You have multiple virtual machines in the West US region and want to enable Traffic Analytics. Which two Azure resources must you create to use Traffic Analytics? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: a Log Analytics workspace, a storage account.
Why this is the answer
To use Traffic Analytics, you need a Log Analytics workspace to store and analyze the flow log data. Traffic Analytics processes network security group (NSG) flow logs and sends the enriched data to this workspace. A storage account is also required to store the raw NSG flow logs before Traffic Analytics processes them. Without both of these resources, Traffic Analytics cannot function. An Azure Monitor workbook is used for visualizing data, but it's not a prerequisite for enabling Traffic Analytics itself. Azure Sentinel is a SIEM solution that can ingest data from Log Analytics but is not directly required for Traffic Analytics. An Azure Monitor data collection rule is used for collecting logs from various Azure resources, but NSG flow logs are configured separately and then processed by Traffic Analytics.
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