Correct Answer: Session persistence (Client IP and Protocol)
Session persistence (also known as session affinity) dictates how traffic is distributed. By setting it to 'Client IP' or 'Client IP and Protocol' (a 2-tuple or 3-tuple hash), the ...
Correct Answer
Session persistence (Client IP and Protocol)
Why This Answer Is Correct
Session persistence (also known as session affinity) dictates how traffic is distributed. By setting it to 'Client IP' or 'Client IP and Protocol' (a 2-tuple or 3-tuple hash), the Load Balancer ensures that successive requests from the same client IP address are routed to the same backend VM. The default is a 5-tuple hash which does not guarantee affinity.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Azure Load Balancer — a core concept tested in Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700). 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?
Which feature of Azure Load Balancer is used to monitor the status of the instances in the backend pool?
What is 'Session Persistence' (Client IP) in an Azure Load Balancer used for?