Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 Practice Question
Your company has deployed several Azure virtual machines (VMs) to a virtual network for an application that must be accessible only within your Azure environment and should not be exposed to the internet. You need to distribute network traffic among these VMs to optimize performance. What should you do to meet these requirements?
Deploy a public load balancer and configure it to distribute traffic among the VMs
Use Azure Application Gateway to load balance traffic to the VMs
Deploy an internal load balancer and configure it to distribute traffic among the VMs
Assign public IP addresses to each VM and use Azure Traffic Manager to distribute traffic
You should deploy an internal load balancer in Azure to distribute traffic among the VMs. An internal load balancer distributes traffic within a virtual network or from connected networks through VPN or ExpressRoute. It doesn't have a public IP address and is not accessible from the internet, which aligns with the requirement to keep the application internal.
Deploying a public load balancer (Option B) would expose the application to the internet via a public IP address, which violates the security requirement. Assigning public IP addresses to each VM and using Azure Traffic Manager (Option C) would also expose the VMs externally and is not suitable for internal-only access. Azure Application Gateway (Option D) is designed for web traffic load balancing at the application layer (HTTP/HTTPS) and may be unnecessary if you only need network-level load balancing without web-specific features.
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