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You have five datacenters across North America and Europe.
You have an Azure subscription.
You need to recommend a solution to provide connectivity between the datacenters and Azure. The solution must meet the following requirements:
* Ensure that apps hosted in a datacenter can access the resources hosted in Azure and the other datacenters.
* Ensure that apps hosted in Azure can access the resources hosted in the datacenters.
* Support the central management of network routes.
* Support the central management of firewall rules.
* Minimize administrative effort.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Virtual WAN centrally connects branches and VNets and provides centralized route and security-policy management. Front Door only handles application-layer web traffic.
You are designing an app that will use Azure Cosmos DB to collate sales data from multiple countries. You need to recommend an API for the app. The solution must meet the following requirements:
* Support SQL queries.
* Support geo-replication.
* Store and access data relationally.
Which API should you recommend?
The SQL API is the correct choice for this scenario. Here's why:
<ul><li><strong>Supports SQL queries</strong>: The SQL API is specifically designed to support SQL queries natively.</li><li><strong>Supports geo-replication</strong>: All Azure Cosmos DB APIs support geo-replication, but the SQL API is the primary choice for relational data patterns.</li><li><strong>Store and access data relationally</strong>: The SQL API is best suited for relational data models and provides document-oriented storage with SQL query capabilities.</li></ul>While the Table API could store relational-like data, it doesn't support SQL queries. The MongoDB and Cassandra APIs don't natively support SQL queries. The SQL API is the optimal recommendation for all three requirements.
Your company has offices in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
You have an on-premises app named App1 that uses Azure Table storage. Each office hosts a local instance of App1.
You need to upgrade the storage for App1. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Enable simultaneous write operations in multiple Azure regions.
Ensure that write latency is less than 10 ms.
Support indexing on all columns.
Minimize development effort.
Which data platform should you use?
Cosmos DB supports multi-region writes, automatic indexing and single-digit-millisecond response times. Table Storage GZRS does not provide equivalent global multi-write behavior.
Your company has the divisions shown in the following table.
Sub1 contains an Azure App Service web app named App1. Appl uses Azure AD for single-tenant user authentication. Users from contoso.com can authenticate to App1.
You need to recommend a solution to enable users in the fabrikam.com tenant to authenticate to App1.
What should you recommend?
PIM controls privileged role activation; it does not convert a single-tenant application into a multitenant application.
You need to deploy resources to host a stateless web app in an Azure subscription. The solution must meet the following requirements:
* Provide access to the full .NET framework.
* Provide redundancy if an Azure region fails.
* Grant administrators access to the operating system to install custom application dependencies.
Solution: You deploy an Azure virtual machine to two Azure regions, and you deploy an Azure Application Gateway.
Does this meet the goal?
You need to deploy two Azure virtual machines to two Azure regions, but also create a Traffic Manager profile.
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