AZ-900 Practice Question 82: Global Reach Reduce Latency
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 9 · question 2 of 10
A media company's users are spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. Users far from the company's single datacenter complain that pages load noticeably slower than for users nearby. Which cloud benefit addresses this specific complaint?
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Answer:
Global reach is the benefit that matches this complaint: Azure's network of regions around the world lets an organization deploy applications and data closer to where its users actually are, which cuts the physical distance a request has to travel and reduces the latency users feel. This is a geographic placement problem (nearby users are fast, distant users are slow), and it is solved by putting compute and data in more places, not by any of the other listed benefits.
Option A, high availability, is about a workload staying up despite disruptions, with an SLA attaching a number to that promise; a fully available application in one distant datacenter is still slow for far-away users, so uptime does not touch this problem. Option B, cost predictability, concerns forecasting spend and has nothing to do with where requests are served from. Option D, agility, is about the speed of building and provisioning new resources; it would help the company launch faster, not make existing traffic travel a shorter distance.
Reference: Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud