A multinational company must comply with data residency requirements that mandate customer data be stored in specific geographic regions. The company also wants to prevent developers from accidentally creating resources in non-compliant regions. Which Azure feature should the company use?

Azure Resource Manager templates with parameters

Azure Policy with allowed locations

Azure Blueprints with role assignments

Azure Management Groups with subscription hierarchy

A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure VMs. They need to ensure that the application remains available during both planned maintenance and unexpected hardware failures. They also want to automatically add more VMs during peak usage. What should they implement?

Use Azure Load Balancer to distribute traffic.

Place VMs in an availability set and configure autoscaling.

Use a single VM with a larger size and enable autoscaling.

Use Azure Site Recovery to replicate to another region.

A company runs a web application that must be available during a regional outage. The company has a limited budget and cannot afford to run a fully active second region. The company can accept a recovery time of up to 30 minutes. Which Azure solution should the company choose?

Azure Front Door with a single origin

Azure Site Recovery with a pilot light deployment in a secondary region

Azure Traffic Manager with a single region deployment

Azure Backup with geo-redundant storage

A company runs a containerized microservices application in Azure. The application has variable traffic, and the company wants to automatically scale individual microservices based on demand. The company also wants to minimize operational overhead and avoid managing the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure. Which Azure service should the company use?

Azure App Service for Containers

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A multinational company must comply with data residency requirements that mandate customer data be stored in specific geographic regions. The company also wants to prevent developers from accidentally creating resources in non-compliant regions. Which Azure feature should the company use?
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A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure VMs. They need to ensure that the application remains available during both planned maintenance and unexpected hardware failures. They also want to automatically add more VMs during peak usage. What should they implement?
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A company runs a web application that must be available during a regional outage. The company has a limited budget and cannot afford to run a fully active second region. The company can accept a recovery time of up to 30 minutes. Which Azure solution should the company choose?
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A company runs a containerized microservices application in Azure. The application has variable traffic, and the company wants to automatically scale individual microservices based on demand. The company also wants to minimize operational overhead and avoid managing the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure. Which Azure service should the company use?
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Which cloud computing benefit is primarily provided by features such as encryption, identity management, and network security groups?
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