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lock_openFree sampleDesign Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutionsmedium
Your organisation is deploying an AI agent on Microsoft Foundry and wants end-to-end observability of token consumption, latency, error rates, and quality scores aligned to WAF Performance Efficiency. Which design path should you recommend?
- AWire Foundry traces directly to a Log Analytics workspace and skip Application Insights entirely.
- BStart tracing in Foundry, then add Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro with the Foundry SDK.check_circle Correct
- CUse the JavaScript SDK alongside the Foundry SDK to capture agent traces in the browser layer.
- DRun a self-hosted Microsoft Agent Framework instance for tracing instead of using Application Insights.
Foundry-hosted agents use Foundry tracing plus the OpenTelemetry Distro with the Foundry SDK. The Application Insights documentation describes the managed-hosting (Azure AI Foundry) path as starting with tracing setup in Foundry, then using the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro with the Foundry SDK for app-side instrumentation. Application Insights provides built-in dashboards that surface token consumption, latency, error rates, and quality scores.
Why A is wrong: Application Insights is the documented unified experience for AI-agent observability across Foundry, Copilot Studio, and third-party frameworks; bypassing it forfeits the prebuilt agent dashboards.
Why B is correct: Correct. The Application Insights documentation describes the managed-hosting (Azure AI Foundry) path as starting with tracing setup in Foundry, then using the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro with the Foundry SDK for app-side instrumentation.
Why C is wrong: The JavaScript SDK is a browser path that does not capture server-side agent traces or Foundry SDK signals.
Why D is wrong: The Microsoft Agent Framework is the documented self-hosting path; for Foundry-hosted agents, the unified APM experience lives in Application Insights.
lock_openFree sampleDesign Business Continuity Solutionsmedium
You are sizing Azure SQL Database HADR for a workload tracked under the WAF Reliability pillar that requires zero data loss in-region, less-than-one-minute RTO across regions, and a low-cost option for non-critical databases that tolerates minutes-to-hours RTO. Which three options match the documented HADR table? (Select 3 answers)
- AZone redundancy provides RTO typically less than 30 seconds and RPO 0 for in-region high availability.check_circle Correct
- BFailover groups with customer-managed policy provide RTO typically less than 60 seconds, RPO at or above 0.check_circle Correct
- CGeo-restore provides RTO typically minutes or hours and RPO typically minutes or hours dependent on backup size.check_circle Correct
- DActive geo-replication provides an RTO of 24 hours and an RPO of 24 hours across every Azure SQL Database tier.
- ESingle-database PITR provides an RTO of less than 5 seconds and an RPO of 0 across any regional outage.
Zone-redundant HA, failover groups, and geo-restore are three distinct RTO/RPO tiers in the SQL HADR table. The Azure SQL HADR comparison table lists three tiers: zone redundancy at typically <30s RTO and RPO 0; failover groups (or active geo-replication) at typically <60s RTO and RPO 0+; geo-restore at typically minutes-to-hours for both RTO and RPO. Each maps cleanly to one of the design constraints in the stem.
Why A is correct: Correct. Zone redundancy provides RTO typically less than 30 seconds and RPO 0 for in-region high availability is one of the keyed answers. The Azure SQL HADR comparison table lists three tiers: zone redundancy at typically <30s RTO and RPO 0; failover groups (or active geo-replication) at typically <60s RTO and RPO 0+; geo-restore at typically minutes-to-hours for both RTO and RPO.
Why B is correct: Correct. Failover groups with customer-managed policy provide RTO typically less than 60 seconds, RPO at or above 0 is one of the keyed answers. The Azure SQL HADR comparison table lists three tiers: zone redundancy at typically <30s RTO and RPO 0; failover groups (or active geo-replication) at typically <60s RTO and RPO 0+; geo-restore at typically minutes-to-hours for both RTO and RPO.
Why C is correct: Correct. Geo-restore provides RTO typically minutes or hours and RPO typically minutes or hours dependent on backup size is one of the keyed answers. The Azure SQL HADR comparison table lists three tiers: zone redundancy at typically <30s RTO and RPO 0; failover groups (or active geo-replication) at typically <60s RTO and RPO 0+; geo-restore at typically minutes-to-hours for both RTO and RPO.
Why D is wrong: Active geo-replication is a continuous-replication option with sub-60-second RTO targets, not a 24/24 design point.
Why E is wrong: Point-in-time restore is for accidental-deletion recovery, not a region-outage RTO/RPO option in the HADR table.
lock_openFree sampleDesign Data Storage Solutionshard
A financial-services architect is configuring failover-group policy for a mission-critical Azure SQL Database deployment. Internal recovery procedures require humans to make the call to fail over so business continuity owners stay in control of timing. Which failover policy aligns with this requirement?
- ASet the failover policy to Microsoft-managed (automatic) with the default grace period.
- BSet the failover policy to customer-managed (manual) and document the human-driven runbook.check_circle Correct
- CSet the failover policy to Microsoft-managed with a zero-hour grace period for fastest failover.
- DDisable failover groups and rely on per-database active geo-replication failovers.
Customer-managed failover policy is the recommended default; Microsoft-managed only fires for widespread regional outages. Customer-managed failover keeps the decision with the customer; the documentation explicitly recommends this policy so the business retains control over when failover happens. Microsoft-managed failover triggers only during widespread regional outages and only after the grace period, and it removes that control.
Why A is wrong: Microsoft-managed failover only triggers during widespread regional outages and removes human control over when failover happens, contrary to the requirement.
Why B is correct: Correct. Customer-managed failover keeps the decision with the customer; the documentation explicitly recommends this policy so the business retains control over when failover happens.
Why C is wrong: A zero-hour grace period still hands the failover decision to Microsoft; the requirement is human-controlled timing.
Why D is wrong: Active geo-replication failover is also manual but loses the listener endpoint and the group abstraction that the architect explicitly relies on.
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