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AZ-104 Practice Question 77: Proximity Placement Group

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) · Test 8 · question 7 of 10

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A latency-sensitive application has an application tier and a database tier on separate virtual machines in one region. The two tiers exchange thousands of small requests per second, and the administrator wants the lowest possible network latency between them.

What should the administrator use?

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Answer:

  • D. A proximity placement group that contains the virtual machines of both tiers

A proximity placement group is a logical grouping that makes Azure place its resources physically close together, in the same datacenter where possible, which minimizes latency between them.

Option A spreads virtual machines across fault domains for availability, which does not target latency.

Option B places the tiers in separate datacenters, which improves resilience but adds latency.

Option C connects networks and does not influence where the virtual machines physically run.

Reference: Proximity placement groups

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