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An administrator manages a fleet of virtual machines and Azure SQL databases in the East US region. The administrator needs to configure notifications and view status reports for two specific scenarios:

1. When Microsoft schedules a host infrastructure upgrade that will temporarily impact the virtual machines in East US.
2. When a specific virtual machine instance becomes unavailable due to an unexpected hardware failure on the physical host.

Which of the following Azure features should the administrator use to address these requirements? (Select TWO.)

  1. Azure Service Health to track and configure alerts for the upcoming host infrastructure upgradesAnswer
  2. Azure Resource Health to view the status and configure alerts for the specific virtual machine hardware failuresAnswer
  3. C
    Azure Monitor log search alerts to detect when Microsoft schedules platform-wide infrastructure upgrades
  4. D
    Azure Advisor to receive real-time notifications when a virtual machine's physical host fails
  5. E
    Azure Status to receive personalized alert notifications regarding the specific virtual machine's hardware state

Answer

The administrator should use Azure Service Health to track and configure alerts for planned host upgrades, and Azure Resource Health to monitor and receive alerts for individual virtual machine failures.
The correct options are the ones referring to Azure Service Health and Azure Resource Health. Azure Service Health is correct because it informs you about planned maintenance (such as scheduled host upgrades) affecting your subscription's resources. Azure Resource Health is correct because it provides diagnostics and alerting for individual resource instances when they fail due to platform-level issues (like physical host hardware failure).

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the first requirement: tracking and alerting on scheduled host infrastructure upgrades.
Identify that scheduled maintenance affecting subscription resources is managed by Azure Service Health, which provides notifications and alerts about planned maintenance.
Azure Service Health offers personalized tracking for planned maintenance events that impact your specific services and regions.
2
Analyze the second requirement: monitoring and alerting on specific virtual machine failures due to physical host issues.
Identify that diagnostic info and status alerts for specific, individual resource instances (like a single VM going offline) are handled by Azure Resource Health.
Azure Resource Health monitors individual resources to check if they are running as expected and helps diagnose platform-level failures affecting them.
3
Evaluate the distractors against the requirements.
Exclude Azure Monitor logs, Azure Advisor, and Azure Status because they do not match the correct scope of platform service health or resource-specific diagnostics.
Azure Monitor tracks resource telemetry, Azure Advisor provides optimization recommendations, and Azure Status is a global public dashboard.

Key Concept

Distinguishing between the scopes of Azure Service Health (for subscription/service wide planned maintenance and service issues) and Azure Resource Health (for individual resource status and platform-induced failures), and separating them from general monitoring tools like Azure Monitor.
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