Azure Administrator (AZ-104) · Free practice question 6 of 12
Proximity placement groups
A trading application at Kestwick Capital runs on several VMs that exchange large amounts of data and require the lowest possible network latency between them within a region. What should you use?
- A.Availability zones with one VM per zone
- B.A proximity placement group
- C.Azure Site Recovery
- D.A NAT gateway
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Correct answer: B. A proximity placement group
Why: A proximity placement group keeps Azure compute resources physically close to each other, minimizing network latency. Spreading VMs across availability zones increases resilience but also increases latency. Site Recovery provides disaster recovery, and a NAT gateway handles outbound internet connectivity.
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