Correct Answer: Web Application Firewall (WAF)
The WAF on Application Gateway provides centralized protection for your web applications from common web vulnerabilities....
Correct Answer
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Why This Answer Is Correct
The WAF on Application Gateway provides centralized protection for your web applications from common web vulnerabilities.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Azure Application Gateway — a core concept tested in Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900). Understanding Azure Application Gateway 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.
You need to route traffic to Azure Virtual Machines instances based on URL paths (e.g., '/api' vs '/static'). Which load balancer type should you use?
What is the primary difference between Azure Application Gateway and Azure Load Balancer?
You want to route traffic to DIFFERENT back-end server pools based on the URL path (e.g., /images vs /videos). Which service should you use?
What does 'SSL Termination' (or SSL Offloading) mean in the context of Azure Application Gateway?
Which Azure service is a global, multi-region web load balancer that uses the 'anycast' protocol to route users to the nearest available application backend?