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Certifications›AZ-104›Objectives›Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources
Objective 5.025% of exam

Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

AZ-104 Practice Questions

Use this page to practise Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources questions for this certification. Focus on how the exam tests monitor and maintain azure resources in scenario format — understanding the why behind each answer builds more durable knowledge than memorising options.

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What this objective tests

AZ-104 Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources — Key Topics

Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources questions on this certification test your ability to deploy and manage monitor and maintain azure resources concepts in scenario-based situations.

  • Core Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources concepts and how they apply in real-world cloud scenarios.
  • How to deploy monitor and maintain azure resources correctly and verify the outcome.
  • Troubleshooting monitor and maintain azure resources issues by interpreting error output and system state.
  • Cloud best practices and Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources design trade-offs tested by this certification.

Common exam traps

Where candidates lose marks on Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

  • ⚠Selecting the most expensive service when a simpler managed option meets the requirement.
  • ⚠Forgetting that cloud resources must be explicitly secured — defaults are rarely secure.
  • ⚠Choosing a global service fix when the issue is region-specific.
  • ⚠Overlooking cost implications of cross-region data transfer in architecture questions.

AZ-104 Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources — Practice Questions

30 questions from this objective · 25% of your AZ-104 exam

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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You need to be notified whenever the average CPU usage of VM-App01 exceeds 80 percent for 10 minutes. The solution must send an email to the operations team automatically. What should you configure?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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Your company wants to query performance and event data from multiple Azure virtual machines by using Kusto Query Language. The operations team also wants to centralize retention and analysis of this data. What should you deploy?

Question 4hardmultiple choice
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You need to retain Azure Firewall logs for long-term analysis in a Log Analytics workspace and also archive them in a storage account for compliance. What should you configure on the Azure Firewall resource?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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You need to notify the security team whenever anyone deletes a resource group in the subscription. Which alert type should you configure?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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Your operations team needs to run Kusto queries across collected sign-in logs, VM performance counters, and Azure Activity Log data in a central location. What should you deploy?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A Virtual Machine Scale Set must add instances automatically when average CPU usage is above 75 percent and remove instances when CPU drops below 30 percent. Which feature should you configure?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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You need to collect guest operating system performance counters and Windows event logs from several Azure virtual machines into a central queryable platform. Which Azure component should you configure?

Question 9hardmultiple choice
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Your operations team needs to receive a Microsoft Teams or email notification whenever a production application becomes unavailable. You have already created an availability test in Azure Monitor. What should you configure next?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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You need to view recommendations about underutilized virtual machines, security improvements, and cost-saving opportunities in Azure. Which service should you use?

Question 11hardmultiple choice
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You need to keep Azure activity log data for longer than the default retention period and make it available for analysis. What should you configure?

Question 12mediummultiple choice
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You need an alert that emails administrators when CPU on VM-DB01 exceeds a threshold. Which two Azure Monitor components work together to achieve this?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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Your operations team wants to query collected VM log data by using Kusto Query Language and retain it centrally for analysis. Which Azure resource should you deploy?

Question 14hardmultiple choice
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Your company wants to know when an Azure service outage in the region might affect subscribed resources, even if no metric threshold has been crossed yet. Which alert type should you configure?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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You need to suppress alert notifications for a group of virtual machines every Sunday during a planned maintenance window, without deleting the underlying alert rules. What should you configure?

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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You need to collect performance counters and event logs from multiple Azure virtual machines and query the data centrally by using Kusto Query Language. Which Azure resource should you deploy?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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You want Azure to recommend ways to reduce cost, improve performance, and strengthen security across your subscriptions. Which service should you use?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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Your company needs to retain Azure Activity Log data longer than the built-in retention period and make it available for future analysis. What should you configure?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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You need to send an email whenever CPU utilization on VM-Prod01 exceeds 90 percent for 15 minutes. Which Azure Monitor components should you configure?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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You need to receive an email when average CPU usage on VM-App01 exceeds 85 percent for 10 minutes. Which Azure Monitor components should you configure?

Question 21mediummultiple choice
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You want Azure to identify underutilized virtual machines and recommend ways to reduce cost and improve security posture. Which service should you use?

Question 22hardmultiple choice
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Your company must retain Azure Activity Log data beyond the default retention period and make it available for long-term analysis. What should you configure?

Question 23hardmultiple choice
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You need to collect Windows event logs and performance counters from multiple Azure virtual machines and query the data by using Kusto Query Language. Which Azure resource should you use?

Question 24mediummultiple choice
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You need to notify the operations team by email when average CPU utilization on VM-App01 exceeds 80 percent for 15 minutes. Which Azure Monitor components should you configure?

Question 25hardmultiple choice
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You need to collect Windows event logs and performance counters from multiple Azure virtual machines and query the data centrally by using Kusto Query Language. Which Azure resource should you deploy?

Question 26hardmultiple choice
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Your company must retain Azure Activity Log data beyond the built-in retention period and make it available for long-term analysis. Which configuration should you use?

Question 27mediummultiple choice
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You want Azure to identify security improvements, underutilized resources, and cost-saving opportunities across your subscriptions. Which Azure service should you use?

Question 28mediummultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, the OS disk on a production VM is corrupted, but the VM must stay in place and keep its NIC and data disks. Which restore option should you choose?

Exhibit

Recovery Services vault > Backup item: vm-web02
Available recovery points: 5
Current VM status: Running
Issue reported: OS disk corruption after patching
Requirement: repair the VM without rebuilding networking or re-registering the VM
Question 29easymultiple choice
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An administrator accidentally deletes a VM backup item from a Recovery Services vault. The company wants a built-in protection feature that helps recover the deleted backup item during the retention window. Which feature is this?

Question 30mediummultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, you want the resource logs for the storage account to appear in Log Analytics so you can investigate read and write failures. What should you configure?

Exhibit

Storage account: stprod01
Monitoring > Diagnostic settings
Existing settings: none
Metrics: Enabled
Logs: Disabled
Destination: not configured
Requirement: retain operational logs in Log Analytics workspace law-prod
Question 31mediummultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, compliance requires one backup every week to be kept for 52 weeks, in addition to the daily backups already configured. What should you change in the backup policy?

Exhibit

Recovery Services vault > Backup policy: Policy-Prod
Backup schedule: Daily at 01:00 UTC
Retention:
- Daily recovery points: 30 days
- Weekly recovery points: not configured
- Monthly recovery points: not configured
Business requirement: retain one weekly recovery point for 1 year

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All AZ-104 Objectives

  • 1.Manage Azure Identities and Governance20%
  • 2.Implement and Manage Storage15%
  • 3.Deploy and Manage Azure Compute20%
  • 4.Implement and Manage Virtual Networking20%
  • 5.Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources25%