AZ-900 Flashcards

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You have an Azure subscription that contains the following unused resources: Network Interface (nic0), Static Public IP (pip1), Standard Load Balancer (lb1) with 5 rules configured, Virtual Network (VNet2) = 10.1.0.0/16, and a Stopped (Deallocated) Virtual Machine (VM3). Which of these unused resources should you remove to lower cost?

 VM3
 pip1
 lb1
 VNet2
 nic0
A

pip1 and lb1

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You currently have a Basic level of support agreement with Microsoft, but your CTO has requested the company has an Azure Technical Account Manager (TAM) available to them. What is the minimal level of support contract that your company needs to achieve this?

Professional
Developer
Premier
Standard

A

Premier

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Which of the following Azure support plans provide phone access for technical support queries?

Premier
Standard
Basic
Developer

A

Premier and Standard

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Which support plan provides the most cost-effective access to technical support?

Developer
Basic
Professional Direct
Standard

A

Developer

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If you want to have a response time of no more than 2 hours for severity B incidents, what is the minimum support plan you need?

Premier
Developer
Professional Direct
Standard

A

Professional Direct

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For any Single Instance virtual machine using premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all Operating System Disks and Data Disks, what is the SLA guarantee for virtual machine connectivity?

99.99%
99.95%
99.90%
There is no SLA guarantee

A

99.90%

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Which Azure support plans can open support cases?

Basic
Professional Direct
Premier
Developer
Standard
A

Professional Direct
Premier
Developer
Standard

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Which of the following statements regarding Azure Virtual Machines is true?

Deleted virtual machines will still incur charges for storage.
Two virtual machines with the same size will incur the same monthly charges.
Virtual machines can be auto-resized to combat system performance.
If a virtual machine stays stopped and deallocated for 30 days, it will be deleted.

A

Deleted virtual machines will still incur charges for storage.

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You currently have two Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions. You would like to combine these into a single subscription. How can you accomplish this?

Contact Microsoft Azure Support
Using Azure PowerShell, run the Merge-AzureRmSubscription cmdlet
Using Azure CLI, run the az account merge command
In the Azure Portal, check both subscriptions then click the “Merge” button

A

Contact Microsoft Azure Support

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10
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You need an Azure support plan with the fastest possible response time. Which support plan meets this requirement?

Basic
Developer
Premier
Free

A

Premier

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You are about to embark on your migration to Azure but before you begin your manager has requested your companies support contract with Microsoft contains the ability to request Architectural guidance. What is the lowest level of support contract that will achieve this?

Standard
Professional Direct
Premier
Developer

A

Professional Direct

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Which of the following is true regarding HDInsight?

It is a cloud-based service that is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
It can run massively parallel data transformation and processing programs across petabytes of data.
It is an open-source framework for the distributed processing and analysis of big datasets in clusters.
It is a managed relational cloud database service.

A

It is an open-source framework for the distributed processing and analysis of big datasets in clusters.

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13
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How many tenants can a user in Azure Active Directory belong to?

One main tenant and two child tenants.
There is no limit.
One.
It depends on the Azure subscription type.

A

One

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14
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What are security policies used for in Azure?

A set of rules that Azure can use to evaluate if your configuration of a service is secure and complies with your organization’s security guidelines.
Rules used to restrict and validate access to files and documents hosted on Azure.
A set of rules that Azure uses to validate user access and permissions to Azure resources.
To connect to outside security services that aren’t part of the Azure Trusted Providers program.

A

A set of rules that Azure can use to evaluate if your configuration of a service is secure and complies with your organization’s security guidelines.

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15
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Which types of customers are eligible to use Azure Government to develop a cloud solution?

European government contractor
Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas
United States government contractor
European government entity
United States government entity
A

United States government contractor

United States government entity

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16
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our company has a new Azure virtual network that needs to be secured. What is the best way to only allow specific kinds of outside traffic into this network?

Using the Azure DDoS Protection Service when configured for inbound traffic.
Use an Azure Network Security Group attached to the virtual network.
Use a load balancer in front of the network to use rules to limit the traffic.
Use an Azure Firewall attached to the virtual network.

A

Use an Azure Firewall attached to the virtual network.

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17
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Which Azure service should you use to correlate metrics and logs from multiple resources into a centralized repository?

Azure Event Grid
Azure Monitor
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Event Hubs

A

Azure Monitor

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18
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What of the following apply to Azure Service Health?

Must be activated for each service.
Supports both planned and unplanned outages.
Available only for paid Azure support plans.
Does not support real-time tracking of incidents.
Provides the same information as Resource Health.

A

Supports both planned and unplanned outages.

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19
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Which of the following components can be used to load balance traffic to web applications, such as Azure App Service web apps using layer 7 of the OSI model?

Application Gateway
Load Balancer
Virtual Network Gateway
Route table
Virtual Network
A

Application Gateway

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Which of the following components can be used to load balance traffic to web applications, such as Azure App Service web apps using layer 7 of the OSI model?

Application Gateway
Load Balancer
Virtual Network Gateway
Route table
Virtual Network
A

Application Gateway

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21
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What are the characteristics of an Availability Zone?

Each zone runs different Azure services
Availability Zones protect your instances from the failure of a single datacenter
Each zone has its own isolated power, cooling, and networking
Availability Zones exist within regions
Availability Zones only apply for Storage Accounts

A

Availability Zones protect your instances from the failure of a single datacenter
Each zone has its own isolated power, cooling, and networking
Availability Zones exist within regions

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22
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You have been asked to migrate a Windows-based legacy on-premise application to Azure with the minimal effort possible, which compute service should you choose?

Blob Storage
Serverless
Virtual Machines
Containers

A

Virtual Machines

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23
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Which of the following are benefits of Azure geographies?

Any Azure geography can be used by anyone
Data can move freely between geographies
Data residency is honored within the geographical boundary
Azure has geographies throughout the world
They are fault tolerant and can withstand complete region failure

A

Data residency is honoured within the geographical boundary
Azure has geographies throughout the world
They are fault tolerant and can withstand complete region failure

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Which of the following tools can be used to manage Azure resources on a Google Chromebook?

PowerShell
Azure portal
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure CLI

A

Azure portal

Azure Cloud Shell

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True or False: Network load balancers can only be used for internet traffic?

A

FALSE

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Which are considered serverless services on Azure?

 App Services.
 Event Grid.
 Azure Functions.
 Azure Data Lake Analytics
 Azure Front Door.
 Azure Logic Apps.
A

Event Grid.
Azure Functions.
Azure Logic Apps.

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27
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Which of the following statements are true for IaaS cloud services? (choose 2)

Services can be scaled automatically to support system load.
The client is responsible for purchasing all Operating System (OS) host licensing.
The client has complete control over the host operating system.
The client is responsible for all guest OS and application updates.

A

Services can be scaled automatically to support system load.

The client is responsible for all guest OS and application updates.

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28
Q

What type of cloud architecture is Microsoft Azure generally best described as?

Hybrid Cloud
Secure Cloud
Private Cloud
Public Cloud

A

Public Cloud

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29
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Which Azure service can help you collect, analyze, and act on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments?

Azure Monitor
Azure WebJobs
Azure Analyzer
Azure App Service

A

Azure Monitor

30
Q

If you have large amounts of data that need to be processed in parallel on many machines, what is the best service to use on Azure?

Azure Data Lake Analytics.
Azure Functions can be run in parallel with millions of instances. Each Function could process one piece of data.
Azure Scale Set for virtual machines.
Create several Azure DevOps Pipelines that can each process and control a large number of virtual machines.

A

Azure Data Lake Analytics

31
Q

Which Azure Support Plan offers 24x7 access to technical support engineers, at the lowest cost?

Premier
Developer
Professional Direct
Standard

A

Standard

32
Q

Which statement best describes the benefits of the economy of scale of using cloud providers like Microsoft Azure?

Being able to run more workloads in Azure than your own on-premise means your business can scale bigger.
Since Azure owns and runs so much hardware, they can do so more efficiently, and pass on the savings to the customer
Since Microsoft is a more extensive business than it’s primary competitors, AWS and Google Cloud Platform, it can deliver services more cheaply
Leveraging the cloud to deliver larger and more powerful services gives a company an advantage over competitors

A

Since Azure owns and runs so much hardware, they can do so more efficiently, and pass on the savings to the customer

33
Q

What kind of service architecture is Azure DevOps?

On-premises
SaaS
IaaS
PaaS
Serverless
A

PaaS

34
Q

Which Azure tool allows you to view which user turned off a specific virtual machine during the last 14 days?

Azure Monitor
Azure Service Health
Azure Activity Log
Azure Event Hubs

A

Azure Activity Log

35
Q

Which of the following Azure services is a cloud-based service that leverages massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data in a relational database?

Azure SQL database
Azure Data Lake Analytics
Azure HDInsight
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse)

A

Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse)

36
Q

You are planning on purchasing Azure AD Premium for your Azure subscription. What is the SLA for this product?

99.99%
99.95%
99.90%
Azure AD products are not covered under an SLA.

A

99.90%

37
Q

Which Azure Support Plan offers a response time for critical business impact events of less than 1 hour, at the lowest cost?

Standard
Premier
Professional Direct
Developer

A

Standard

38
Q

Which of the following are benefits of Azure geographies?

They are fault tolerant and can withstand complete region failure
Azure has geographies throughout the world
Any Azure geography can be used by anyone
Data residency is honoured within the geographical boundary
Data can move freely between geographies

A

They are fault tolerant and can withstand complete region failure
Azure has geographies throughout the world
Data residency is honoured within the geographical boundary

39
Q

Which of the following are valid Azure storage redundancy types

Global zone storage (GZS)
Zone redundant storage (ZRS)
Locally redundant storage (LRS)
Read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS)

A

Zone redundant storage (ZRS)
Locally redundant storage (LRS)
Read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS)

40
Q

What is the description of a region in Microsoft Azure?

A geographical area containing all of the Azure datacenters located within a single countries borders.
A logical boundary defining the secure communication boundary between a customers virtual machines.
A geographical area containing at least one, but potentially multiple Azure datacenters located near each other
A geographical area containing at least one Azure datacenter per continent worldwide.

A

A geographical area containing at least one, but potentially multiple Azure datacenters located near each other

41
Q

Which of the following Azure support plans provide phone access for technical support queries? (Choose 2)

Premier
Standard
Basic
Developer

A

Premier

Standard

42
Q

Which of the following Azure support plans provide phone access for technical support queries? (Choose 2)

Premier
Standard
Basic
Developer

A

Premier

Standard

43
Q

Which Azure Support Plan can offer the lowest possible response time for the most critical incidents?

Premier
Standard
Professional Direct
Developer

A

Premier

44
Q

Which of the following website provides information on Azure product updates, roadmaps, and announcements?

https: //azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/updates
https: //preview.portal.azure.com
https: //azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates
https: //portal.azure.com

A

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates

45
Q

You are planning on purchasing Azure AD Premium for your Azure subscription. What is the SLA for this product?

99.95%
Azure AD products are not covered under an SLA.
99.90%
99.99%

A

99.90%

46
Q

Your company wants to use Azure to manage all of their IoT devices. They are going to create the infrastructure themselves, but need a backend in Azure to manage the flow of data, and to ensure security as well as ease of deployment of new devices. Which Azure product or solution would be suitable?

Azure IoT Central is the perfect SaaS solution for this scenario.
A combination of Azure Edge for IoT combined with a CDN and Cosmos DB will meet the requirements.
Azure Event Grid is perfect for connecting millions of devices with a backend.
Azure IoT Hub provides a managed and secure backend for millions of IoT devices.

A

Azure IoT Hub provides a managed and secure backend for millions of IoT devices.

47
Q

You are in a client meeting with a customer and learn that the customer would like to run their website from their own vNET and subnets, but due to staff constraints they would like the least amount of overhead on the team as possible. Which Azure service would you recommend to the client?

App Services
Virtual Machines
App Service Environment
Azure Container Service

A

App Service Environment

48
Q

Which of the following statements apply to Network Security Groups?

Network Security Groups perform the same functions as Route Tables.
Network Security Groups always include default security rules.
Network Security Groups must be attached to every subnet.
Network Security Groups cannot affect traffic between Virtual Machines in the same subnet.

A

Network Security Groups always include default security rules.

49
Q

Can virtual networks span across multiple regions?

Yes, if you modify the default security policy
No, virtual networks are region specific
Yes, you can stretch a virtual network using traffic manager
No, virtual networks cannot but subnets can

A

No, virtual networks are region specific

50
Q

A single virtual machine with premium storage has an SLA ?

A

A single virtual machine with premium storage has an SLA of 99.9%. You can quickly migrate existing virtual machines to Azure through “lift and shift”. Lift and shift is a no-code option where each application is migrated as-is providing the benefits of the cloud without the risks or costs of making code changes.

51
Q

By placing virtual machines in an availability set you protect against datacenter failures and increases the SLA to ?.

A

99.95%

52
Q

Adding virtual machines to availability zones protects from entire datacenter failures and increases the SLA to ?. This is highest level of protection that is provided.

A

99.99%

53
Q

What are characteristics of Azure Paired Regions?

All of the above
Provides the capability for some services to replicate
Only one region in a pair is patched or updated at any one time
The ability to failover from one region to the other in the event of an outage

A

All of the above

54
Q

You need to create a network drive in Azure Storage. The drive needs to be accessible from several computers that run Windows 8.1. What storage solution should you create?

A Blob service in a storage account
A virtual machine data disk
A Queue service in a storage account
A File service in a storage account

A

A File service in a storage account

55
Q

When utilizing at least two Azure virtual machines with at least two availability zones, what is the guaranteed service level agreement that can be expected?

99.95%
100%
99.9%
99.99%

A

99.99%

56
Q

Which of the following can be configured through Azure Blueprints?

Policy Assignments
All of the above
Role Assignments
Resource Manager Templates

A

Resource Manager Templates

57
Q

You have an on-premises application that processes incoming Simple Message Submission Service (SMSS) queue messages and records the data to a log file. You migrate this application to an Azure function app. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Serverless
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

A

Serverless

58
Q

A company is planning on purchasing Azure AD Basic for their Azure account. Does the Azure AD Basic tier come with an SLA of 99.9%?

YES
NO

A

YES

We guarantee at least 99.9% availability of the Azure Active Directory Basic and Premium services.

59
Q

A company needs to store 2 TB worth of data that is infrequently used. The data needs to be accessed via Power BI. Which of the following could be used as a cost-effective data layer for this requirement?

Azure SQL databases
Azure PostgreeSQL
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Data Lake

A

Azure Data Lake

60
Q

A company needs to create around 50 customized Virtual Machines. Out of these 20 are Windows based Virtual machines and 30 are Ubuntu Machines. Which of the following would help reduce the administrative effort required to deploy the machines?

Azure LoadBalance
Azure Web Apps
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure ScaleSets

A

Azure ScaleSets

61
Q

A company wants to make use of Azure for the deployment of various solutions. They want to ensure that whenever users authenticate to Azure, they have to make use of Multi-Factor Authentication. Which of the following can help them achieve this?

Azure Service Trust Portal
Azure Security Centre
Azure DDoS protection
Azure privileged identity management

A

Azure privileged identity management

62
Q

A company is planning on using Azure Storage Accounts. They have the following requirement:
- Storage of 2 TB of data
- Storage of a million files
Would using Azure Storage fulfil these requirements?

YES
NO

A

YES

63
Q

A company has just deployed a Virtual Machine named demovm to Azure.
The company needs to know if the underlying infrastructure in Azure hosting the Virtual Machine has any issues? Where could they view such issues?

Azure Advisor
Azure AD
The Virtual Machine blade
Azure Monitor

A

The Virtual Machine blade

64
Q

A company has multiple subscriptions. They want to create resources in different subscriptions. Is it possible to create the same type of Azure resources in different Azure subscriptions?

YES
NO

A

YES

65
Q

What is the right formation?

Management Group > Policy > Initiative
Initiative > Management Group > Policy
Management Group > Initiative > Policy
Policy > Management Group > Initiative

A

Management Group > Initiative > Policy

66
Q

An Azure administrator plans to run a PowerShell script that creates Azure resources.
You need to recommend which computer configuration to use to run the script.
Solution: Run the script from a computer that runs Chrome OS and uses Azure Cloud Shell.
Does this meet the goal?

YES
NO

A

NO

67
Q

An Azure administrator plans to run a PowerShell script that creates Azure resources.
You need to recommend which computer configuration to use to run the script.
Solution: Run the script from a computer that runs macOS and has PowerShell Core 6.0 installed.
Does this meet the goal?

YES
NO

A

YES

68
Q

You have an Azure environment that contains 10 virtual networks and 100 virtual machines.
You need to limit the amount of inbound traffic to all the Azure virtual networks. What should you create?

one network security group (NSG)
10 virtual network gateways
10 Azure ExpressRoute circuits
one Azure firewall

A

one Azure firewall

69
Q

You have an Azure environment that contains multiple Azure virtual machines.
You plan to implement a solution that enables the client computers on your on-premises network to communicate to the Azure virtual machines.
You need to recommend which Azure resources must be created for the planned solution.

a virtual network gateway
a load balancer
an application gateway
a virtual network
a gateway subnet
A

a virtual network

a gateway subnet

70
Q

An IT Engineer needs to create a Virtual Machine in Azure. Currently the IT Engineer has an Android OS based workstation. Which of the following can the IT Engineer use to create the desired Virtual Machine in Azure?

Microsoft PowerApps
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure PowerShell
Azure CLI

A

Azure Cloud Shell

71
Q

Which of the following service allows for events generated from Azure resources to be sent to applications?

Azure Event Hubs
Azure Notification Hubs
Azure Event Grid
Azure Logic Apps

A

Azure Event Grid