Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies AZ-303 Study Guide Updated

1. Topic 1, Contoso, Ltd



Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a manufacturing company that has offices worldwide. Contoso works with partner organizations to bring products to market.



Contoso products are manufactured by using blueprint files that the company authors and maintains.



Existing Environment

Currently, Contoso uses multiple types of servers for business operations, including the following:

✑ File servers

✑ Domain controllers

✑ Microsoft SQL Server servers



Your network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. All servers and client computers are joined to Active Directory.

You have a public-facing application named App1.



App1 is comprised of the following three tiers:

✑ A SQL database

✑ A web front end

✑ A processing middle tier

Each tier is comprised of five virtual machines. Users access the web front end by using HTTPS only.



Requirements

Planned Changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes to the infrastructure:

✑ Move all the tiers of App1 to Azure.

✑ Move the existing product blueprint files to Azure Blob storage.

✑ Create a hybrid directory to support an upcoming Microsoft Office 365 migration project.



Technical Requirements

Contoso must meet the following technical requirements:

✑ Move all the virtual machines for App1 to Azure.

✑ Minimize the number of open ports between the App1 tiers.

✑ Ensure that all the virtual machines for App1 are protected by backups.

✑ Copy the blueprint files to Azure over the Internet.

✑ Ensure that the blueprint files are stored in the archive storage tier.

✑ Ensure that partner access to the blueprint files is secured and temporary.

✑ Prevent user passwords or hashes of passwords from being stored in Azure.

✑ Use unmanaged standard storage for the hard disks of the virtual machines.

✑ Ensure that when users join devices to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), the users use a mobile phone to verify their identity.

Minimize administrative effort whenever possible.



User Requirements

Contoso identifies the following requirements for users:

Ensure that only users who are part of a group named Pilot can join devices to Azure AD.

Designate a new user named Admin1 as the service administrator of the Azure subscription.

Ensure that a new user named User3 can create network objects for the Azure subscription.



You need to move the blueprint files to Azure.

What should you do?

2. You need to implement a backup solution for App1 after the application is moved.

What should you create first?

3. You are planning the move of App1 to Azure.

You create a network security group (NSG).

You need to recommend a solution to provide users with access to App1.

What should you recommend?

4. You need to meet the user requirement for Admin1.

What should you do?

5. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution for App1. The solution must meet the technical requirements.

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.

6. HOTSPOT

You need to configure the Device settings to meet the technical requirements and the user requirements.

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

7. You need to recommend an identify solution that meets the technical requirements.

What should you recommend?

8. HOTSPOT

You need to identify the storage requirements for Contoso.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

9. Topic 2, Litware inc.



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.



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Overview. General Overview

Litware, Inc. is a medium-sized finance company. Litware recently acquired a financial services company named Fabrikam, Ltd.



Overview. Physical Locations

Litware has a datacenter in Boston. Fabrikam has a datacenter in San Francisco.



Existing Environment. Identity Environment

The network of Litware contains an Active Directory forest named Litware.com that syncs to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named Litware.com by using Azure AD Connect.

Azure AD Seamless Single Sign-on (Azure AD Seamless SSO) is enabled for the Litware.com tenant.

Users at Litware have a UPN suffix of Litware.com

Litware has an internal certification authority (CA) that is trusted by all devices.

The network of Fabrikam contains an Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com. Users at Fabrikam have a UPN suffix of fabrikam.com.



Existing Environment. Azure Environment

Litware has an Azure subscription named Sub1 that is linked to the Litware.com tenant.

Sub1 contains the resources shown in the following table.





Litware has Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates that deploy Azure Policy definitions and assignments to a management group.

Fabrikam does NOT have an Azure environment.



Existing Environment. On-Premises Environment

The on-premises network of Litware contains the resources shown in the following table.





The on-premises network of Fabrikam contains a domain member server named SERVER1 that runs Windows Server 2019.



Existing Environment. Network Environment

Litware has a site-to-site VPN connection to VNet1.

The Litware and Fabrikam datacenters are not connected.



Requirements. Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

✑ Establish a trust relationship between the Litware and Fabrikam forests.

✑ Migrate data from the on-premises NoSQL datastores to Azure Table storage.

✑ Containerize WebApp1 and deploy the app to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster on VNet1.

✑ Create an Azure blueprint named BP1 and use the blueprint to provision a resource group named RG1.



Requirements. Deployment Requirements

Litware identifies the following deployment requirements:

✑ The existing ARM templates must be used for deployments to Sub1.

✑ WebApp1 must be deployed to the AKS cluster without having to change the source code.



Requirements. Authentication and Authorization Requirements

Litware identifies the following authentication and authorization requirements:

✑ The Fabrikam users must be able to authenticate to the Litware.com tenant by using Azure AD Seamless SSO.

✑ The Fabrikam users and the Litware users must be able to manage the Azure resources in Sub1.

✑ Company policy must prohibit the creation of guest user accounts in the Litware.com tenant.

✑ You must be able to configure deny permissions for RG1 and for the resources in RG1.

✑ WebApp1 running on the AKS cluster must be able to retrieve secrets from KV1.



Requirements. Security Requirements

Litware identifies the following security requirements:

✑ On-premises Litware users must access KVI by using the private IP address of the key vault.

✑ Azure virtual machines must have all their disks encrypted, including the temporary disks.

✑ Azure Storage must encrypt all data by using keys issued by the internal CA of Litware.

✑ Inbound HTTPS traffic to WebApp1 must be inspected for SQL injection attacks.

✑ The principle of least privilege must be used.



You need to configure Azure AD Seamless SSO for Fabrikam. The solution must meet the authentication and authorization requirements.

What should you install first?

10. You migrate WebApp1 to Azure.

You need to configure the AKS cluster to enable WebApp1 to access KV1. The solution must meet the authentication and authorization requirements.

What should you do?

11. You need to ensure that the NoSQL data is encrypted. The solution must meet the security requirements.

What should you do first?

12. You need to ensure that you can implement Azure AD Seamless SSO for Fabrikam. The solution must meet the following requirements:

✑ Support the planned changes.

✑ Meet the authentication and authorization requirements.

What should you do?

13. HOTSPOT

You plan to migrate WebApp1 to Azure.

You need to implement the AKS cluster that will host WebApp1. The solution must meet the deployment requirements.

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

14. DRAG DROP

You need to ensure that the virtual machine disks are encrypted. The solution must meet the security requirements.

Which three actions should you perform in Sub1 in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

15. You create and publish the BP1 blueprint.

You need to ensure that you can use BP1 to configure permissions for RG1. The solution must meet the authentication and authorization requirements.

What should you do?

16. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution to provide KV1 with access to the on-premises network of Litware. The solution must meet the security requirements.

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.

17. You migrate WebApp1 to Azure.

You need to implement a traffic filtering solution for WebApp1. The solution must meet the security requirements.

What should you do?

18. Topic 3, Misc. Questions



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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You have an app named App1 that uses data from two on-premises Microsoft SQL Server databases named DB1 and DB2.

You plan to move DB1 and DB2 to Azure.

You need to implement Azure services to host DB1 and DB2. The solution must support server-side transactions across DB1 and DB2.

Solution: You deploy DB1 and DB2 as Azure SQL databases on the same Azure SQL Database server.

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 a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2019. Server1 is a container host.

You are creating a Dockerfile to build a container image.

You need to add a file named File1.txt from Server1 to a folder named C:Folder1 in the container image.

Solution: You add the following line to the Dockerfile.

ADD File1.txt C:/Folder1/

You then build the container image.

Does this meet the goal?

20. HOTSPOT

You have several Azure virtual machines on a virtual network named VNet1.

You configure an Azure Storage account 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.

21. You create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) duster and an Azure Container Registry.

You need to perform continuous deployments of a containerized application to the AKS cluster as soon as the image updates in the registry.

What should you use to perform the deployments?

22. You have an Azure virtual network that contains a subnet named Subnet1. Subnet1 contains 50 virtual machines. Twenty-five of the virtual machines are web servers and the other 25 are application servers.

You need to filter traffic the web servers and the application servers by using application security groups.

Which additional resources should you provision?

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 Cosmos DB database that contains a container named Container1. The partition key for Container1 is set to /day.

Container1 contains the items shown in the following table.





You need to programmatically query Azure Cosmos DB and retrieve item1 and item2 only.

Solution: You run the following query.





You set the EnableCrossPartitionQuery property to True.

Does this meet the goal?

24. DRAG DROP

You are designing a solution to secure a company’s Azure resources. The environment hosts 10 teams. Each team manages a project and has a project manager, a virtual machine (VM) operator, developers, and contractors.

Project managers must be able to manage everything except access and authentication for users. VM operators must be able to manage VMs, but not the virtual network or storage account to which they are connected. Developers and contractors must be able to manage storage accounts.

You need to recommend roles for each member.

What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate roles to the correct employee types. Each role 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.

25. You have an Azure subscription named Subscription1 that is used by several departments at your company.

Subscription1 contains the resources in the following table.





Another administrator deploys a virtual machine named VM1 and an Azure Storage account named Storage2 by using a single Azure Resource Manager template.

You need to view the template used for the deployment.

From which blade can you view the template that was used for the deployment?

26. You have an Azure subscription that contains the storage accounts shown in the following table.





You enable Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for all the storage accounts.

You need to identify which storage accounts will generate Azure ATP alerts.

Which two storage accounts should you identify? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

27. You have an Azure subscription that contains a resource group named RG1. RG1 contains multiple resources.

You need to trigger an alert when the resources in RG1 consume $1,000 USD.

What should you do?

28. Your company has the groups shown in the following table.





The company has an Azure subscription that contains an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com.

An administrator named Admin1 attempts to enable Enterprise State Roaming for all the users in the Managers group.

Admin1 reports that the options for Enterprise State Roaming are unavailable from Azure AD.

You verify that Admin1 is assigned the Global administrator role.

You need to ensure that Admin1 can enable Enterprise State Roaming.

What should you do?

29. 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.

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 app named App1 that uses data from two on-premises Microsoft SQL Server databases named DB1 and DB2.

You plan to move DB1 and DB2 to Azure.

You need to implement Azure services to host DB1 and DB2. The solution must support erver-side transactions across DB1 and DB2.

Solution: You deploy DB1 and DB2 as Azure SQL databases each on a different Azure SQL Database server.

Does this meet the goal?

30. HOTSPOT

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





You create an Azure Resource Manager template named Template1 as shown in the following exhibit.





From the Azure portal, you deploy Template1 four times by using the settings shown in the following table.





What is the result of the deployment? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

31. 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 a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2019. Server1 is a container host.

You are creating a Dockerfile to build a container image.

You need to add a file named File1.txt from Server1 to a folder named C:Folder1 in the container image.

Solution: You add the following line to the Dockerfile.

XCOPY File1.txt C:Folder1

You then build the container image.

Does this meet the goal?

32. 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 Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that contains a group named Group1.

You need to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the users in Group1 only.

Solution: From the Azure portal, you configure an authentication method policy.

Does this meet the goal?

33. HOTSPOT

Your network contains an on-premises Active Directory domain named contoso.com that contains a user named User1. The domain syncs to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

You have the Windows 10 devices shown in the following table.





The User Sign-In settings are configured as shown in the following exhibit.









For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

34. You are implementing authentication for applications in your company. You plan to implement self-service password reset (SSPR) and multifactor authentication (MFA) in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

You need to select authentication mechanisms that can be used for both MFA and SSPR.

Which two authentication methods should you use? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

35. You plan to automate the deployment of a virtual machine scale set that uses the Windows Server 2016 Datacenter image. You need to ensure that when the scale set virtual machines are provisioned, they have web server components installed.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

36. You have an Azure Cosmos DB account named Account1. Account1 includes a database named DB1 that contains a container named Container1. The partition key for Container1 is set to /city.

You plan to change the partition key for Container1.

What should you do first?

37. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure subscription named Subscription1.

In Subscription1, you create an alert rule named Alert1.

The Alert1 action group is configured as shown in the following exhibit.





Alert1 alert criteria is triggered every minute.

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.

38. You have an Azure subscription.

You have 100 Azure virtual machines.

You need to quickly identify underutilized virtual machines that can have their changed to a less expensive offering.

Which Wade should you use?

39. You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure key vault named KeyVault1 and the virtual machines shown in the following table.





KeyVault1 has an access policy that provides several users with Create Key permissions.

You need to ensure that the users can only register secrets in KeyVault1 from VM1.

What should you do?

40. HOTSPOT

You have a web server app named App1 that is hosted in three Azure regions.

You plan to use Azure Traffic Manager to distribute traffic optimally for App1.

You need to enable Real User Measurements to monitor the network latency data for App1.

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

41. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that contains the user groups shown in the following table.





You enable self-service password reset (SSPR) for Group1.

You configure the Notifications settings as shown in the following exhibit.





For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

42. DRAG DROP

You have virtual machines (VMs) that run a mission-critical application.

You need to minimize the possibility that the application will experience downtime.

What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate solutions to the correct scenarios. Each 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.

43. 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.

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.

Your company is deploying an on-premises application named Appl. Users will access App1 by using a URL of https://app1.contoso.com. You register App1 in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and publish Appl by using the Azure AD Application Proxy. You need to ensure that Appl appears in the My Apps portal for all the users.

Solution: You create an offer for App1 and publish the offer to Azure Marketplace.

44. HOTSPOT

Your company has a virtualization environment that contains the virtualization hosts shown in the following table.





The virtual machines are configured as shown in the following table.





All the virtual machines use basic disks. VM1 is protected by using BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker).

You plan to migrate the virtual machines to Azure by using Azure Site Recovery.

You need to identify which virtual machines can be migrated.

Which virtual machines should you identify for each server? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

45. You have an Azure web app that runs in a Premium App Service plan.

Developers plan to update the app weekly.

You need to ensure that the app can be twitched from the current version to the new version.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Provide the developers with the ability to test the app m Azure prior to switching versions Testing must use the same app instance

• Ensure that the app version can be rolled back.

• Minimize downtime.

What should you do?

46. 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 a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2019. Server1 is a container host.

You are creating a Dockerfile to build a container image.

You need to add a file named File1.txt from Server1 to a folder named C:Folder1 in the container image.

Solution: You add the following line to the Dockerfile.

COPY File1.txt C:/Folder1/

You then build the container image.

Does this meet the goal?

47. You have an Azure subscription that contains 20 virtual machines. The virtual machines require authenticated access to several Azure resources.

You need to ensure that the virtual machines can authenticate by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

Solution: You configure the Identity settings for each virtual machine.

Does this meet the goal?

48. You have the following Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants

• Contosoonmicrosoft.com Linked to a Microsoft Office 365 tenant and syncs to an Active Directory forest named contoso.com by using password hash synchronization

• Contosoazure onmicrosoft.com Linked to an Azure subscription named Subscription1.

You need to ensure that you can assign the users in contoso.com access to the resources in Subscription1.

What should you do?

49. You have an Azure subscription named Subscription1.

You create several Azure virtual machines in Subscription1. All of the virtual machines belong to the same virtual network.

You have an on-premises Hyper-V server named Server1. Server1 hosts a virtual machine named VM1.

You plan to replicate VM1 to Azure.

You need to create additional objects in Subscription1 to support the planned deployment.

Which three objects should you create? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

50. You have resources in three Azure regions. Each region contains two virtual machines. Each virtual machine has a public IP address assigned to its network interface and a locally installed application named App1.

You plan to implement Azure Front Door-based load balancing across all the virtual machines.

You need to ensure that App1 on the virtual machines will only accept traffic routed from Azure Front Door.

What should you implement?