Advanced Comparisons

Question 1

What’s the difference between Azure Application Gateway and Azure Load Balancer?

Answer 1

Application Gateway = Level 7, URL routing, web traffic
Load balancer = Layer 4, TCP/UDP, VMs, containers, apps without URL

Question 2

If traffic cannot be exposed to the public internet, what should be used?

Answer 2

Azure PrivateLink

Question 3

What should be used to encrypt traffic over the public internet?

Answer 3

Azure VPN Gateway

Question 4

What provides global failover in the event of a disaster?

Answer 4

Azure Traffic Manager

Question 5

If content like images need to be hosted dynamically and accessible quickly, should Azure Front Door be used or Azure CDN?

Answer 5

Azure Front Door. CDN hosts static content but does not provide dynamic routing.

Question 6

What does Azure AD Connect do?

Answer 6

Syncs on prem identity to Azure.

Question 7

What routing do Azure NSGs provide?

Answer 7

Subnet and VM level traffic routing.

Question 8

If web protection from SQL injection is needed, what should be used?

Answer 8

Azure WAF