Question 1

A high-traffic web application relies on a backend SQL database.

During peak hours, the database CPU hits 100% due to thousands of identical read queries for product catalog data. The product catalog data only changes once a day. You need to implement a caching strategy to offload these read queries from the database and improve application response times.

Which Azure service should you integrate into the application architecture?

Accepted Answer

Identify the need for an in-memory data store to cache database queries. Redis is the industry standard for this.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AZ-305 question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing CDN. CDN is for static files delivered to the browser, while Redis is for application-level data caching.

How to approach this question

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