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Azure Compute Solutions Design Flashcards

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  1. You need to design an auto-scaling solution for Azure VMs that scales out based on custom application metrics from Azure Monitor. Which service enables this?

    Answer: Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Azure Monitor autoscale rules

    VMSS autoscale rules integrate with Azure Monitor custom metrics to trigger scale-out or scale-in events based on any metric you instrument.

  2. Your team needs to ensure that new VMs deployed in production always use a hardened OS image with the latest security patches applied. Which approach enforces this?

    Answer: Use Azure Shared Image Gallery with versioned, patched custom images and Azure Policy

    Shared Image Gallery stores versioned custom images and Azure Policy can enforce that VM deployments only use approved gallery images.

  3. You need to deploy an application to Azure that requires low-latency GPU processing for AI inference workloads. Which VM series should you select?

    Answer: NCv3 or NDv2-series (GPU compute)

    NC and ND-series VMs are equipped with NVIDIA GPUs (V100, A100) specifically designed for AI/ML training and inference workloads.

  4. An application deployed on AKS needs to scale the number of pods based on the depth of an Azure Service Bus queue. Which AKS feature enables this?

    Answer: KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) with Service Bus scaler

    KEDA is built into AKS and provides event-driven pod autoscaling with native scalers for Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, Storage Queues, and dozens more.

  5. You need Azure App Service to access a backend Azure SQL Database in a private VNet without exposing the database publicly. Which App Service feature enables private VNet connectivity?

    Answer: App Service VNet Integration (Regional)

    Regional VNet Integration enables outbound connections from App Service to resources in an injected subnet within your VNet, including private endpoints.

  6. You are designing a microservices application on AKS and need to ensure that a pod's identity is used to authenticate to Azure Key Vault without managing credentials. Which feature should you enable on the AKS cluster?

    Answer: Azure AD Workload Identity with federated credentials

    Azure AD Workload Identity federates Kubernetes service account tokens with Azure AD managed identities, providing credential-free access to Azure services from pods.