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Which is likely the best way for Tailwind Traders to identify which billing department each Azure resource belongs to? Track resource usage in a spreadsheet. Split the deployment into separate Azure subscriptions, where each subscription belongs to its own billing department. Apply a tag to each resource that includes the associated billing department.
Apply a tag to each resource that includes the associated billing department.
Which of the following would be an example of a cost anomaly that you should investigate further? A 1% increase in compute costs from the previous month. A decrease in compute costs after the decommission of a website. A 5% increase in storage costs after the migration of a large database. A 25% increase in ExpressRoute circuit utilization from the previous month.
A 25% increase in ExpressRoute circuit utilization from the previous month.
What is a hybrid solution? A solution that has resources both in Azure as well as on premises or in another cloud provider A solution that uses two different database engines, for example, MySQL and SQL Server A solution that spans two different versions of SQL Server
A solution that has resources both in Azure as well as on premises or in another cloud provider
Which of the following scenarios would be well suited for spot instances? A database for a business-critical financial application. Virtual desktops for employees. A system that enables patients to access health records. A system that processes batches of data that is sent from partners.
A system that processes batches of data that is sent from partners.
Database backup option for Azure SQL databases. The company has several Azure SQL databases in an elastic pool. The IT department needs a solution for when the primary database fails or needs to be offline. What solution would be best for the Azure SQL database requirement? Azure Site Recovery Azure Backup Active geo-replication.
Active geo-replication.
How can Tailwind Traders report all the costs associated with a new product? Add a resource tag to identify which resources are used for the new product. Add a resource group and move all product assets into the group. Add a spreadsheet and require each department to log their costs.
Add a resource tag to identify which resources are used for the new product.
How can Tailwind Traders ensure applications use geo-redundancy to create highly available storage applications? Add a resource tag to each storage account for geo-redundant storage. Add a geo-redundant resource group to contain all the storage accounts. Add an Azure policy that requires geo-redundant storage.
Add an Azure policy that requires geo-redundant storage.
Suppose you have recently moved your application to the cloud and your monthly bill seems higher than expected. The utilization level of your VM is high enough that you're hesitant to downsize. What might be a reasonable next step you can take to help you find inefficiencies? Wait a month and recheck your bill. Increase the amount of application testing you do before each release. Add monitoring and instrumentation to your application.
Add monitoring and instrumentation to your application.
Which of the following is an example of scaling out (horizontal scaling)? Updating a virtual machine to a larger size. Adding more storage to a virtual machine. Adding more web servers into a web farm. Replicating backups to another region
Adding more web servers into a web farm.
Which of the following types of data might need to have security protections? Customer data that contains personal information. Financial data that supports business operations. Intellectual property. All of theses types of data might need security protections.
All of theses types of data might need security protections.
Your business stores PDF copies of all purchase orders. These files are accessed infrequently after their initial upload, and there is no time criticality associated with their retrieval. Which of the following storage tiers would be the best choice to reduce costs for long-term storage? Hot access tier Cool access tier Archive access tier
Archive access tier
Report user sign-in activity. The security team requires a report of all user sign-in activity. What solution should be used to log user sign-in activity? Virtual machines insights Azure Monitor alerts Azure Active Directory audit logs
Azure Active Directory audit logs
Migrate web apps to Azure. The IT department has several Windows ASP.NET test and production web apps they'd like to migrate to Azure. Which product is ideal for migrating web apps to Azure? Azure App Service Migration Assistant Azure Resource Mover Data Migration Assistant
Azure App Service Migration Assistant
Non-internet facing web app. The company needs to load balance incoming traffic to their web application, but the app can't be internet facing. What solution would you recommend for the load-balancing requirements? Azure Front Door Azure Application Gateway Azure Load Balancer
Azure Application Gateway
What monitoring tool should be used to measure user experience and analyze user behavior for all external facing applications? Azure Application Insights Azure Monitor container insights Azure Monitor activity log
Azure Application Insights
Update management. The developers of the game expect scheduled software deployments and installation of updates within a defined maintenance window. What option do you recommend for the software requirements? Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates Azure Bicep Azure Automation
Azure Automation
Backup option for on-premises virtual machines. The IT department needs a way to back up on-premises virtual machines. They want to define the frequency and only pay-as-they-go for storage. What backup solution is best for the on-premises virtual machines? Azure Site Recovery Azure Backup Active geo-replication
Azure Backup
Which Azure Storage option is better for storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving? Azure Files Storage Azure Disk Storage Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Host data processing application in the cloud. The company has a small data processing application. The app ingests new product photos and writes the content to Azure Blob Storage. The app takes only a few seconds to run. The sales team has requested a solution that hosts the app in the cloud and reduces costs. What compute solution is best for hosting the company's data processing application? Azure Container Instances Azure Virtual Machines Web Apps (supported by Azure App Service)
Azure Container Instances
Your development team is interested in writing Graph-based applications that take advantage of the Gremlin API. Which option would be ideal for that scenario? Azure Cosmos DB Azure SQL Database Azure Databricks Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Cosmos DB
Large data transfers. Large amounts of data need to be transferred between on-premises storage and an Azure storage account. There's a concern the transfer might monopolize network bandwidth. The executive committee has requested an approach where Microsoft handles the shipping and logistics. Which product satisfies the large data transfer requirement? Azure Import/Export service Azure Data Box Azure Migrate
Azure Data Box
Manufacturing data. The company has been storing manufacturing logs that are collected from the assembly line. You want to analyze these logs to gain insights into material behavior and quality assurance. To analyze these logs, you need to use reference data, such as material information, chemical information, and origin information that's in an on-premises data store. You want to utilize this data from the on-premises data store, combine it with other log data that it has in a cloud data store, and run stored procedures on the data to gain insights. Which Azure solution fulfills the manufacturing data requirements? Azure Databricks Azure Data Factory Azure Data Lake
Azure Data Factory
Which Azure solution provides real-time data ingestion and storage of multiple data sources? Azure Databricks Azure Blob Storage Azure Data Lake
Azure Data Lake
Tailwind Traders uses the LAMP stack for several of its websites. Which option would be ideal for migration? Azure Cosmos DB Azure Database for MySQL That's correct. Azure Database for MySQL is the logical choice for existing LAMP stack applications. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for MySQL
Event handling. During game play, millions of events are expected per second. Customers should expect a low latency on responses. The event stream should be saved to Azure Blob Storage How should the events be handled in the game? Azure Event Hubs Azure Event Grid Azure IoT Hub
Azure Event Hubs
Network security. You need to filter HTTP(S) traffic from Azure to on-premises, and filter traffic outbound to the internet. Which security solution is necessary to filter the traffic as indicated? Azure Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway Azure Bastion Azure Firewall
Azure Firewall
Real-time inventory tracking. Each evening, product availability is updated on the company website. The management team wants the stock inventory updated as soon as products are ordered. To fulfill this requirement, the product database needs to be updated, and stock reorder notifications need to be sent, as needed. The current program is a Windows service written in C#. Which compute option best supports the real-time inventory tracking requirement? Azure Logic Apps Azure Functions Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Functions
Which of the following is not used to monitor your costs? Microsoft Cost Management Azure Functions Azure Advisor Azure billing reports
Azure Functions
Which of the following services should be used when the primary concern is to perform work in response to an event (often via a REST command) that needs a response in a few seconds? Azure Functions Azure App Service Azure Container Instances
Azure Functions
Which of the following tools can you use to estimate costs for a new application you are deploying on Azure? Azure Resource Manager Azure Policy Microsoft Cost Management Azure Pricing Calculator
Azure Pricing Calculator
HR application. You need to migrate the HR application and database to the cloud, and remove some of the management associated with SQL Server. However, your application uses CLR and Service Broker capabilities from SQL Server. What's the optimal Azure SQL deployment option to migrate the HR application? Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL Database SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Transaction processing. When a customer makes a purchase, the order details should be grouped into a single transaction in the game. Which Azure solution can supply transaction processing for the game? Azure Queue Storage queues Azure Service Bus queues Azure Service Bus topics
Azure Service Bus queues
Regional outage option for Azure virtual machine backups. The company has stringent recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives. The IT department is concerned about regional outages and has requested a solution. What replication option would be best for the Azure virtual machine backups? Azure Site Recovery Azure Backup Active geo-replication
Azure Site Recovery
Migrate to new hardware. The company has requested an inventory of their servers and data. To produce the report, files and security configuration need to be transferred from the source servers to new hardware. What product is best for migrating to the new hardware? Azure Storage Migration Service Azure Migrate Azure File Sync
Azure Storage Migration Service
Tailwind Traders has millions of log entries that it wants to analyze. Which option would be ideal for analysis? Azure Cosmos DB Azure SQL Database Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics
Estimate migration costs. The CTO is interested in monthly running costs in Azure. You need to provide an estimate comparison of Azure costs to on-premises costs. What product would you recommend to estimate monthly costs before the migration? Azure Cost Management and Billing Azure Advisor Azure TCO Calculator
Azure TCO Calculator
Your company has a team of remote workers that need to use Windows-based software to develop your company's applications, but your team members are using various operating systems like macOS, Linux, and Windows. Which Azure compute service would help resolve this scenario? Azure App Service Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Container Instances
Azure Virtual Desktop
Network architecture. The Network team intends to deploy resources across several Azure regions. The configuration requires global connectivity between Azure virtual networks in these Azure regions and multiple on-premises locations. The company requires centralized management of the networks and connections. What network topology is recommended based on the architecture requirement? Azure Virtual WAN network topology Traditional network topology Single isolated virtual network
Azure Virtual WAN network topology
ISO compliance. Tailwind Traders wants to certify that it complies with the ISO 27001 standard. The standard will require resources groups, policy assignments, and templates. Which governance tool should Tailwind Traders use for the ISO 27001 requirements? Management groups Azure blueprints. Resource groups.
Azure blueprints.
Which storage option should Tailwind Traders use for their photos and videos? Blob Storage Azure Files Disk storage
Blob Storage
Host all logs in a single location. Tailwind Traders has one team that's responsible for designing the logging and monitoring strategy for all workloads in Azure. This team needs a solution that's easy to manage, enables them to search across resources, and let's them cross-correlate logs. Which Log Analytics workspace deployment model best supports the company need to host all logs in a single location? Decentralized Centralized Hybrid
Centralized
Based on the historical company data requirements, what's the appropriate solution? Cold storage Hot storage Warm storage
Cold Storage
Which of the following statements is true of microservice architectures? One large development team builds and maintains the entire code base. Communication between services is typically through REST calls. All services typically run on the same virtual machine. Microservices require that all services be developed with the same language.
Communication between services is typically through REST calls.
How can the IT department ensure that employees at the company's retail stores can access company applications only from approved tablet devices? SSO Conditional Access Multifactor authentication
Conditional Access
How can Tailwind Traders permit employees at their retail stores to access company apps from approved tablet devices only? Single sign-on (SSO) Conditional access Multifactor authentication (MFA)
Conditional access
Which of the following practices is a good way to reduce costs? Conducting regular reviews of cloud bills to identify abnormal increases in spend. Letting all IT teams have access to provision virtual machines of any size. Provisioning the same capacity in development environments as for production, even though resource requirements are substantially lower in development environments. Provisioning virtual machines that include licensing costs rather than using a bring-your-own-license image.
Conducting regular reviews of cloud bills to identify abnormal increases in spend.
Product catalog updates. The product catalog is updated every few months. Older versions of the catalog aren't viewed frequently, but they must be available immediately, if accessed. Which access tier should be used for the older versions of the product catalog? Hot access tier Cool access tier Archive access tier
Cool access tier
What are the five disciplines of cloud governance? Business risk, process, policy and compliance, resource consistency, and deployment acceleration. Business risk, policy and compliance, security baseline, process, and operations. Cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity baseline, and deployment acceleration.
Cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity baseline, and deployment acceleration.
How can Tailwind Traders ensure policies are implemented across multiple subscriptions? Add a resource tag that includes the required policy. Create a management group and place all the relevant subscriptions in the new management group. Add a resource group and place all the relevant subscriptions in it.
Create a management group and place all the relevant subscriptions in the new management group.
Which is the best way for Tailwind Traders to ensure that the team deploys only cost-effective virtual machine SKU sizes? Create a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes. Periodically inspect the deployment manually to see which SKU sizes are used. Create an Azure RBAC role that defines the allowed virtual machine SKU sizes.
Create a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes.
How can Tailwind Traders allow some users to control the virtual machines in each environment but prevent them from modifying networking and other resources in the same resource group or Azure subscription? Create a role assignment through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC). Create a policy in Azure Policy that audits resource usage. Split the environment into separate resource groups.
Create a role assignment through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).
What is RPO? The number of nodes in a cluster The point to which data needs to be recovered after a failure A partial database restores
The point to which data needs to be recovered after a failure
User sign-in attempts. A recent audit of user sign-ins attempts revealed anonymous IP addresses and unusual locations. The IT team wants to require multifactor authentication for these attempted sign-ins. What solution would be best for user sign-in attempt requirement? Create a user risk policy Create a sign-in risk policy Require an access review
Create a sign-in risk policy
What is the first step that you would take in order to share an image file as a blob in Azure Storage? Create an Azure Storage container to store the image. Create an Azure Storage account. Upload the image file and create a container. Use a Shared Access Signature (SAS) token to restrict access to the image.
Create an Azure Storage account.
Which of the following databases would be well suited for elastic pools? An ERP database that has consistent usage around the clock. Customer databases that have usage during the same period of time. Customer databases that are spread across time zones and have periods of intermittent usage.
Customer databases that are spread across time zones and have periods of intermittent usage.
Migrate on-premises SQL Server. The corporate data center has several virtual machines that are running SQL Server. These machines provide database back-end support for the online sales portal. The IT department wants to move this workload to Azure. What product would you recommend to migrate the on-premises SQL Server databases? Azure Resource Mover Data Migration Assistant Azure Storage Migration Service
Data Migration Assistant
Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Define your strategy. Make a plan. Ready your organization. Adopt the cloud. Govern and manage your cloud environments.
Which of the following statements describes a benefit of incorporating CI/CD into your development processes? Decreased confidence when deploying your code to production. Longer time between validation of developer code. Build processes revert to manual compilation, thereby allowing you to catch potential issues. Earlier identification of code defects.
Earlier identification of code defects.
Suppose you want to increase the availability of your system to provide a better service-level agreement (SLA) to your customers. Which of the following is a guiding principle you can use? Reduce your target for maximum duration of acceptable data loss. Encrypt all data at rest. Eliminate single point of failure.
Eliminate single point of failure.
Accidental deletion and recovery of video files. Each product in the retail catalog has an associated video. This video is critical to the marketing of the product on the company website. The IT department wants to ensure they can recover snapshots of these files, if they're deleted. To address the company's concern with accidental data deletion, which of these solutions is best? Enable disk caching Enable soft delete Add a resource lock to the storage account
Enable soft delete
Which of the following options isn't a benefit of ExpressRoute? Redundant connectivity Consistent network throughput Encrypted network communication Access to Microsoft cloud services
Encrypted network communication
Which of the following examples is an attack you might see at the policies and access layer? Exposed credentials posted online. A SYN flood attack. Following an employee into a datacenter without presenting credentials. Ransomware that encrypts the disks of a virtual machine.
Exposed credentials posted online.
Database migration. There are a few large on-premises SQL server databases that need to be migrated to the cloud. These databases contain anywhere from 40 TB to 80 TB of data. Which database service tier best supports the large on-premises database migration? General Purpose Hyperscale Business Critical
Hyperscale
Tailwind Traders wants to create a secure communication tunnel between its branch offices. Which of the following technologies can't be used? Point-to-site virtual private network Implicit FTP over SSL Azure ExpressRoute Site-to-site virtual private network
Implicit FTP over SSL
External developer accounts. A new development project requires external software developers to access company data files. The IT team needs to create user accounts for approximately five developers. What should Tailwind Traders do to give access to their partner developers? Use AD Connect to bring in the developer accounts Ask the developers to sign in with a social identification like Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook. Invite the developers as guest users to their directory
Invite the developers as guest users to their directory
Migrate datacenter virtual machines. The datacenter virtual machines host relational database servers. These machines are used for online orders. The company has requested a solution to move this capability to the cloud. What type of virtual machine is best for the datacenter migration requirement? General purpose VM Compute-optimized VM Memory-optimized VM
Memory-optimized VM
Which of the following advanced features of Azure Service Bus creates a first-in, first-out (FIFO) guarantee? Transactions Scheduled delivery Message sessions
Message sessions
How can the IT department use biometric properties, such as facial recognition, to enable delivery drivers to prove their identities? SSO Conditional Access Multifactor authentication
Multifactor authentication
In Azure Service Bus messages are durably stored which enables a load-leveling benefit. Which of the following correctly describes the load-leveling benefit relative to a consuming application's performance? Performance needs to handle peak load Performance needs to handle average load Performance needs to handle low loads
Performance needs to handle average load
Which of the following is a good example of using testing in your environment? Waiting for users to reach out to you with reports of errors in your application. Performing functionality tests in the development environment that are different from functionality tests in the production environment. Omitting infrastructure deployment from test plans. Performing regular security tests of your application code in development and production environments.
Performing regular security tests of your application code in development and production environments.
The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure helps customers make their journey to the cloud. What are the three main stages of the framework? Plan, Business Justification, and Implementation. Migrate, Test, and Optimize. Plan, Ready, and Adopt.
Plan, Ready, and Adopt.
What should Tailwind Traders do to ensure employees have the correct permissions for their job role? Create a conditional access policy Review each user's role-based access control (RBAC) permissions Require an access review
Require an access review
Which of the following actions is an example of waste, resulting in an increased resource cost? Archiving infrequently accessed data to an archive storage tier. Using a service that automatically adjusts resources that are provisioned to match user load. Pooling databases to share provisioned capacity. Running a development environment overnight that is used only during business hours.
Running a development environment overnight that is used only during business hours.
Inventory application. You plan to migrate the inventory application with a database to the cloud, but you use a third-party application that requires Windows authentication. You also need full control and customization, including OS access. Which Azure SQL deployment option should be the easiest method to migrate the Inventory application? Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL Database, single database SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
How can the IT department reduce the number of times users must authenticate to access multiple applications? SSO Conditional Access Multifactor authentication
SSO
The common value drivers that business decision makers can use to justify moving their business to the cloud are Cost, Scale, Productivity, and Reliability. What is the specific value of scale in cloud computing? Scale is the ability to deliver the right amount of IT resources. Scale eliminates capital expense. Scale eases the burden of data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Scale is the ability to deliver the right amount of IT resources.
External vendor development. A vendor creates and develops some of the online e-commerce features. The developer needs access to the HTML files, but only during the development phase. How can you provide your developers with access to the business e-commerce HTML files? Enable secure transfer Enable firewall policies and rules Shared access signatures
Shared access signatures
Tailwind Traders wants to use Azure ExpressRoute to connect its on-premises network to the Microsoft cloud. Which of the following choices isn't an ExpressRoute model that Tailwind Traders can use? Any-to-any connection Site-to-site virtual private network Point-to-point Ethernet connection CloudExchange colocation
Site-to-site virtual private network
Financial planning for cloud adoption requires organizations to decide whether to expand on-premises capabilities or move certain workloads and functions off-premises to cloud-delivered services. Microsoft has tools that can help. What Microsoft tool is available for a CFO who's trying to estimate the expected monthly bill and track actual account usage? The Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator. The Azure Pricing Calculator. Microsoft Cost Management.
The Azure Pricing Calculator.
Which of the following would be considered a technical requirement for your application that would affect Azure resource costs? The ability for users to cancel orders. The ability for customers to upload and store image files in your application. Sending notifications to procurement when inventory is low. Providing a form for customers to initiate a product return.
The ability for customers to upload and store image files in your application.
Which of the following is affected by your defined recovery point objective (RPO)? The frequency of database backups. The number of regions that data is replicated to. The number of instances in a database cluster. The type of load-balancing technology used in your application.
The frequency of database backups.
Warranty document retention. The Compliance and Legal teams require warranty documents be kept for three years. What's the best way for Tailwind Traders to protect their warranty information? Legal hold policy Time-based retention policy Private endpoint for storage account
Time-based retention policy
Motivations for cloud adoption include migration and innovation triggers. Migration triggers include such things as cost saving and operations optimization. Which of the following is an example of an innovation trigger which drives cloud adoption? Reduction in IT staff for on-premises hardware. Transform products or services. Increase business agility.
Transform products or services.
Which of the following is an example of scaling up (vertical scaling)? Updating your application to use a queuing service. Adding more web servers into a web farm. Adding another virtual machine into a database cluster. Updating a virtual machine to a larger size.
Updating a virtual machine to a larger size.
Which of the following examples uses automation to improve operational excellence? Manually provisioning development environments every day for your development teams. Logging on Linux VMs after deployment and installing the software packages that are required for the application. Using a configuration template to deploy infrastructure in each environment. Manually copying application binaries from your build system to your deployment infrastructure.
Using a configuration template to deploy infrastructure in each environment.
Which Azure compute resource can be deployed to manage a set of identical virtual machines? Virtual machine scale sets Virtual machine availability sets Virtual machine availability zones
Virtual machine scale sets
Which of the following options can you use to link virtual networks? Network address translation Multi-chassis link aggregation Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Virtual network peering
Virtual network peering
What is available after failover with database-level protection in SQL Server? Logins, Databases, and SQL Server Agent Job Databases and SQL Server Agent jobs Whatever is in the databases; anything outside must be dealt with manually
Whatever is in the databases; anything outside must be dealt with manually
Which of the following scenarios would benefit from the use of reserved instances? You have a workload that needs a VPN connection between Azure and an on-premises datacenter. You have a website that needs the flexibility to scale from hundreds to millions of users at any point in time. You have an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with consistent resource utilization. You have a small administrative task that uses PowerShell that you want to run automatically.
You have an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with consistent resource utilization.