Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Flashcards
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What is an Azure Landing Zone?
Answer: A pre-configured, scalable environment following best practices for deploying enterprise workloads in Azure
Azure Landing Zones provide a modular, opinionated environment with governance, networking, security, and identity foundations for deploying enterprise workloads at scale.
Which design pattern decouples services by placing a queue between a producer and consumer to handle load spikes?
Answer: Queue-based Load Leveling pattern
The Queue-based Load Leveling pattern uses a message queue as a buffer between a producer and consumer, smoothing out spikes in traffic without dropping requests.
What is the primary consideration when choosing between Azure Traffic Manager and Azure Front Door?
Answer: Traffic Manager routes DNS-level traffic globally; Front Door is an application-layer (L7) global load balancer with WAF and CDN capabilities
Traffic Manager operates at DNS level for global routing, while Azure Front Door provides Layer 7 HTTP routing with built-in WAF, SSL offload, and CDN edge caching.
What is the purpose of Azure Blueprints?
Answer: Defining repeatable sets of Azure resources, policies, and role assignments to deploy compliant environments consistently
Azure Blueprints package ARM templates, policies, and RBAC assignments into a single artifact that can be deployed to subscriptions to enforce consistent, compliant environments.
What architectural benefit does deploying across Azure Availability Zones provide?
Answer: Protection against an entire datacenter failure within a region, providing 99.99% SLA
Deploying resources across Availability Zones protects against entire datacenter failures since zones are physically separate facilities within a region, achieving a 99.99% SLA.
When designing a multi-region active-active architecture, which Azure database service supports automatic multi-region write capabilities?
Answer: Azure Cosmos DB with multi-region writes enabled
Azure Cosmos DB supports multi-region writes, allowing applications to write data to any configured region with automatic conflict resolution.
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