Exam AZ-104 topic 1 question 32 discussion

A is correct

You understand that you stated the entirely correct answer, and then immediately proceeded to contradict yourself with a stoopid statement that made zero sense right afterward, correct? lol

it's 5

The least amount of network interfaces needed for this configuration is one network interface per VM. Each virtual machine (VM) in Azure requires at least one network interface. In this scenario, you need to deploy five VMs, each with both a public and private IP address. To achieve this, you would need to create five network interfaces, one for each VM. Each network interface can be associated with both a public IP address (for inbound connections) and a private IP address (for internal communication within the virtual network). By configuring the appropriate security rules, you can ensure that the inbound and outbound traffic for all five VMs is identical. Therefore, the least amount of network interfaces needed for this configuration is one network interface per VM, resulting in a total of five network interfaces.

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you seem to be contradicting yourself. First you said, "5 NICs * 2 IP addresses per NIC = 10 IP addresses." You're indicating 5 NICs with 2 IP addresses per NIC. Next you said, "Therefore, the least amount of network interfaces needed for this configuration is 10" when in your above statement you clearly indicate that 5 NICs is sufficient for 10 IP addresses.

Not really no even with Physical systems you can have multiple IP addresses on one NIC card and you can just tag different VLANS on your NIC traffic, with one being the public VLAN. But honestly nobody would do that nowadays they would just have the public addresses reside on the firewall or outer edge systems.