CASE STUDY: Global Enterprise Network
Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 servers across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $10 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.
The company needs to reduce IT costs by 30%, improve disaster recovery (current RTO: 24 hours -> target: 2 hours), enhance security posture to meet ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and enable remote work for 80% of employees. All solutions must support future growth of 20% annually.
Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012. Network connectivity requires 10 Gbps throughput to Azure with <20ms latency. GDPR compliance mandates that EU customer data must remain in European Azure regions.
QUESTION 1 OF 5:
Contoso needs to connect their 5 global data centers to Azure and provide any-to-any connectivity (e.g., Data Center 1 can talk to Data Center 2 via the Azure backbone). They also need to connect 20 different Azure VNets across 3 regions. They want a managed service that minimizes routing complexity.
Which network topology should you recommend?
AZ-305 · Question 54 · Domain 4.4: Design network solutions
CASE STUDY: Global Enterprise Network
Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 servers across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $10 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.
The company needs to reduce IT costs by 30%, improve disaster recovery (current RTO: 24 hours -> target: 2 hours), enhance security posture to meet ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and enable remote work for 80% of employees. All solutions must support future growth of 20% annually.
Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012. Network connectivity requires 10 Gbps throughput to Azure with <20ms latency. GDPR compliance mandates that EU customer data must remain in European Azure regions.
QUESTION 4 OF 5:
Contoso deploys an Azure SQL Database to store sensitive EU customer data.
To meet GDPR and internal security policies, the database must not be accessible via the public internet. Furthermore, on-premises servers connected via ExpressRoute must be able to connect to the database using a private IP address from the Azure Virtual Network space.
Which feature should you configure for the Azure SQL Database?
Answer options:
Azure Private Endpoint (Private Link)
Service Endpoints
Azure SQL Database firewall rules
VNet Peering
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