.

Only allow all access to all the tiers from the internal network of Contoso.

Tape backups are configured by using an on-premises deployment of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), and then shipped offsite for long term storage.

Historical Transaction Query System

Contoso recently migrated a business-critical workload to Azure. The workload contains a .NET web service for querying the historical transaction data residing in Azure Table Storage. The .NET web service is accessible from a client app that was developed in-house and runs on the client computers in the New York office. The data in the table storage is 50 GB and is not expected to increase.

Current Issues

The Contoso IT team discovers poor performance of the historical transaction query system, at the queries frequently cause table scans.

Requirements Planned Changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

Migrate the payment processing system to Azure.

Migrate the historical transaction data to Azure Cosmos DB to address the performance issues.

Migration Requirements

Contoso identifies the following general migration requirements:

Infrastructure services must remain available if a region or a data center fails. Failover must occur without any administrative intervention. Whenever possible, Azure managed services must be used to minimize management overhead.

Whenever possible, costs must be minimized.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the payment processing system:

If a data center fails, ensure that the payment processing system remains available without any administrative intervention. The middle-tier and the web front end must continue to operate without any additional configurations.

Ensure that the number of compute nodes of the front-end and the middle tiers of the payment processing system can increase or decrease automatically based on CPU utilization.

Ensure that each tier of the payment processing system is subject to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99 percent availability. Minimize the effort required to modify the middle-tier API and the back-end tier of the payment processing system.

Generate alerts when unauthorized login attempts occur on the middle-tier virtual machines. Ensure that the payment processing system preserves its current compliance status.

Host the middle tier of the payment processing system on a virtual machine.

Contoso identifies the following requirements for the historical transaction query system: Minimize the use of on-premises infrastructure services.

Minimize the effort required to modify the .NET web service querying Azure Cosmos DB. Minimize the frequency of table scans.

If a region fails, ensure that the historical transactions query system remains available without any administrative intervention.

Information Security Requirements

The IT security team wants to ensure that identity management is performed by using Active Directory. Password hashes must be stored on-premises only.

Access to all business-critical systems must rely on Active Directory credentials. Any suspicious authentication attempts must trigger a multi-factor authentication prompt automatically. legitimate users must be able to authenticate successfully by using multi-factor authentication.

QUESTION 1

You need to recommend a backup solution for the data store of the payment processing system. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

B.    Azure SQL long-term backup retention

C.    Azure Backup Server

D.   a Recovery Services vault

E.    Azure Managed Disks

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-long-term-backup-retention-configure

QUESTION 2

You need to recommend a disaster recovery solution for the back-end tier of the payment processing system. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Always On Failover Cluster Instances

B.    Azure Site Recovery

C.    an auto-failover group

D.   geo-redundant database backups

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Scenario:

The back-end data store is implemented as a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database.

If a data center fails, ensure that the payment processing system remains available without any administrative intervention.

Note: Auto-failover groups is a SQL Database feature that allows you to manage replication and failover of a group of databases on a SQL Database server or all databases in a managed instance to another region. It is a declarative abstraction on top of the existing active geo-replication feature, designed to simplify deployment and management of geo-replicated databases at scale.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-auto-failover-group

QUESTION 3

You need to recommend a high-availability solution for the middle tier of the payment processing system. What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    the Isolated App service plan

B.    availability zones

C.    an availability set

D.   the Premium App Service plan

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Testlet

Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.

To start the case study

To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirement, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.

Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is an engineering company that has offices throughout Europe. The company has a main office in London and three branch offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Rome.

Existing Environment

Active Directory Environment

The network contains two Active Directory forests named corp.fabrikam.com and rd.fabrikam.com. There are no trust relationships between the forests. Corp.fabrikam.com is a production forest that contains identities used for internal user and computer authentication.

Rd.fabrikam.com is used by the research and development (R&D) department only.

Network Infrastructure

Each office contains at least one domain controller from the corp.fabrikam.com domain. The main office contains all the domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest.

All the offices have a high-speed connection to the Internet.

An existing application named WebApp1 is hosted in the data center of the London office. WebApp1 is used by customers to place and track orders.

WebApp1 has a web tier that uses Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and a database tier that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016. The web tier and the database tier are deployed to virtual machines that run on Hyper-V.

The IT department currently uses a separate Hyper-V environment to test updates to WebApp1.

Fabrikam purchases all Microsoft licenses through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that includes Software Assurance.

Problem Statements

The use of Web App1 is unpredictable. At peak times, users often report delays. At other times, many resources for WebApp1 are underutilized.

Requirements Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to move most of its production workloads to Azure during the next few years.

As one of its first projects, the company plans to establish a hybrid identity model, facilitating an upcoming Microsoft Office 365 deployment. All R&D operations will remain on-premises.

Fabrikam plans to migrate the production and test instances of WebApp1 to Azure.

Technical Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements:

Web site content must be easily updated from a single point.

User input must be minimized when provisioning new app instances.

Whenever possible, existing on-premises licenses must be used to reduce cost. Users must always authenticate by using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity. Any new deployments to Azure must be redundant in case an Azure region fails.

Whenever possible, solutions must be deployed to Azure by using platform as a service (PaaS).

An email distribution group named IT Support must be notified of any issues relating to the directory synchronization services.

Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on- premises network.

Database Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following database requirements:

Database metrics for the production instance of WebApp1 must be available for analysis so that database administrators can optimize the performance settings. To avoid disrupting customer access, database downtime must be minimized when databases are migrated.

Database backups must be retained for a minimum of seven years to meet compliance requirements.

Security Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:

Company information including policies, templates, and data must be inaccessible to anyone outside the company. Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an Internet link fails.

Administrators must be able authenticate to the Azure portal by using their corp.fabrikam.com credentials. All administrative access to the Azure portal must be secured by using multi-factor authentication.

The testing of WebApp1 updates must not be visible to anyone outside the company.

QUESTION 1

You need to recommend a solution to meet the database retention requirement. What should you recommend?

A.    Configure geo-replication of the database

B.    Configure Azure Site Recovery

C.    Configure a long-term retention policy for the database

D.   Use automatic Azure SQL Database backups

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

QUESTION 1

You plan to deploy a payroll system to Azure. The payroll system will use Azure virtual machines that run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows. You need to recommend a business continuity solution for the payroll system. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Minimize costs.

Provide business continuity if an Azure region fails. Provide a recovery time objective (RTO) of 120 minutes. Provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of five minutes.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

B.    Azure Site Recovery

C.    unmanaged disks that use geo-redundant storage (GRS)

D.   Azure Backup

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

If your storage account has GRS enabled, then your data is durable even in the case of a complete regional outage or a disaster in which the primary region isn't recoverable.

Note: The recovery time objective (RTO) is the targeted duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster (or disruption) in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity.

Incorrect Answers:

B: Azure Site Recovery would not protect against an Azure region failure. Azure Site Recovery guarantees a two-hour Recovery Time Objective.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/site-recovery/v1_0/

QUESTION 2

The accounting department at your company migrates to a new financial accounting software. The accounting department must keep file-based database backups for seven years for compliance purposes. It is unlikely that the backups will be used to recover data.

You need to move the backups to Azure. The solution must minimize costs. Where should you store the backups?

A.    Azure SQL Database

B.    Azure Blob storage that uses the Archive tier

C.    a Recovery Services vault

D.   Azure Blob storage that uses the Cool tier

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

QUESTION 3

You plan to store data in Azure Blob storage for many years. The stored data will be accessed rarely.

You need to ensure that the data in Blob storage is always available for immediate access. The solution must minimize storage costs. Which storage tier should you use?

A.    Cool

B.    Archive

C.    Hot

Correct Answer: A

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Azure cool tier is equivalent to the Amazon S3 Infrequent Access (S3-IA) storage in AWS that provides a low cost high performance storage for infrequently access data.

Note: Azure’s cool storage tier, also known as Azure cool Blob storage, is for infrequently-accessed data that needs to be stored for a minimum of 30 days. Typical use cases include backing up data before tiering to archival systems, legal data, media files, system audit information, datasets used for big data analysis and more.

The storage cost for this Azure cold storage tier is lower than that of hot storage tier. Since it is expected that the data stored in this tier will be accessed less frequently, the data access charges are high when compared to hot tier. There are no additional changes required in your applications as these tiers can be accessed using APIs in the same manner that you access Azure storage.

Incorrect Answers:

B: Even though Azure archive storage offers the lowest cost in terms of data storage, its data retrieval charges are higher than that of hot and cool tiers. In fact, the data in the archive tier remains offline until the tier of the data is changed using a process called hydration. The process of hydrating data in the archive storage tier and moving it to either hot or cool tier could take up to 15 hours and, hence, it is only intended for data that can afford that kind of access delay.

C: The storage cost for this Azure cold storage tier is lower than that of hot storage tier. Reference:

https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/low-cost-storage-options-on-azure

QUESTION 4

You have an on-premises network and an Azure subscription. The on-premises network has several branch offices.

A branch office in Toronto contains a virtual machine named VM1 that is configured as a file server. Users access the shared files on VM1 from all the offices. You need to recommend a solution to ensure that the users can access the shares files as quickly as possible if the Toronto branch office is inaccessible.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    a Recovery Services vault and Azure Backup

B.    an Azure file share and Azure File Sync

C.    Azure blob containers and Azure File Sync

D.   a Recovery Services vault and Windows Server Backup

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Use Azure File Sync to centralize your organization's file shares in Azure Files, while keeping the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server. Azure File Sync transforms Windows Server into a quick cache of your Azure file share.

You need an Azure file share in the same region that you want to deploy Azure File Sync.

Incorrect Answers:

A: Backups would be a slower solution.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-sync-files-deployment-guide

QUESTION 5

You have an Azure subscription for used for testing and development purposes only. The subscription contains Azure virtual machines that unmanaged, standard hard disk drives (HDD).

You need to recommend a recovery strategy for the virtual machines if an Azure region fails for a sustained period. The recovery time objective (RTO) can be up to seven days. The solution must minimize costs.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Store the disks in a Standard_LRS storage account. Configure Azure site Recovery. If a failure occurs, initiate a manual failover.

B.    Store the disks in a Standard_GRS storage account. Configure Azure Recovery. If a failure occurs, initiate a manual failover.

C.    Store the disks in a Standard_LRS storage account. If a disaster occurs, manually create the virtual machines by used Azure Resources Manager templates.

D.   Store the disks in a Standard_GRS storage account. If a disaster occurs, manually create the virtual machines by used Azure Resources Manager templates.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

Geo-redundant storage (GRS) is designed to provide at least 99.99999999999999% (16 9's) durability of objects over a given year by replicating your data to a secondary region that is hundreds of miles away from the primary region. If your storage account has GRS enabled, then your data is durable even in the case of a complete regional outage or a disaster in which the primary region isn't recoverable.

GRS replicates your data to another data center in a secondary region, but that data is available to be read only if Microsoft initiates a failover from the primary to secondary region.

Incorrect Answers:

A, C: If a datacenter-level disaster (for example, fire or flooding) occurs, all replicas in a storage account using LRS may be lost or unrecoverable. To mitigate this risk, Microsoft recommends using zone-redundant storage (ZRS), geo-redundant storage (GRS), or geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS).

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs

QUESTION 6

You plan to deploy a payroll system to Azure. The payroll system will use Azure virtual machines that run SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows. You need to recommend a business continuity solution for the payroll system. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Minimize costs.

Provide business continuity if an Azure region fails. Provide a recovery time objective (RTO) of 30 minutes. Provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of five minutes.

What should you include in the recommendation?

A.    Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

B.    Azure Site Recovery

C.    unmanaged disks that use geo-redundant storage (GRS)

D.   Azure Backup

Correct Answer: C

Explanation/Reference:

Explanation:

If your storage account has GRS enabled, then your data is durable even in the case of a complete regional outage or a disaster in which the primary region isn't recoverable.

Note: The recovery time objective (RTO) is the targeted duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster (or disruption) in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity.

Incorrect Answers:

B: Azure Site Recovery would not protect against an Azure region failure. Azure Site Recovery guarantees a two-hour Recovery Time Objective.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/site-recovery/v1_0/