Question 1

You are architecting an e-commerce web application hosted on Azure App Service.

During flash sales, the application experiences massive spikes in traffic, causing the backend Azure SQL Database to become overwhelmed with read requests for the product catalog. The product catalog data changes infrequently.

Which service should you introduce to the architecture to improve performance and reduce the load on the database?

Accepted Answer

Identify the standard Azure service used for in-memory caching of database query results.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AZ-305 question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Azure Front Door. Front Door caches HTTP responses at the edge, but Redis is the correct choice for application-level data caching (like database query results).

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