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You are designing a storage solution that will ingest, store, and analyze petabytes (PBs) of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured text data. The analyzed data will be offloaded to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for long-term retention.

You need to recommend a storage and analytics solution that meets the following requirements:
• Stores the processed data
• Provides interactive analytics
• Supports manual scaling, built-in autoscaling, and custom autoscaling

What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You plan to use Azure SQL as a database platform.

You need to recommend an Azure SQL product and service tier that meets the following requirements:
• Automatically scales compute resources based on the workload demand
• Provides per second billing

What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains an Azure SQL managed instance that stores employee details, including social security numbers and phone numbers.

You need to configure the managed instance to meet the following requirements:

• The helpdesk team must see only the last four digits of an employee’s phone number.
• Cloud administrators must be prevented from seeing the employee’s social security numbers.

What should you enable for each column in the managed instance? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure subscription that contains 10 web apps. The apps are integrated with Azure AD and are accessed by users on different project teams.

The users frequently move between projects.

You need to recommend an access management solution for the web apps. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• The users must only have access to the app of the project to which they are assigned currently.
• Project managers must verify which users have access to their project’s app and remove users that are no longer assigned to their project.
• Once every 30 days, the project managers must be prompted automatically to verify which users are assigned to their projects.

What should you include in the recommendation?

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You have an Azure subscription that contains 50 Azure SQL databases.

You create an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template named Template1 that enables Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).

You need to create an Azure Policy definition named Policy1 that will use Template1 to enable TDE for any noncompliant Azure SQL databases.

How should you configure Policy1? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have 12 Azure subscriptions and three projects. Each project uses resources across multiple subscriptions.

You need to use Microsoft Cost Management to monitor costs on a per project basis. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table:

Log files from App1 are registered to App1Logs. An average of 120 GB of log data is ingested per day.

You configure an Azure Monitor alert that will be triggered if the App1 logs contain error messages.

You need to minimize the Log Analytics costs associated with App1. The solution must meet the following requirements:
• Ensure that all the log files from App1 are ingested to App1Logs.
• Minimize the impact on the Azure Monitor alert.

Which resource should you modify, and which modification should you perform? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table.

You need to recommend a load balancing solution that will distribute incoming traffic for VMSS1 across NVA1 and NVA2. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you include in the recommendation?

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You plan to deploy an infrastructure solution that will contain the following configurations:
• External users will access the infrastructure by using Azure Front Door.
• External user access to the backend APIs hosted in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) will be controlled by using Azure API Management.
• External users will be authenticated by an Azure AD B2C tenant that uses OpenID Connect-based federation with a third-party identity provider.

Which function does each service provide? To answer, drag the appropriate functions to the correct services. Each function may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains a tiered app named App1 that is distributed across multiple containers hosted in Azure Container Instances.

You need to deploy an Azure Monitor monitoring solution for App. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Support using synthetic transaction monitoring to monitor traffic between the App1 components.
• Minimize development effort.

What should you include in the solution?

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.

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Your company plans to deploy various Azure App Service instances that will use Azure SQL databases. The App Service instances will be deployed at the same time as the Azure SQL databases.

The company has a regulatory requirement to deploy the App Service instances only to specific Azure regions. The resources for the App Service instances must reside in the same region.

You need to recommend a solution to meet the regulatory requirement.

Solution: You recommend using an Azure Policy initiative to enforce the location of resource groups.

Does this meet the goal?

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You have an Azure subscription that contains multiple storage accounts.

You assign Azure Policy definitions to the storage accounts.

You need to recommend a solution to meet the following requirements:

• Trigger on-demand Azure Policy compliance scans.
• Raise Azure Monitor non-compliance alerts by querying logs collected by Log Analytics.

What should you recommend for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have an Azure subscription.

You plan to deploy five storage accounts that will store block blobs and five storage accounts that will host file shares. The file shares will be accessed by using the SMB protocol.

You need to recommend an access authorization solution for the storage accounts. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Maximize security.
• Prevent the use of shared keys.
• Whenever possible, support time-limited access.

What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains 100 virtual machines that run Windows Server 2022 and have the Azure Monitor Agent installed.

You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

• Forwards JSON-formatted logs from the virtual machines to a Log Analytics workspace
• Transforms the logs and stores the data in a table in the Log Analytics workspace

What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have an Azure subscription.

You need to deploy a solution that will provide point-in-time restore for blobs in storage accounts that have blob versioning and blob soft delete enabled.

Which type of blob should you create, and what should you enable for the accounts? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Your company, named Contoso, Ltd., has an Azure subscription that contains the following resources:

• An Azure Synapse Analytics workspace named contosoworkspace1
• An Azure Data Lake Storage account named contosolake1
• An Azure SQL database named contososql1

The product data of Contoso is copied from contososql1 to contosolake1.

Contoso has a partner company named Fabrikam Inc. Fabrikam has an Azure subscription that contains the following resources:

• A virtual machine named FabrikamVM1 that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2019
• An Azure Storage account named fabrikamsa1

Contoso plans to upload the research data on FabrikamVM1 to contosolake1. During the upload, the research data must be transformed to the data formats used by Contoso.

The data in contosolake1 will be analyzed by using contosoworkspace1.

You need to recommend a solution that meets the following requirements:

• Upload and transform the FabrikamVM1 research data.
• Provide Fabrikam with restricted access to snapshots of the data in contosoworkspace1.

What should you recommend for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have the Azure subscriptions shown in the following table.

Contoso.onmicrosft.com contains a user named User1.

You need to deploy a solution to protect against ransomware attacks. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Ensure that all the resources in Sub1 are backed up by using Azure Backup.
• Require that User1 first be assigned a role for Sub2 before the user can make major changes to the backup configuration.

What should you create in each subscription? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You plan to deploy a containerized web-app that will be hosted in five Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Each cluster will be hosted in a different Azure region.

You need to provide access to the app from the internet. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Incoming HTTPS requests must be routed to the cluster that has the lowest network latency.
• HTTPS traffic to individual pods must be routed via an ingress controller.
• In the event of an AKS cluster outage, failover time must be minimized.

What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Your on-premises datacenter contains a server that runs Linux and hosts a Java app named App1. App1 has the following characteristics:

• App1 is an interactive app that users access by using HTTPS connections.
• The number of connections to App1 changes significantly throughout the day.
• App1 runs multiple concurrent instances.
• App1 requires major changes to run in a container.

You plan to migrate App1 to Azure.

You need to recommend a compute solution for App1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• The solution must run multiple instances of App1.
• The number of instances must be managed automatically depending on the load.
• Administrative effort must be minimized.

What should you include in the recommendation?

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You are designing a data pipeline that will integrate large amounts of data from multiple on-premises Microsoft SQL Server databases into an analytics platform in Azure. The pipeline will include the following actions:

• Database updates will be exported periodically into a staging area in Azure Blob storage.
• Data from the blob storage will be cleansed and transformed by using a highly parallelized load process.
• The transformed data will be loaded to a data warehouse.
• Each batch of updates will be used to refresh an online analytical processing (OLAP) model in a managed serving layer.
• The managed serving layer will be used by thousands of end users.

You need to implement the data warehouse and serving layers.

What should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have 10 on-premises servers that run Windows Server.

You need to perform daily backups of the servers to a Recovery Services vault. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Back up all the files and folders on the servers.
• Maintain three copies of the backups in Azure.
• Minimize costs.

What should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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You have an Azure subscription.

You create a storage account that will store documents.

You need to configure the storage account to meet the following requirements:

• Ensure that retention policies are standardized across the subscription.
• Ensure that data can be purged if the data is copied to an unauthorized location.

Which two settings should you enable? To answer, select the appropriate settings in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) instance named AKS1. AKS1 hosts microservice-based APIs that are configured to listen on non-default HTTP ports.

You plan to deploy a Standard tier Azure API Management instance named APIM1 that will make the APIs available to external users.

You need to ensure that the AKS1 APIs are accessible to APIM1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Implement MTLS authentication between APIM1 and AKS1.
• Minimize development effort.
• Minimize costs.

What should you do?

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You need to recommend a solution to integrate Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse. The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Traffic from an Azure Synapse workspace to the Azure Cosmos DB account must be sent via the Microsoft backbone network.
• Traffic from the Azure Synapse workspace to the Azure Cosmos DB account must NOT be routed over the internet.
• Implementation effort must be minimized.

What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.