Correct Answer: Health Probes
Azure Load Balancer relies on health probes to continuously monitor the operational status of virtual machine instances within the backend pool and dynamically direct traffic away ...
Correct Answer
Health Probes
Why This Answer Is Correct
Azure Load Balancer relies on health probes to continuously monitor the operational status of virtual machine instances within the backend pool and dynamically direct traffic away from unhealthy servers.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Azure Load Balancer — a core concept tested in Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104). Understanding Azure Load Balancer is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your high-traffic application requires ultra-low latency and needs to handle millions of requests per second at the network level. Which load balancer is best?
Which Azure Load Balancer SKU supports 'Global' load balancing across multiple regions?
What is a 'Backend Pool' in an Azure Load Balancer?
What is 'Session Persistence' (Client IP) in an Azure Load Balancer used for?
Can an Azure Load Balancer (Basic SKU) distribute traffic to virtual machines in different Availability Zones?