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A company is migrating their on-premises applications to Azure. They need to ensure that users can authenticate using their existing Active Directory credentials without requiring password synchronization to the cloud. The solution must minimize infrastructure management overhead. What should you recommend?
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You are designing a data storage solution for an e-commerce application that requires storing product catalog data with flexible schema and the ability to perform complex queries across multiple properties. The solution must provide automatic indexing and support for transactions. Which Azure service should you recommend?
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A financial services company needs to implement a disaster recovery strategy for their mission-critical Azure SQL Database. The solution must provide a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 seconds and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 seconds in case of regional failure. What should you configure?
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You need to design a network architecture for an Azure deployment that hosts both web applications and backend databases. The web tier must be accessible from the internet, while the database tier must be completely isolated from internet access but accessible from the web tier. What should you implement?
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A company needs to enforce that all Azure resources must be tagged with 'CostCenter' and 'Environment' tags before deployment. Existing resources without these tags should be identified and flagged for remediation, but not deleted. What Azure feature should you implement?
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You are designing a solution to store application logs from multiple Azure services including Azure App Services, Azure Functions, and Azure Kubernetes Service. The logs must be retained for 2 years, be queryable, and support creating alerts based on log patterns. What should you recommend?
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A media company stores petabytes of video files that are frequently accessed for the first 30 days after upload, occasionally accessed for the next 90 days, and rarely accessed afterward but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. What storage strategy should you implement to optimize costs?
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You need to design a backup solution for Azure Virtual Machines running business-critical applications. The solution must support application-consistent backups, item-level restore, and retention of daily backups for 30 days and monthly backups for 1 year. What should you use?
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A global manufacturing company needs to deploy Azure resources across multiple regions with consistent governance policies, RBAC assignments, and resource configurations. They have separate business units that require different compliance requirements. The solution must support hierarchical policy inheritance and delegation of management responsibilities. What Azure feature should you implement as the foundation?
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You are designing a hybrid cloud solution where an on-premises application needs to securely access Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage Account without exposing these services to the public internet. The connection must be private and support high bandwidth with low latency. What should you implement?
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A financial services company requires that all Azure resources be tagged with cost center information before deployment. The company wants to prevent the creation of any resources that lack the required tags. What should you recommend?
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Your organization hosts a mission-critical application in Azure that must maintain 99.99% availability. The application currently runs in a single Azure region. What architecture change would best meet the availability requirement?
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A company needs to store 500 TB of archived data that is rarely accessed but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. The data retrieval time can be up to 15 hours. Which Azure Storage solution provides the most cost-effective option?
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You are designing a disaster recovery solution for an Azure SQL Database that contains critical financial data. The business requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 10 seconds and the ability to fail over to a secondary region within 1 minute. What solution should you implement?
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A company uses Azure AD to manage identities for 5,000 employees across multiple applications. They need to implement a solution that requires users to provide additional verification when accessing applications from outside the corporate network, but only standard credentials when inside. What should you recommend?
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Your organization runs a data analytics workload that processes large datasets stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. The workload requires reading data from multiple storage accounts across different subscriptions. What is the most secure and manageable way to grant access?
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A company operates a three-tier web application in Azure with web servers in the front end, application servers in the middle tier, and SQL databases in the back end. The application experiences variable traffic with significant spikes during business hours. Which combination of services would optimize both cost and performance?
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Your company needs to monitor and analyze security events across 50 Azure subscriptions, on-premises servers, and AWS resources. The solution must correlate events, detect threats using machine learning, and provide automated response capabilities. What should you implement?
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A healthcare organization must design a data architecture for storing patient health records that complies with HIPAA regulations. The solution must support structured medical data, unstructured documents like medical images, real-time analytics, and maintain a complete audit trail of all data access and modifications. The organization expects 10 million patient records with 50 TB of data. Which combination of Azure services best meets these requirements?
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A global manufacturing company operates factories in 15 countries with IoT devices generating telemetry data. Each factory has intermittent internet connectivity. The solution must process data locally when disconnected, synchronize to Azure when connected, aggregate data from all factories for global analytics, and support machine learning models deployed to edge devices. The total data volume is 2 TB daily. What architecture should you recommend?
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A financial services company requires all Azure resources to be tagged with cost center and project information before deployment. The company wants to prevent resource creation if these tags are missing. What should you implement?
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Your organization runs a mission-critical SQL Server database on Azure VMs. The database must maintain an RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour. The solution must protect against regional failures. What business continuity solution should you recommend?
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A healthcare application stores patient records in Azure SQL Database and requires audit logs to be retained for 7 years for compliance. The audit data must be immutable and tamper-proof. What storage solution should you configure for the audit logs?
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You are designing a multi-tier web application on Azure. The application has a web tier, application tier, and database tier. You need to ensure that the application tier can only be accessed from the web tier, and the database tier can only be accessed from the application tier. What should you implement?
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A company is migrating a large on-premises data warehouse to Azure. The data warehouse is 500 TB and contains sensitive customer information. The data must be encrypted during transit and at rest. Network bandwidth is limited to 100 Mbps. What migration approach should you recommend?
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Your organization uses Azure AD with multiple applications. You need to implement a solution that allows users to authenticate once and access all applications without re-entering credentials, while also enforcing multi-factor authentication for sensitive applications. What should you configure?
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A retail company runs a containerized microservices application that experiences extreme traffic variability, with 10x traffic increases during sales events. The application consists of 50 microservices with complex networking requirements and service mesh capabilities. What container orchestration solution should you recommend?
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Your company has a hub-and-spoke network topology in Azure with 20 spoke VNets connected to a central hub VNet. Each spoke needs to communicate with on-premises resources through the hub, but spokes should not communicate directly with each other. The solution must minimize costs while maintaining security. What should you implement?
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A global e-commerce platform stores product catalog data that must be available across multiple Azure regions with low-latency reads. The data is updated frequently in the primary region and must be eventually consistent in secondary regions. Writes only occur in one region. The solution must support automatic failover. What database solution should you recommend?
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Your organization needs to monitor Azure resources across 15 subscriptions and generate alerts when resources are created outside of approved regions or when specific high-cost resources are deployed. The solution must provide a centralized dashboard for compliance officers. What monitoring solution should you implement?
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A company is deploying a multi-tier web application in Azure. The application includes a web tier, application tier, and database tier. You need to design a network security solution that minimizes attack surface while allowing required communication between tiers. What should you recommend?
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Your organization needs to implement a backup strategy for 50 Azure VMs running business-critical applications. The solution must provide 30-day retention, application-consistent backups, and the ability to restore individual files. What should you use?
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A company uses Azure AD to manage user identities. They need to enforce multi-factor authentication for all users accessing Azure resources from outside the corporate network, but allow single sign-on for users within the office. What should you implement?
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You are designing a storage solution for a data analytics platform that processes 5 TB of log files daily. The logs must be retained for 7 years for compliance but are rarely accessed after 90 days. The solution must minimize storage costs. What storage strategy should you recommend?
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A financial services company needs to deploy a mission-critical SQL database with automatic failover capabilities across Azure regions. The solution must provide RPO of zero and RTO of less than 30 seconds. Which Azure SQL Database configuration should you recommend?
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Your company has multiple Azure subscriptions across different departments. Management requires centralized visibility of all Azure resource costs with the ability to charge back departments based on their resource usage. You need to implement a solution that allows budget alerts and cost analysis by department. What should you implement?
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A retail company runs an e-commerce application that experiences predictable traffic spikes during sales events (3x normal traffic). The application uses Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database. You need to design a cost-effective scaling solution that handles traffic spikes without manual intervention. What should you recommend?
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You are designing a storage architecture for a machine learning platform that processes large datasets. Data scientists need to access data through both file system protocols and REST APIs. The solution must support hierarchical folder structures and fine-grained access control at the folder and file level. What storage solution should you use?
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A global enterprise needs to implement a governance framework across 200+ Azure subscriptions spanning multiple business units. The solution must enforce mandatory tags on all resources, prevent deployment of resources in non-approved regions, and ensure compliance reporting. Several business units have existing resources that don't meet the new standards. What comprehensive approach should you take?
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Your company is migrating a complex on-premises application to Azure that requires low-latency access to a 20 TB Oracle database. The database experiences heavy write operations and requires sub-millisecond latency for transactions. The application must remain available during Azure region failures. Cost optimization is important but secondary to performance. What architecture should you recommend?
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Your organization is migrating a multi-tier web application to Azure. The application includes a front-end web tier, an application tier with business logic, and a database tier. The application tier needs to communicate with on-premises SAP systems via a private connection. Network traffic between tiers must be isolated and controlled. What network architecture should you recommend?
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A financial services company needs to implement a disaster recovery solution for their business-critical SQL Server databases running on Azure VMs. The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 15 minutes and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is 5 minutes. The solution must support automatic failover and maintain data consistency. What solution should you recommend?
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Your company wants to implement a data lake solution in Azure to store and analyze IoT sensor data from manufacturing equipment. The solution must support real-time analytics, batch processing, and long-term archival of data. Data scientists need to query the data using SQL. What combination of services should you recommend?
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An organization needs to implement Azure Policy to enforce that all Azure SQL databases must have Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled. If a database is created without TDE, the policy should automatically enable it. What Azure Policy effect should you use?
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A company is designing a solution to migrate their on-premises file servers (50 TB of data) to Azure. Users need to access files with minimal latency, and the solution should cache frequently accessed files locally while maintaining all data in Azure. The migration should minimize downtime. What solution should you recommend?
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Your organization uses Azure Active Directory and wants to implement a Zero Trust security model. Users access applications from various locations and devices. You need to ensure that access is granted based on real-time risk assessment including sign-in risk and user risk. What Azure AD feature should you implement?
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A retail company runs a containerized e-commerce application that experiences significant traffic spikes during sales events. The application must scale automatically based on CPU and custom metrics like queue length. You need to minimize operational overhead while maintaining high availability across availability zones. What container orchestration solution should you recommend?
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Your company needs to monitor Azure resources and receive alerts when specific conditions are met. You need to create an alert that triggers when the average CPU percentage of a Virtual Machine Scale Set exceeds 80% for more than 10 minutes. The alert should send notifications to multiple channels including email and Microsoft Teams. What Azure service should you configure?
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A healthcare organization is designing an Azure architecture to process and store patient medical records. The solution must comply with HIPAA requirements, ensure data residency in a specific region, provide audit trails for all data access, and encrypt data both at rest and in transit. Patient records are stored as documents and need to be searchable. What combination of services and features should you implement?
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You are designing a backup strategy for Azure Virtual Machines running production workloads. The business requires daily backups to be retained for 30 days, weekly backups for 12 weeks, monthly backups for 12 months, and yearly backups for 7 years. What Azure service and feature should you use to implement this retention policy efficiently?
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