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AZ-305 · Question #447

Drag and Drop Question You have an Azure subscription. As part of a highly available deployment, you plan to deploy 30 virtual machines to an Azure region that contains three availability zones. You…

The correct answer is Create the availability sets.; Create proximity placement groups.; Deploy one virtual machine to each availability zone.; Deploy the remaining virtual machines. The correct sequence maximizes availability by first creating availability sets (to group VMs for fault and update domain isolation), then creating proximity placement groups (to ensure low latency between VMs while maintaining availability), then deploying one VM to each of…

Submitted by priya_blr· Mar 6, 2026Design and Implement High Availability and Resiliency in Azure (AZ-305 / AZ-104 Infrastructure Design & Deployment)

Question

Drag and Drop Question You have an Azure subscription. As part of a highly available deployment, you plan to deploy 30 virtual machines to an Azure region that contains three availability zones. You need to recommend a deployment solution for the virtual machines, availability sets, and availability zones. The solution must maximize the availability of the deployment. Which four actions should you recommend be performed in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order. NOTE: More than one order of answer choices is correct. You will receive credit for any of the correct orders you select. Answer:

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Answer Area

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Create the availability sets.Create proximity placement groups.Deploy the remaining virtual machines.Create capacity reservation groups.Deploy one virtual machine to each availability zone.

Correct arrangement

  • Create the availability sets.
  • Create proximity placement groups.
  • Deploy one virtual machine to each availability zone.
  • Deploy the remaining virtual machines.

Explanation

The correct sequence maximizes availability by first creating availability sets (to group VMs for fault and update domain isolation), then creating proximity placement groups (to ensure low latency between VMs while maintaining availability), then deploying one VM to each of the three availability zones (to anchor the deployment across zones and ensure zone-level redundancy), and finally deploying the remaining 27 VMs across the established structure. This layered approach combines both availability sets and availability zones to protect against both rack-level failures (availability sets) and datacenter-level failures (availability zones), achieving the highest possible availability for the 30-VM deployment.

Topics

#Availability Zones#Availability Sets#Proximity Placement Groups#High Availability

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