Azure Extra Exam Prep 2 (Practice from Microsoft)

What are two basic services provided by all cloud providers? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

Compute & Storage

Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

Geo-Distribution & High Availability

Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters?

You are only billed for what you use.

Which cloud deployment model are you using if you have servers physically located at your organization’s on-site datacenter, and you migrate a few of the servers to the cloud?

Hybrid Cloud

You plan to deploy several virtual machines to a cloud. For which task is the cloud provider responsible?

Managing physical data-centers and hardware

What is high availability in a public cloud environment dependent on?

The service-level agreement (SLA)

Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence. In cloud computing, [answer choice] allows you to deploy applications to regional datacenters around the world.

geo-location

Which cloud benefit is achieved by distributing cloud resources across multiple Azure regions?

High availability

In which cloud service model is the customer responsible for managing the operating system?

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

What is the customer responsible for in a software as a service (SaaS) model?

Data and access

Which cloud service model is used by Microsoft 365?

Software as a service (SaaS)

Which cloud service model is used by Azure SQL Database?

Platform as a service (PaaS)

What uses the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service model?

Azure virtual machines

Which type of cloud service are virtual networks?

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.

[Answer choice] are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region.

Availability zones

Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.

In a region pair, a region is paired with another region in the same [answer choice].

geography

Which two components are created in an Azure subscription? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

resource groups & resources

What is an Azure Storage account named storage001 an example of?

a resource

Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.

[Answer choice] is the deployment and management service for Azure.

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Which Azure resource is a software emulation of a physical computer that includes a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources?

a virtual machine

Which Azure compute service can you use to deploy and manage a set of identical virtual machines?

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Which scenario is a use case for a VPN gateway?

connecting an on-premises datacenter to an Azure virtual network

You need to allow resources on two different Azure virtual networks to communicate with each other. What should you configure?

peering

What can you use to connect Azure resources, such as Azure SQL databases, to an Azure virtual network?

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.

Azure VPN Gateway & ExpressRoute

What are two services that allow you to run applications in containers? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

Azure Container Instances & Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Which storage service should you use to store thousands of files containing text and images?

Azure Blob storage

Which storage service offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible by using Server Message Block (SMB) protocol?

Azure Files

Which two scenarios are common use cases for Azure Blob storage? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

serving images or documents directly to a browser & 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?

Hot

What is the purpose of defense in depth?

to use several layers of protection to prevent information from being accessed by unauthorized users

Which type of strategy uses a series of mechanisms to slow the advancement of an attack that aims to gain unauthorized access to data?

defense in depth

What must you use to create hybrid identities in a Microsoft Entra tenant?

Microsoft Entra Connect Sync

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?

Deallocate the virtual machine when it is not needed

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?

resource tags

You use [Target_A] to help organize Azure resources and track costs by department or project.

tags

Which two factors affect Azure costs? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

outbound data transfers & the location of a resource

What can be applied to a resource to prevent accidental deletion?

a resource lock

What can you use to ensure that new and existing Azure resources stay in compliance with corporate standards?

Azure Policy

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?

Azure Policy

What can you use to restrict the deployment of a virtual machine to a specific location?

Azure Policy

What can you use to ensure that a development team can only create virtual machines of a certain size?

Azure Policy

Resource locks can be applied to a subscription, resource group, or [Target_A].

individual resource

Which two tools are accessible via Azure Cloud Shell to manage an Azure environment?

Azure CLI & Azure Powershell

What should you use to access Azure Cloud Shell?

a web browser

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?

Azure CLI

You have on-premises servers.

You need to use Azure to centrally manage, govern, and secure the servers without migrating them to Azure.

What should you use?

Azure Arc

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?

Azure Service Health

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?

Azure Monitor

What can you use to get notification about an outage in a specific Azure region?

Azure Service Health

Which resource can you use to manage access, policies, and compliance across multiple subscriptions?

management groups

What can you use to execute code in a serverless environment?

Azure Functions

What can you use to provide Mac and Android users with access to a Windows environment that will run Windows-based applications?

Azure Virtual Desktop