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Domain 4.3: MigrationsDomain 4Azure MigrateMigrationDependency Analysis
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CASE STUDY: Contoso Manufacturing

Overview: Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 VMware VMs across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $50 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.

Business Requirements: 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.

Technical Constraints: Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012 R2. 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:
To meet the security and compliance requirements, Contoso wants to ensure that all outbound internet traffic from their Azure Virtual Networks is inspected and filtered centrally.

Which network architecture should you implement?

AZ-305 · Question 54 · Domain 4.3: Migrations

CASE STUDY: Contoso Manufacturing

Overview: Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 VMware VMs across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $50 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.

Business Requirements: 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.

Technical Constraints: Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012 R2. 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:
Contoso is ready to migrate the 500 VMware VMs to Azure. They want to group the VMs into migration waves based on actual network traffic dependencies to ensure multi-tier applications are migrated together.

Which Azure Migrate feature should they use?

Answer options:

A.

Performance-based sizing

B.

Dependency analysis

C.

Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner

D.

App Service Migration Assistant

How to approach this question

Identify the feature in Azure Migrate that visualizes network connections between servers.

Full Answer

B.Dependency analysis✓ Correct
Dependency analysis
Azure Migrate provides a 'Dependency analysis' feature. It can be run agentless (for VMware) or agent-based. It analyzes the network traffic between servers to build a map of dependencies. This is critical for migration planning, as it ensures that a web server and its corresponding database server are placed in the same migration wave, preventing application breakage during the cutover.

Common mistakes

Confusing performance sizing with dependency mapping. Sizing is for CPU/RAM; dependencies are for network connections.

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