What are two basic services provided by all cloud providers?
Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. application development
2. colocation
3. compute
4. storage
What are two characteristics of the public cloud deployment model? Each correct
answer presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Computing resources are used exclusively by users from one organization.
2. Hardware is physically located in an organization's on-site datacenter.
3. Servers and storage are owned and operated by a third-party cloud
service provider.
4. Services are offered over the internet and are available to anyone who
wants to purchase them.
Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters? Each
correct answer presents a complete solution.
Select only one answer.
1. Cloud service offerings have limited functionality.
2. Network bandwidth is free.
3. Services are only offered in a single geographic location.
4. You are only billed for what you use.
Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
[Answer choice] refers to upfront costs incurred one time, such as hardware
purchases.
Select only one answer.
1. A consumption-based model
2. Capital expenditures
3. Elasticity
4. Operational expenditures
Which cloud deployment model are you using if you have servers physically located
at your organization’s on-site datacentre, and you migrate a few of the servers to the
cloud?
Select only one answer.
1. hybrid cloud
2. private cloud
3. public cloud
Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
Increasing compute capacity for an app by adding RAM or CPUs to a virtual machine
is called [answer choice].
Select only one answer.
1. disaster recovery
2. high availability
3. horizontal scaling
4. vertical scaling
What are cloud-based backup services, data replication, and geo-distribution
features of?
Select only one answer.
1. a cost reduction plan
2. a disaster recovery plan
3. a hybrid cloud deployment
4. an elastic application configuration
What is high availability in a public cloud environment dependent on?
Select only one answer.
1. capital expenditures
2. cloud-based backup retention limits
3. the service-level agreement (SLA) that you choose
4. the vertical scalability of an app
In which two deployment models are customers responsible for managing operating
systems that host applications? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. on-premises
3. platform as a service (PaaS)
4. software as a service (SaaS)
In which cloud service model is the customer responsible for managing the operating
system?
Select only one answer.
1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. platform as a service (PaaS)
3. software as a service (SaaS)
Your organization is building a custom application.
You need to focus on application development rather than configuration and
management of servers.
Which cloud service model should you use?
Select only one answer.
1. infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. platform as a service (PaaS)
3. software as a service (SaaS)
Which cloud service model is used by Microsoft Office 365?
Select only one answer.
1. infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. platform as a service (PaaS)
3. software as a service (SaaS)
What uses the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service model?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure App Services
2. Azure Cosmos DB
3. Azure virtual machines
4. Microsoft Office 365
Which type of cloud service are virtual networks?
Select only one answer.
1. infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. platform as a service (PaaS)
3. software as a service (SaaS)
Which two components are created in an Azure subscription? Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Microsoft Entra user accounts
2. management groups
3. resource groups
4. resources
What is an Azure Storage account named storage001 an example of?
Select only one answer.
1. a resource
2. a resource group
3. a resource manager
4. a subscription
Which Azure component allows you to replicate resources across a geography to
ensure business continuity during a natural disaster at the primary site?
Select only one answer.
1. availability sets
2. availability zones
3. Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
4. region pairs
Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
[Answer choice] is the deployment and management service for Azure.
Select only one answer.
1. Microsoft Entra
2. Azure API Management
3. Azure Monitor
4. Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Which two Azure resources can make use of availability zones? Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Azure SQL databases
2. Azure subscriptions
3. resource groups
4. virtual machines
Which Azure resource is a software emulation of a physical computer that includes a
virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources?
Select only one answer.
1. a container
2. a function
3. a virtual machine
4. an App Service
Which Azure compute service can you use to deploy and manage a set of identical
virtual machines?
Select only one answer.
1. availability sets
2. availability zones
3. Azure Container Instances
4. Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Which scenario is a use case for a VPN gateway?
Select only one answer.
1. communicating between Azure resources
2. connecting an on-premises datacentre to an Azure virtual network
3. filtering outbound network traffic
4. partitioning a virtual network's address space
What can you use to connect Azure resources, such as Azure SQL databases, to an
Azure virtual network?
Select only one answer.
1. ExpressRoute
2. network security groups (NSGs)
3. peering
4. service endpoints
Which two services can you use to establish network connectivity between an on-
premises network and Azure resources? Each correct answer presents a complete
solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Azure Bastion
2. Azure Firewall
3. Azure VPN Gateway
4. ExpressRoute
What are two services that allow you to run applications in containers? Each correct
answer presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Azure Container Instances
2. Azure Functions
3. Azure Logic Apps
4. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Which two scenarios are common use cases for Azure Blob storage? Each correct
answer presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. hosting ASPX files for a website
2. mounting a file storage share to be accessed as a virtual drive on multiple
virtual machines
3. serving images or documents directly to a browser
4. storing data for backup and restore
Which Azure Blob storage service tier has the highest storage costs and the fastest
access times for reading and writing data?
Select only one answer.
1. Archive
2. Cool
3. Hot
Which two protocols can be used to access Azure file shares? Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. HTTP
2. FTP
3. Network File System (NFS)
4. Server Message Block (SMB)
What enables a user to sign in one time and use that credential to access multiple
resources and applications from different providers?
Select only one answer.
1. Conditional Access
2. device management
3. multi-factor authentication (MFA)
4. single sign-on (SSO)
What can you use to allow a user to manage all the resources in a resource group?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Key Vault
2. Azure role-based access control (RBAC)
3. resource locks
4. resource tags
Which two services are provided by Microsoft Entra? Each correct answer presents a
complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. authentication
2. data encryption
3. name resolution
4. single sign-on (SSO)
Which Microsoft Entra feature can you use to ensure that users can only access
Microsoft Office 365 applications from approved client applications?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure role-based access control (RBAC)
2. Conditional Access
3. multi-factor authentication (MFA)
4. single sign-on (SSO)
What can you use to sync identities from an on-premises Active Directory Domain
Services (AD DS) domain to Microsoft Entra?
Select only one answer.
1. Microsoft Entra Connect
2. Azure Key Vault
3. Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
4. Conditional Access
Which are two common scenarios for using resource tags? Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. associating costs with different environments
2. categorizing costs by department
3. identifying lower cost regions
4. resizing underutilized virtual machines
You plan to build a new solution in Azure that will use platform as a service (PaaS)
products.
What should you use to estimate the monthly costs?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Cost Management
3. Azure Pricing calculator
4. Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) Calculator
Which two features are available by using Azure Cost Management + Billing? Each
correct answer presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Create and manage budgets.
2. Estimate the total cost of ownership before resources are deployed.
3. Generate historical reports and forecast future usage.
4. Provide discounted prices when you pay in advance.
You need to associate the costs of resources to different groups within an
organization without changing the location of the resources.
What should you use?
Select only one answer.
1. administrative units
2. resource groups
3. resource tags
4. subscriptions
What can you use to ensure that new and existing Azure resources stay in
compliance with corporate standards?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Policy
3. resource locks
4. resource tags
You need to ensure that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled on accounts
with write permissions in an Azure subscription.
What should you implement?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Policy
2. resource locks
3. resource tags
4. Cloud Adoption Framework
What should you use to access Azure Cloud Shell?
Select only one answer.
1. a web browser
2. Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
3. Microsoft Visual Studio Code
4. the command-line on a local computer
What can you use to create resources in Azure and includes a validation step to
ensure all resources are created in a specific order based on dependencies, in parallel
and idempotent?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure CLI
2. Azure PowerShell
3. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
4. Azure REST API
What provides recommendations to reduce the cost of Azure resources?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Dashboard
3. Azure Service Health
4. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
You need to be notified when there are new recommendations for reducing Azure
costs.
Which tool should you use?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Monitor
3. Azure Service Health
4. Log Analytics
You need to create a custom solution that uses thresholds to trigger autoscaling
functionality to scale an app up or down to meet user demand.
What should you include in the solution?
Select only one answer.
1. Application insights
2. Azure Advisor
3. Azure Monitor
4. Azure Service Health
What should you proactively review and act on to avoid service interruptions, such as
service retirements and breaking changes?
Select only one answer.
1. application insights
2. Azure Monitor
3. health advisories
4. service issues
What can you use to automatically detect performance anomalies for web apps?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Application Insights
3. Azure Cognitive Services
4. Azure DevOps
What can you use to get notification about an outage in a specific Azure region?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Monitor
3. Azure Security Center
4. Azure Service Health
Which Azure service can generate an alert if virtual machine utilization is over 80%
for five minutes?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Monitor
3. Azure Policy
4. Azure Service Health
What can you use to find information about planned maintenance for Azure services
that are critical to your organization?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Monitor
3. Azure Service Health
4. Log Analytics
What can you apply to an Azure virtual machine to ensure that users cannot change
or delete the resource?
Select only one answer.
1. a lock
2. a tag
3. a user-assigned managed identity
4. Conditional Access
Which two attributes are characteristics of the private cloud deployment model?
Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Applications can be provisioned and deprovisioned quickly.
2. Hardware must be purchased.
3. Organizations only pay for what they use.
4. The company has complete control over physical resources and security.
What are two characteristics of a consumption-based model? Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. high capital expenditures
2. no upfront costs
3. requires the purchase and management of the physical infrastructure
4. the ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer used
Deploying and configuring cloud-based resources quickly as business requirements
change is called [answer choice].
Select only one answer.
1. agility
2. elasticity
3. high availability
4. scalability
Increasing compute capacity for an app by adding instances of resources such as
virtual machines is called [answer choice].
Select only one answer.
1. disaster recovery
2. high availability
3. horizontal scaling
4. vertical scaling
What are cloud-based backup services, data replication, and geo-distribution
features of?
Select only one answer.
1. a cost reduction plan
2. a disaster recovery plan
3. a hybrid cloud deployment
4. an elastic application configuration
What is high availability in a public cloud environment dependent on?
Select only one answer.
1. capital expenditures
2. cloud-based backup retention limits
3. the service-level agreement (SLA) that you choose
4. the vertical scalability of an app
An example of [answer choice] is automatically scaling an application to ensure that
the application has the resources needed to meet customer demands.
Select only one answer.
1. agility
2. elasticity
3. geo-distribution
4. high availability
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You have an Azure virtual machine that is accessed only between 9:00 and 17:00 each
day.
What should you do to minimize costs but preserve the associated hard disks and
data?
Select only one answer.
1. Deallocate the virtual machine when it is not needed.
2. Delete the virtual machine when it is not needed.
3. Implement Privileged Identity Management.
4. Resize the virtual machine to smaller size.
Your organization plans to deploy several production virtual machines that will have
consistent resource usage throughout the year.
What can you use to minimize the costs of the virtual machines without reducing the
functionality of the virtual machines?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Monitor alerts
2. Azure Reservations
3. spending limits
You need to recommend a solution for Azure virtual machine deployments. The
solution must enforce company standards on the virtual machines.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Select only one answer.
1. Microsoft Intune compliance policy
2. Azure Cost Management
3. Azure Lock
4. Azure Policy
What can you use to ensure that a development team can only create virtual
machines of a certain size?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Blueprints
2. Azure Policy
3. Cloud Adoption Framework
4. Conditional Access
Which two actions can be performed by using Azure portal? Each correct answer
presents a complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. Change the availability zone of a virtual machine.
2. Create new resources.
3. Assign deny permission on a resource group.
4. Create Microsoft Entra user.
What can you use to define the resources you want to provision in a declarative
JSON format?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure CLI
2. Azure PowerShell
3. Azure Repos
4. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Which two tools can you use to create a new Azure virtual machine from a mobile
device that runs Android? Each correct answer presents complete solution.
Select all answers that apply.
1. PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
2. Remote Desktop
3. SSH
4. the Azure portal
You have a team of Linux administrators that need to manage the resources in Azure.
The team wants to use the Bash shell to perform the administration.
What should you recommend?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Blueprint
2. Azure CLI
3. Azure PowerShell
4. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template
You need to review the root cause analysis (RCA) report for a service outage that
occurred last week.
Where should you look for the report?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Advisor
2. Azure Monitor
3. Azure Service Health
4. Log Analytics
Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
[Answer choice] is the logical container used to combine and organize Azure
resources.
Select only one answer.
1. a management group
2. a resource group
3. Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
4. an Azure region
[Answer choice] are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region.
Select only one answer.
1. Availability zones
2. Geographies
3. Region pairs
4. Resource groups
You need to allow resources on two different Azure virtual networks to communicate
with each other.
What should you configure?
Select only one answer.
1. a network security group (NSG)
2. a point-to-site VPN
3. peering
4. service endpoints
Which Azure Blob storage tier stores data offline and offers the lowest storage costs
and the highest costs to access data?
Select only one answer.
1. Archive
2. Cool
3. Hot
Which Azure Storage service should you use to store unstructured files, such as
images, that will be served on webpages?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Blob storage
2. Azure Disk Storage
3. Azure Queue Storage
4. Azure Table storage
To which object or level is an Azure role-based access control (RBAC) role applied?
Select only one answer.
1. policy
2. resource lock
3. resource tag
4. scope
Which type of strategy uses a series of mechanisms to slow the advancement of an
attack that aims to gain unauthorized access to data?
Select only one answer.
1. defense in depth
2. distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
3. least privileged access
4. perimeter
What Microsoft Entra feature can you use to configure security authentication that
requires users to use their mobile phone to sign in?
Select only one answer.
1. Azure Information Protection (AIP)
2. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
3. Microsoft Entra Verified ID
4. multi-factor authentication (MFA)
What is an advantage of cloud computing compared to on-premises deployments?
Select only one answer.
1. You can scale more quickly.
2. You can work from multiple workstations.
3. You have full access in case of internet outage.
4. You own your CPUs.
Increasing the capacity of an application by adding additional virtual machine is
called [answer choice].
Select only one answer.
1. agility
2. high availability
3. horizontal scaling
4. vertical scaling
Which type of cloud service model is typically licensed through a monthly or annual
subscription?
Select only one answer.
1. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. platform as a service (PaaS)
3. software as a service (SaaS)
Which cloud service model is used by Azure SQL Database?
Select only one answer.
1. infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
2. platform as a service (PaaS)
3. software as a service (SaaS)
