Exam AZ-101 topic 3 question 17 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's AZ-101

Question #: 17
Topic #: 3

You have a public load balancer that balances ports 80 and 443 across three virtual machines.
You need to direct all the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections to VM3 only.
What should you configure?

A. an inbound NAT rule
B. a load balancing rule
C. a new public load balancer for VM3
D. a frontend IP configuration

Show Suggested Answer

Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
To port forward traffic to a specific port on specific VMs use an inbound network address translation (NAT) rule.
Incorrect Answers:
B: Load-balancing rule to distribute traffic that arrives at frontend to backend pool instances.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-overview

by OsimIndia at Dec. 31, 2020, 7:15 a.m.