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AZ-104

Configure and manage virtual networks in Azure

This objective sits in Implement and manage virtual networking, which carries 19% of the Azure Administrator exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Microsoft Azure page it rests on.

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Implement and manage virtual networking

An administrator deploys VMs across three availability zones in a region and wants incoming traffic distributed across all of them automatically. Which service should be combined with the availability zones to achieve this?

An availability set for VMs within a single data centerAn availability set groups VMs within a single data center for redundancy, it does not span availability zones or distribute traffic.
Azure Site Recovery replication to a secondary Azure regionSite Recovery replicates workloads for business continuity and disaster recovery between regions, it does not distribute live traffic across zones.
Azure Storage geo redundant replication across paired regionsStorage geo redundancy replicates storage account data to a distant region, it has no role in distributing VM network traffic.
Azure Load Balancer traffic distribution across the zone deployed VMsCorrect · your answerCorrect: Load Balancer is the service designed to distribute traffic across the zone deployed VMs.

Correct.

Checked against learn.microsoft.com, July 2026

Concept

Zone placement and request routing are two halves of one problem. Spreading instances over multiple zones removes the single point of failure, but something must still decide which healthy instance each incoming connection reaches. Replication features answer a different question: what happens after a failure, not how requests are shared while everything is healthy.

Why D

Azure Load Balancer distributes traffic between multiple virtual machines, and combining it with availability zones and scale sets gives the most application resiliency, which is exactly what is needed to spread traffic across zone deployed VMs.

Source

Combine the Azure Load Balancer with availability zones and scale sets to get the most application resiliency. The Azure Load Balancer distributes traffic between multiple virtual machines.

Manage VM availability, checked July 2026
#virtual-network#load-balancer#availability-zones

Now you: practice questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

Implement and manage virtual networking

A network engineer needs a suite of tools built on the Azure Monitor data platform specifically to monitor the network health of virtual network infrastructure resources. Which service provides this?

Sample question 2 of 3

Implement and manage virtual networking

An administrator deploys VMs into a virtual network spread across three Availability Zones and needs incoming client traffic distributed evenly among the VMs for resiliency. Which action meets this requirement?

Sample question 3 of 3

Implement and manage virtual networking

An administrator needs a tool that uses the Azure Monitor data platform specifically to monitor the network health of resources inside a virtual network. Which tool should be selected?

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