AZ-900 Practice Test 50 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A multinational corporation wants to deploy a standard set of Azure resources—including virtual networks, virtual machines, and SQL databases—to multiple departments. Each deployment must automatically include assigned Azure Policy definitions to enforce security rules, role-based access control (RBAC) assignments for the operations team, and a predefined naming convention. The solution must provide a single, repeatable package that can be versioned and updated centrally. Which Azure service should the company use?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Azure Blueprints. Azure Blueprints is designed to orchestrate the deployment of resource templates (such as ARM templates or Azure Resource Manager templates) along with governance artifacts like Azure Policy assignments, RBAC role assignments, and resource groups. It provides a versioned, repeatable definition that can be assigned to subscriptions or management groups, ensuring consistent and compliant deployments across an organization. Azure Policy alone only enforces rules but does not orchestrate resource deployment. ARM templates define the infrastructure but lack built-in governance artifact management. Management Groups provide hierarchical organization but do not package deployments with policies and RBAC.

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Azure Policy

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Azure Resource Manager templates

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Azure Management Groups

Question 2

Which Azure service provides a serverless event routing service that connects event sources to event handlers?

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Azure Event Grid. Azure Event Grid is a fully managed serverless event routing service that uses a publish-subscribe model to connect event sources (e.g., Azure Blob Storage, resource groups) to event handlers (e.g., Azure Functions, webhooks). It filters and routes events based on event types and subscriptions, enabling reactive programming without polling or custom infrastructure.

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Azure Service Bus

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Azure Event Hubs

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Azure Queue Storage

Question 3

Which Azure portal blade allows you to view all resources across your subscriptions in a single place?

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All Resources blade in the Azure portal. The All Resources blade in the Azure portal provides a single, unified view of every resource across all subscriptions you have access to. It allows you to filter, search, and manage resources without navigating between individual subscription blades, making it the correct answer for viewing all resources in one place.

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Azure Cost Management

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Azure Service Health

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Azure Subscriptions blade

Question 4

A company wants to move from an on-premises data center to Azure. They currently budget for purchasing servers, networking equipment, and software licenses as a one-time capital expense. In Azure, they will pay a monthly fee based on the resources they use. What type of cloud benefit does this represent?

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Operational expenditure (OpEx). Moving from a capital expense (CapEx) model—where servers, networking gear, and licenses are purchased upfront—to a pay-as-you-go monthly fee in Azure represents a shift to operational expenditure (OpEx). This cloud benefit allows the company to avoid large upfront investments and instead pay for only the compute, storage, and network resources consumed, aligning costs with usage.

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High availability

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Scalability

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Fault tolerance

Question 5

A company wants to migrate a set of on-premises databases to Azure. They require high compatibility with SQL Server features, including cross-database queries and SQL Agent jobs. They want a PaaS solution. Which Azure service is most appropriate?

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Azure SQL Managed Instance. Azure SQL Managed Instance is the correct choice because it provides near 100% compatibility with SQL Server on-premises, including support for cross-database queries and SQL Agent jobs, while being a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. This allows the company to lift-and-shift their databases without redesigning applications, meeting both the feature and PaaS requirements.

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Azure SQL Database

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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

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Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Question 6

Which Azure service provides fully managed, distributed in-memory caching for data like session state and frequently accessed database queries?

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Azure Cache for Redis. Azure Cache for Redis is a fully managed, distributed in-memory caching service based on the open-source Redis engine. It is specifically designed to store session state and cache frequently accessed database queries, providing low-latency data access by keeping data in memory rather than on disk.

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Azure Storage Table

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Azure SQL Database In-Memory OLTP

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Azure CDN edge caching

Question 7

A company uses a hybrid cloud model where some workloads run on-premises and some in Azure. They need a consistent identity management system across both environments, allowing single sign-on for users accessing resources in either location. What should they implement?

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Azure AD Connect. Azure AD Connect is the correct solution because it synchronizes on-premises Active Directory identities with Azure Active Directory, enabling a unified identity management system. This allows users to use the same credentials (single sign-on) to access both on-premises resources and Azure cloud services, fulfilling the hybrid cloud requirement.

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Azure Site Recovery

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Azure VPN Gateway

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Azure Traffic Manager

Question 8

Order the steps to set up Azure SQL Database with geo-replication.

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1. Create Azure SQL Database, 2. Configure firewall rules, 3. Enable geo-replication, 4. Create failover group, 5. Test failover.. Geo-replication involves database creation, firewall, replication enablement, failover group, and testing.

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1. Create Azure SQL Database, 2. Enable geo-replication, 3. Configure firewall rules, 4. Create failover group, 5. Test failover.

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1. Create Azure SQL Database, 2. Create failover group, 3. Enable geo-replication, 4. Configure firewall rules, 5. Test failover.

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1. Configure firewall rules, 2. Create Azure SQL Database, 3. Enable geo-replication, 4. Create failover group, 5. Test failover.

Question 9

Which Azure support option provides technical support through community forums and documentation only?

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Basic support. Basic support is the free tier included with every Azure subscription. It provides access only to community forums, documentation, and billing support, with no technical support from Microsoft engineers. This makes it the correct answer for support limited to community forums and documentation.

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Developer support

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Business support

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Enterprise support

Question 10

Which Azure feature enables centralized governance for multiple Azure AD tenants in a managed service provider (MSP) scenario?

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Azure Lighthouse. Azure Lighthouse enables centralized governance across multiple Azure AD tenants by allowing managed service providers (MSPs) to manage resources in customer tenants from their own tenant using delegated administration. It uses Azure Resource Manager (ARM) with delegated access, eliminating the need for separate credentials or VPNs, and supports cross-tenant management at scale.

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Azure Management Groups

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Azure AD B2B guest access

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Azure Enterprise Agreement multi-tenant billing

Question 11

Which Azure service provides pre-built AI capabilities like language understanding, vision, and speech without requiring custom model training?

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Azure Cognitive Services. Azure Cognitive Services is the correct answer because it provides a suite of pre-built, pre-trained AI models accessible via REST APIs and SDKs for tasks such as language understanding (e.g., LUIS), computer vision (e.g., Computer Vision API), and speech recognition (e.g., Speech-to-Text). These services require no custom model training or machine learning expertise, allowing developers to integrate AI capabilities directly into applications.

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Azure Machine Learning

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Azure Databricks

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Azure Bot Service

Question 12

Order the steps to deploy an Azure app service (Web App) with a custom domain.

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Step 1: Create an App Service plan, Step 2: Create a web app, Step 3: Deploy application code, Step 4: Add a custom domain, Step 5: Configure SSL binding. Deploying a web app requires plan creation, code deployment, DNS configuration, domain binding, and SSL.

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Step 1: Create a web app, Step 2: Create an App Service plan, Step 3: Deploy application code, Step 4: Add a custom domain, Step 5: Configure SSL binding

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Step 1: Create an App Service plan, Step 2: Deploy application code, Step 3: Create a web app, Step 4: Add a custom domain, Step 5: Configure SSL binding

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Step 1: Create an App Service plan, Step 2: Create a web app, Step 3: Add a custom domain, Step 4: Deploy application code, Step 5: Configure SSL binding

Question 13

Which Azure service provides a way to run containerized applications using a managed Kubernetes service without needing to manage the Kubernetes control plane?

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the correct answer because it provides a managed Kubernetes environment where Microsoft handles the control plane (including the API server, etcd, and scheduler) while you only manage the worker nodes and your containerized applications. This aligns directly with the question's requirement of not needing to manage the Kubernetes control plane.

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Azure Container Instances

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Azure Service Fabric

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Azure Batch

Question 14

Which Azure compute size family is optimized for memory-intensive workloads like large in-memory analytics or SAP HANA?

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Memory-optimized VMs (M-series, E-series). Memory-optimized VMs, such as the M-series and E-series, are designed with a high memory-to-core ratio and large memory capacities (up to 12 TB for M-series) to handle workloads that require massive amounts of RAM, such as large in-memory analytics and SAP HANA. SAP HANA specifically requires certified VM sizes with sufficient memory to load the entire database into RAM, and Azure's M-series is SAP-certified for this purpose.

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Compute-optimized VMs (Fsv2-series)

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Storage-optimized VMs (Lsv2-series)

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GPU VMs (NC-series)

Question 15

A company wants to move from paying large upfront costs for hardware to a model where they only pay for what they use on a monthly basis. This represents a shift from CapEx to which type of expenditure?

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Operational expenditure (OpEx). This scenario describes a shift from Capital Expenditure (CapEx), where large upfront costs are incurred for hardware, to Operational Expenditure (OpEx), where costs are based on actual usage and billed monthly. In cloud computing, OpEx aligns with the consumption-based model, where you pay only for resources consumed (e.g., compute hours, storage GB) without upfront commitments. This is a core financial benefit of cloud services like Azure, enabling variable costs instead of fixed capital investments.

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Direct expenditure

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Indirect expenditure

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Capital expenditure