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Overview -
Fabrikam, Inc. is an engineering company that has offices throughout Europe. The company has a main office in London and three branch offices in Amsterdam,
Berlin, and Rome.
Existing Environment: Active Directory Environment
The network contains two Active Directory forests named corp.fabrikam.com and rd.fabrikam.com. There are no trust relationships between the forests.
Corp.fabrikam.com is a production forest that contains identities used for internal user and computer authentication.
Rd.fabrikam.com is used by the research and development (R&D) department only. The R&D department is restricted to using on-premises resources only.
Existing Environment: Network Infrastructure
Each office contains at least one domain controller from the corp.fabrikam.com domain. The main office contains all the domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest.
All the offices have a high-speed connection to the internet.
An existing application named WebApp1 is hosted in the data center of the London office. WebApp1 is used by customers to place and track orders. WebApp1 has a web tier that uses Microsoft Internet information Services (IIS) and a database tier that runs Microsoft SQL Server 2016. The web tier and the database tier are deployed to virtual machines that run on Hyper-V.
The IT department currently uses a separate Hyper-V environment to test updates to WebApp1.
Fabrikam purchases all Microsoft licenses through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that includes Software Assurance.
Existing Environment: Problem Statements
The use of WebApp1 is unpredictable. At peak times, users often report delays. At other times, many resources for WebApp1 are underutilized.
Requirements: Planned Changes -
Fabrikam plans to move most of its production workloads to Azure during the next few years, including virtual machines that rely on Active Directory for authentication.
As one of its first projects, the company plans to establish a hybrid identity model, facilitating an upcoming Microsoft 365 deployment.
All R&D operations will remain on-premises.
Fabrikam plans to migrate the production and test instances of WebApp1 to Azure.
Requirements: Technical Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements:
Website content must be easily updated from a single point.
User input must be minimized when provisioning new web app instances.
Whenever possible, existing on-premises licenses must be used to reduce cost.
Users must always authenticate by using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity.
Any new deployments to Azure must be redundant in case an Azure region fails.
Whenever possible, solutions must be deployed to Azure by using the Standard pricing tier of Azure App Service.
An email distribution group named IT Support must be notified of any issues relating to the directory synchronization services.
In the event that a link fails between Azure and the on-premises network, ensure that the virtual machines hosted in Azure can authenticate to Active Directory.
Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on- premises network.
Requirements: Database Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following database requirements:
Database metrics for the production instance of WebApp1 must be available for analysis so that database administrators can optimize the performance settings.
To avoid disrupting customer access, database downtime must be minimized when databases are migrated.
Database backups must be retained for a minimum of seven years to meet compliance requirements.
Requirements: Security Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:
Company information including policies, templates, and data must be inaccessible to anyone outside the company.
Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an internet link fails.
Administrators must be able authenticate to the Azure portal by using their corp.fabrikam.com credentials.
All administrative access to the Azure portal must be secured by using multi-factor authentication (MFA).
The testing of WebApp1 updates must not be visible to anyone outside the company.
What should you include in the identity management strategy to support the planned changes?
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A. B. C. D.A
Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on- premises network. (This requires domain controllers in Azure).
Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an Internet link fails. (This requires domain controllers on-premises).
The identity management strategy for Fabrikam, Inc. should support the planned changes of migrating most of their production workloads to Azure and establishing a hybrid identity model to facilitate Microsoft 365 deployment. In addition, all R&D operations will remain on-premises, and the production and test instances of WebApp1 will be migrated to Azure.
To support these changes, the identity management strategy should ensure that users can authenticate using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity and that any new deployments to Azure are redundant in case of a region failure. Furthermore, the strategy should minimize user input when provisioning new web app instances and use existing on-premises licenses to reduce costs.
Option A, deploying domain controllers for corp.fabrikam.com to virtual networks in Azure, would be a good solution as it allows users to authenticate using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity. However, it does not address the redundancy requirement, and it may not be the most cost-effective solution.
Option B, moving all domain controllers from corp.fabrikam.com to virtual networks in Azure, is not a good solution as it does not provide redundancy in case of an Azure region failure. Furthermore, it may not be necessary to move all domain controllers to Azure, especially if there are cost implications.
Option C, deploying a new Azure AD tenant for the authentication of new R&D projects, is not a good solution as it does not address the requirements of supporting the migration of production and test instances of WebApp1 to Azure and establishing a hybrid identity model to facilitate Microsoft 365 deployment.
Option D, deploying domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest to virtual networks in Azure, is not a good solution as it is not required. The R&D department is restricted to using on-premises resources only, and there are no plans to move R&D operations to Azure.
Therefore, option A is the best solution as it addresses the requirement of users being able to authenticate using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity and provides a redundant solution in case of an Azure region failure. It is also a cost-effective solution as it allows for the use of existing on-premises licenses.