AZ-900 Exam Study Notes – Part 1

1 What is the benefit of the Azure CDN?

The Content Delivery Network (or CDN) in Azure can be used to reduce load times and
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bandwidth as well as speed up responsiveness.
2 What is Azure Virtual Network?
Azure Virtual Network enables Azure resources like Virtual Machines to securely
communicate with each other, with the Internet and with on-site networks. Importantly, it
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lets you implement multiple virtual networks, as well as a filter or even route network
traffic.
3 What Is Azure Active Directory?
Azure Active Directory is an Identity and Access Management system. Furthermore, it lets
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you grant employee access to specific products and services
4 What is a PowerShell cmdlet?
A small lightweight command to perform an action. Cmdlets make up the majority of
Azure features for PowerShell. This makes it easier to be consistent and efficient when
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interacting with Azure resources. Also, PowerShell works with many different services in
Windows.
5 What are the two types of scaling on Azure?
Scaling up or down, and scaling out. Scaling up and down is making a resource, such as a
A VM, larger or smaller. Additionally, Scaling out is adding more resources of the same
type.
6 How does scalability on Azure work?
As resource demand increases, Azure can split the demand over more resources and scale
the application. Scalability allows any application to add resources almost instantly as
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demand increases. Notably, scalability is not working across regions, but rather within the
same application.
7 Explain HdInsight.
Azure HDInsight is a cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process
massive amounts of data. It uses open-source frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Hive,
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LLAP, Kafka, Storm, and R. Moreover, HDInsight can enable a broad range of scenarios,
including ETL, data warehousing, and Machine Learning, etc.
8 What are the advantages of the Azure Resource Manager?
A Azure Resource Manager enables users to manage their usage of application resources.
9 What is the Federation in Azure SQL?
 It provides tools that can enable developers to access or share databases among themselves
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in SQL Azure.
10 What are the different types of storage offered by Azure?
A Azure Blob Storage, Azure Table Storage, Azure File Storage & Azure Queue Storage
11 What is an Azure region?
A set of datacenters close together. Azure regions used correctly can create a more robust
and better-performing application. Importantly, regions are not a geographic distinction
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necessarily, but a more loose definition. It has to do with hardware and enables high
availability and elasticity.
12 What is the purpose of the Resource Manager in Azure?
Any creation, updating, or deleting of Azure resources is done by the Azure Resource
Manager. It is the common architectural layer which all commands must go through to
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interact with Azure resources. Furthermore, the RM manages all resources on Azure and is
the only tool that creates resources on Azure.
13 What is significant about resource groups in Azure?
They aren’t resources, but all resources must be in one. And resources belong to a resource
group, which can be a logical, geographical, customer-specific, or any other type of
A grouping. RG can contain any kind of resources from Azure, and resources have some
data, which describes the resource group itself. Additionally, resource groups cannot be
moved between regions.
14 Why would you use the Azure Cloud Shell instead of the Azure CLI or PowerShell?
The Cloud Shell can be used entirely in a web browser and can be used across multiple
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devices.
15 What is a good reason to use the Azure CLI?
The Azure CLI is all text-based, thus there is no user interface to change. Certainly, this
A means that the commands and procedures stay very static in the tool. You can use all
products and services with the CLI.
16 Which Azure products and services are available through the Azure Portal?
You can access all generally available Azure products and services through the Azure
A Portal with any type of subscription. However, some services in preview may not be
available just yet.
17 What is “serverless” computing?
It is serverless when all servers for a solution are abstracted away and managed by
someone else. Therefore, serverless computing solutions provide a simple way to create
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manageable and scalable solutions at low costs. Obviously, there is always a server
somewhere to run your application, but you don’t control it
18 What is consumption-based pricing on Azure?
Consumption-based pricing is one way to get the best value out of Azure if the usage is not
A time-based. For instance, consumption-based pricing is not limited to free accounts, and
the services are not necessarily consumed all the time.
19 What is an availability zone?
One or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Also, availability zones can ensure that your Azure application can handle outages and
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hardware failures. It can be a set of data centers, but often availability zones are within the
same datacenter too
20 When can you remove a resource group from Azure?
At any time. When a resource group is removed or deleted, all of the resources within it
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are deleted with it. In short, you can remove resource groups at any time.
21 What is an Azure Function?
Azure Functions are single-task services that can take input, process it, and then die.
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Furthermore, it is a stand-alone product that doesn’t rely on other Azure services.
22 Which definition best describes compute on Microsoft Azure?
Compute is one of the three foundational components of cloud computing. The other two
A are network and storage. This means that any service that performs a compute function on
Azure is part of “Compute” on Azure.
23 Which cloud service model do Virtual Machines belong to?
It is part of IaaS. Infrastructure-as-a-Service includes services that emulate hardware, such
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as Virtual Machines, networks and storage.
24 What is the Text Analysis API in Azure Machine Learning?
Text Analysis API is a set of web services that can be used for text analysis. It is used to
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analyze unstructured text for sentiment analysis and keyphrase extraction.
25 What are the advantages of Azure Queue Storage?
Queue storage enables message queueing for large workloads in a simple, cost-effective,
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and durable manner
26 What are the two kinds of Azure Web Service roles?
A Web Roles and Worker Roles
27 What is a fully managed platform on Azure
A managed platform means the provider manages the infrastructure layer, such as VMs,
A disks, networks, and more. For instance, you only have to focus on the core functionality
of your application.
28 What is Azure Service Fabric?
Service Fabric provides a platform that makes the process of developing microservices and
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managing the application lifecycle easier.
29 What are the three kinds of App Service?
Azure provides three types of app services depending on your scenario. 1) Web Apps 2)
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Web Apps for Containers and 3) API Apps all cover a specific use case.
30 What is the Azure Traffic Manager?
Azure Traffic Manager is a traffic load balancer that enables users to provide high
A availability and responsiveness by distributing traffic in an optimal manner across global
Azure regions
31 What is a scale set?
Scale sets are used to scale an application up or down by quickly adding or removing
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VMs. Moreover, the VMs in the scale set are identical and can be created very fast.
32 Azure SDK is available for which development platforms?
The Azure SDK is available for several development platforms, including Microsoft, NET,
A Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and PHP. Furthermore, you can download the most recent
version of the SDK for each of them from the Azure Downloads page.
For Internet-facing VMs to qualify for a 99.95 percent external connectivity service level
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agreement (SLA), should they be part of the same availability set?
A Yes
Overlapping address spaces with on-premises will prevent you from connecting these
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networks together if you want to do so later.
A Yes
35 What type of connection can you establish to the VM in Azure by default?
You can establish an RDP connection to Windows-based VMs and a Secure Shell (SSH)
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connection to Linux-based VMs.
36 By default, how many slots are available under Azure Cloud Service?
Azure offers two deployment environments. 1) Staging Environment 2) Production
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Environment
37 Does Microsoft Azure log any trails of user actions?
A Yes
You have successfully authenticated and connected to your Azure subscription in an Azure
38 CLI session. Which Azure CLI command should you run if you want to manage Azure
Resource Manager resources?
 You should use the azure config mode arm command. This allows you to switch from the
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default classic deployment mode to the Azure Resource Manager mode
39 What is Queue storage used for?
Azure Queue storage provides cloud messaging between application components. Queue
storage delivers asynchronous messaging for communication between application
A components, whether they are running in the cloud, on the desktop, on an on-premises
server, or on a mobile device. Queue storage also supports managing asynchronous tasks
and building process work flows.
40 Which of the following is a tool in Azure to templatize the infrastructure?
Azure Resource Manager allows you to provision your applications using a declarative
template. In a single template, you can deploy multiple services along with their
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dependencies. You use the same template to repeatedly deploy your application during
every stage of the application lifecycle.
41 What is an address space on a Virtual Network?
An address space is a number of IP addresses that are unique only on the specific Virtual
Network. For instance, these IP addresses are assigned to resources connected to the VNet,
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which allows the resources to interact and communicate. And for a fact, there is no limit to
the number or VNets you can have, nor to the number of address spaces.
While configuring a Virtual Machine to use a Virtual Network, when do the Virtual
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Network need to be specified?
A At the time the Virtual Machine is created
43 What is the smallest subnet that you can implement in an Azure virtual network?
There are five IP addresses on each subnet that Azure platform reserves for its internal use.
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The smallest subnet you can implement is /29.
44 Why would you use a Content Delivery Network?
A CDN keeps a recent copy of your web application and can deliver this much faster to
users close to an endpoint. CDNs can handle a LOT more data than a typical web server,
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which makes it ideal to handle traffic spikes as well. Furthermore, CDNs don’t generally
handle individual traffic routing rules nor security.
If you decide to implement some of your services on the Azure platform, would you need
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to create Azure virtual networks?
Azure VMs have the prerequisite to create a virtual network. Also to note, Azure web app
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no PaaS service in Azure offers integration with a virtual network.
46 In which scenario would you use an Application Gateway?
A An application gateway is similar to a load balancer but can redirect traffic based on
attributes in the HTTP request, the request coming in from the internet. Furthermore, you
 can have a VM handling video, one handling images, and so on. Application Gateways do
not handle traffic security, nor manage any Virtual Networks.
47 Will you be able to successfully ping the two virtual machines on the virtual network?
Ping functionality relies on the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), which by
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default is blocked by Windows Firewall on each of the two Azure virtual machines.
48 How will your organization use Azure SQL Database?
Azure SQL database can be used as a backend for App Service, Cloud Services, and
A Applications running under VM. Importantly, it can work as a replacement for SQL server
installed on VM or On-Premise.
49 What is the purpose of a VPN Gateway?
It allows encrypted traffic to flow between on-premises services and Azure services. A
A VPN Gateway does not filter traffic, monitor for malicious content or look after IP
addresses.
You are planning to move streaming media content to Windows Azure Storage. You need
50 to recommend an approach for providing worldwide users the fastest possible access to the
content.
The best option is the Azure blobs. This allows you to store a large volume of data.
A Additionally, in case your application is targeted for a global audience, this storage blob
should be front ended with CDN for better performance and reduced latency.
What role should you assign to a user account in the Azure AD directory instance to
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enable the user to fully manage all of its objects?
A Global Admin
52 Which is set up by default when you create an Azure Storage Account?
A Read Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS).
53 How do resources on Azure use a Virtual Network?
A VN connects Azure services to allow them to communicate with each other and with the
A outside world. Some resources, such as Virtual Machines, must have a Virtual network
connection, where others, such as App Services, are not required to.
You are a Service Administrator of an Azure subscription. What method do you
54 recommend for delegating the ability to manage some of your subscription’s resources to
another user?
You should use RBAC to configure the user as the owner of the resources. Consequently,
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this complies with the principle of least privilege and is the most secure solution.
55 What are the options to select, when you create a storage account ?
A Locally redundant storage (LRS), Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) and Geo-redundant
 storage (GRS)
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication adds a second level of authentication, what are the
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possible ways to enable that?
Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication adds an extra level of authentication. This
A includes options such as requiring users to use a text message, a call to an office, a mobile
phone, or a smartphone app.
57 How will your organization use Azure AD?
Azure AD provides a range of features that integrate with other cloud and on-premises
services. Leveraging Azure AD to authenticate Azure web apps, Azure PaaS cloud
services, and web applications running in Azure virtual machines is easy. Similarly, you
can delegate management of Azure AD resources that are accessible via the Azure Portal
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by using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).For example, an organization that deploys a
web app for sales personnel to Azure can use Azure AD to authenticate user requests to the
app and can choose to implement Multi-Factor Authentication when sales personnel access
the app via a browser or a mobile device.
58 What does Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) do?
Maintains 6 copies of your data. Three copies are replicated within the primary region,
A with three additional copies being replicated within a secondary region hundreds of miles
away.
By default, Azure automatically configures new Windows VMs to be accessed via
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PowerShell Remoting.
A TRUE
60 What does Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) do?
Maintains 3 copies of your data, replicated across two to three facilities, either within a
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single region or across two regions.
61 What significance does the name for your Azure storage account have?
The name you give the storage account becomes the main web address for accessing the
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files in it. It must be unique across all of Azure.
62 Which types of blobs are supported by Azure storage?
A Azure Storage supports three types of blobs: block, page and append.
63 A Storage account must first be created in order to create an Azure Storage Queue
A True
64 Which service is best suited for Cold storage data?
A The Azure cool storage tier is optimized for storing data that is infrequently accessed and
long-lived. Data in the cool storage tier can tolerate slightly lower availability, but still
 requires high durability and similar time-to-access and throughput characteristics as hot
data. For cool data, a slightly lower availability SLA and higher access costs are
acceptable trade-offs for much lower storage costs.
65 Can the resources from multiple regions can be in one resource group ?
A Yes
66 What are valid managed disk storage types on Azure?
Azure offers 4 types of manage disk storage: Standard HDD, Standard SSD, Premium
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SSD and Ultra Disk
67 Is it possible to move resource from one resource group to another ?
A Yes
68 What type of storage is archive storage?
Archive storage is a very cheap version of blob storage meant to store data that is very
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infrequently used, such as system backups.
69 Can a resouce can be part of multiple resource group ?
A No
70 Can a VNET belongs to multiple region ?
A No, every resource on the VNET must be in the same region
71 What is the primary use for disk storage?
Disk storage is a full virtual hard disk that you can access. It is ideal as the disk for a
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virtual machine. In fact, when you create a Virtual machine, disk storage is created too.
Only a single application can be hosted within a web App. Moreover, multiple web Apps
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need to be created to host multiple applications.
A True, a single web app in Azure can be used to host multiple applications.
73 Can a VNET belogns to multiple subscription ?
No, a VNET belongs to just one subscription. But a subscription can have multple
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VNETs.
Azure File Storage allows for applications to have shared storage using the SMB 2.1
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protocol.
True, Azure file storage is a service that offers file shares in the cloud using the standard
A Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol. Additionally, both SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 are
supported.
75 What kind of NoSQL store is Azure Table Storage?
A Azure table storage is Microsoft’s NoSQL key/attribute store, meaning that every value in
 a table is stored with a typed property name. The property name can be used for filtering
and specifying selection criteria.
76 What is blog means?
A Binary Larege Object
77 What can you store in a blob container inside Azure Storage?
Blob containers on Azure act similar to directories in a file system. They can contain an
A unlimited number of blobs. Moreover, a blob can be any type of text or binary file, up to
about 4.7 TB.
78 Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure can be accessed using which of the following methods?
Windows VMs in Azure will get accessed via RDP and default access option for Linux
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VMs is SSH
79 Which of the following features increase resiliency of Azure SQL database?
Point-in-time restore, a self-service feature available for Basic, Standard, and Premium
A databases provides resilience with its backups. Geo replication and Geo-restore are other
ways to increase the resiliency by increasing availability of data.
80 What is a scenario where file storage is a good solution?
File storage is, as the name suggest, perfect for storing files of varying types and sizes. Use
A file storage as an extension of your on-premises file systems to never run out of space and
also prioritise what data you keep on-premises.
81 What are the two types of DDoS service offered by Azure
A Basic and standard
What is the maximum number of update domains you can configure for an availability set
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consisting of IaaS v2 VMs?
Azure Resource Manager allows you to configure up to 20 update domains for an
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availability set.
83 What is a recommended use case for Azure SQL?
Using Azure Database Migration Service, you can migrate directly from Microsoft SQL
A Server to Azure SQL. It is recommended by Azure to move your on-premises SQL Server
instance to Azure SQL to improve efficiency and lower costs.
You have an Azure VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 with a single data disk of 1 TB
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in size. You need to create a file system volume of 3 TB in size. What should you do?
The only way to accomplish this objective is to create a Storage Spaces-based volume with
a simple layout. This will yield usable space of 3 TB. 1 TB is the maximum size of a page
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blob, so you cannot increase the disk size. Attaching a single disk would yield at most 2
TB of usable space.
 You can use an operating system disk of a virtual machine from an on-premises Hyper-V
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host to deploy an Azure virtual machine.
Yes, however, the disk must be the VHD format (not VHDX) and it must not exceed 1 TB
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in size.
86 What are the different disk types in Azure
A HDD, standard SSD, Premium SSD and ultra disk
87 What are the advantages of Cosmos DB?
Cosmos DB is a globally scaled distributed database solution that offers very low latency,
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a range of tools to interact with the data, and infinite scaling to handle the demand.
You need to provide a customer time-limited access to the content of a blob container in an
88 Azure Storage account. You must ensure that the access can be revoked without affecting
other customers who access the same storage account. What should you do?
A shared access signature (SAS) is a URI that grants restricted access rights to Azure
A Storage resources. This token can have a time bond validity associated with it and can
always be controlled with stored access policies.
89 What is Azure subscription
A It is a billing entity that controls the costs of resources and services associated with it
90 What are Azure special regions
A US DoD, China East, China North and Germancy Central and Germany North-east
91 What are azure storage solutions
A Blog, Disk, Archival and file
92 What is the difference between Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL?
Azure SQL is a managed service, which means Microsoft takes care of all the hardware
A and maintenance tasks for running the database. You only have to worry about using the
database for storing and retrieving data.
93 If you forget the password for the Azure VM, can you perform a password reset?
Yes, you can perform a password reset by using the VM Access and VM Access for Linux
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extensions.
94 What are the ways to extend direct connectivity to your on-premises networks?
Point-to-Site VPN connects individual computers to an Azure virtual network via a Secure
Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) tunnel over the Internet. A Site-to-Site VPN connects
A an on-premises network (with all of its computers) to an Azure virtual network via an
IPSec tunnel over the Internet. Azure ExpressRoute connects an on-premises network via a
private connection (point-to-point or IPVPN).
95 What are the valid destination services for Azure Database Migration Service?
Database Migration Service on Azure has a range of destinations that you can migrate your
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data to. These include Azure SQL, Azure SQL Server, and Cosmos DB.
Shutting down an Azure VM from within its operating system will result in a Stopped
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state. Will it still incur computing charges?
When you run Azure VMs, you pay for the compute time on a per-minute basis. The price
for VMs is calculated based on their size, the operating system, and any licensed software
A installed on the VM. A running virtual machine requires allocation of Azure compute
resources, so to avoid the corresponding charges, you should change its state to Stopped
(Deallocated) whenever you are not using it.
97 What are the different blog pricing tiers
A Hot, Cool and Archive
98 Which queuing mechanism is better suited for massive amounts of messages?
A Azure storage queue
99 How many maximum slots are available with Azure Web Apps?
A You can have up to 5 slots for some SKUs in Azure web app.
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How many tenants can a single user belong to in Azure Active Directory?
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One. Any user on Azure must belong to a single Azure tenant. Users can be guests in other
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tenants but always belong to just one
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When would you use Azure Logic Apps to solve a problem?
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Logic Apps are a way to connect many different and varied systems both within and
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outside Azure.
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Which of the following are services are in Azure DevOps?
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There are currently 5 services in Azure DevOps. Azure Boards for managing and tracking
projects and Pipelines for building, testing, and deploying projects. Repos for storing and
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managing code. Test Plans for conducting manual tests and automating tests. Artifacts for
hosting and sharing packages to share functionality across teams.
10 Is it possible to implement Azure VMs with their virtual hard disk files stored in blob
3 storage?
It is not possible to implement Azure VMs with their virtual hard disk files stored in a blob
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storage account
10 What is the best definition of Azure DevOps?
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A Azure DevOps is a set of modern tools to create more robust software, faster.
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How to programmatically access Azure AD through REST API?
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The Azure Active Directory Graph API provides programmatic access to Azure Active
Directory through REST API endpoints. Apps can use the Azure AD Graph API to
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perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on directory data and
directory objects, such as users, groups, and organizational contacts.
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What are some benefits of using Azure AD as an identity provider?
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Azure AD provides an affordable, easy to use solution to give employees and business
A partners single sign-on (SSO) access to thousands of cloud SaaS Applications along with
offering centralized identity management.
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What are the most common Azure billing options?
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The most popular and flexible payment plan is Pay-As-You-Go subscription; the other
A possible ways to purchase Azure are Enterprise agreements, Microsoft resellers, and
Microsoft partners.
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What are some of the likely outcomes from using Big Data analytics?
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Analyzing Big Data can often lead to more precise decision making for a business, a cost
A reduction on the storage of the data using a service like Azure Data Lake, and better
products that take customer feedback and behavior into account.
10 What type of Azure Storage would you use for storing virtual disk files for Azure virtual
9 machines (VMs)?
A Page blobs
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What does Advanced Threat Protection do?
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Azure Advanced Threat Protection helps you detect and investigate security incidents
across your Azure accounts both on-premises and in the cloud. It monitors users, devices
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and resources in terms of their behavior. If any behavior is out of the ordinary an alarm can
be raised.
11 You need to verify application performance from different locations. Which type of
1 monitoring should you configure?
A Endpoint
11 Which statements are true about Azure Key Vault?
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Azure Key Vault is a secure place to store passwords and other secrets. Once stored, you
A can never retrieve the actual value, but you can share access to the value with other third-
party clients and other Azure services.
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What is a security policy in Security Center?
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A security policy defines the desired configuration of your workloads and helps ensure
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you’re complying with the security requirements of your company or regulators.
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What is the main function of Azure Information Protection?
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Azure Information Protection helps secure email, documents, and sensitive data inside and
A outside your company walls. You can classify sensitive data, track activities on shared
files and documents, collaborate securely, and much more.
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Can you convert a Standard storage account into a Premium Storage account?
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A No
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What storage types would you recommend for storing the VHDs and video files?
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Block blobs let you upload large blobs efficiently, it’s best used for object storage that is,
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video, audio, pdf, etc.
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What are valid use cases to use Azure Service Health in your architecture?
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Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance.
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You can use this information to take appropriate actions to limit any downtime.
11 You need to ensure that users do NOT need to re-enter their passwords after they
8 authenticate to cloud applications for the first time. What should you do?
A Configure Azure Active Directory Sync to use single sign-on (SSO)
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What is the service for managing privacy on Azure called?
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Privacy is a core component of each and every Azure service, so there isn’t a single
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service.
12 Is it mandatory to set up a custom Domain Name System (DNS) on your Azure virtual
0 network?
No, it is not. If you do not set up the DNS, your network will use the Azure built in name
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resolution.
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What are the Microsoft services that can tell you more about trust in the Azure platform?
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You can use the Trust Center to find documentation of all the various compliance
A standards Azure is adhering to. You can use the Service Trust Portal to read the audit
reports for any part of Microsoft’s products, including Azure.
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Which services can feed data into Azure Monitor?
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Azure Monitor can accept data from almost any service, in order to monitor their operation
A and health. You get a single dashboard to view all of the current metrics, or you can delve
into the archived data through the interactive query language.
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What are types of locks in Azure?
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Locks can be put on resources to make sure there aren’t any accidental or nefarious actions
A taken on them. The two types of locks are delete, which means you can’t delete the
resource, and “read only”, which means you can’t make any changes to the resources.
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What authentication method do you have to use when connecting to Azure SQL Database?
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SQL Authentication & Azure Active Directory Authentication, use Active Directory
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authentication (integrated security) whenever possible
12
How do you submit a support ticket?
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A support ticket is submitted through the support section of the Azure Portal. Depending
A on your Support Level, you will have various options to submit billing, technical and other
kinds of support tickets.
12 By default, Azure automatically configures new Windows VMs to be accessed via Remote
6 Desktop.
A TRUE
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To manage spending on Azure, what is a recommended best practice?
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Azure spending limits are the recommended way to manage the total spend on your Azure
subscription. When your usage results in charges that exhaust your spending limit, the
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services that you deployed are disabled for the rest of that billing period. It is futile to
manually monitor the spending of Azure services.
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Does Azure AD, support multi-factor authentication?
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Yes, It relies on Internet-friendly protocols for directory lookups (Graph API over
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HTTPS).
12 If you want to store installation image files that will be accessed via the SMB protocol by
9 multiple Azure VMs, which type of storage should you choose?
A File storage
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How are Azure subscriptions related to pricing?
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Every service in your Azure account belongs to a single subscription, which is how you
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get billed for the usage of that service.
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Does Azure Advisor service requires any payment terms?
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A No, it is a free service
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Which are valid support channels for Azure?
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The Azure documentation, technical forums, and official Azure social media accounts are
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all good ways to interact with experts and Azure professionals.
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Is the Azure firewall is stateful or stateless ?
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Azure Firewall offers fully stateful native firewall capabilities for Virtual Network
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resources, with built-in high availability and the ability to scale automatically.
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Azure DevTest labs is a free serice. True or false ?
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A TRUE
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Which features are in Azure Cost Management?
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Azure Cost Management is a part of the Azure Portal that can visualize your current and
A future costs. It also includes tools for financial governance to make sure you don’t get
unexpected costs from the incorrect use of Azure resources.
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what are the four type of support plan you can go with Azure
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A Basic, Developer, Standard and Professional direct
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What are the severity levels availabile with Azure subscription
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A Severity A, B and C
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Which Azure calculator would you use to figure out monthly costs for Azure services?
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 The Pricing Calculator for Azure is a comprehensive tool that you can use to estimate any
A combination of services on Azure. The Total Cost of Ownership Calculator can indicate
the savings achieved by moving your on-premises services to Azure.
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What language do log queries use?
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Azure Monitor Logs is based on Azure Data Explorer, and log queries are written using
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the same Kusto query language (KQL).
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Which factors have an influence on the cost of using products and services on Azure?
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The factors that influence the price of a service on Azure are resource size, resource
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location, and the amount of bandwidth being used.
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How do you sign up for a service level agreement with Azure?
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Service Level Agreements are implicit for all Azure services. You get an SLA included
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with every subscription level and support level.
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Which Azure database is a managed relational cloud database service
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A Azure SQL database serivce
14 Which is the solution that will monitor users in their on-premises environment and their
3 behavior, to make sure any suspicious behavior is caught?
Use Advanced Threat Protection to monitor, analyse and profile user behavior, and raise
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alerts if unusual behavior is detected.
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What is the response time for Severity B on the Professional Direct Support Plan?
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A 2 hours
14
What is Log Analytics?
5
Log Analytics is the primary tool in the Azure portal for writing log queries and
A
interactively analyzing their results
14
Does Azure VNet incur any costs?
6
A No
14
What kind of questions and answers can you find in the Azure Knowledge Center?
7
A The Knowledge Center provides answers to a range of the most common questions asked.
 The focus is in particular on foundational answers or answers to popular questions that are
seen again and again.
14 Which Azure Support Plan offers 24×7 access to technical support engineers, at the lowest
8 cost?
A standard
Which Azure is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service that makes it
14
easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data across various scenarios
9
such as ETL
A HDInsight
15
How many tenants can a user in Azure Active Directory belong to?
0
A One
15 You need to ensure that each department in your company can use a different payment
1 option for the Azure services it consumes. What should you create for each department?
A Subscription
15
what is the maximum numnber of VNET provisoned using one azure subscription
2
A 1000
15 If you want to have a response time of no more than 2 hours for severity B incidents, what
3 is the minimum support plan you need?
A Professional Direct
15
what is the number of VPN gateways per virtual network supported ?
4
A One
Which of the following Azure services is a cloud-based service that leverages massively
15
parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data in a
5
relational database?
A Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse),
15
What is the number of virtual network gateways per virtual network ?
6
A One
15
Which of the following is true in relation to Azure Management Groups?
7
A Management Groups allow you to apply policies with flexible hierarchies to multiple
 subscriptions.
15
what is the public IP address limites part of basic subscription
8
10, You can request an increase by using Help + support or in Usages + quotas in the
A
portal.
You currently have a Basic level of support agreement with Microsoft, but your company
15
needs an Azure Technical Account Manager (TAM) available to them. What is the
9
minimal level of support contract that your company needs to achieve this?
A Premier
You are creating new apps that will be consumed throughout the world and requires near
16 real-time responsiveness from the database layer. The web and application layers will also
0 be duplicated across the world however you require a single database platform with a
single connection endpoint. Which database should you choose?
Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database service that is
A designed to provide low latency, elastic scalability of throughput, data consistency, and
high availability.
16
What is the most secure way to provide access to data for a third-party client using Azure?
1
A Use the Azure Key Vault, it protects and shares the password without revealing it.
Your team has the following administrative responsibilities. Backing up application data.
16 Managing physical server security. Updating server operating systems. Managing
2 permissions to shared documents. Which administrative responsibilities will be reduced if
you move your workload to Azure
A Updating server operating systems
You have an on-premises application that processes incoming Simple Message Submission
16 Service (SMSS) queue messages and records the data to a log file. You migrate this
3 application to an Azure function app. What kind of cloud service would this be
considered?
A Serverless
16
What are some of the common service recommendations are provided by Azure Advisor?
4
Advisor provides recommendations for Application Gateway, App Services, availability
sets, Azure Cache, Azure Data Factory, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for
A PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Cosmos DB,
Azure public IP addresses, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL servers, storage accounts, Traffic
Manager profiles, and virtual machines.
16 What kind of service architecture is Azure DevOps?
5
A SaaS
16
Which of the following Azure offerings provide a platform for serverless computing?
6
A Azure functions and App service.
16
load-balancer pricing is based on what in Azure?
7
The pricing for a Standard Load Balancer is based on the number of rules configured (load
A balancer rules and NAT rules) and data processed. However, there is no hourly charge for
the Standard Load Balancer itself when no rules are configured.
16
What is Azure availability zones?
8
Availability Zones are unique physical locations with independent power, network, and
A
cooling.
16
Is there any charge for the static IP address
9
Yes, there is a charge for static public IP addresses irrespective of the associated resource
A
(unless it is part of the first five static ones in the region)
17
Which Azure service should you use to store certificates?
0
A Azure key Vault
17
What is the cost associated with VNet in Azure ?
1
Virtual networks are provided free of charge. The only cost associated are data transfers in
A
and out of the virtual network.
17 Which statement best describes the benefits of the economy of scale of using cloud
2 providers like Microsoft Azure?
Since Azure owns and runs so much hardware, they can do so more efficiently, and pass
A
on the savings to the customer
17
Does the stopped or deallocated virtual machine incur any charges in Azure ?
3
No, stopped, and deallocated virtual machines (shut down from the Azure Portal or via
A Azure command-line tools) do not continue to incur charges until such time as they are
restarted.
17 Which Azure Support Plan can offer the lowest possible response time for the most critical
4 incidents?
The Premier support plan includes up to a 15 minute response time with Azure Rapid
A
Response
17 You are beginning to extend your on-premises data center into Azure. What kind of cloud
5 service would this be considered?
A Hybrid Cloud
17
Does deleted virtual machines will still incur chareges for storage ?
6
Yes, when a virtual machine is deleted, its managed disk remains in the Azure portal and
A can be used to create a new virtual machine. Until this disk is manually removed, you will
incur charges for the disk whether it is in use or not.
17 Which Azure service should you use to correlate metrics and logs from multiple resources
7 into a centralized repository?
A Azure Monitor, which is based on Azure Data Explorer.
17 Two virtual machines with the same size will incur the same monthly charges. True or
8 Fales
Fales, two virtual machines of the same size will incur different monthly charges as the
A charges are based on a number of metrics, such as CPU usage, disk I/O, type of storage
assigned, and storage usage.
17 Which service in Azure provides you with an easy way to automate tasks using a graphical
9 interface?
Logic Apps. Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you schedule, automate, and
A
orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows.
18
Can Azure virtual machines move between different availability sets?
0
A No
18 You migrate your SMSS( Simple Message Submission service) application to an Azure
1 function app. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
For any Single Instance virtual machine using premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all
18
Operating System Disks and Data Disks, what is the SLA guarantee for virtual machine
2
connectivity?
A 99.90%,
18 Which are the Azure services that can run massively parallel data transformations and
3 processing programs across large amounts of data?
A Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure HDInsight are the solutions
18 How do you merge your two Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions. and combine these into
4 a single subscription.
A Contact Microsoft Azure Support
18 Which types of customers are eligible to use Azure Government to develop a cloud
5 solution?
The federal agency, State or local entity, Tribal entity, Regional or interstate government
A
& Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
18
List the advanced threats which can be identified by Azure ATP
6
A Reconnaissance, Compromised credentials, Lateral movements and domain dominance
18
Which of the following is the formula used to calculate uptime?
7
A (Maximum Available Minutes – Downtime) / Maximum Available Minutes X 100
18
What is the use of Network security groups ?
8
A NSG allows you to filter network traffic to and from resources in a virtual network
18
What is the use case of Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (now called Azure Synapse) is a cloud-based service that
A provides limitless analytics service which brings together enterprise data warehousing and
Big Data analytics.
19
Azure virtual machines can be moved between which of the following Azure resources?
0
Between Regions, resource groups, and availability zones. However, moving Azure VMs
A
to other Availability Sets is not supported.
19 Which cloud concept describes the ability of a cloud service to be accessed quickly from
1 any location via the internet?
A Low latency
19
List the key network services offered by Azure
2
Connectivity services, application protection services, Application delivery serices and
A
Network monitoring
19 Which Azure Support Plan offers a response time for critical business impact events of
3 less than 1 hour, at the lowest cost?
A The Standard support plan
19
Explain the resposibility matrix for IaaS cloud serices
4
The cloud service provider performs all underlying hardware, OS, and middleware
A updates. The client performs all guest OS and application updates. Additionally, operating
System (OS) licensing is included in the per-use cost of the service.
19
What is the cloud provider responsibility matrix for PaaS cloud services
5
The cloud service provider performs all underlying hardware, OS, and middleware
A
updates.
19 In the Portal, you receive a message that you must increase your Azure subscription limits.
6 What should you do to increase the limits?
A Open an online customer support request at no charge.
19
What is the main characteristics of Azure availability zones
7
An Availability Zone in an Azure region combines a fault domain and an update domain.
A Furthermore, availability zones are used to replicate data and applications to multiple
datacentres within an Azure region.
19
Which support plan provides the most cost-effective access to technical support?
8
Developer, The Developer support plan provides access to technical support via email in
A
business hours and is the most-effective.
19
What is the two types of availablity zones from Azure
9
A 1) Zonal services 2) Zone-redundant services
20
What are the three types of servies categories offered by Azure
0
A Foundational, Mainstream and Specialized
You required your companies support contract with Microsoft contains the ability to
20
request Architectural guidance. What is the lowest level of support contract that will
1
achieve this?
A Professional Direct
20
what are the Key features of Azure CDN
2
 Dynamic site acceleration, CDN caching rules, HTTPS custom domain support ,Azure
A
diagnostics logs, File compression & Geo-filtering
20
What are the main baseline topologies supported with Azure VPN gateway design
3
Site to Site and multi-site ( Ipsec/IKE VPN tunnel), Point-to-Site VPN and VNet to VNet
A
connection
Your company has a large amount of documents that are both sensitive and important to a
20
large number of people. How would you secure these documents so you can still share
4
them, but track where they are?
Use Azure Information Protection to secure and track any document or email.Azure
A Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that helps your organization to
classify and protect its documents and emails by applying labels.
20
Can I connect virtual networks in different Azure regions?
5
Yes. In fact, there is no region constraint. One virtual network can connect to another
A
virtual network in the same region, or in a different Azure region.
20
What is Azure Service Health?
6
Azure Service Health is a free service available to all Azure users which provides a
A personalized dashboard highlighting both planned and unplanned service issues affecting
your resources.
20
Can I connect virtual networks in different subscriptions?
7
A Yes
20
Can I connect to multiple sites from a single virtual network?
8
You can connect to multiple sites by using Windows PowerShell and the Azure REST
A
APIs.
20 What should you use to evaluate whether your company’s Azure environment meets
9 regulatory requirements?
Azure Security Center has a regulatory compliance dashboard, and Compliance Manager
enables you to track, assign, and verify your organization’s regulatory compliance
A
activities related to Microsoft Professional Services and Microsoft cloud services, such as
Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Azure
21
Is there an additional cost for setting up a VPN gateway as active-active?
0
A No
21
What are my cross-premises connection options supported with Azure?
1
A Site-to-site, point-to-site, VNet to Vnet, Multi-Site and ExpressRoute
21 Which Azure service can you use to make sure your virtual machines are running
2 smoothly and without problems?
Azure Monitor, Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data from your virtual
A
machines to provide your with alerts and recommendations for how they are running.
21
What is VNet Peer?
3
A VNet peer is used to seamlessly connect two Azure virtual networks within the same
A
subscription.
21
What is the difference between a Site-to-Site connection and Point-to-Site?
4
Site-to-Site (IPsec/IKE VPN tunnel) configurations are between your on-premises location
A and Azure. Point-to-Site (VPN over SSTP) configurations let you connect from a single
computer from anywhere to anything located in your virtual network
21
What are the tools can be used to manage Azure resources on a Google Chromebook?
5
A You can run the Azure portal on all modern desktop, tablet devices, and browsers.
21
Is a VPN gateway a virtual network gateway?
6
A VPN gateway is a type of virtual network gateway. A VPN gateway sends encrypted
A traffic between your virtual network and your on-premises location across a public
connection.
21
What is a policy-based (static-routing) gateway?
7
Policy-based gateways implement policy-based VPNs. Policy-based VPNs encrypt and
A direct packets through IPsec tunnels based on the combinations of address prefixes
between your on-premises network and the Azure VNet.
21 Which of the following components are required to establish communication between on-
8 premises resources and resources in Azure?
Azure Virtual Network enables many types of Azure resources, such as Azure Virtual
Machines (VM), to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises
A
networks. A virtual network gateway defines the Azure network side of a site-to-site
virtual private network.
21
What is ExpressRoute?
9
ExpressRoute is an Azure service that lets you create private connections between
Microsoft datacenters and infrastructure that’s on your premises or in a colocation facility.
A
ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet, and offer higher security,
reliability, and speeds with lower latencies than typical connections over the Internet.
22
How is the Azure ExpressRoute pricing
0
All inbound data transfer is free of charge, and all outbound data transfer is charged based
A on a pre-determined rate. Users are also charged a fixed monthly port fee (based on High
Availability dual ports).
22
What type of service Azure App Service
1
A App Services is a PaaS offering for web applications.
22
Which Azure DevOps tool would you use to share applications and code libraries?
2
A Azure Artifacts
22
Which Azure tool can help you build artificial intelligence (AI) applications?
3
A Azure Cognitive Services.
22
Which Azure DevOps tool would you use project managers?
4
A Azure Boards
22 You need to protect emails, documents and important data that will be shared outside your
5 company. What Azure service should you use?
A Azure Information Protection
22 If you have large amounts of data that need to be processed in parallel on many machines,
6 what is the best service to use on Azure?
Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Lake Analytics is a managed service that can
A
process very large amounts of data in parallel.
22 Which Azure DevOps tool would you use to process and builds and deploy your
7 application?
A Azure Pipelines
22
What are the main 5 catergories for Azure advisor services
8
A Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost and Operation Excellence
22
What is Azure Cosmos DB ?
9
A Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service.
23
Which OSI layer Azure load balancer operates ?
0
Azure Load Balancer operates at layer four of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
A
model.
23
What are region pairs?
1
A A region that is linked with another region in the same geography
23
What are the scenarios in which you can use Azure Event Hubs
2
Anomaly detection, Application logging, Analytics pipelines, such as clickstreams, live
A
dashboarding and archiving data
23
What the activities you can determine using Azure activity logs
3
what operations were taken on the resources in your subscription, who, when and status of
A
the operation
23
What is the retention period for Azure logs
4
90 days. You can query for any range of dates, as long as the starting date isn’t more than
A
90 days in the past.
23 What website provides information on Azure product updates, roadmaps, and
5 announcements?
A https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/
23
What is Traffic Manager?
6
Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute
A traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions, while providing high availability
and responsiveness.
23 You want to get started in Artificial Intelligence on Azure using a visual workspace.
7 Which service should you use?
A Azure Machine Learning Studio
23
Which service prevents attacks by using in-built sensors in Azure?
8
A ATP
23 What is one simple way to ensure you meet certain governance rules and regulations when
9 setting up a new Azure environment?
A Use Azure blueprints
24
What services does Azure App Service provide?
0
A Web and API App
24
Deploying an app can be done directly to what level of physical granularity?
1
A Region
To use Azure datacenters that are made available with power, cooling, and networking
24
capabilities independent from other datacenters in a region, choose a region that supports
2
_________?
A Availability Zones
24
Application availability refers to what?
3
A The overall time that a system is functional and working.
24
What is the Azure free account?
4
The Azure free account includes free access to popular Azure products for 12 months,
A $200 USD credit to spend for the first 30 days, and access to more than 25 products that
are always free
24
What is required to create Azure free account
5
You need a phone number, a credit card, and a Microsoft or GitHub account. Credit card
A information is used for identity verification only. You won’t be charged for any services
until you upgrade.
24
what is the three different purchasing option with Azure
6
1) Buying directly through Azure.com 2) Buying Azure through a Microsoft
A
representative is intended for large organizations 3) Through microsoft partner
24
What is the three support plan option available with Azure
7
 Developer for non-critical workloads, standard for production workload and professional
A
direct for business critical workloads
24
What are There are four common techniques for performing compute in Azure:
8
A virtual machine, containers, Azure app service and Serverless computing
24
What are virtual machine scale sets?
9
Scale sets allow you to centrally manage, configure, and update a large number of VMs in
minutes to provide highly available applications. Furthermore, the number of VM
A
instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined
schedule.
25
What is Azure Batch?
0
Azure Batch enables large-scale job scheduling and compute management with the ability
A
to scale to tens, hundreds, or thousands of VMs.
25
What are the common app service you can host with Azure App service
1
A Web Apps, API Apps, Webjobs and Mobile Apps
25
What are the three ideas encompasses by serverless computing
2
A Abstraction of servers, event-driven scaling and micro-billing
25
what is the difference between functions & logical Apps
3
With Azure Functions, you write code to complete each step, with Logic Apps, you use a
A
GUI to define the actions and how they relate to one another.
Suppose you have an existing application running locally on your own server. You need
25 additional capacity but prefer to move to Azure instead of buying upgraded on-premises
4 hardware. Which compute option would likely give you the quickest route to getting your
application running in Azure?
A Virtual machines
Imagine that you work on a photo-sharing application that runs on millions of mobile
25 devices. Demand is unpredictable because you see a spike in usage whenever a locally or
5 nationally significant event occurs. Which Azure compute resource is the best match for
this workload?
A Serverless computing
25 The compute options give you different levels of control over the configuration of the
 environment in which your application runs. Lists the compute options in order of your
6
control from “most control” to “least control”?
A Virtual machines, containers, serverless computing
25
What are the three primary types of data that Azure Storage is designed to hold?
7
A Structured data, semi-structured data and unstructured data
25
What is Azure Queue?
8
Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages that can be
A
accessed from anywhere in the world.
25
What are the storage encryption services supported with Azure
9
A Azure storage service encryption (SSE) and client-side encryption
26
What is Azure Disk Storage
0
Disk storage provides disks for virtual machines, applications, and other services to access
A
and use as they need, similar to how they would in on-premises scenarios.