Azure Traffic Manager

Question 1

I want to load balance traffic across regions, what options do I have?

Answer 1

You can use Azure Traffic Manager, TM used DNS to geo route traffic to where you need it.

Question 2

What are the available routing methods?

Answer 2

• Performance
• Weighted
• Priority
• Geo
• MultiVal
• Subnet

Question 3

With Traffic Manager what is the performance routing method doing?

Answer 3

When you have endpoints in different geographic locations and you want end users to use the “closest” endpoint in terms of the lowest network latency.

Question 4

With Traffic Manager what is the weighted routing method doing?

Answer 4

When you want to distribute traffic across a set of endpoints, either evenly or according to weights, which you define.

Question 5

With Traffic Manager what is the priority routing method doing?

Answer 5

Select Priority when you want to use a primary service endpoint for all traffic, and provide backups in case the primary or the backup endpoints are unavailable.

Question 6

With Traffic Manager what is the geo routing method doing?

Answer 6

so that users are directed to specific endpoints (Azure, External, or Nested) based on which geographic location their DNS query originates from. This empowers Traffic Manager customers to enable scenarios where knowing a user’s geographic region and routing them based on that is important. Examples include complying with data

Question 7

With Traffic Manager what is the MultiVal routing method doing?

Answer 7

for Traffic Manager profiles that can only have IPv4/IPv6 addresses as endpoints. When a query is received for this profile, all healthy endpoints are returned.

Question 8

With Traffic Manager what is the performance subnet method doing?

Answer 8

traffic-routing method to map sets of end-user IP address ranges to a specific endpoint within a Traffic Manager profile. When a request is received, the endpoint returned will be the one mapped for that request’s source IP address.

Question 9

When I use Traffic Manager, am i creating a profile or a traffic manager?

Answer 9

You are creating a profile that is sent to the global traffic manager infrastructure.

Question 10

I have two regions with a web server in each location and i want to have failover when one web server fails, what options do I have?

Answer 10

Use traffic manager with priority routing.

Question 11

What is a traffic manager profile?

Answer 11

This is what you create to describe how you want traffic manager to route your traffic.

Question 12

Explain priority routing?

Answer 12

This si primary/secondary failover.

Question 13

Explain Weighed routing?

Answer 13

This is where traffic is distributed based on the weights you set.

Question 14

Explain performance routing?

Answer 14

This is where the traffic is sent to the closes end point to the user