Azure Practice Exam Questions

How should you calculate the monthly uptime percentage?

(Max Available Minutes - Downtime in Minutes)/Maximum Available Minutes x 100

Three Phases of the Azure Service Lifecycle

1.) Private Preview 2.) Public Preview 3.) General Availability

The SLA for two or more Virtual Machines in an Availability set is ?

99.95%

Whats is the SLA for two or more Azure VMs that have been manually placed into different Availability Zones in the same region?

99.99%

You plan to implement a solution that enables the client computers on your on-prem network to communicate with Azure VMs. What should you recommend ?

A virtual network gateway & a gateway subnet

What is the capability to quickly provision cloud resources?

Agility

Azure Germany can be used by

Any user or enterprise that requires its data to reside in Germany

One of the benefits of azure SQL Data Warehouse is that ______ is built into the platform.

Automatic Scaling

______ are used to ensure availability during maintenance events

Availability Sets

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

Availability Zones

You need to ensure that when Azure AD users connect to azure AD from the internet by using an anonymous IP address, the users are prompted automatically to change their password. What service should you use?

Azure AD Identity Protection

Provides alerts when new recommendations to improve your cloud environment are available.

Azure Advisor

Which can be used to define a repeatable set of Azure resources, to orchestrate the deployment of various resource types such as role assignments and policy assignments, that implement organizational requirements?

Azure Blueprint

You need to create a human-computer interface that uses natural language to answer customer questions. Which solutions would be more effective?

Azure Bot Service and Azure Cognitive Services (NOT Azure ML, this solution is costly for this use case)

Who operates Azure China Region Datacenters?

Azure China 21 Vianet

Which service is a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users?

Azure Content Delivery Network

You are planning to deploy a static website to Azure. The website will be accessed by users worldwide and will host large video files. You need to recommend an Azure feature, that must be used to provide the best video playback experience.

Azure Content Delivery Network

You plan to implement an Azure database solution. You need a solution that meets the following requirements: Can store JSON documents, and can add data concurrently from multiple regions

Azure Cosmos DB

Your development team is interested in writing graph-based applications that take advantage of the Gremlin API. Which solution would be ideal for that scenario?

Azure Cosmos DB

What provides a set of tools for monitoring, allocating, and optimizing your Azure costs?

Azure Cost Management

An Apache-Spark based analytics service

Azure Databricks

Which of the cloud services provides development collaboration tools including high-performance pipelines, free private Git repositories, and configurable Kanban boards?

Azure DevOps Services

A team of developers at your company plans to deploy, and then remove, 50 customized virtual machines each week. Thirty of the virtual machines run Windows Server 2016 and 20 of the virtual machines run Ubuntu Linux. You need to recommend which Azure service will minimize cost and the administrative effort required to deploy and remove the virtual machines. What should you recommend?

Azure DevTest Labs

Which service could help you manage the VMs that your developers and testers need to ensure that your new app works across various operating systems?

Azure DevTest Labs

Which Azure service should you use to collect events from multiple resources into a centralized repository?

Azure Event Hubs

_____ grants or denies access based on the originating IP address.

Azure Firewall

What should be used when the primary concern is to perform work in response to an event (often via REST command) that needs a response in a few seconds?

Azure Functions

Which is used when someone is only concerned about the code running the service, instead of the underlying platform or infrastructure ?

Azure Functions

You need to process messages from a queue, parse them by using some existing imperative logic written in Java, and then send them to a third-party API. What serverless option should you choose?

Azure Functions

What solution automatically adds labels to Microsoft word documents that contain credit card information?

Azure Information Protection

A solution that encrypts the administrative credentials during deployment.

Azure Key Vault

Enables you to store passwords and secrets in Azure so you can centrally manage them for your services and applications?

Azure Key Vault

You want to orchestrate a workflow by using APIs from several well-known services. Which is the best option for this scenario?

Azure Logic Apps

Your team has limited experience with writing custom code, but it sees tremendous value in automating several important business processes. Which of the following options is your team's best option?

Azure Logic Apps

which services can predict future behavior based on previous actions?

Azure ML and Azure Cognitive Services

Which Azure service should you use to collect events from multiple resources into a centralized repository?

Azure Monitor

Which Azure service should you use to view service failure notifications that can affect the availability of a VM>

Azure Monitor

Which feature collects all of the logs from various resources into a central dashboard where you can run queries, view graphs, and create alerts on certain events?

Azure Monitor

What products can automate a CI/CD process?

Azure Pipelines & GitHub Actions

To enforce resource tagging, so the billing can be managed, you will use ______

Azure Policy

Virtual Machines are going to be running for a prolonged duration of time. What should be considered to reduce the overall cost?

Azure Reservations

What provides a common platform for deploying objects to cloud infrastructure and for implementing consistency across the Azure environment?

Azure Resource Manager

What provides a common platform for deploying objects to a cloud infrastructure and for implementing consistency across the Azure environments ?

Azure Resource Manager Templates

What tool allows you to enable just in time (JIT) VM access?

Azure Security Center

Which Azure service can you use as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution?

Azure Sentinel

Which provides information about planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources?

Azure Service Health

A company wants to build a new voting kiosk for sales to governments around the world. Which IoT technology should the company choose to ensure the highest degree of security?

Azure Sphere

A company is planning to set up a solution in azure to provide analytics services for Bi and machine learning needs. What product would best suit this requirement?

Azure Synapse

Your organization has millions of log entries that it wants to analyze. What solution would be ideal for analysis?

Azure Synapse Analytics

You need to identify whether Azure complies with the company's regional requirements.

Azure Trust Center

You are planning to provision infrastructure as a service (IaaS) resources in Azure. Which is an example of IaaS?

Azure Virtual Machines

Where can you create an Azure support request?

Azure portal

Optimized storage service for storing massive amount of unstructured data, such as videos and images?

Blobs

You plan to create an Azure VM. You need to identify which storage service must be used to store the data disks of the virtual machine. What should you identify?

Blobs (Page Blobs are the foundation of Azure IaaS disks)

If a server is down for an extended period of time and breaches the standard SLA, how will Microsoft reimburse the downtime cost?

By providing service credits to the customer

What is the name of the collective set of APIs that provide machine learning and artificial intelligence services to your applications, like voice recognition, image tagging, and chatbot?

Cognitive Services

What is the easiest way for an organization to combine security data from all its monitoring tools into a single report that it can take action on?

Collect security data in Azure Sentinel

A support engineer plans to perform several Azure management tasks by using the Azure CLI. You install the CLI on a computer. You need to tell the support engineer which tools to use to run the CLI. Which two tools should you use?

Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell

How can the IT department ensure that employees at the company's retail stores can access company applications only from approved tablet devices?

Conditional Access

You need to identify which storage service must be used to store the unmanaged data disk of the virtual machine. What should you identify?

Containers - the backbone of the virtual disks platform for Azure IaaS

A company is planning to deploy a number of resource to their Azure subscription and want to be informed if the costs of Azure resources goes beyond certain threshold. What should they use?

Create a budget in Azure Cost Management

How can you increase your Azure subscription limits?

Create a new support request

What is the best way for an organization to ensure that the team deploys only cost-effective VM sku sizes?

Create a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes

Which would be the most efficient way to ensure that a naming convention is followed across a Subscription?

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

There has been an attack on your public-facing website, and the application's resources have been overwhelmed and exhausted, and nor are unavailable to users. What service should you use to prevent this type of attack?

DDoS protection

What type of failure can do Availability Zones protect against?

Data center failures

What is the most efficient way for the testing team to save costs on virtual machines on weekends when testers are not at work?

Deallocate virtual machines when they're not in use

You are planning the deployment of two Azure Virtual machines for a short project. You need to allow IT the ability to only start and stop virtual machines related to the project. Which solution represents the least amount of administrative effort?

Deploy VMs to one Resource Group, assign the role to the Resource Group

You are planning to deploy several Azure VMs and need to ensure that the services running on the vms are available even if a single data center fails. What solution will you follow?

Deploy virtual machines to two or more availability zones

An application has low usage during the first three weeks of each month and very high usage during the last week of each month. What benefit supports cost management for this usage pattern?

Elasticity

You have an onpremise network that contains several servers. You plan to migrate all the servers to Azure, and need to recommend a solution to ensure that some of the servers are available if a single Azure data center goes offline. What should you recommend?

Fault Tolerance

You plan to map a network drive from several computers that run Windows 10 to Azure Storage. You need to create a storage solution in Azure for the planned mapped drive. What should you use?

File service in a storage account

You are planning to map a network drive from several computers that run Windows 10 to Azure Storage. You need to create a storage solution in Azure for the planned mapped drive. What should you create?

Files service in a storage account

You have an Azure environment that contains multiple Azure virtual machines. You plan to implement a solution that enables the client computers on your on-premises network to communicate to the Azure virtual machines. You need to recommend which Azure resources must be created for the planned solution. Which two Azure resources should you include in the recommendation?

Gateway Subnet, Virtual Private Network Gateway

In Azure, approved preview features are referred to as ______

General Available

Which of the following locations ensure data-residency and compliance needs are met for customers who need to keep their data and application close?

Geographies

Where can you view a list of planned maintenance events that can affect the availability of an Azure subscription?

Help+support

Which of the following are the most common uses of Hybrid Clouds?

High availability, cloud migration

What solution would minimize capital and operational expenditure costs?

Hybrid cloud

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

Infrastructure as a Service

Which requires the most management of the cloud services? (from the client)

Infrastructure as a Service

How are policies and initiatives related?

Initiatives are a set of policies

A company wants to quickly manage its individual IoT devices by using a web-based user interface. Which IoT technology should it choose?

IoT Central

How does MFA enhance secuirty in Azure?

It requires approval through the Microsoft Authenticator app

Azure Resource Manager template uses what format?

JSON

A company has set up an Azure account and subscription. They want to host a solution based on docker containers, to deploy and manage the container-based solution. Which service can be used for this requirement?

Kubernetes

What features do virtual machine scale sets provide?

Load balancing, Autoscaling

You plan to extend your company's network to Azure. The network contains a VPN appliance that uses an IP address of 18.1248.2184. You need to create an Azure resource that defines the VPN appliance in Azure. Which should you create?

Local Network Gateway

You plan to extend your company's network to Azure. The network contains a VPN appliance that uses an IP address of 10.10.10.1 You need to create an Azure resource that defines the VPN appliance in Azure. Which Azure resource should you create?

Local network gateways

You have an on-prem application that sends email notifications automatically based on a rule. You plan to migrate the application to Azure and need a serverless computing solution for the application. What should you include in your recommendation?

Logic App

Azure reservations offer discounted prices if?

Make upfront commitments on compute capacity

What term in Azure is most closely related to "Severless computing"?

Managed Service

What Azure tools gives you the ability to manage multiple subscriptions into nested hierarchies?

Management Groups

Characteristics of public cloud

Metered pricing, self-service management

What explains details about the personal data Microsoft processes, how Microsoft processes it, and for what purposes?

Microsoft Privacy Statement

How can the IT department use biometric properties, such as facial recognition, to enable delivery drivers to prove their identities?

Multifactor authentication

How do you find the composite SLA for two Azure Products?

Multiply both SLAs

After you create a virtual machine, you need to modify the _____ to allow connections to TCP port 8080 on the virtual machine.

Network Security Group

You need to control the ports that devices on the internet can use to access the virtual machines. What should you use ?

Network Security Group

Security standards which relates to cardholder data is ____

PCI DSS

You plan to migrate a web application to Azure. The web application is accessed by external users. You need to recommend a cloud deployment solution to minimize the amount of administrative effort used to manage the web application. What should you include in your recommendation?

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Why would a customer lock Azure resources?

Prevent Modification Prevent Starting Prevent Deletion Prevent Stoping

Which cloud models can you deploy physical servers?

Private & Hybrid

Which cloud model provides the greatest degree of ownership and control?

Private Cloud

Allow customers the chance to test the beta and other pre-release features?

Public Preview

An organization that hosts its infrastructure in a ______ can decommission its data center.

Public cloud

What can you use to delegate permissions to several azure virtual machines simultaneously?

Resource groups

Azure Advisor does not provide recommendation for ______

Scalability

Azure cost management can be used for?

Seeing historical breakdowns of what services you are spending your money on

Logic apps, Functions, Service Fabric are all examples of what model of computing within Azure?

Serverless

You are running a virtual machine in a public cloud using IaaS. Which model correctly reflects how that resource is managed?

Shared responsibility model

What types of DDoS protection services does Azure provide?

Standard, Basic

If a company wants to use a different payment option for the Azure services it consumers, what should the company create for each department

Subscription

Your company plans to migrate all its network resources to azure. You need to start the planning process for migration. What should you create first?

Subscription

Your on-prem network contains an Active Directory with 100K user accounts. You are planning to migrate all network resources to Azure to decommission the on prem data center. You need to recommend a solution to minimize the impact on users after the planned migration. What should you recommend?

Sync all the Active Directory user accounts to Azure Active Directory

What can be used to estimate cost savings when migrating to Azure?

TCO calculator

Your company has 10 offices. You plan to generate several billing reports from the Azure portal. Each report should contain the Azure resource utilization of each office. Which Azure Resource Manager feature should you use before you generate the reports?

Tags

Your organization has implemented an Azure Policy that restricts the type of Virtual Machines instances you can use. How can you create a VM that is blocked by the policy?

The only way is to remove the policy, create the resource and add the policy back

What does availbility mean?

The percentage of time a system responds properly to requests, expressed as a percentage over time

What is the purpose of authentication?

To validate that the user logging into the resource is who they say they are with a password, fingerprint or other mechanism.

What can you use to check what standards Microsoft is in compliance with?

Trust Center

Which system is used to determine Azure costs for each billing period?

Usage meters

What describes Platform as a Service?

Users create and deploy applications quickly without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastrucutre

How can you manage governance across multiple Azure subscriptions?

Using a management group

You are planning to deploy a critical line-of-business application to azure. The application will run on an Azure virtual machine. You need to recommend a deployment solutions for the application that provides a guaranteed availability of 99.99%. What is the minimum number of resources that you should recommend for the deployment ?

VM: 2, AZ: 2 - to achieved the high availbility it is advised to deploy the same set of resources in at least two AZs.

What Azure product allows you to autoscale virtual machines from 1 to 1000 instances, and also provides load balancing services built-in?

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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"?

Virtual Machines > Containers > Serverless Computing

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. What compute service would resolve this issue?

Windows Virtual Desktop

What are you unable to do when your Azure trail account expires?

You cannot start an existing Azure virtual machine

Your Azure environment contains multiple Azure virtual machines. You need to ensure that a virtual machine named mVM is accessible from the internet over HTTP. What can you do?

You modify an Azure firewall

How do you get access to services in private preview mode?

You must apply to use them

You are planning to deploy 20 VMs to an azure environment. To ensure that a VM, named VM Secure, cannot connect with the other VMs, VMsecure must ______

be deployed to a separate Virtual Network

When you are implementing SaaS you are responsible for _______

configuring the SaaS solution

Data that is stored in the archive of an Azure Storage account _____

must be rehydrated before the data can be accessed

When planning to migrate a public website to azure, you must plan to _____

pay monthly usage cost

What is the sequence for the cloud adoption framework?

strategy > plan > ready > adopt

To evaluate whether Azure meets your company's regulatory requirements you should

use Azure Security Center

Which of the following Azure features is most likely to deliver the to immediate savings when it comes to reducing azure costs?

using Azure Reserved instances for most of you virtual machines

An Availability Zone in Azure has physically separate locations ______

within a single Azure region