Azure Practice Questions

Which of the following might be a good usage of tags? -Using tags to associate a cost center with resources for internal chargeback -Using tags in conjunction with Azure Automation to schedule maintenance windows -Using tags to store environment and department association -All of the above are good ways to use tags

All of the above are good ways to use tags

Which of the following statements is true about an Azure subscription? -Using Azure does not require a subscription -An Azure subscription is a logical unit of Azure services -You can't have more than one subscription

An Azure subscription is a logical unit of Azure Services

Which of the following would be good to put a resource lock on? -An ExpressRoute circuit with connectivity back to your on-premises network -A non-production virtual machine used to test occasional application builds -A storage account used to temporarily store images processed in a development environment

An ExpressRoute circuit with connectivity back to your on-premises network

To use Azure datacenters that are made available with power, cooling, and networking capabilities independent from other datacenters in a region, choose a region that supports _________?

Availability Zones

Which of the following is an example of an Azure application platform? -Azure App Service -Azure Load Balancer -Azure Table Storage -Azure Cache for Redis

Azure App Service

You want to store certificates in Azure to centrally manage them for your services. Which Azure service should you use?

Azure Key Vault

Which Azure service allows you to create, assign, and, manage policies to enforce different rules and effects over your resources and stay compliant with your corporate standards and service-level agreements (SLAs)?

Azure Policy

Which Azure support plan is best for business-critical workloads?

Azure Professional Direct

Which of the following services provides up-to-date status information about the health of Azure services?

Azure Service Health

When you create an Azure resource like a virtual machine, you select the ______________ it belongs to.

Azure Subscription

Azure Advisor provides advice on which of these topics: -Creating an Azure account -Best practices and security for your services -Using the Azure portal effectively

Best practices and security for your services

Which of the following would be the most efficient way to ensure a naming convention was followed across your subscription? -Send out an email with the details of your naming conventions and hope it is followed -Create a policy with your naming requirements and assign it to the scope of your subscription -Give all other users except for yourself read-only access to the subscription. Have all requests to create resources sent to you so you can review the names being assigned to resources, and then create them.

Create a policy with your naming requirements and assign it to the scope of your subscription

There has been an attack on your public-facing website, and the application's resources have been overwhelmed and exhausted, and are now unavailable to users. What service should you use to prevent this type of attack?

DDoS protection

Which term from the list below would be viewed as benefits of using cloud services? -Unpredictable costs -Elasticity -Local reach Only

Elasticity

Which of these approaches is the strongest way to protect sensitive customer data? -Encrypt data as it sits in your database -Encrypt data as it travels over the network -Encrypt data both as it sits in your database and as it travels over the network

Encrypt data both as it sits in your database and as it travels over the network

Tags can be applied to any type of resource on Azure

False

True or False: Tags applied at a resource group level are propagated to resources within the resource group.

False

Suppose you have two types of applications: legacy applications that require specialized mainframe hardware and newer applications that can run on commodity hardware. Which cloud deployment model would be best for you?

Hybrid Cloud

Cloud security is a shared responsibility between you and your cloud provider. Which category of cloud services requires the greatest security effort on your part?

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

How does Azure Traffic Manager reduce latency?

It chooses the endpoint that's closest to the user's DNS server.

An Azure dashboard is stored as which type of file?

JSON

Which of the following factors affects costs? -Global infrastructure -Location -Availability zone

Location

Complete the following sentence. As an Azure customer, Azure Reservations offer discounted prices if you _________

Make upfront commitments on compute capacity

Where can you obtain details about the personal data Microsoft processes, how Microsoft processes it, and for what purposes?

Microsoft Privacy Statement

What is Azure? -Microsoft's cloud computing platform, which provides compute power, storage, and services over the Internet using a pay-as-you-go pricing model. -A single data center located in Redmond, Washington. -A hosting environment specifically for virtual machines

Microsoft's cloud computing platform, which provides compute power, storage, and services over the Internet using a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Your billing is based on your usage of Azure resources and is invoiced _________

Monthly

You're developing an application and want to focus on building, testing, and deploying. You don't want to worry about managing the underlying hardware or software. Which cloud service type is best for you?

PaaS

Deploying an app can be done directly to what level of physical granularity?

Region

Which of the following is not a feature of resource groups? -Resources can be in only one resource group. -Resources can be moved from one resource group to another resource group. -Resource groups can be nested. -Role-based access control can be applied to the resource group.

Resource groups can be nested

Which Azure service allows you to configure fine-grained access management for Azure resources, enabling you to grant users only the rights they need to perform their jobs?

Role-based Access Control

Imagine that you work on a photo-sharing application that runs on millions of mobile devices. Demand is unpredictable because you see a spike in usage whenever a locally or nationally significant event occurs. Which Azure compute resource is the best match for this workload?

Serverless computing

Suppose you work at a startup with limited funding. Why might you prefer Azure data storage over an on-premises solution? -To ensure you run on a specific brand of hardware, which will let you form a marketing partnership with that hardware vendor. -The Azure pay-as-you-go billing model lets you avoid buying expensive hardware. -To get exact control over the location of your data store.

The Azure pay-as-you-go billing model lets you avoid buying expensive hardware.

A newly released mobile app using Azure data storage has just been mentioned by a celebrity on social media, seeing a huge spike in user volume. To meet the unexpected new user demand, what feature of pay-as-you-go storage will be most beneficial? -The ability to provision and deploy new infrastructure quickly -The ability to predict the service costs in advance -The ability to meet compliance requirements for data storage

The ability to provision and deploy new infrastructure quickly

Application availability refers to what?

The overall time that a system is functional and working.

What is network latency?

The time it takes for data to travel over the network.

True or false: Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources?

True

True or false: You can download published audit reports and other compliance-related information related to Microsoft's cloud service from the Service Trust Portal

True

Which of the following situations would yield the most benefits from relocating an on-premises data store to Azure? -Unpredictable storage demand that increases and decreases multiple times throughout the year. -Long-term, steady growth in storage demand. -Consistent, unchanging storage demand.

Unpredictable storage demand that increases and decreases multiple times throughout the year.

Which one of the following systems is used to determine Azure costs for each billing period? -The Azure website -Number of created virtual machines -The Azure pricing calculator -Usage meters

Usage Meters

Which of these options helps you most easily disable an account when an employee leaves your company? -Enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) -Monitor sign-on attempts -Use single sign-on (SSO)

Use single sign-on (SSO)

Suppose you have an existing application running locally on your own server. You need additional capacity but prefer to move to Azure instead of buying upgraded on-premises hardware. Which compute option would likely give you the quickest route to getting your application running in Azure?

Virtual machines

The compute options give you different levels of control over the configuration of the environment in which your application runs. Which of the following lists the compute options in order of your control from "most control" to "least control"? -Serverless computing, containers, virtual machines -Containers, serverless computing, virtual machines -Virtual machines, containers, serverless computing

Virtual machines, containers, serverless computing

When should you scale out your deployment? -When your application or service requires a more powerful CPU or more memory to run faster. -When you need additional virtual machines to speed up your application. -When you're using excess capacity that you don't need.

When you need additional virtual machines to speed up your application.

SOURCE

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/