All practice questions

A company is migrating its operations to Azure. The operations team consists of Windows administrators who prefer using PowerShell, and Linux administrators who prefer using Bash and Azure CLI. Both groups want to write and execute scripts locally from their own workstations. Which statement is true regarding the local installation of these command-line tools?

An agricultural technology company aggregates telemetry data from remote IoT sensors on a local on-premises server. The company needs to establish a secure connection from this server to an Azure Virtual Network to upload the data. The solution must be cost-effective, encrypt all data in transit, and utilize the company's existing public internet connection. Which Azure service is best suited to meet these requirements?

An organization wants to implement governance controls across their cloud environment. Is the following statement regarding the assignment scope of Azure Policy true or false?

Azure Policy definitions can be assigned at the management group, subscription, or resource group level.

An organization runs its customer portal on several Azure Virtual Machines within a production environment, alongside a development environment. The IT team wants to optimize their cloud spend and ensure the application remains resilient. They decide to check Azure Advisor to identify potential improvements for these environments. Which of the following recommendations can Azure Advisor provide for this setup? (Select TWO)

You are managing costs in Azure and want to prevent unexpected charges. If you configure a budget in Azure Cost Management with a limit of $500, will Azure automatically shut down or delete your running virtual machines once this budget threshold is reached?

A logistics company hosts a real-time delivery tracking system on Azure. The engineering team must address three distinct monitoring objectives:

1. Analyze historical event logs from multiple Azure resources over the past 30 days using Kusto Query Language (KQL).
2. Trace code-level performance bottlenecks and exceptions inside the running API application.
3. Verify if Microsoft is experiencing any active datacenter outages or planning updates that could impact their deployment region.

Which combination of Azure features should the team use for each objective?

An administrator is preparing to deploy an Azure Virtual Machine using an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template. The destination resource group is located in the West US region. Which of the following describes the region constraint for the virtual machine being deployed?

Azure Policy helps enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale. Is the statement that Azure Policy can be used to prevent the deployment of resources that do not comply with your security standards true or false?

A developer is designing a retail application in Microsoft Azure. They want to use Azure Cosmos DB to store customer profiles as documents and product relationships as a graph. Is the following statement true? A single Azure Cosmos DB account can be configured to simultaneously enable both the API for NoSQL (document) and the API for Gremlin (graph) to access the same underlying database.

A company has an Azure environment with an active subscription named Enterprise-Sub. Inside this subscription, there is a resource group named App-RG, which contains an Azure App Service plan and an Azure SQL database.

Taylor is assigned the built-in Contributor role at the Enterprise-Sub subscription level.

Which of the following actions can Taylor perform within the App-RG resource group due to role inheritance? (Select TWO.)

Azure Cloud Shell provides both Bash and PowerShell environments, and the Azure CLI is available for use in both of these environments.

An administrator is planning an Azure Storage deployment and needs to identify the characteristics of different storage options and tiers. Which two of the following statements are correct?

Your team is hosting a web application on Azure. You want to track the performance of the underlying virtual machines by measuring memory consumption, and you want to receive an automated notification if the consumption exceeds a specific threshold. Which service should you use to meet these requirements?

Your team plans to automate Azure resource deployments using scripts that contain Azure PowerShell cmdlets. The team members use local workstations running Windows, macOS, and Linux. You need to ensure that all team members can execute these scripts locally from their workstations. Which tool should they install on their local machines?

A company stores rarely accessed backup files in the Archive access tier of Azure Blob Storage. An administrator needs to retrieve one of these files to restore a database. Which action must be performed before the administrator can read the data in the file?

An organization hosts a multi-region web application on Azure Virtual Machines. The operations team wants to identify opportunities to reduce monthly expenses by shutting down underutilized resources, and they also require recommendations on how to improve the reliability of their database servers. Which Azure service provides a centralized dashboard with recommendations across both cost optimization and reliability?

An organization needs to guarantee that all newly created storage accounts in their Azure subscription are restricted to a specific list of allowed locations. Which Azure service should be used to enforce this compliance requirement?

An Azure administrator applies a billing tag to an Azure resource group named RG-Finance. What effect does this tag have on the individual resources located inside RG-Finance?

To connect an on-premises datacenter to an Azure Virtual Network over a private connection that does not traverse the public internet, you must implement an Azure VPN Gateway.

A research institute wants to host a web application that processes environmental data. The web application is written in Python, does not use containers, and needs to run in a managed environment where Microsoft automatically handles host OS-level security updates and patches.

Is the following statement true or false?

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the most suitable service for this scenario because it allows you to deploy raw Python application code directly while automatically managing OS-level patching for the cluster hosts.