AZ-900 Practice Question 35: Azure Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 4 · question 5 of 10

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A consultancy is onboarding 200 short-term contractors who will use their own laptops. Security requires the corporate Windows desktop and its line-of-business applications to run in Azure, with nothing stored on the contractor's own machine. Which service should be used?

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D. Azure Virtual Desktop, delivering full desktops or individual published apps

Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on Azure. It delivers a full Windows 11 or Windows 10 experience, can publish either a complete desktop or individual applications through RemoteApp, and supports multi-session hosts so 200 users do not need 200 virtual machines. Users connect from any device with a native client or an HTML5 web browser, which makes the contractor's laptop a viewer rather than a place where data lands.

Option A misuses Scale Sets, which manage a group of identical VMs behind a load balancer for an application tier; they have no mechanism for publishing Windows sessions to end users. Option B misreads what Domain Services is for; it supplies a managed domain with LDAP and Kerberos for legacy applications running in Azure, and joining contractor-owned laptops to a domain would not keep the desktop off those laptops. Option C could host a web front end, but the requirement is the whole Windows desktop plus the existing line-of-business apps, which App Service cannot run.

Reference: What is Azure Virtual Desktop?

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