AZ-700 Question 224
Select 2You manage a global e-commerce application hosted in multiple Azure regions. Customers in Asia have reported slow page load times. You decide to accelerate traffic by leveraging Azure Front Door, which uses Microsoft� global edge network to reduce latency. Which two configuration steps do you need to perform to enable and optimize traffic acceleration with Azure Front Door?
- A
Create a new Azure Front Door instance, add your application� back-end endpoints, and map a front-end domain.
- B
Deploy an Azure Application Gateway in every region to locally terminate SSL before forwarding traffic to Azure Front Door.
- C
Enable caching for static assets in Azure Front Door� Routing Rules to reduce the need for repeated requests to the back-end.
- D
Use forced tunneling via an ExpressRoute gateway to direct inbound traffic from distant regions through a single on-premises location.
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
Azure Front Door improves performance by routing user requests through Microsoft� extensive global edge network, reducing latency and improving reliability. Creating the Front Door instance with properly defined back-end pools ensures global routing, while enabling caching of frequently accessed static content further reduces response times for users. For more details, refer to Azure Front Door documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview
- A. Correct.
Correct. To utilize Azure Front Door for traffic acceleration, you must create and configure a Front Door instance, specify the front-end domain, and add your back-end services. This ensures traffic is routed over Microsoft� global edge network, reducing latency.
- B. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Azure Application Gateway is not required to enable Azure Front Door traffic acceleration. While Application Gateway can provide Layer 7 load balancing and WAF features, it does not by itself accelerate global traffic.
- C. Correct.
Correct. Enabling caching for static content in Azure Front Door reduces round-trips to the back-end and significantly improves page load times, especially for globally distributed users.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Forced tunneling via ExpressRoute would typically increase complexity and latency for inbound traffic from distant regions. This approach is used for specific routing scenarios�often related to corporate security policies�rather than for acceleration.