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Case Study 3 - Fabrikam, Inc General Overview Fabrikam, Inc. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and branch offices in Seattle and New York. Fabrikam has IT, human resources…

The correct answer is D. VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4. Explanation Option D is correct because the technical requirement states that KeyVault1 traffic must NOT travel over the internet, meaning App1 must be hosted on VMs that reside in virtual networks with access to KeyVault1 via a private endpoint or service endpoint - and since…

Submitted by sofia.br· Mar 6, 2026Secure compute, storage, and databases

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Case Study 3 - Fabrikam, Inc General Overview Fabrikam, Inc. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and branch offices in Seattle and New York. Fabrikam has IT, human resources (HR), and finance departments. Existing Environment Network Environment Fabrikam has a Microsoft 365 subscription and an Azure subscription named subscription1. The network contains an on-premises Active Directory domain named Fabrikam.com. The domain contains two organizational units (OUs) named OU1 and OU2. Azure AD Connect cloud sync syncs only OU1. The Azure resources hierarchy is shown in the following exhibit. The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant contains the users shown in the following table. Azure AD contains the resources shown in the following table. Subscription1 Resources Subscription1 contains the virtual networks shown in the following table. Subscription1 contains the network security groups (NSGs) shown in the following table. Subscription1 contains the virtual machines shown in the following table. Subscription1 contains the Azure key vaults shown in the following table. Subscription1 contains a storage account named storage1 in the West US Azure region. Planned Changes and Requirements Planned Changes Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes: Create two application security groups as shown in the following table. Associate the network interface of VM1 to ASG1. Deploy SecPol1 by using Azure Security Center. Deploy a third-party app named App1. A version of App1 exists for all available operating systems. Create a resource group named RG2. Sync OU2 to Azure AD. Add User1 to Group1. Technical Requirements Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements: The finance department users must reauthenticate after three hours when they access SharePoint Online. Storage1 must be encrypted by using customer-managed keys and automatic key rotation. From Sentinel1, you must ensure that the following notebooks can be launched: - Entity Explorer - Account - Entity Explorer - Windows Host - Guided Investigation Process Alerts VM1, VM2, and VM3 must be encrypted by using Azure Disk Encryption. Just in time (JIT) VM access for VM1, VM2, and VM3 must be enabled. App1 must use a secure connection string stored in KeyVault1. KeyVault1 traffic must NOT travel over the internet. You need to recommend which virtual machines to use to host App1. The solution must meet the technical requirements for KeyVault1. Which virtual machines should you use?

Options

  • AVM1 only
  • BVM1 and VM2 only
  • CVM1, VM2, and VM4 only
  • DVM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    25% (6)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    13% (3)
  • D
    58% (14)

Explanation

Explanation

Option D is correct because the technical requirement states that KeyVault1 traffic must NOT travel over the internet, meaning App1 must be hosted on VMs that reside in virtual networks with access to KeyVault1 via a private endpoint or service endpoint - and since App1 must also run on VMs that can support it across all available OS versions, all four VMs (VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4) satisfy the network connectivity requirement to reach KeyVault1 without internet traversal.

Options A, B, and C are incorrect because they arbitrarily exclude VMs that are also capable of hosting App1 and meeting the KeyVault1 network requirement - there is no technical justification in the case study to eliminate VM3 or VM4, as the network configuration supports private connectivity for all VMs in Subscription1 to KeyVault1.

The key distractor here is assuming that disk encryption, JIT access, or ASG membership rules out certain VMs from hosting App1 - but these are additional security controls applied to the VMs, not restrictions on which VMs can connect to KeyVault1.

Memory Tip: When a question says traffic "must NOT travel over the internet," think private endpoints - ask yourself which VMs have network-level access, not which VMs have the fewest restrictions. If all VMs are in the same subscription with private routing, include them all.

Topics

#Azure Virtual Machines#Azure Key Vault#Virtual Network Service Endpoints#Application Deployment Security

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