AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert 5

Question 1

A company needs to ensure high availability for an Azure Application Gateway across multiple availability zones. What must the architect configure?

Accepted Answer

Use Application Gateway v2 SKU with zone redundancy enabled

Answer

Application Gateway v2 supports zone redundancy by distributing instances across availability zones within a region.

Question 2

Which Azure Cosmos DB consistency level provides the lowest read latency but may return stale data from any replica?

Accepted Answer

Eventual

Answer

Eventual consistency offers the lowest latency and highest throughput but provides no ordering guarantees and may return stale reads.

Question 3

An architect must design a solution to distribute incoming HTTPS traffic across multiple Azure regions, routing users to the nearest healthy endpoint. Which service is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Azure Front Door

Answer

Azure Front Door provides global Layer 7 load balancing with anycast routing, SSL offload, and health-based failover across regions.

Question 4

A company must retain Azure Activity Log data for compliance purposes for 2 years. What is the recommended approach?

Accepted Answer

Export the Activity Log to a Log Analytics workspace and configure a data retention policy

Answer

Exporting Activity Logs to a Log Analytics workspace allows configuring retention up to 730 days (or archiving to storage for longer periods).

Question 5

When designing an Azure landing zone, which construct provides the highest level of scope for applying governance policies that affect all subscriptions in an organization?

Accepted Answer

Management Group (Root)

Answer

The Root Management Group sits at the top of the hierarchy and any policy assigned there inherits down to all management groups and subscriptions.

AZ-304 - Microsoft Azure Architect Design Practice Test

AZ-304 - Microsoft Azure Architect Design Practice Test

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert 5