You need to design a data storage strategy for each application
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Trey Research
Background
Overview
Trey Research conducts agricultural research and sells the results to the agriculture and food
industries. The company uses a combination of on-premises and third-party server clusters to
meet its storage needs. Trey Research has seasonal demands on its services, with up to 50
percent drops in data capacity and bandwidth demand during low-demand periods. They plan
to host their websites in an agile, cloud environment where the company can deploy and
remove its websites based on its business requirements rather than the requirements of the
hosting company.
A recent fire near the datacenter that Trey Research uses raises the management team’s
awareness of the vulnerability of hosting all of the company’s websites and data at any single
location. The management team is concerned about protecting its data from loss as a result of
a disaster.
Websites
Trey Research has a portfolio of 300 websites and associated background processes that are
currently hosted in a third-party datacenter. All of the websites are written in ASP.NET, and
the background processes use Windows Services. The hosting environment costs Trey
Research approximately S25 million in hosting and maintenance fees.
Infrastructure
Trey Research also has on-premises servers that run VMs to support line-of-business
applications. The company wants to migrate the line-of-business applications to the cloud,
one application at a time. The company is migrating most of its production VMs from an
aging VMWare ESXi farm to a Hyper-V cluster that runs on Windows Server 2012.
Applications
DistributionTracking
Trey Research has a web application named Distributiontracking. This application constantly
collects realtime data that tracks worldwide distribution points to customer retail sites. This
data is available to customers at all times.
The company wants to ensure that the distribution tracking data is stored at a location that is
geographically close to the customers who will be using the information. The system must
continue running in the event of VM failures without corrupting data. The system is
processor intensive and should be run in a multithreading environment.
HRApp
The company has a human resources (HR) application named HRApp that stores data in an
on-premises SQL Server database. The database must have at least two copies, but data to
support backups and business continuity must stay in Trey Research locations only. The data
must remain on-premises and cannot be stored in the cloud.
HRApp was written by a third party, and the code cannot be modified. The human resources
data is used by all business offices, and each office requires access to the entire database.Users report that HRApp takes all night to generate the required payroll reports, and they
would like to reduce this time.
MetricsTracking
Trey Research has an application named MetricsTracking that is used to track analytics for
the DistributionTracking web application. The data MetricsTracking collects is not customerfacing. Data is stored on an on-premises SQL Server database, but this data should be moved
to the cloud. Employees at other locations access this data by using a remote desktop
connection to connect to the application, but latency issues degrade the functionality.
Trey Research wants a solution that allows remote employees to access metrics data without
using a remote desktop connection. MetricsTracking was written in-house, and the
development team is available to make modifications to the application if necessary.
However, the company wants to continue to use SQL Server for MetricsTracking.
Business Requirements
Business Continuity
You have the following requirements:
• Move all customer-facing data to the cloud.
• Web servers should be backed up to geographically separate locations,
• If one website becomes unavailable, customers should automatically be routed to
websites that are still operational.
• Data must be available regardless of the operational status of any particular website.
• The HRApp system must remain on-premises and must be backed up.
• The MetricsTracking data must be replicated so that it is locally available to all Trey
Research offices.
Auditing and Security
You have the following requirements:
• Both internal and external consumers should be able to access research results.
• Internal users should be able to access data by using their existing company
credentials without requiring multiple logins.
• Consumers should be able to access the service by using their Microsoft credentials.
• Applications written to access the data must be authenticated.
• Access and activity must be monitored and audited.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the data collected from the worldwide distribution
points for the distribution tracking application.
Storage and Processing
You have the following requirements:
• Provide real-time analysis of distribution tracking data by geographic location.
• Collect and store large datasets in real-time data for customer use.
• Locate the distribution tracking data as close to the central office as possible to
improve bandwidth.
• Co-locate the distribution tracking data as close to the customer as possible based on
the customer’s location.
• Distribution tracking data must be stored in the JSON format and indexed by
metadata that is stored in a SQL Server database.
• Data in the cloud must be stored in geographically separate locations, but kept with
the same political boundaries.
Technical RequirementsMigration
You have the following requirements:
• Deploy all websites to Azure.
• Replace on-premises and third-party physical server clusters with cloud-based
solutions.
• Optimize the speed for retrieving exiting JSON objects that contain the distribution
tracking data.
• Recommend strategies for partitioning data for load balancing.
Auditing and Security
You have the following requirements:
• Use Active Directory for internal and external authentication.
• Use OAuth for application authentication.
Business Continuity
You have the following requirements:
• Data must be backed up to separate geographic locations.
• Web servers must run concurrent versions of all websites in distinct geographic
locations.
• Use Azure to back up the on-premises MetricsTracking data.
• Use Azure virtual machines as a recovery platform for MetricsTracking and HRApp.
• Ensure that there is at least one additional on-premises recovery environment for the
HRApp.
###EndCaseStudy###
HOTSPOT
You need to design a data storage strategy for each application.
In the table below, identify the strategy that you should use for each application. Make only one
selection in each column.
You need to recommend a test strategy for the disaster recovery system
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Trey Research
Background
Overview
Trey Research conducts agricultural research and sells the results to the agriculture and food
industries. The company uses a combination of on-premises and third-party server clusters to
meet its storage needs. Trey Research has seasonal demands on its services, with up to 50
percent drops in data capacity and bandwidth demand during low-demand periods. They plan
to host their websites in an agile, cloud environment where the company can deploy and
remove its websites based on its business requirements rather than the requirements of the
hosting company.
A recent fire near the datacenter that Trey Research uses raises the management team’s
awareness of the vulnerability of hosting all of the company’s websites and data at any single
location. The management team is concerned about protecting its data from loss as a result of
a disaster.
Websites
Trey Research has a portfolio of 300 websites and associated background processes that are
currently hosted in a third-party datacenter. All of the websites are written in ASP.NET, and
the background processes use Windows Services. The hosting environment costs Trey
Research approximately S25 million in hosting and maintenance fees.
Infrastructure
Trey Research also has on-premises servers that run VMs to support line-of-business
applications. The company wants to migrate the line-of-business applications to the cloud,
one application at a time. The company is migrating most of its production VMs from an
aging VMWare ESXi farm to a Hyper-V cluster that runs on Windows Server 2012.
Applications
DistributionTracking
Trey Research has a web application named Distributiontracking. This application constantly
collects realtime data that tracks worldwide distribution points to customer retail sites. This
data is available to customers at all times.
The company wants to ensure that the distribution tracking data is stored at a location that is
geographically close to the customers who will be using the information. The system must
continue running in the event of VM failures without corrupting data. The system is
processor intensive and should be run in a multithreading environment.
HRApp
The company has a human resources (HR) application named HRApp that stores data in an
on-premises SQL Server database. The database must have at least two copies, but data to
support backups and business continuity must stay in Trey Research locations only. The data
must remain on-premises and cannot be stored in the cloud.
HRApp was written by a third party, and the code cannot be modified. The human resources
data is used by all business offices, and each office requires access to the entire database.Users report that HRApp takes all night to generate the required payroll reports, and they
would like to reduce this time.
MetricsTracking
Trey Research has an application named MetricsTracking that is used to track analytics for
the DistributionTracking web application. The data MetricsTracking collects is not customerfacing. Data is stored on an on-premises SQL Server database, but this data should be moved
to the cloud. Employees at other locations access this data by using a remote desktop
connection to connect to the application, but latency issues degrade the functionality.
Trey Research wants a solution that allows remote employees to access metrics data without
using a remote desktop connection. MetricsTracking was written in-house, and the
development team is available to make modifications to the application if necessary.
However, the company wants to continue to use SQL Server for MetricsTracking.
Business Requirements
Business Continuity
You have the following requirements:
• Move all customer-facing data to the cloud.
• Web servers should be backed up to geographically separate locations,
• If one website becomes unavailable, customers should automatically be routed to
websites that are still operational.
• Data must be available regardless of the operational status of any particular website.
• The HRApp system must remain on-premises and must be backed up.
• The MetricsTracking data must be replicated so that it is locally available to all Trey
Research offices.
Auditing and Security
You have the following requirements:
• Both internal and external consumers should be able to access research results.
• Internal users should be able to access data by using their existing company
credentials without requiring multiple logins.
• Consumers should be able to access the service by using their Microsoft credentials.
• Applications written to access the data must be authenticated.
• Access and activity must be monitored and audited.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the data collected from the worldwide distribution
points for the distribution tracking application.
Storage and Processing
You have the following requirements:
• Provide real-time analysis of distribution tracking data by geographic location.
• Collect and store large datasets in real-time data for customer use.
• Locate the distribution tracking data as close to the central office as possible to
improve bandwidth.
• Co-locate the distribution tracking data as close to the customer as possible based on
the customer’s location.
• Distribution tracking data must be stored in the JSON format and indexed by
metadata that is stored in a SQL Server database.
• Data in the cloud must be stored in geographically separate locations, but kept with
the same political boundaries.
Technical RequirementsMigration
You have the following requirements:
• Deploy all websites to Azure.
• Replace on-premises and third-party physical server clusters with cloud-based
solutions.
• Optimize the speed for retrieving exiting JSON objects that contain the distribution
tracking data.
• Recommend strategies for partitioning data for load balancing.
Auditing and Security
You have the following requirements:
• Use Active Directory for internal and external authentication.
• Use OAuth for application authentication.
Business Continuity
You have the following requirements:
• Data must be backed up to separate geographic locations.
• Web servers must run concurrent versions of all websites in distinct geographic
locations.
• Use Azure to back up the on-premises MetricsTracking data.
• Use Azure virtual machines as a recovery platform for MetricsTracking and HRApp.
• Ensure that there is at least one additional on-premises recovery environment for the
HRApp.
###EndCaseStudy###
DRAG DROP
You need to recommend a test strategy for the disaster recovery system.
What should you do? To answer, drag the appropriate test strategy to the correct business
application. Each test strategy may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to
drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
You need to configure the distribution tracking application
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 2
Trey Research
Background
Overview
Trey Research conducts agricultural research and sells the results to the agriculture and food
industries. The company uses a combination of on-premises and third-party server clusters to
meet its storage needs. Trey Research has seasonal demands on its services, with up to 50
percent drops in data capacity and bandwidth demand during low-demand periods. They plan
to host their websites in an agile, cloud environment where the company can deploy and
remove its websites based on its business requirements rather than the requirements of the
hosting company.
A recent fire near the datacenter that Trey Research uses raises the management team’s
awareness of the vulnerability of hosting all of the company’s websites and data at any single
location. The management team is concerned about protecting its data from loss as a result of
a disaster.
Websites
Trey Research has a portfolio of 300 websites and associated background processes that are
currently hosted in a third-party datacenter. All of the websites are written in ASP.NET, and
the background processes use Windows Services. The hosting environment costs Trey
Research approximately S25 million in hosting and maintenance fees.
Infrastructure
Trey Research also has on-premises servers that run VMs to support line-of-business
applications. The company wants to migrate the line-of-business applications to the cloud,
one application at a time. The company is migrating most of its production VMs from an
aging VMWare ESXi farm to a Hyper-V cluster that runs on Windows Server 2012.
Applications
DistributionTracking
Trey Research has a web application named Distributiontracking. This application constantly
collects realtime data that tracks worldwide distribution points to customer retail sites. This
data is available to customers at all times.
The company wants to ensure that the distribution tracking data is stored at a location that is
geographically close to the customers who will be using the information. The system must
continue running in the event of VM failures without corrupting data. The system is
processor intensive and should be run in a multithreading environment.
HRApp
The company has a human resources (HR) application named HRApp that stores data in an
on-premises SQL Server database. The database must have at least two copies, but data to
support backups and business continuity must stay in Trey Research locations only. The data
must remain on-premises and cannot be stored in the cloud.
HRApp was written by a third party, and the code cannot be modified. The human resources
data is used by all business offices, and each office requires access to the entire database.Users report that HRApp takes all night to generate the required payroll reports, and they
would like to reduce this time.
MetricsTracking
Trey Research has an application named MetricsTracking that is used to track analytics for
the DistributionTracking web application. The data MetricsTracking collects is not customerfacing. Data is stored on an on-premises SQL Server database, but this data should be moved
to the cloud. Employees at other locations access this data by using a remote desktop
connection to connect to the application, but latency issues degrade the functionality.
Trey Research wants a solution that allows remote employees to access metrics data without
using a remote desktop connection. MetricsTracking was written in-house, and the
development team is available to make modifications to the application if necessary.
However, the company wants to continue to use SQL Server for MetricsTracking.
Business Requirements
Business Continuity
You have the following requirements:
• Move all customer-facing data to the cloud.
• Web servers should be backed up to geographically separate locations,
• If one website becomes unavailable, customers should automatically be routed to
websites that are still operational.
• Data must be available regardless of the operational status of any particular website.
• The HRApp system must remain on-premises and must be backed up.
• The MetricsTracking data must be replicated so that it is locally available to all Trey
Research offices.
Auditing and Security
You have the following requirements:
• Both internal and external consumers should be able to access research results.
• Internal users should be able to access data by using their existing company
credentials without requiring multiple logins.
• Consumers should be able to access the service by using their Microsoft credentials.
• Applications written to access the data must be authenticated.
• Access and activity must be monitored and audited.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the data collected from the worldwide distribution
points for the distribution tracking application.
Storage and Processing
You have the following requirements:
• Provide real-time analysis of distribution tracking data by geographic location.
• Collect and store large datasets in real-time data for customer use.
• Locate the distribution tracking data as close to the central office as possible to
improve bandwidth.
• Co-locate the distribution tracking data as close to the customer as possible based on
the customer’s location.
• Distribution tracking data must be stored in the JSON format and indexed by
metadata that is stored in a SQL Server database.
• Data in the cloud must be stored in geographically separate locations, but kept with
the same political boundaries.
Technical RequirementsMigration
You have the following requirements:
• Deploy all websites to Azure.
• Replace on-premises and third-party physical server clusters with cloud-based
solutions.
• Optimize the speed for retrieving exiting JSON objects that contain the distribution
tracking data.
• Recommend strategies for partitioning data for load balancing.
Auditing and Security
You have the following requirements:
• Use Active Directory for internal and external authentication.
• Use OAuth for application authentication.
Business Continuity
You have the following requirements:
• Data must be backed up to separate geographic locations.
• Web servers must run concurrent versions of all websites in distinct geographic
locations.
• Use Azure to back up the on-premises MetricsTracking data.
• Use Azure virtual machines as a recovery platform for MetricsTracking and HRApp.
• Ensure that there is at least one additional on-premises recovery environment for the
HRApp.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to configure the distribution tracking application.
What should you do?
Which four Azure PowerShell scripts should you run in sequence?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Contoso, Ltd
Background
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls. Contoso also sells golf
accessories under the Contoso Golf and Odyssey brands worldwide.
Most of the company’s IT infrastructure is located in the company’s Carlsbad, California,
headquarters. Contoso also has a sizable third-party colocation datacenter that costs the
company USD $30,000 to $40,000 a month. Contoso has other servers scattered around the
United States.
Contoso, Ltd., has the following goals:
• Move many consumer-facing websites, enterprise databases, and enterprise web
services to Azure.
• Improve the performance for customers and resellers who are access company
websites from around the world.
• Provide support for provisioning resources to meet bursts of demand.
• Consolidate and improve the utilization of website- and database-hosting resources.
• Avoid downtime, particularly that caused by web and database server updating.
• Leverage familiarity with Microsoft server management tools.
Infrastructure
Contoso’s datacenters are filled with dozens of smaller web servers and databases that run on
under-utilized hardware. This creates issues for data backup. Contoso currently backs up data
to tape by using System Center Data Protection Manager. System Center Operations Manager
is not deployed in the enterprise.
All of the servers are expensive to acquire and maintain, and scaling the infrastructure takes
significant time. Contoso conducts weekly server maintenance, which causes downtime for
some of its global offices. Special events, such as high-profile golf tournaments, create a
large increase in site traffic. Contoso has difficulty scaling the web-hosting environment fast
enough to meet these surges in site traffic.
Contoso has resellers and consumers in Japan and China. These resellers must use
applications that run in a datacenter that is located in the state of Texas, in the United States.
Because of the physical distance, the resellers experience slow response times and downtime.
Business Requirements
Management and Performance
Management
• Web servers and databases must automatically apply updates to the operating system
and products.
• Automatically monitor the health of worldwide sites, databases, and virtual machines.• Automatically back up the website and databases.
• Manage hosted resources by using on-premises tools.
Performance
• The management team would like to centralize data backups and eliminate the use of
tapes.
• The website must automatically scale without code changes or redeployment.
• Support changes in service tier without reconfiguration or redeployment.
• Site-hosting must automatically scale to accommodate data bandwidth and number of
connections.
• Scale databases without requiring migration to a larger server.
• Migrate business critical applications to Azure.
• Migrate databases to the cloud and centralize databases where possible.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Minimize downtime in the event of regional disasters.
• Recover data if unintentional modifications or deletions are discovered.
• Run the website on multiple web server instances to minimize downtime and support
a high service level agreement (SLA).
Connectivity
• Allow enterprise web services to access data and other services located on-premises.
• Provide and monitor lowest latency possible to website visitors.
• Automatically balance traffic among all web servers.
• Provide secure transactions for users of both legacy and modern browsers.
• Provide automated auditing and reporting of web servers and databases.
• Support single sign-on from multiple domains.
Development Environment
You identify the following requirements for the development environment:
• Support the current development team’s knowledge of Microsoft web development
and SQL Service tools.
• Support building experimental applications by using data from the Azure deployment
and on-premises data sources.
• Mitigate the need to purchase additional tools for monitoring and debugging.
• System designers and architects must be able to create custom Web APIs without
requiring any coding.
• Support automatic website deployment from source control.
• Support automated build verification and testing to mitigate bugs introduced during
builds.
• Manage website versions across all deployments.
• Ensure that website versions are consistent across all deployments.
Technical Requirement
Management and Performance
Management
• Use build automation to deploy directly from Visual Studio.
• Use build-time versioning of assets and builds/releases.• Automate common IT tasks such as VM creation by using Windows PowerShell
workflows.
• Use advanced monitoring features and reports of workloads in Azure by using
existing Microsoft tools.
Performance
• Websites must automatically load balance across multiple servers to adapt to varying
traffic.
• In production, websites must run on multiple instances.
• First-time published websites must be published by using Visual Studio and scaled to
a single instance to test publishing.
• Data storage must support automatic load balancing across multiple servers.
• Websites must adapt to wide increases in traffic during special events.
• Azure virtual machines (VMs) must be created in the same datacenter when
applicable.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Automatically co-locate data and applications in different geographic locations.
• Provide real-time reporting of changes to critical data and binaries.
• Provide real-time alerts of security exceptions.
• Unwanted deletions or modifications of data must be reversible for up to one month,
especially in business critical applications and databases.
• Any cloud-hosted servers must be highly available.
Enterprise Support
• The solution must use stored procedures to access on-premises SQL Server data from
Azure.
• A debugger must automatically attach to websites on a weekly basis. The scripts that
handle the configuration and setup of debugging cannot work if there is a delay in
attaching the debugger.
###EndCaseStudy###
DRAG DROP
You need to deploy the virtual machines to Azure.
Which four Azure PowerShell scripts should you run in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate
scripts from the list of scripts to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Which tools should you use?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Contoso, Ltd
Background
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls. Contoso also sells golf
accessories under the Contoso Golf and Odyssey brands worldwide.
Most of the company’s IT infrastructure is located in the company’s Carlsbad, California,
headquarters. Contoso also has a sizable third-party colocation datacenter that costs the
company USD $30,000 to $40,000 a month. Contoso has other servers scattered around the
United States.
Contoso, Ltd., has the following goals:
• Move many consumer-facing websites, enterprise databases, and enterprise web
services to Azure.
• Improve the performance for customers and resellers who are access company
websites from around the world.
• Provide support for provisioning resources to meet bursts of demand.
• Consolidate and improve the utilization of website- and database-hosting resources.
• Avoid downtime, particularly that caused by web and database server updating.
• Leverage familiarity with Microsoft server management tools.
Infrastructure
Contoso’s datacenters are filled with dozens of smaller web servers and databases that run on
under-utilized hardware. This creates issues for data backup. Contoso currently backs up data
to tape by using System Center Data Protection Manager. System Center Operations Manager
is not deployed in the enterprise.
All of the servers are expensive to acquire and maintain, and scaling the infrastructure takes
significant time. Contoso conducts weekly server maintenance, which causes downtime for
some of its global offices. Special events, such as high-profile golf tournaments, create a
large increase in site traffic. Contoso has difficulty scaling the web-hosting environment fast
enough to meet these surges in site traffic.
Contoso has resellers and consumers in Japan and China. These resellers must use
applications that run in a datacenter that is located in the state of Texas, in the United States.
Because of the physical distance, the resellers experience slow response times and downtime.
Business Requirements
Management and Performance
Management
• Web servers and databases must automatically apply updates to the operating system
and products.
• Automatically monitor the health of worldwide sites, databases, and virtual machines.• Automatically back up the website and databases.
• Manage hosted resources by using on-premises tools.
Performance
• The management team would like to centralize data backups and eliminate the use of
tapes.
• The website must automatically scale without code changes or redeployment.
• Support changes in service tier without reconfiguration or redeployment.
• Site-hosting must automatically scale to accommodate data bandwidth and number of
connections.
• Scale databases without requiring migration to a larger server.
• Migrate business critical applications to Azure.
• Migrate databases to the cloud and centralize databases where possible.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Minimize downtime in the event of regional disasters.
• Recover data if unintentional modifications or deletions are discovered.
• Run the website on multiple web server instances to minimize downtime and support
a high service level agreement (SLA).
Connectivity
• Allow enterprise web services to access data and other services located on-premises.
• Provide and monitor lowest latency possible to website visitors.
• Automatically balance traffic among all web servers.
• Provide secure transactions for users of both legacy and modern browsers.
• Provide automated auditing and reporting of web servers and databases.
• Support single sign-on from multiple domains.
Development Environment
You identify the following requirements for the development environment:
• Support the current development team’s knowledge of Microsoft web development
and SQL Service tools.
• Support building experimental applications by using data from the Azure deployment
and on-premises data sources.
• Mitigate the need to purchase additional tools for monitoring and debugging.
• System designers and architects must be able to create custom Web APIs without
requiring any coding.
• Support automatic website deployment from source control.
• Support automated build verification and testing to mitigate bugs introduced during
builds.
• Manage website versions across all deployments.
• Ensure that website versions are consistent across all deployments.
Technical Requirement
Management and Performance
Management
• Use build automation to deploy directly from Visual Studio.
• Use build-time versioning of assets and builds/releases.• Automate common IT tasks such as VM creation by using Windows PowerShell
workflows.
• Use advanced monitoring features and reports of workloads in Azure by using
existing Microsoft tools.
Performance
• Websites must automatically load balance across multiple servers to adapt to varying
traffic.
• In production, websites must run on multiple instances.
• First-time published websites must be published by using Visual Studio and scaled to
a single instance to test publishing.
• Data storage must support automatic load balancing across multiple servers.
• Websites must adapt to wide increases in traffic during special events.
• Azure virtual machines (VMs) must be created in the same datacenter when
applicable.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Automatically co-locate data and applications in different geographic locations.
• Provide real-time reporting of changes to critical data and binaries.
• Provide real-time alerts of security exceptions.
• Unwanted deletions or modifications of data must be reversible for up to one month,
especially in business critical applications and databases.
• Any cloud-hosted servers must be highly available.
Enterprise Support
• The solution must use stored procedures to access on-premises SQL Server data from
Azure.
• A debugger must automatically attach to websites on a weekly basis. The scripts that
handle the configuration and setup of debugging cannot work if there is a delay in
attaching the debugger.
###EndCaseStudy###
HOTSPOT
You need implement tools at the client’s location for monitoring and deploying Azure resources.
Which tools should you use? To answer, select the appropriate on-premises tool for each task in the
answer area.
What should you implement?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Contoso, Ltd
Background
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls. Contoso also sells golf
accessories under the Contoso Golf and Odyssey brands worldwide.
Most of the company’s IT infrastructure is located in the company’s Carlsbad, California,
headquarters. Contoso also has a sizable third-party colocation datacenter that costs the
company USD $30,000 to $40,000 a month. Contoso has other servers scattered around the
United States.
Contoso, Ltd., has the following goals:
• Move many consumer-facing websites, enterprise databases, and enterprise web
services to Azure.
• Improve the performance for customers and resellers who are access company
websites from around the world.
• Provide support for provisioning resources to meet bursts of demand.
• Consolidate and improve the utilization of website- and database-hosting resources.
• Avoid downtime, particularly that caused by web and database server updating.
• Leverage familiarity with Microsoft server management tools.
Infrastructure
Contoso’s datacenters are filled with dozens of smaller web servers and databases that run on
under-utilized hardware. This creates issues for data backup. Contoso currently backs up data
to tape by using System Center Data Protection Manager. System Center Operations Manager
is not deployed in the enterprise.
All of the servers are expensive to acquire and maintain, and scaling the infrastructure takes
significant time. Contoso conducts weekly server maintenance, which causes downtime for
some of its global offices. Special events, such as high-profile golf tournaments, create a
large increase in site traffic. Contoso has difficulty scaling the web-hosting environment fast
enough to meet these surges in site traffic.
Contoso has resellers and consumers in Japan and China. These resellers must use
applications that run in a datacenter that is located in the state of Texas, in the United States.
Because of the physical distance, the resellers experience slow response times and downtime.
Business Requirements
Management and Performance
Management
• Web servers and databases must automatically apply updates to the operating system
and products.
• Automatically monitor the health of worldwide sites, databases, and virtual machines.• Automatically back up the website and databases.
• Manage hosted resources by using on-premises tools.
Performance
• The management team would like to centralize data backups and eliminate the use of
tapes.
• The website must automatically scale without code changes or redeployment.
• Support changes in service tier without reconfiguration or redeployment.
• Site-hosting must automatically scale to accommodate data bandwidth and number of
connections.
• Scale databases without requiring migration to a larger server.
• Migrate business critical applications to Azure.
• Migrate databases to the cloud and centralize databases where possible.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Minimize downtime in the event of regional disasters.
• Recover data if unintentional modifications or deletions are discovered.
• Run the website on multiple web server instances to minimize downtime and support
a high service level agreement (SLA).
Connectivity
• Allow enterprise web services to access data and other services located on-premises.
• Provide and monitor lowest latency possible to website visitors.
• Automatically balance traffic among all web servers.
• Provide secure transactions for users of both legacy and modern browsers.
• Provide automated auditing and reporting of web servers and databases.
• Support single sign-on from multiple domains.
Development Environment
You identify the following requirements for the development environment:
• Support the current development team’s knowledge of Microsoft web development
and SQL Service tools.
• Support building experimental applications by using data from the Azure deployment
and on-premises data sources.
• Mitigate the need to purchase additional tools for monitoring and debugging.
• System designers and architects must be able to create custom Web APIs without
requiring any coding.
• Support automatic website deployment from source control.
• Support automated build verification and testing to mitigate bugs introduced during
builds.
• Manage website versions across all deployments.
• Ensure that website versions are consistent across all deployments.
Technical Requirement
Management and Performance
Management
• Use build automation to deploy directly from Visual Studio.
• Use build-time versioning of assets and builds/releases.• Automate common IT tasks such as VM creation by using Windows PowerShell
workflows.
• Use advanced monitoring features and reports of workloads in Azure by using
existing Microsoft tools.
Performance
• Websites must automatically load balance across multiple servers to adapt to varying
traffic.
• In production, websites must run on multiple instances.
• First-time published websites must be published by using Visual Studio and scaled to
a single instance to test publishing.
• Data storage must support automatic load balancing across multiple servers.
• Websites must adapt to wide increases in traffic during special events.
• Azure virtual machines (VMs) must be created in the same datacenter when
applicable.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Automatically co-locate data and applications in different geographic locations.
• Provide real-time reporting of changes to critical data and binaries.
• Provide real-time alerts of security exceptions.
• Unwanted deletions or modifications of data must be reversible for up to one month,
especially in business critical applications and databases.
• Any cloud-hosted servers must be highly available.
Enterprise Support
• The solution must use stored procedures to access on-premises SQL Server data from
Azure.
• A debugger must automatically attach to websites on a weekly basis. The scripts that
handle the configuration and setup of debugging cannot work if there is a delay in
attaching the debugger.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to configure availability for the virtual machines that the company is migrating to Azure.
What should you implement?
What should you recommend?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Contoso, Ltd
Background
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls. Contoso also sells golf
accessories under the Contoso Golf and Odyssey brands worldwide.
Most of the company’s IT infrastructure is located in the company’s Carlsbad, California,
headquarters. Contoso also has a sizable third-party colocation datacenter that costs the
company USD $30,000 to $40,000 a month. Contoso has other servers scattered around the
United States.
Contoso, Ltd., has the following goals:
• Move many consumer-facing websites, enterprise databases, and enterprise web
services to Azure.
• Improve the performance for customers and resellers who are access company
websites from around the world.
• Provide support for provisioning resources to meet bursts of demand.
• Consolidate and improve the utilization of website- and database-hosting resources.
• Avoid downtime, particularly that caused by web and database server updating.
• Leverage familiarity with Microsoft server management tools.
Infrastructure
Contoso’s datacenters are filled with dozens of smaller web servers and databases that run on
under-utilized hardware. This creates issues for data backup. Contoso currently backs up data
to tape by using System Center Data Protection Manager. System Center Operations Manager
is not deployed in the enterprise.
All of the servers are expensive to acquire and maintain, and scaling the infrastructure takes
significant time. Contoso conducts weekly server maintenance, which causes downtime for
some of its global offices. Special events, such as high-profile golf tournaments, create a
large increase in site traffic. Contoso has difficulty scaling the web-hosting environment fast
enough to meet these surges in site traffic.
Contoso has resellers and consumers in Japan and China. These resellers must use
applications that run in a datacenter that is located in the state of Texas, in the United States.
Because of the physical distance, the resellers experience slow response times and downtime.
Business Requirements
Management and Performance
Management
• Web servers and databases must automatically apply updates to the operating system
and products.
• Automatically monitor the health of worldwide sites, databases, and virtual machines.• Automatically back up the website and databases.
• Manage hosted resources by using on-premises tools.
Performance
• The management team would like to centralize data backups and eliminate the use of
tapes.
• The website must automatically scale without code changes or redeployment.
• Support changes in service tier without reconfiguration or redeployment.
• Site-hosting must automatically scale to accommodate data bandwidth and number of
connections.
• Scale databases without requiring migration to a larger server.
• Migrate business critical applications to Azure.
• Migrate databases to the cloud and centralize databases where possible.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Minimize downtime in the event of regional disasters.
• Recover data if unintentional modifications or deletions are discovered.
• Run the website on multiple web server instances to minimize downtime and support
a high service level agreement (SLA).
Connectivity
• Allow enterprise web services to access data and other services located on-premises.
• Provide and monitor lowest latency possible to website visitors.
• Automatically balance traffic among all web servers.
• Provide secure transactions for users of both legacy and modern browsers.
• Provide automated auditing and reporting of web servers and databases.
• Support single sign-on from multiple domains.
Development Environment
You identify the following requirements for the development environment:
• Support the current development team’s knowledge of Microsoft web development
and SQL Service tools.
• Support building experimental applications by using data from the Azure deployment
and on-premises data sources.
• Mitigate the need to purchase additional tools for monitoring and debugging.
• System designers and architects must be able to create custom Web APIs without
requiring any coding.
• Support automatic website deployment from source control.
• Support automated build verification and testing to mitigate bugs introduced during
builds.
• Manage website versions across all deployments.
• Ensure that website versions are consistent across all deployments.
Technical Requirement
Management and Performance
Management
• Use build automation to deploy directly from Visual Studio.
• Use build-time versioning of assets and builds/releases.• Automate common IT tasks such as VM creation by using Windows PowerShell
workflows.
• Use advanced monitoring features and reports of workloads in Azure by using
existing Microsoft tools.
Performance
• Websites must automatically load balance across multiple servers to adapt to varying
traffic.
• In production, websites must run on multiple instances.
• First-time published websites must be published by using Visual Studio and scaled to
a single instance to test publishing.
• Data storage must support automatic load balancing across multiple servers.
• Websites must adapt to wide increases in traffic during special events.
• Azure virtual machines (VMs) must be created in the same datacenter when
applicable.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Automatically co-locate data and applications in different geographic locations.
• Provide real-time reporting of changes to critical data and binaries.
• Provide real-time alerts of security exceptions.
• Unwanted deletions or modifications of data must be reversible for up to one month,
especially in business critical applications and databases.
• Any cloud-hosted servers must be highly available.
Enterprise Support
• The solution must use stored procedures to access on-premises SQL Server data from
Azure.
• A debugger must automatically attach to websites on a weekly basis. The scripts that
handle the configuration and setup of debugging cannot work if there is a delay in
attaching the debugger.
###EndCaseStudy###
DRAG DROP
You need to recommend network connectivity solutions for the experimental applications.
What should you recommend? To answer, drag the appropriate solution to the correct network
connection requirements. Each solution may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may
need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
Which two actions should you perform?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 3
Contoso, Ltd
Background
Overview
Contoso, Ltd., manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls. Contoso also sells golf
accessories under the Contoso Golf and Odyssey brands worldwide.
Most of the company’s IT infrastructure is located in the company’s Carlsbad, California,
headquarters. Contoso also has a sizable third-party colocation datacenter that costs the
company USD $30,000 to $40,000 a month. Contoso has other servers scattered around the
United States.
Contoso, Ltd., has the following goals:
• Move many consumer-facing websites, enterprise databases, and enterprise web
services to Azure.
• Improve the performance for customers and resellers who are access company
websites from around the world.
• Provide support for provisioning resources to meet bursts of demand.
• Consolidate and improve the utilization of website- and database-hosting resources.
• Avoid downtime, particularly that caused by web and database server updating.
• Leverage familiarity with Microsoft server management tools.
Infrastructure
Contoso’s datacenters are filled with dozens of smaller web servers and databases that run on
under-utilized hardware. This creates issues for data backup. Contoso currently backs up data
to tape by using System Center Data Protection Manager. System Center Operations Manager
is not deployed in the enterprise.
All of the servers are expensive to acquire and maintain, and scaling the infrastructure takes
significant time. Contoso conducts weekly server maintenance, which causes downtime for
some of its global offices. Special events, such as high-profile golf tournaments, create a
large increase in site traffic. Contoso has difficulty scaling the web-hosting environment fast
enough to meet these surges in site traffic.
Contoso has resellers and consumers in Japan and China. These resellers must use
applications that run in a datacenter that is located in the state of Texas, in the United States.
Because of the physical distance, the resellers experience slow response times and downtime.
Business Requirements
Management and Performance
Management
• Web servers and databases must automatically apply updates to the operating system
and products.
• Automatically monitor the health of worldwide sites, databases, and virtual machines.• Automatically back up the website and databases.
• Manage hosted resources by using on-premises tools.
Performance
• The management team would like to centralize data backups and eliminate the use of
tapes.
• The website must automatically scale without code changes or redeployment.
• Support changes in service tier without reconfiguration or redeployment.
• Site-hosting must automatically scale to accommodate data bandwidth and number of
connections.
• Scale databases without requiring migration to a larger server.
• Migrate business critical applications to Azure.
• Migrate databases to the cloud and centralize databases where possible.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Minimize downtime in the event of regional disasters.
• Recover data if unintentional modifications or deletions are discovered.
• Run the website on multiple web server instances to minimize downtime and support
a high service level agreement (SLA).
Connectivity
• Allow enterprise web services to access data and other services located on-premises.
• Provide and monitor lowest latency possible to website visitors.
• Automatically balance traffic among all web servers.
• Provide secure transactions for users of both legacy and modern browsers.
• Provide automated auditing and reporting of web servers and databases.
• Support single sign-on from multiple domains.
Development Environment
You identify the following requirements for the development environment:
• Support the current development team’s knowledge of Microsoft web development
and SQL Service tools.
• Support building experimental applications by using data from the Azure deployment
and on-premises data sources.
• Mitigate the need to purchase additional tools for monitoring and debugging.
• System designers and architects must be able to create custom Web APIs without
requiring any coding.
• Support automatic website deployment from source control.
• Support automated build verification and testing to mitigate bugs introduced during
builds.
• Manage website versions across all deployments.
• Ensure that website versions are consistent across all deployments.
Technical Requirement
Management and Performance
Management
• Use build automation to deploy directly from Visual Studio.
• Use build-time versioning of assets and builds/releases.• Automate common IT tasks such as VM creation by using Windows PowerShell
workflows.
• Use advanced monitoring features and reports of workloads in Azure by using
existing Microsoft tools.
Performance
• Websites must automatically load balance across multiple servers to adapt to varying
traffic.
• In production, websites must run on multiple instances.
• First-time published websites must be published by using Visual Studio and scaled to
a single instance to test publishing.
• Data storage must support automatic load balancing across multiple servers.
• Websites must adapt to wide increases in traffic during special events.
• Azure virtual machines (VMs) must be created in the same datacenter when
applicable.
Business Continuity and Support
Business Continuity
• Automatically co-locate data and applications in different geographic locations.
• Provide real-time reporting of changes to critical data and binaries.
• Provide real-time alerts of security exceptions.
• Unwanted deletions or modifications of data must be reversible for up to one month,
especially in business critical applications and databases.
• Any cloud-hosted servers must be highly available.
Enterprise Support
• The solution must use stored procedures to access on-premises SQL Server data from
Azure.
• A debugger must automatically attach to websites on a weekly basis. The scripts that
handle the configuration and setup of debugging cannot work if there is a delay in
attaching the debugger.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to recommend a solution for publishing one of the company websites to Azure and
configuring it for remote debugging.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
Which three applications should you monitor?
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 4
Lucerne Publishing
Background
Overview
Lucerne Publishing creates, stores, and delivers online media for advertising companies. This
media is streamed to computers by using the web, and to mobile devices around the world by
using native applications. The company currently supports the iOS, Android, and Windows
Phone 8.1 platform.
Lucerne Publishing uses proprietary software to manage its media workflow. This software
has reached the end of its lifecycle. The company plans to move its media workflows to the
cloud. Lucerne Publishing provides access to its customers, who are third-party companies,
so that they can download, upload, search, and index media that is stored on Lucerne
Publishing servers.
Apps and Applications
Lucerne Publishing develops the applications that customers use to deliver media. The
company currently provides the following media delivery applications:
• Lucerne Media W – a web application that delivers media by using any browser
• Lucerne Media M – a mobile app that delivers media by using Windows Phone 8.1
• Lucerne Media A – a mobile app that delivers media by using an iOS device
• Lucerne Media N – a mobile app that delivers media by using an Android device
• Lucerne Media D – a desktop client application that customer’s install on their local
computer
Business Requirements
Lucerne Publishing’s customers and their consumers have the following requirements:
• Access to media must be time-constricted once media is delivered to a consumer.
• The time required to download media to mobile devices must be minimized.• Customers must have 24-hour access to media downloads regardless of their location
or time zone.
• Lucerne Publishing must be able to monitor the performance and usage of its
customer-facing app.
Lucerne Publishing wants to make its asset catalog searchable without requiring a database
redesign.
• Customers must be able to access all data by using a web application. They must also
be able to access data by using a mobile app that is provided by Lucerne Publishing.
• Customers must be able to search for media assets by key words and media type.
• Lucerne Publishing wants to move the asset catalog database to the cloud without
formatting the source data.
Other Requirements
Development
Code and current development documents must be backed up at all times. All solutions must
be automatically built and deployed to Azure when code is checked in to source control.
Network Optimization
Lucerne Publishing has a .NET web application that runs on Azure. The web application
analyzes storage and the distribution of its media assets. It needs to monitor the utilization of
the web application. Ultimately, Lucerne Publishing hopes to cut its costs by reducing data
replication without sacrificing its quality of service to its customers. The solution has the
following requirements:
• Optimize the storage location and amount of duplication of media.
• Vary several parameters including the number of data nodes and the distance from
node to customers.
• Minimize network bandwidth.
• Lucerne Publishing wants be notified of exceptions in the web application.
Technical Requirements
Data Mining
Lucerne Publishing constantly mines its data to identify customer patterns. The company
plans to replace the existing on-premises cluster with a cloud-based solution. Lucerne
Publishing has the following requirements:
Virtual machines:
• The data mining solution must support the use of hundreds to thousands of processing
cores.
• Minimize the number of virtual machines by using more powerful virtual machines.
Each virtual machine must always have eight or more processor cores available.
• Allow the number of processor cores dedicated to an analysis to grow and shrink
automatically based on the demand of the analysis.
• Virtual machines must use remote memory direct access to improve performance.
Task scheduling:
The solution must automatically schedule jobs. The scheduler must distribute the jobs based
on the demand and available resources.
Data analysis results:
The solution must provide a web service that allows applications to access the results of
analyses.
Other RequirementsFeature Support
• Ad copy data must be searchable in full text.
• Ad copy data must indexed to optimize search speed.
• Media metadata must be stored in Azure Table storage.
• Media files must be stored in Azure BLOB storage.
• The customer-facing website must have access to all ad copy and media.
• The customer-facing website must automatically scale and replicate to locations
around the world.
• Media and data must be replicated around the world to decrease the latency of data
transfers.
• Media uploads must have fast data transfer rates (low latency) without the need to
upload the data offline.
Security
• Customer access must be managed by using Active Directory.
• Media files must be encrypted by using the PlayReady encryption method.
• Customers must be able to upload media quickly and securely over a private
connection with no opportunity for internet snooping.
###EndCaseStudy###
You need to analyze Lucerne’s performance monitoring solution.
Which three applications should you monitor? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
You need to architect the global website strategy to meet the business requirements
###BeginCaseStudy###
Case Study: 4
Lucerne Publishing
Background
Overview
Lucerne Publishing creates, stores, and delivers online media for advertising companies. This
media is streamed to computers by using the web, and to mobile devices around the world by
using native applications. The company currently supports the iOS, Android, and Windows
Phone 8.1 platform.
Lucerne Publishing uses proprietary software to manage its media workflow. This software
has reached the end of its lifecycle. The company plans to move its media workflows to the
cloud. Lucerne Publishing provides access to its customers, who are third-party companies,
so that they can download, upload, search, and index media that is stored on Lucerne
Publishing servers.
Apps and Applications
Lucerne Publishing develops the applications that customers use to deliver media. The
company currently provides the following media delivery applications:
• Lucerne Media W – a web application that delivers media by using any browser
• Lucerne Media M – a mobile app that delivers media by using Windows Phone 8.1
• Lucerne Media A – a mobile app that delivers media by using an iOS device
• Lucerne Media N – a mobile app that delivers media by using an Android device
• Lucerne Media D – a desktop client application that customer’s install on their local
computer
Business Requirements
Lucerne Publishing’s customers and their consumers have the following requirements:
• Access to media must be time-constricted once media is delivered to a consumer.
• The time required to download media to mobile devices must be minimized.• Customers must have 24-hour access to media downloads regardless of their location
or time zone.
• Lucerne Publishing must be able to monitor the performance and usage of its
customer-facing app.
Lucerne Publishing wants to make its asset catalog searchable without requiring a database
redesign.
• Customers must be able to access all data by using a web application. They must also
be able to access data by using a mobile app that is provided by Lucerne Publishing.
• Customers must be able to search for media assets by key words and media type.
• Lucerne Publishing wants to move the asset catalog database to the cloud without
formatting the source data.
Other Requirements
Development
Code and current development documents must be backed up at all times. All solutions must
be automatically built and deployed to Azure when code is checked in to source control.
Network Optimization
Lucerne Publishing has a .NET web application that runs on Azure. The web application
analyzes storage and the distribution of its media assets. It needs to monitor the utilization of
the web application. Ultimately, Lucerne Publishing hopes to cut its costs by reducing data
replication without sacrificing its quality of service to its customers. The solution has the
following requirements:
• Optimize the storage location and amount of duplication of media.
• Vary several parameters including the number of data nodes and the distance from
node to customers.
• Minimize network bandwidth.
• Lucerne Publishing wants be notified of exceptions in the web application.
Technical Requirements
Data Mining
Lucerne Publishing constantly mines its data to identify customer patterns. The company
plans to replace the existing on-premises cluster with a cloud-based solution. Lucerne
Publishing has the following requirements:
Virtual machines:
• The data mining solution must support the use of hundreds to thousands of processing
cores.
• Minimize the number of virtual machines by using more powerful virtual machines.
Each virtual machine must always have eight or more processor cores available.
• Allow the number of processor cores dedicated to an analysis to grow and shrink
automatically based on the demand of the analysis.
• Virtual machines must use remote memory direct access to improve performance.
Task scheduling:
The solution must automatically schedule jobs. The scheduler must distribute the jobs based
on the demand and available resources.
Data analysis results:
The solution must provide a web service that allows applications to access the results of
analyses.
Other RequirementsFeature Support
• Ad copy data must be searchable in full text.
• Ad copy data must indexed to optimize search speed.
• Media metadata must be stored in Azure Table storage.
• Media files must be stored in Azure BLOB storage.
• The customer-facing website must have access to all ad copy and media.
• The customer-facing website must automatically scale and replicate to locations
around the world.
• Media and data must be replicated around the world to decrease the latency of data
transfers.
• Media uploads must have fast data transfer rates (low latency) without the need to
upload the data offline.
Security
• Customer access must be managed by using Active Directory.
• Media files must be encrypted by using the PlayReady encryption method.
• Customers must be able to upload media quickly and securely over a private
connection with no opportunity for internet snooping.
###EndCaseStudy###
HOTSPOT
The company has two corporate offices. Customers will access the websites from datacenters
around the world.
You need to architect the global website strategy to meet the business requirements. Use the dropdown menus to select the answer choice that answers each question.
