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Your company plans to migrate all its data and resources to Azure.
The company's migration plan states that only Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions must be used in Azure.
You need to deploy an Azure environment that meets the company migration plan.
Solution: You create an Azure App Service and Azure virtual machines that have Microsoft SQL Server installed.
Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes

B. No

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Community votes:B · 127 (93%)A · 9 (7%)

kumar78▲ 205Highly votedMarch 22, 2021 12:03 pm

given answer: Azure App Service is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) service. However, Azure virtual machines are an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) service. Therefore, this solution does not meet the goal.

PaaS contains all services of IaaS plus additional Services. So, what do you say Over solution is Yes, That is App Service and Virtual Machine together is PaaS even if VM is in IaaS. Please some one shed some light on this.

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rupakrajput5▲ 61Highly votedSeptember 11, 2021 09:33 am

It should be NO. VM itself a IAAS service.

Kuntal_Roni▲ 58Highly votedOctober 22, 2021 10:16 am

An Azure VM with SQL server installed in it falls under IaaS. So the answer is No.
Please refer the MS Doc- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/azure-sql-iaas-vs-paas-what-is-overview

johnyjohny1▲ 58Highly votedApril 16, 2021 02:09 pm

You have to go back and study the responsibility model a bit more. It has nothing to do with "what's underneath", but what share of the responsibility lies on you, the buyer of the service. When you get PaaS, you don't manage anything you would manage in IaaS. If you put your servers in VMs, you have to manage infrastructure, thus you, as the user, are not doing PaaS.

lovecloud2▲ 42Highly votedDecember 06, 2021 02:52 am

Lol you clearly didn't read Johny's answer.

lovecloud2▲ 42Highly votedDecember 06, 2021 02:52 am

Lol you clearly didn't read Johny's answer.

lovecloud2▲ 42Highly votedDecember 06, 2021 02:52 am

Lol you clearly didn't read Johny's answer.

Cryptomike87▲ 40Highly votedSeptember 21, 2021 01:06 pm

WRONG! If you deploy a VM (iaas) you are responsible for managing it. The answer to this question is NO.

Cryptomike87▲ 40Highly votedSeptember 21, 2021 01:06 pm

WRONG! If you deploy a VM (iaas) you are responsible for managing it. The answer to this question is NO.

asrae▲ 23Highly votedNovember 09, 2021 11:34 pm

The question say you create a virtual machine as a part of the solution. However, you cannot create a vm in PaaS...Vm runs underneath of PaaS solution...user can only use Paas to create the application not infrastructure such as vm. Answer should be NO.

dhananjaym182▲ 16Highly votedJanuary 29, 2022 01:19 pm

You are right Answer should be NO. VM installed with Azure SQL fall under IaaS user will have OS access.

dhananjaym182▲ 16Highly votedJanuary 29, 2022 01:19 pm

You are right Answer should be NO. VM installed with Azure SQL fall under IaaS user will have OS access.

AntonioTech▲ 8Highly votedSelected: BSeptember 16, 2023 12:28 pm

To the admin: Why are you NOT fixing the wrong answers? There are way too many wrong answers. Why are we paying for wrong answers? This is not fair.
B. No

The solution you've described does not meet the company's migration plan, which states that only Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions must be used in Azure. In your solution, you've mentioned deploying Azure virtual machines with Microsoft SQL Server installed. Virtual machines (VMs) are considered Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, not PaaS.

To meet the goal and align with the company's migration plan, you should focus on deploying Azure PaaS services such as Azure SQL Database (PaaS database service) instead of installing SQL Server on virtual machines. PaaS services abstract the underlying infrastructure and provide managed, scalable solutions that align with the PaaS model.

tdomugho▲ 7Highly votedOctober 11, 2021 09:01 am

The solution itself concludes to a "No" answer. Please update the question answer to this admins. Thanks.

maaten▲ 7Highly votedMay 05, 2021 07:44 pm

read the question thoroughly... The company must only use PaaS solutions it says. The scenario given says Azure VM and servers installed on that, Azure VM is IaaS.

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