What should you do?

Topic 5, Litware Inc

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Background

You are a developer for Litware Inc., a SaaS company that provides a solution for managing employee expenses. The solution consists of an ASP.NET Core Web API project that is deployed as an Azure Web App.

Overall architecture

Employees upload receipts for the system to process. When processing is complete, the employee receives a summary report email that details the processing results. Employees then use a web application to manage their receipts and perform any additional tasks needed for reimbursement.

Receipt processing

Employees may upload receipts in two ways:

✑ Uploading using an Azure Files mounted folder

✑ Uploading using the web application

Data Storage

Receipt and employee information is stored in an Azure SQL database.

Documentation

Employees are provided with a getting started document when they first use the solution. The documentation includes details on supported operating systems for Azure File upload, and instructions on how to configure the mounted folder.

Solution details

Users table

Web Application

You enable MSI for the Web App and configure the Web App to use the security principal name WebAppIdentity.

Processing

Processing is performed by an Azure Function that uses version 2 of the Azure Function runtime. Once processing is completed, results are stored in Azure Blob Storage and an Azure SQL database. Then, an email summary is sent to the user with a link to the processing report. The link to the report must remain valid if the email is forwarded to another user.

Logging

Azure Application Insights is used for telemetry and logging in both the processor and the web application. The processor also has TraceWriter logging enabled. Application Insights must always contain all log messages.

Requirements

Receipt processing

Concurrent processing of a receipt must be prevented.

Disaster recovery

Regional outage must not impact application availability. All DR operations must not be dependent on application running and must ensure that data in the DR region is up to date.

Security

✑ User’s SecurityPin must be stored in such a way that access to the database does not allow the viewing of SecurityPins. The web application is the only system that should have access to SecurityPins.

✑ All certificates and secrets used to secure data must be stored in Azure Key Vault.

✑ You must adhere to the principle of least privilege and provide privileges which are essential to perform the intended function.

✑ All access to Azure Storage and Azure SQL database must use the application’s Managed Service Identity (MSI).

✑ Receipt data must always be encrypted at rest.

✑ All data must be protected in transit.

✑ User’s expense account number must be visible only to logged in users. All other views of the expense account number should include only the last segment, with the remaining parts obscured.

✑ In the case of a security breach, access to all summary reports must be revoked without impacting other parts of the system.

Issues

Upload format issue

Employees occasionally report an issue with uploading a receipt using the web application. They report that when they upload a receipt using the Azure File Share, the receipt does not appear in their profile. When this occurs, they delete the file in the file share and use the web application, which returns a 500 Internal Server error page.

Capacity issue

During busy periods, employees report long delays between the time they upload the receipt and when it appears in the web application.

Log capacity issue

Developers report that the number of log messages in the trace output for the processor is too high, resulting in lost log messages.

Application code

Processing.cs

Database.cs

ReceiptUploader.cs

ConfigureSSE.ps1

You need to ensure receipt processing occurs correctly.

What should you do?
A . Use blob properties to prevent concurrency problems
B . Use blob SnapshotTime to prevent concurrency problems
C . Use blob metadata to prevent concurrency problems
D . Use blob leases to prevent concurrency problems

View Answer

Answer: B

Explanation:

You can create a snapshot of a blob. A snapshot is a read-only version of a blob that’s taken at a point in time. Once a snapshot has been created, it can be read, copied, or deleted, but not modified. Snapshots provide a way to back up a blob as it appears at a moment in time.

Scenario: Processing is performed by an Azure Function that uses version 2 of the Azure Function runtime. Once processing is completed, results are stored in Azure Blob Storage and an Azure SQL database. Then, an email summary is sent to the user with a link to the processing report. The link to the report must remain valid if the email is forwarded to another user.

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/creating-a-snapshot-of-a-blob