Microsoft Azure Architect Design AZ-301 Practice Test V11.02

1. Testlet 1

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.

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?

2. HOTSPOT

You deploy several Azure SQL Database instances.

You plan to configure the Diagnostics settings on the databases as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

3. Your company uses Microsoft System Center C 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?

4. 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 3 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.

5. 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 you’re your company’s help desk? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure App Service Web App that includes Azure Blob storage and an Azure SQL Database instance. The application is instrumented by using the Application Insights SDK.

You need to design a monitoring solution for the web app.

Which Azure monitoring services should you use? To answer, select the appropriate Azure monitoring services in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

9. DRAG DROP

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. All user accounts are synchronized from an on-premises Active Directory domain and are configured for federated authentication. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers are published for external connections by using a farm of Web Application Proxy servers.

You need to recommend a solution to monitor the servers that integrate with Azure AD.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

Identify any AD FS issues and their potential resolutions.

Identify any directory synchronization configuration issues and their potential resolutions

Notify administrators when there are any issues affecting directory synchronization or AD FS operations.

Which monitoring solution should you recommend for each server type? To answer, drag the appropriate

monitoring solutions to the correct server types. Each monitoring solution 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.

10. 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?

11. DRAG DROP

You plan to move several apps that handle critical line-of-business (LOB) services to Azure. Appropriate personnel must be notified if any critical resources become degraded or unavailable. You need to design a monitoring and notification strategy that can handle up to 100 notifications per hour.

Which three actions should you recommend be performed in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate

actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order. NOTE: More than one order of answer choices is correct. You will receive credit for any of the correct orders you select.

12. DRAG DROP

You manage a solution in Azure.

The solution is performing poorly. You need to recommend tools to determine causes for the performance issues.

What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate monitoring solutions to the correct

scenarios. Each monitoring solution 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.

13. Testlet 1

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.

HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution for configuring the Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) settings.

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.

14. HOTSPOT

You need to design a solution for securing access to the historical transaction data.

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.

15. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution for the users at Contoso to authenticate to the cloud-based services

and the Azure AD-integrated applications.

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.

16. Testlet 2

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.

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

17. HOTSPOT

To meet the authentication requirements of Fabrikam, 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.

18. Question Set 3

Note: This question is 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?

19. Note: This question is 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?

20. Note: This question is 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?

21. Note: This question is 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?

22. Note: This question is 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?

23. Note: This question is 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?

24. 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?

25. HOTSPOT

Your company has an API that returns XML data to internal applications. You plan to migrate the applications to Azure. You also plan to allow the company’s partners to access the API.

You need to recommend an API management solution that meets the following requirements:

– Internal applications must receive data in the JSON format once the applications migrate to Azure.

– Partner applications must have their header information stripped before the applications receive the

data.

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.

26. 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?

27. HOTSPOT

Your company has 20 web APIs that were developed in-house.

The company is developing 10 web apps that will use the web APIs. The web apps and the APIs are registered in the company’s Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. The web APIs are published by using Azure API Management.

You need to recommend a solution to block unauthorized requests originating from the web apps from reaching the web APIs.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

– Use Azure AD-generated claims.

– Minimize configuration and management effort.

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.

28. HOTSPOT

You are designing an access policy for the sales department at your company. Occasionally, the developers at the company must stop, start, and restart Azure virtual machines. The development team changes often. You need to recommend a solution to provide the developers with the required access to the virtual machines.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

– Provide permissions only when needed.

– Use the principle of least privilege.

– Minimize costs.

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.

29. 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?

30. HOTSPOT

You are designing a software as a service (SaaS) application that will enable Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) users to create and publish surveys. The SaaS application will have a front-end web app and a back-end web API. The web app will rely on the web API to handle updates to customer surveys. You need to design an authorization flow for the SaaS application.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

– To access the back-end web API, the web app must authenticate by using OAuth 2 bearer tokens.

– The web app must authenticate by using the identities of individual users.

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.

31. HOTSPOT

You have five .NET Core applications that run on 10 Azure virtual machines in the same subscription. You need to recommend a solution to ensure that the applications can authenticate by using the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

– Ensure that the applications can authenticate only when running on the 10 virtual machines.

– Minimize administrative effort.

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.

32. 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?

33. 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?

34. 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?

35. 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?

36. HOTSPOT

Your organization has developed and deployed several Azure App Service Web and API applications. The applications use Azure Key Vault to store several authentication, storage account, and data encryption keys.

Several departments have the following requests to support the applications:

You need to recommend the appropriate Azure service for each department request.

What should you recommend? To answer, configure the appropriate options in the dialog box in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

37. 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?

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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?

39. HOTSPOT

You manage a network that includes an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services domain and an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

Employees are required to use different accounts when using on-premises or cloud resources. You must recommend a solution that lets employees sign in to all company resources by using a single account. The solution must implement an identity provider.

You need provide guidance on the different identity providers.

How should you describe each identity provider? To answer, select the appropriate description from each list in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

40. Note: This question is 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.

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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?

41. 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?

42. DRAG DROP

A company has an existing web application that runs on virtual machines (VMs) in Azure.

You need to ensure that the application is protected from SQL injection attempts and uses a layer-7 load balancer. The solution must minimize disruption to the code for the existing web application.

What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate values to the correct items. Each value 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.

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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?

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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?

45. Note: This question is 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.

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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?

46. HOTSPOT

A company plans to implement an HTTP-based API to support a web app. The web app allows customers to check the status of their orders.

The API must meet the following requirements:

– Implement Azure Functions

– Provide public read-only operations

– Do not allow write operations

You need to recommend configuration options.

What should you recommend? To answer, configure the appropriate options in the dialog box in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

47. 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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

51. Note: This question is 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.

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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?

52. 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?

53. HOTSPOT

You configure the Diagnostics settings for an Azure SQL database as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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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?

55. 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?

56. Note: This question is 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.

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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?

57. Note: This question is 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.

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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?

58. HOTSPOT

You are building an application that will run in a virtual machine (VM). The application will use Managed Service Identity (MSI). The application uses Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Cosmos DB.

You need to ensure the application can use secure credentials to access these services.

Which authorization methods should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

59. 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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

63. 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?

64. 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?

65. 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?

66. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure subscription that contains 300 Azure virtual machines that run Windows Server 2016. You need to centrally monitor all warning events in the System logs of the virtual machines.

What should you include in the solutions? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

67. Testlet 1

Case study

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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.

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?