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Which Azure Blob storage tier stores data offline and offers the lowest storage costs and the highest costs to access data? Archive Cool Hot
Archive
[Answer choice] are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region. Availability zones Geographies Region pairs Resource groups
Availability zones
Which Azure service evaluates Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, performance, and cost reduction? Azure Advisor Azure Monitor Azure Service Health Log Analytics
Azure Advisor
You need to be notified when there are new recommendations for reducing Azure costs. Which tool should you use? Azure Advisor Azure Monitor Azure Service Health Log Analytics
Azure Advisor
What can you use to automatically detect performance anomalies for web apps? Azure Advisor Azure Application Insights Azure Cognitive Services Azure DevOps
Azure Application Insights
Which Azure Storage service should you use to store unstructured files, such as images, that will be served on webpages? Azure Blob storage Azure Disk Storage Azure Queue Storage Azure Table storage
Azure Blob storage
Which storage service should you use to store thousands of files containing text and images? Azure Blob storage Azure Disk Storage Azure Queue Storage Azure Table storage
Azure Blob storage
You have a team of Linux administrators that need to manage the resources in Azure. The team wants to use the Bash shell to perform the administration. What should you recommend? Azure Blueprint Azure CLI Azure Powershell Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template
Azure CLI
Which two tools are accessible via Azure Cloud Shell to manage an Azure environment? Azure CLI Azure PowerShell Azure Repos Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Azure CLI Azure PowerShell
What are two services that allow you to run applications in containers? Azure Container Instances Azure Functions Azure Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Container Instances Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Which storage service offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible by using Server Message Block (SMB) protocol? Azure Disk Storage Azure Files Azure Queue Storage Azure Table storage
Azure Files
What can you use to execute code in a serverless environment? Azure Container Instances Azure Functions Azure Logic Apps Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Functions
Which Azure service can generate an alert if virtual machine utilization is over 80% for five minutes? Azure Advisor Azure Monitor Azure Policy Azure Service Health
Azure Monitor
You need to create a custom solution that uses thresholds to trigger autoscaling functionality to scale an app up or down to meet user demand. What should you include in the solution? Application insights Azure Advisor Azure Monitor Azure Service Health
Azure Monitor
What can you use to ensure that new and existing Azure resources stay in compliance with corporate standards? Azure Advisor Azure Policy resource locks resource tags
Azure Policy
What can you use to restrict the deployment of a virtual machine to a specific location? Microsoft Defender for Cloud Azure Policy resource groups resource locks
Azure Policy
You need to recommend a solution for Azure virtual machine deployments. The solution must enforce company standards on the virtual machines. What should you include in the recommendation? Microsoft Intune compliance policy Azure Cost Management Azure Lock Azure Policy
Azure Policy
Your organization plans to deploy several production virtual machines that will have consistent resource usage throughout the year. What can you use to minimize the costs of the virtual machines without reducing the functionality of the virtual machines? Azure Monitor alerts Azure Reservations spending limits
Azure Reservations
Which management layer accepts requests from any Azure tool or API and enables you to create, update, and delete resources in an Azure account? Azure CLI Azure management groups Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Azure Sphere
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
[Answer choice] is the deployment and management service for Azure. Microsoft Entra Azure API Management Azure Monitor Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
What can you use to create resources in Azure and includes a validation step to ensure all resources are created in a specific order based on dependencies, in parallel and idempotent? Azure CLI Azure PowerShell Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates Azure REST API
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
What can you use to define the resources you want to provision in a declarative JSON format? Azure CLI Azure PowerShell Azure Repos Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Which two Azure resources can make use of availability zones? Azure SQL databases Azure subscriptions resource groups virtual machines
Azure SQL databases virtual machines
What can you use to find information about planned maintenance for Azure services that are critical to your organization? Azure Advisor Azure Monitor Azure Service Health Log Analytics
Azure Service Health
What can you use to get notification about an outage in a specific Azure region? Azure Advisor Azure Monitor Azure Security Center Azure Service Health
Azure Service Health
Which two services can you use to establish network connectivity between an on-premises network and Azure resources? Azure Bastion Azure Firewall Azure VPN Gateway ExpressRoute
Azure VPN Gateway ExpressRoute
What can you use to provide Mac and Android users with access to a Windows environment that will run Windows-based applications? Azure Container Instances Azure Functions Azure Logic Apps Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop
Which Azure compute service can you use to deploy and manage a set of identical virtual machines? availability sets availability zones Azure Container Instances Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
What can you use to allow a user to manage all the resources in a resource group? Azure Key Vault Azure role-based access control (RBAC) resource locks resource tags
Azure role-based access control (RBAC)
What uses the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service model? Azure App Services Azure Cosmos DB Azure virtual machines Microsoft Office 365
Azure virtual machines
[Answer choice] refers to upfront costs incurred one time, such as hardware purchases. A consumption-based model Capital expenditures Elasticity Operational expenditures
Capital expenditures
What can you use to ensure that users authenticate by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) when they attempt to sign in from a specific location? administrative units Azure role-based access control (RBAC) Conditional Access single sign-on (SSO)
Conditional Access
Which Microsoft Entra feature can you use to ensure that users can only access Microsoft Office 365 applications from approved client applications? Azure role-based access control (RBAC) Conditional Access multi-factor authentication (MFA) single sign-on (SSO)
Conditional Access
Which two features are available by using Azure Cost Management + Billing? Create and manage budgets. Estimate the total cost of ownership before resources are deployed. Generate historical reports and forecast future usage. Provide discounted prices when you pay in advance.
Create and manage budgets. Generate historical reports and forecast future usage.
Which two actions can be performed by using Azure portal? Change the availability zone of a virtual machine. Create new resources. Assign deny permission on a resource group. Create Microsoft Entra user.
Create new resources. Create Microsoft Entra user.
Which feature in the Microsoft Purview governance portal should you use to manage access to data sources and datasets? Data Catalog Data Estate Insights Data Policy Data Sharing
Data Policy
You have an Azure virtual machine that is accessed only between 9:00 and 17:00 each day. What should you do to minimize costs but preserve the associated hard disks and data? Deallocate the virtual machine when it is not needed. Delete the virtual machine when it is not needed. Implement Privileged Identity Management. Resize the virtual machine to smaller size.
Deallocate the virtual machine when it is not needed.
Which two attributes are characteristics of the private cloud deployment model? Applications can be provisioned and deprovisioned quickly. Hardware must be purchased. Organizations only pay for what they use. The company has complete control over physical resources and security.
Hardware must be purchased. The company has complete control over physical resources and security.
Which Azure Blob storage service tier has the highest storage costs and the fastest access times for reading and writing data? Archive Cool Hot
Hot
Which two protocols can be used to access Azure file shares? HTTP FTP Network File System (NFS) Server Message Block (SMB)
Network File System (NFS) Server Message Block (SMB)
Your organization is building a custom application. You need to focus on application development rather than configuration and management of servers. Which cloud service model should you use? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS)
PaaS
Which two tools can you use to create a new Azure virtual machine from a mobile device that runs Android? PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell Remote Desktop SSH the Azure portal
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell the Azure portal
Which cloud service model is used by Microsoft Office 365? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS)
SaaS
What are two characteristics of the public cloud deployment model? Computing resources are used exclusively by users from one organization. Hardware is physically located in an organization's on-site datacenter. Servers and storage are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider. Services are offered over the internet and are available to anyone who wants to purchase them.
Servers and storage are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider. Services are offered over the internet and are available to anyone who wants to purchase them.
You need to compare the costs of running an application in an on-premises datacenter with the costs of running the application in Azure. What should you use to assist you? Azure Advisor Azure Cost Management Azure Pricing calculator Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters? Cloud service offerings have limited functionality. Network bandwidth is free. Services are only offered in a single geographic location. You are only billed for what you use.
You are only billed for what you use.
What is an advantage of cloud computing compared to on-premises deployments? You can scale more quickly. You can work from multiple workstations. You have full access in case of internet outage. You own your CPUs.
You can scale more quickly.
What can you apply to an Azure virtual machine to ensure that users cannot change or delete the resource? a lock a tag a user-assigned managed identity Conditional Access
a lock
What is an Azure Storage account named storage001 an example of? a resource a resource group a resource manager a subscription
a resource
[Answer choice] is the logical container used to combine and organize Azure resources. a management group a resource group Azure Resource Manager (ARM) an Azure region
a resource group
What can be applied to a resource to prevent accidental deletion? a resource lock a resource tag a policy an Azure Reservation
a resource lock
Which Azure resource is a software emulation of a physical computer that includes a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources? a container a function a virtual machine an App Service
a virtual machine
What should you use to access Azure Cloud Shell? a web browser Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Microsoft Visual Studio Code the command-line on a local computer
a web browser
Deploying and configuring cloud-based resources quickly as business requirements change is called [answer choice]. agility elasticity high availability scalability
agility
Which are two common scenarios for using resource tags? associating costs with different environments categorizing costs by department identifying lower cost regions resizing underutilized virtual machines
associating costs with different environments categorizing costs by department
Which two services are provided by Microsoft Entra? authentication data encryption name resolution single sign-on (SSO)
authentication single sign-on (SSO)
What are two basic services provided by all cloud providers? application development colocation compute storage
compute storage
What is the customer responsible for in a software as a service (SaaS) model? data and access storage runtime virtual machines
data and access
Which type of strategy uses a series of mechanisms to slow the advancement of an attack that aims to gain unauthorized access to data? defense in depth distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) least privileged access perimeter
defense in depth
An example of [answer choice] is automatically scaling an application to ensure that the application has the resources needed to meet customer demands. agility elasticity geo-distribution high availability
elasticity
Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing? elimination of horizontal scaling geo-distribution high availability physical access to servers
geo-distribution high availability
In a region pair, a region is paired with another region in the same [answer choice]. availability zone datacenter geography resource group
geography
What should you proactively review and act on to avoid service interruptions, such as service retirements and breaking changes? application insights Azure Monitor health advisories service issues
health advisories
Increasing the capacity of an application by adding additional virtual machine is called [answer choice]. agility high availability horizontal scaling vertical scaling
horizontal scaling
Which cloud deployment model are you using if you have servers physically located at your organization's on-site datacenter, and you migrate a few of the servers to the cloud? hybrid cloud private cloud public cloud
hybrid cloud
Which type of cloud service are virtual networks? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS)
infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
In which two deployment models are customers responsible for managing operating systems that host applications? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) on-premises platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS)
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) on-premises
Which resource can you use to manage access, policies, and compliance across multiple subscriptions? administrative units management groups resource groups
management groups
What Microsoft Entra feature can you use to configure security authentication that requires users to use their mobile phone to sign in? Azure Information Protection (AIP) Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Entra Verified ID multi-factor authentication (MFA)
multi-factor authentication (MFA)
What are two characteristics of a consumption-based model? high capital expenditures no upfront costs requires the purchase and management of the physical infrastructure the ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer used
no upfront costs the ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer used
In a platform as a service (PaaS) model, which two components are the responsibility of the cloud service provider? information and data operating system physical network user access
operating system physical network
You need to allow resources on two different Azure virtual networks to communicate with each other. What should you configure? a network security group (NSG) a point-to-site VPN peering service endpoints
peering
Which Azure component allows you to replicate resources across a geography to ensure business continuity during a natural disaster at the primary site? availability sets availability zones Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets region pairs
region pairs
You need to associate the costs of resources to different groups within an organization without changing the location of the resources. What should you use? administrative units resource groups resource tags subscriptions
resource tags
To which object or level is an Azure role-based access control (RBAC) role applied? policy resource lock resource tag scope
scope
Which two scenarios are common use cases for Azure Blob storage? hosting ASPX files for a website mounting a file storage share to be accessed as a virtual drive on multiple virtual machines serving images or documents directly to a browser storing data for backup and restore
serving images or documents directly to a browser storing data for backup and restore
Which type of cloud service model is typically licensed through a monthly or annual subscription? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) software as a service (SaaS)
software as a service (SaaS)
For which resource does Azure generate separate billing reports and invoices by default? accounts management groups resource groups subscriptions
subscriptions
What is high availability in a public cloud environment dependent on? capital expenditures cloud-based backup retention limits the service-level agreement (SLA) that you choose the vertical scalability of an app
the service-level agreement (SLA) that you choose
What is the purpose of defense in depth? to enable you to locate and act on resources that are associated with specific workloads, environments, business units, and owners to evaluate resources and make recommendations to help improve reliability and performance to manage policies that control or audit resources so that the configurations stay compliant with corporate standards to use several layers of protection to prevent information from being accessed by unauthorized users
to use several layers of protection to prevent information from being accessed by unauthorized users
