Azure Fundamentals Certification - Microsoft Learn Questions

How many parameters does an Azure Blueprint Artifact need to be valid?

0 - It is possible for artifacts to have no additional parameters. An example is the Deploy threat detection on SQL servers policy, which requires no additional configuration.

Which service helps you manage your Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments?

Azure Arc - Azure Arc, working with Azure Resource Manager, lets you extend your Azure compliance and monitoring to your hybrid and multi-cloud configurations.

Which Azure service allows users to use a cloud hosted version of Windows from any location and connect from most modern browsers?

Azure Virtual Desktop - Azure Virtual Desktop provides access to a cloud-hosted version of Windows, and it works with most modern browsers.

Which is not one of the recommended categories for Azure Advisor?: 1. Reliability 2. Capacity 3. Cost

Capacity. The five recommendation categories for Azure Advisor are: 1. Reliability 2. Security 3. Performance 4. Operational Excellence 5. Cost

Which Azure Active Directory tool can vary the credentials needed to log in based on signals, such as where the user is located?

Conditional Access - Conditional Access is a tool that Azure Active Directory uses to allow (or deny) access to based on identity signals. Conditional Access might challenge you for a second authentication factor if your sign-in signals are unusual or from an unexpected location.

Which storage redundancy option provides the highest degree of durability, with 16 nines of durability?

Geo-zone-redundant-storage - Geo-redundant storage (GRS) and geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS) both provide 16 nines of durability.

Which type of scaling involves adding or removing resources (such as virtual machines or containers) to meet demand?

Horizontal Scaling - Horizontal scaling is adding or subtracting the number of resources.

Which Azure feature can help stay organized and track usage based on metadata associated with resources?

Tags - Tags allow you to associate metadata with a resource to help keep track of resource management, costs and optimization, security, and so on.

What is the best method to estimate the cost of migrating to the cloud while incurring minimal costs?

Using the Total Cost of Ownership calculator to estimate expected costs. The TCO calculator lets you input your current infrastructure and requirements and provides you an estimate for running in the cloud.

Which Azure Virtual Machine updates staggers across VMs based on their update domain and fault domain?

Availability Sets stagger VM updates based on their update and fault domain.

Which Azure Storage service supports big data analytics, as well as handling text and binary data types?

Azure Blobs - Azure Blobs is a massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Azure Blobs also includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2.

What two components could you use to implement a "infrastructure as a code" deployment?

Azure Blueprints and ARM Templates - Azure Blueprints applies policies in an automated fashion and ARM Templates allow you to deploy your resource as a code. Using the two together helps to ensure that you're deploying consistent, compliant resources.

Which tool automatically keeps files between an on-premises Windows server and an Azure cloud environment updated?

Azure File Sync - Azure File Sync maintains a bidirectional synchronization of files between your on-premises and cloud Windows servers.

How can you prevent non-compliant resources from being created, without having to manually evaluate each resource as it's created?

Azure Policy - Azure Policy lets you create policies and initiatives (groups of policies) that prevent non-compliant resource from being created.

Which cloud model uses some data centers focused on providing cloud services to anyone that wants them, and some data centers that are focused on a single customer?

Hybrid cloud - It is a combination of public cloud and private cloud, using both data centers dedicated solely to one customer and data centers that are shared with the public.

According to the shared responsibility model, which cloud service type places the most responsibility on the customer?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - IaaS places the most responsibility on the consumer, with the cloud - provider being responsible for the basics of physical security, power, and connectivity.

Which cloud service type is most suited to a lift and shift migration from an on-premises data center to a cloud deployment?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - With an IaaS service type, you can approximate your on-premises environment, making a lift-and-shift transition to the cloud relatively straightforward.

What Azure feature replicates resources across regions that are at least 300 miles away from each other?

Region Pairs - Most Azure regions are paired with another region within the same geography (such as US, Europe, or Asia) at least 300 miles away.

What is characterized as the ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function?

Reliability is the ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function, and it is one of the pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework.

You receive an email notification that virtual machines (VMs) in an Azure region where you have VMs deployed is experiencing an outage. Which component of Azure Service Health will let you know if your application isimpacted?

Resource Health - Resource Health is a tailored view of your actual Azure resources. It provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources.

A user is simultaneously assigned multiple roles that use role-based access control. What are their actual permissions? The role permissions are: Role 1 - Read, Role 2 - Write, and Role 3 - Read and Write.

Role-based access control, using an allow model, grants all of the permissions assigned in all of the assigned roles.

What type of cloud service type would a Finance and Expense tracking solution typically be in?

Software as a Service (SaaS) - SaaS provides access to software solutions, such as finance and expense tracking, email, or ticketing systems.

What is cloud computing?

The delivery of computing services over the internet.

What happens to the resources within a resource group when an action or setting at the Resource Group level is applied?

The setting is applied to current and future resources. Resources inherit permissions from their resource group.

Which security model assumes the worst-case scenario, and protects resources accordingly?

Zero Trust - Zero Trust is a security model that assumes the worst case scenario and protects resources with that expectation.