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AZ-104 Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources Practice Question
Arrange the steps to configure Azure Load Balancer with a backend pool.
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Create Load Balancer → Configure frontend IP configuration → Configure backend pool → Add health probes → Configure load balancing rules → Associate VMs to backend pool
Create LB, configure frontend and backend, add probes, rules, then associate VMs.
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Create Load Balancer → Configure frontend IP configuration → Configure backend pool → Add health probes → Configure load balancing rules → Associate VMs to backend pool
Why this is correct
This is the correct order because the Load Balancer must exist first, then frontend IP is configured to accept traffic, followed by creating the backend pool to define which VMs will receive traffic. Health probes are added to monitor VM health, then load balancing rules tie frontend and backend together with the probe. Finally, VMs are associated to the backend pool to complete the setup.
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Create Load Balancer → Configure backend pool → Configure frontend IP configuration → Add health probes → Configure load balancing rules → Associate VMs to backend pool
Why it's wrong here
This order is incorrect because the frontend IP configuration must be defined before the backend pool, as the load balancing rules will reference both. Creating the backend pool first is possible but not ideal since the frontend is needed to complete the rule configuration later.
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Create Load Balancer → Configure frontend IP configuration → Configure load balancing rules → Configure backend pool → Add health probes → Associate VMs to backend pool
Why it's wrong here
This order is incorrect because load balancing rules require both a frontend and backend pool to be defined. Configuring rules before the backend pool would cause configuration errors as the backend reference does not exist yet.
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Create Load Balancer → Configure frontend IP configuration → Configure backend pool → Configure load balancing rules → Associate VMs to backend pool → Add health probes
Why it's wrong here
This order is incorrect because health probes are essential for the load balancing rules to function properly. Adding probes after associating VMs means the rules would not have a health check, potentially directing traffic to unhealthy VMs. Probes must be configured before or at the same time as the rules.
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Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer is a cloud service that evenly distributes incoming network traffic across multiple virtual machines or resources to ensure reliability and high availability.
Key term
Load balancer
A load balancer is a device or software that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers so no single server gets overwhelmed.
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