Exam AZ-303 topic 6 question 2 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's AZ-303

Question #: 2
Topic #: 6

You are designing an Azure solution.
The solution must meet the following requirements:
Distribute traffic to different pools of dedicated virtual machines (VMs) based on rules
Provide SSL offloading capabilities
You need to recommend a solution to distribute network traffic.
Which technology should you recommend?

A. server-level firewall rules
B. Azure Application Gateway
C. Azure Traffic Manager
D. Azure Load Balancer

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
If you require "SSL offloading", application layer treatment, or wish to delegate certificate management to Azure, you should use Azure's layer 7 load balancer
Application Gateway instead of the Load Balanacer.
Incorrect Answers:
D: Because Load Balancer is agnostic to the TCP payload and TLS offload ("SSL") is not provided.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-gateway/overview

by Kraviecc at Jan. 16, 2021, 3:31 p.m.