ExpertAZ-305 · Question 51 · Domain 4.4: Network Solutions
CASE STUDY: Contoso Manufacturing
Overview: Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 VMware VMs across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $50 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.
Business Requirements: The company needs to reduce IT costs by 30%, improve disaster recovery (current RTO: 24 hours -> target: 2 hours), enhance security posture to meet ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and enable remote work for 80% of employees. All solutions must support future growth of 20% annually.
Technical Constraints: Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012 R2. Network connectivity requires 10 Gbps throughput to Azure with <20ms latency. GDPR compliance mandates that EU customer data must remain in European Azure regions.
Question:
To meet the security and compliance requirements, Contoso wants to ensure that all outbound internet traffic from their Azure Virtual Networks is inspected and filtered centrally.
Which network architecture should you implement?
CASE STUDY: Contoso Manufacturing
Overview: Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees across 30 countries. They currently operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure (500 VMware VMs across 5 data centers) and Azure (20 subscriptions with 100+ VMs and various PaaS services). Their annual IT budget is $50 million, with plans to migrate 70% of workloads to Azure within 2 years.
Business Requirements: The company needs to reduce IT costs by 30%, improve disaster recovery (current RTO: 24 hours -> target: 2 hours), enhance security posture to meet ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance, and enable remote work for 80% of employees. All solutions must support future growth of 20% annually.
Technical Constraints: Some legacy applications cannot be modified and must run on Windows Server 2012 R2. Network connectivity requires 10 Gbps throughput to Azure with <20ms latency. GDPR compliance mandates that EU customer data must remain in European Azure regions.
Question:
To meet the security and compliance requirements, Contoso wants to ensure that all outbound internet traffic from their Azure Virtual Networks is inspected and filtered centrally.
Which network architecture should you implement?
Answer options:
A Hub-and-Spoke topology with Azure Firewall in the hub and User Defined Routes (UDRs) in the spokes forcing traffic to the firewall.
A Hub-and-Spoke topology with Network Security Groups (NSGs) applied to every spoke subnet.
A full mesh topology with Azure Application Gateway in every VNet.
Azure Virtual WAN with a standard VPN Gateway.
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