AZ-104 Practice Test 15 — 15 Questions

Question 1

In Log Analytics, you need to find AzureActivity records for VM stop or deallocate operations from the last 24 hours. Which query should you use?

Accepted Answer

AzureActivity | where TimeGenerated > ago(24h) | where OperationNameValue has_any ("Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/deallocate/action", "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/powerOff/action"). It uses the `has_any` operator to filter AzureActivity records for the exact operation names corresponding to VM stop (powerOff) and deallocate actions, and it restricts the time range to the last 24 hours using `ago(24h)`. This directly matches the requirement to find VM stop or deallocate operations within the specified timeframe.

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AzureActivity | summarize count() by OperationNameValue

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AzureActivity | where ResourceType == "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" | project TimeGenerated, ResourceGroup

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AzureActivity | sort by TimeGenerated asc

Question 2

An administrator assigned a policy definition with the Modify effect to add tag Environment=Prod to resources in a subscription. Existing VMs still do not show the tag. Which two actions should the administrator take to bring the existing VMs into compliance? Select two.

Accepted Answer

Create a remediation task for the policy assignment.. A is correct because a policy with the Modify effect does not automatically apply to existing non-compliant resources; a remediation task must be triggered to evaluate and update those resources. Remediation uses the managed identity assigned to the policy to perform the modification, which is why verifying that identity has the necessary permissions (option B) is also required. Without remediation, only new resources created after the policy assignment will have the tag applied.

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Reassign the policy at the resource group scope only.

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Switch the policy effect to AuditIfNotExists.

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Manually tag only the newest virtual machines.

Question 3

An external consultant must access a resource group in your tenant using the consultant's existing work account. You want to avoid creating a separate username and password pair. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.

Accepted Answer

Invite the consultant as a guest user in Microsoft Entra ID.. Inviting the consultant as a guest user in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) allows the consultant to use their existing work account (external identity) without creating a new username/password. This leverages B2B collaboration, which uses the consultant's home directory for authentication, and the guest user object is created in your tenant to represent them.

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Create a new member user account with an internal password.

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Add the consultant to the Global Administrator role.

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Share the subscription ID and tenant ID only.

Question 4

A line-of-business app must keep serving users if an entire Azure region becomes unavailable. Is Azure Backup by itself enough to meet this requirement?

Accepted Answer

No, you also need disaster recovery replication such as Azure Site Recovery. Azure Backup is designed to protect data by creating recovery points that can be used to restore VMs or files, but it does not provide automatic failover or continuous replication to another region. To meet the requirement of keeping an app running during a regional outage, you need a disaster recovery solution like Azure Site Recovery, which replicates VMs to a secondary region and enables orchestrated failover with minimal downtime.

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Yes, because backup alone guarantees immediate failover to another region

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Yes, as long as the VM has a backup policy

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Yes, if diagnostic settings are enabled on the VM

Question 5

A project team has 12 operators who need to read resource properties and restart only the virtual machines in one application resource group. Access should be removed automatically when an operator leaves the team, and any new VMs added to that resource group should inherit the same access without further changes. What should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Create an Entra ID group, add the operators to it, and assign a custom least-privilege role to the group at the resource group scope.. It uses an Entra ID group to manage access, which allows automatic removal of operators from the group when they leave the team, and any new VMs added to the resource group will inherit the role assignment at the resource group scope. A custom least-privilege role ensures operators can only read resource properties and restart VMs, meeting the specific requirements without over-permissioning.

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Assign the role directly to each operator at the resource group scope.

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Assign Virtual Machine Contributor to the team at the subscription scope.

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Use a resource lock and add the operators as lock owners.

Question 6

Before changing a managed data disk on a production VM, you want a point-in-time copy that you can keep and restore later if needed. What should you create?

Accepted Answer

A managed disk snapshot. A managed disk snapshot captures a point-in-time, read-only copy of a managed disk. You can use it to restore the VM to that exact state by creating a new disk from the snapshot and attaching it to the VM. Snapshots are independent of the source disk's lifecycle, so you can keep them indefinitely for backup or recovery purposes.

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An availability set

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A load balancer backend pool

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A resource lock

Question 7

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator change to allow only the web tier to reach the app tier on TCP 8443?

Accepted Answer

Move the allow rule for WebTier-ASG to a priority lower than 100.. The exhibit shows a default-deny NSG rule at priority 100 that blocks all traffic from VirtualNetwork to VirtualNetwork. To allow only the web tier (WebTier-ASG) to reach the app tier (AppTier-ASG) on TCP 8443, the administrator must move the allow rule for WebTier-ASG to a priority lower than 100 (e.g., 90). This ensures the allow rule is evaluated before the deny rule, as NSG rules are processed in priority order (lowest number first).

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Change the deny rule source from VirtualNetwork to Internet.

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Associate the NSG with the virtual machine NIC instead of the subnet.

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Replace the ASG destination with the subnet address range.

Question 8

An administrator enabled Azure VM backup yesterday and now wants to confirm whether the most recent backup job succeeded. Which two places can they check? Select two.

Accepted Answer

Recovery Services vault backup jobs. The Recovery Services vault backup jobs (Option C) is correct because it provides a dedicated view of all backup jobs associated with the vault, including status, start time, and duration. Backup Center (Option D) is correct because it offers a centralized, cross-vault, cross-region dashboard to monitor backup jobs and alerts, making it ideal for confirming the success of the most recent backup.

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Activity log

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Azure Advisor

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Resource Graph

Question 9

A container group runs a one-time import job in Azure Container Instances. After the job finishes successfully, it should not restart. Which restart policy should you choose?

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Never. The 'Never' restart policy ensures that the container group does not restart after the job completes, which is ideal for a one-time import job that should run exactly once. Azure Container Instances supports three restart policies: Always, OnFailure, and Never. For a job that must not restart after successful completion, 'Never' is the correct choice because it prevents any automatic restart regardless of the exit code.

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Always

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OnFailure

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Manual

Question 10

Based on the exhibit, which Azure feature should the administrator add so ownership and chargeback information remains visible even if resources are moved between resource groups?

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Tags. Tags are metadata key-value pairs that can be assigned to Azure resources and resource groups. They persist even when resources are moved between resource groups, making them ideal for tracking ownership and chargeback information across organizational boundaries. Unlike other options, tags are specifically designed for cost tracking, ownership attribution, and resource categorization.

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Management groups

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Resource locks

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Role assignments

Question 11

A storage account should accept requests only from a specific virtual network subnet in Azure. The team does not want traffic to reach the public endpoint from the internet. What should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Add a storage network rule for the subnet or use a private endpoint. Azure storage accounts can restrict access to specific virtual network subnets using service endpoints or private endpoints. A storage network rule for the subnet allows traffic only from that subnet, while a private endpoint maps the storage account to a private IP in the VNet, completely bypassing the public endpoint. This ensures no internet traffic reaches the public endpoint, meeting the requirement.

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Enable anonymous blob access

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Move the container to the Archive tier

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Assign the Contributor role to the subnet

Question 12

Your application stores regulatory records in Azure Blob Storage. The records must remain in a write-once-read-many state for four years and must not be altered or deleted during that time. What should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Immutable blob storage with a time-based retention policy. Immutable blob storage with a time-based retention policy enforces a write-once-read-many (WORM) state, ensuring that blobs cannot be modified or deleted for a specified duration. This directly meets the regulatory requirement of four-year retention without alteration or deletion, as the policy locks the data at the container level and prevents any changes until the retention period expires.

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Blob soft delete

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Lifecycle management to move data to Archive

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A shared access signature

Question 13

A company needs to peer VNet-Prod, which uses 10.30.0.0/16, with VNet-Shared, which uses 10.30.64.0/18. The peering creation fails with an address-space overlap error. The team can renumber the shared environment, but they do not want to change any addresses in VNet-Prod. What should the administrator do before retrying the peering?

Accepted Answer

Reconfigure VNet-Shared to use a non-overlapping address range, then recreate its subnets and migrate workloads.. VNet peering requires that the address spaces of the two VNets do not overlap. VNet-Prod uses 10.30.0.0/16, which includes the range 10.30.64.0/18 used by VNet-Shared, causing the overlap error. The only way to resolve this without changing VNet-Prod is to reconfigure VNet-Shared to use a non-overlapping address range, which involves deleting and recreating its subnets and migrating workloads, as stated in option B.

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Add an NSG that allows traffic between the two VNets.

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Rename VNet-Shared so Azure treats it as a different network.

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Enable gateway transit on both VNets so Azure can route around the overlap.

Question 14

An employee deleted one spreadsheet stored on a Windows VM that is protected by Azure Backup. The administrator must recover only that file without restoring the entire VM. What should be used?

Accepted Answer

The file recovery process from the Recovery Services vault recovery point.. Azure Backup for Azure VMs supports file-level recovery from a recovery point without restoring the entire VM. The file recovery process mounts the recovery point as an iSCSI target on the VM, allowing the administrator to browse and copy the deleted spreadsheet directly from the snapshot. This is the only option that provides granular, non-disruptive file restoration from a VM backup.

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A full VM restore to replace the existing virtual machine.

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Blob rehydration from Archive tier in the storage account.

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A restore point collection operation in Azure Compute.

Question 15

A Windows VM runs an application that uploads files to a blob container every hour. Security forbids storing storage account keys or long-lived SAS tokens on the VM. The application must be able to write only to that container and nothing else. What should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Assign Storage Blob Data Contributor to the VM's managed identity at the container scope. It uses Azure RBAC to grant the VM's managed identity the Storage Blob Data Contributor role at the container scope. This allows the application to write only to that specific container without requiring any storage account keys or SAS tokens on the VM, satisfying the security requirement. Managed identities provide an automatically managed service principal in Microsoft Entra ID, enabling secure authentication to Azure services without storing credentials.

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Store the storage account key in an environment variable on the VM

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Create a service SAS with write permission on the storage account

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Assign Contributor on the storage account to the VM's system-assigned identity