AZ-104 Certification Practice Question #216

Question

Your company has an Azure subscription named Subscription1.
The company also has two on-premises servers named Server1 and Server2 that run Windows Server 2016. Server1 is configured as a DNS server that has a primary DNS zone named adatum.com. Adatum.com contains 1,000 DNS records.
You manage Server1 and Subscription1 from Server2. Server2 has the following tools installed:
✑ The DNS Manager console
✑ Azure PowerShell
✑ Azure CLI 2.0
You need to move the adatum.com zone to an Azure DNS zone in Subscription1. The solution must minimize administrative effort.
What should you use?

Accepted Answer

To migrate a DNS zone (adatum.com) containing 1,000 records from an on-premises Windows Server to Azure DNS with minimal administrative effort, you should export the zone file from Windows Server and import it into Azure DNS. Azure DNS supports importing zone files in the standard BIND format using the Azure CLI (`az network dns zone import`). Importing zone files is not supported by Azure PowerShell, and doing so manually via the Azure Portal or DNS Manager console would involve excessive administrative effort due to the high volume of records (1,000). Since Server2 has the Azure CLI installed, this is the best tool to use.

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