Mark, a senior infrastructure architect at MDFT Pro training agency, is developing an advanced Azure networking course focused on high availability and scalability patterns. The course is designed for students preparing for Azure architect certifications who need deep understanding of load balancing concepts. Claire, the lead networking instructor, is creating hands-on labs where students configure complete load balancing solutions from scratch. The training scenario involves setting up web applications with proper health monitoring and traffic distribution to demonstrate enterprise-grade availability patterns that students will encounter in real-world deployments.
The lab environment consists of an Azure subscription containing two virtual machines (VM1 and VM2) that will host identical web applications. Students have already created an Azure Load Balancer and now need to configure a load balancing rule to distribute HTTPS traffic between the virtual machines.
Which two additional load balancer components must be created before the load balancing rule can be configured?
Choose all correct answers from the options below.
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