You have an Azure Front Door instance named FD that contains an origin group named OG1. You need to configure a health probe for OG1. The solution must minimize the amount of traffic generated by the

The correct answer is B. HEAD. Azure Front Door supports the following HTTP methods for sending the health probes: GET: The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) gets identified by the Request-URI. HEAD: The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT ret

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You have an Azure Front Door instance named FD that contains an origin group named OG1. You need to configure a health probe for OG1. The solution must minimize the amount of traffic generated by the health probe. Which HTTP method should you use?

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ACONNECT
BHEAD
CTRACE
DGET

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A
2% (1)
B
83% (34)
C
5% (2)
D
10% (4)

Explanation

Azure Front Door supports the following HTTP methods for sending the health probes: GET: The GET method means retrieve whatever information (in the form of an entity) gets identified by the Request-URI. HEAD: The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response. For new Front Door profiles, by default, the probe method is set https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/health-probes

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