Question 1

You are designing a global e-commerce application. The web tier is hosted on Azure App Service in three regions: East US, West Europe, and Southeast Asia.

The application requires:
- Global load balancing to route users to the closest region.
- SSL offloading and Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection at the edge.
- Caching of static assets (images, CSS) at the edge.
- Protection against massive DDoS attacks.

Which load balancing solution should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Match the requirements (Global, Layer 7/HTTP, WAF, Caching) to the correct Azure load balancing service.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Choosing Traffic Manager combined with Application Gateway. While possible, Front Door is the single, optimized service that provides all these features globally.

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