Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Question
Your company hosts a mission-critical web service on an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) that runs two Standard_D2s_v3 instances in the East US region. All instances currently reside in the same datacenter (no Availability Zones) and the VMSS is fronted by an Azure Standard Load Balancer. A recent datacenter outage caused the service to be unavailable, breaching the corporate requirement of 99.99 percent uptime. You must redesign the compute layer to meet the required SLA without refactoring application code and with minimal additional management effort.
What should you recommend?
Migrate the workload to Azure App Service using a PremiumV3 plan and enable autoscale across multiple instances.
Add two additional virtual machines to the current VMSS to increase the number of fault domains.
Provision a second VMSS in the paired region (East US 2) and place both scale sets behind Azure Traffic Manager using Priority routing.
Recreate the VMSS as a zone-redundant deployment spanning at least two Availability Zones in East US behind the existing Standard Load Balancer.
A VMSS that runs at least two instances distributed across two or more Availability Zones in the same region qualifies for Microsoft's 99.99 percent virtual-machine connectivity SLA when placed behind a load balancer. Converting the existing scale set to a zone-redundant deployment therefore meets the availability target while preserving the current platform and operational model. Simply increasing the instance count in the current single-zone deployment only raises the SLA to 99.95 percent. Moving to Azure App Service still provides a 99.95 percent SLA, and introducing a second region with Traffic Manager adds complexity and does not change the per-VM compute SLA, relying instead on DNS-based failover. Hence, distributing the VMSS across Availability Zones is the correct choice.
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