Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) Practice Exam

Which resource in Azure Content Delivery Network has default limits that might impact your setup?

1. Resource group

2. CDN profiles

3. Azure storage accounts

4. Traffic manager profiles

The correct answer is: CDN profiles

The correct choice is CDN profiles because they come with specific default limits that can significantly affect your content delivery setup within Azure. Each CDN profile in Azure has predefined capacities for features such as the number of endpoints, data transfer rates, and rules for caching behavior. These limits can impact how you scale your application and the performance of the content delivery, especially if you plan to serve a large volume of content or require high data throughput. Understanding the limitations of CDN profiles is critical for planning an efficient content delivery strategy. If your application scales beyond these limits, it can lead to service degradation or necessitate additional planning for resource allocation and potentially higher costs due to exceeding the imposed limits. In contrast, other choices such as resource groups, Azure storage accounts, and Traffic Manager profiles have their own configurations and limits, but they do not directly relate to the specific performance and capacity parameters associated with content delivery as CDN profiles do. Resource groups primarily organize resources and don't impose direct operational limits, Azure storage accounts serve as data containers with their limits mostly tied to storage rather than content delivery specifics, and Traffic Manager profiles are used for routing traffic intelligently but aren't involved in caching or content delivery like CDN profiles are.