AZ-900 Describe Azure architecture and services Practice Test 14 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company stores compliance logs in Azure Blob Storage. The logs must remain available even if an entire Azure datacenter within the primary region fails. The company is cost-conscious and wants to minimize storage costs while meeting this availability requirement. The company does not need to access the data from a secondary location during a disaster. Which storage replication option should the company choose?

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

Accepted Answer

Zone-redundant storage (ZRS). Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates data synchronously across three Azure availability zones within the primary region. This ensures data remains available even if an entire datacenter (one zone) fails, while avoiding the higher cost and cross-region replication of GRS. Since the company does not need secondary region access and wants to minimize costs, ZRS meets the requirement without paying for geo-redundancy.

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Locally-redundant storage (LRS)

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Geo-redundant storage (GRS)

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Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)

Question 2

Which Azure service allows you to run code on-demand without managing servers, paying only for execution time?

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Azure Functions. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that executes code in response to events (e.g., HTTP requests, timers, queue messages) without requiring you to provision or manage virtual machines or infrastructure. You are billed only for the resources consumed during code execution, measured in gigabyte-seconds, making it ideal for on-demand, event-driven workloads.

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Azure Virtual Machines

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Azure App Service

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Azure Kubernetes Service

Question 3

What is the purpose of Azure Availability Zones?

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To provide fault isolation against datacenter-level failures within a region. Azure Availability Zones are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking. By placing VMs or other resources across multiple zones, you protect your application from a single datacenter failure, ensuring high availability and fault isolation at the datacenter level within the region.

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To reduce the latency of content delivery to global users

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To connect on-premises networks to Azure securely

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To replicate data automatically between Azure regions

Question 4

Which Azure storage service is best suited for storing unstructured data such as images, videos, and log files?

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Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is designed for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as images, videos, and log files. It offers three types of blobs (block, append, and page) to optimize for different access patterns, making it the ideal choice for binary and text data that does not fit a relational schema.

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Azure Files

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Azure Queue Storage

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Azure Table Storage

Question 5

A company wants to host a web application that automatically scales based on traffic. Which Azure service is most appropriate for hosting this application without managing virtual machines?

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Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that automatically scales web applications based on traffic without requiring you to manage the underlying virtual machines. It supports built-in autoscaling rules, load balancing, and high availability, making it ideal for hosting web apps with variable demand.

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Azure Virtual Machines

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Azure Batch

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Azure Container Instances

Question 6

Which Azure networking service provides a private connection from an on-premises network to Azure without using the public internet?

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Azure ExpressRoute. Azure ExpressRoute is the correct answer because it establishes a dedicated, private connection from an on-premises network directly into Azure, bypassing the public internet entirely. This is achieved through a Layer 3 BGP peering session over a provider-managed circuit, ensuring low latency, higher reliability, and data does not traverse the public internet.

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Azure VPN Gateway

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Azure Virtual Network

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Azure Bastion

Question 7

Which Azure service provides a globally distributed, multi-model database service with single-digit millisecond read latency?

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Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service that guarantees single-digit millisecond read latency at the 99th percentile, regardless of the region or consistency level. It supports multiple data models (document, key-value, graph, column-family) and provides turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions.

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Azure SQL Database

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Azure Database for MySQL

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Azure Cache for Redis

Question 8

Which Azure service enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning models using a visual drag-and-drop interface?

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Azure Machine Learning. Azure Machine Learning provides a visual drag-and-drop interface called the designer, which allows users to create, train, and deploy machine learning models without writing code. This distinguishes it from other Azure services that focus on pre-built APIs, big data processing, or analytics pipelines.

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Azure Cognitive Services

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Azure Databricks

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Azure Synapse Analytics

Question 9

Which Azure service provides a managed Kubernetes environment for deploying and managing containerized applications?

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the correct answer because it is Azure's managed Kubernetes orchestration service, which handles the control plane (including the API server, etcd, and scheduler) for you, while you manage the worker nodes and your containerized applications. This allows you to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes without the operational overhead of maintaining the control plane infrastructure.

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Azure Container Instances

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Azure App Service

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Azure Container Registry

Question 10

Which Azure service acts as a global load balancer that optimizes routing of user traffic to the nearest Azure endpoint for the best performance?

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Azure Front Door. Azure Front Door is a global, scalable entry point that uses the Microsoft global edge network to route user traffic to the nearest available Azure endpoint based on latency and geographic proximity. It provides HTTP/HTTPS load balancing with advanced traffic acceleration, SSL offload, and application-layer security, making it the correct choice for optimizing performance across global regions.

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Azure Application Gateway

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Azure Traffic Manager

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Azure Load Balancer

Question 11

Which Azure service provides a private, isolated section of the Azure cloud where you can launch Azure resources in a virtual network you define?

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Azure Virtual Network (VNet). Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the correct answer because it provides a logically isolated section of the Azure cloud dedicated to your subscription. Within a VNet, you can define your own private IP address space (using RFC 1918 addresses), subnets, and routing policies, and then launch Azure resources such as virtual machines, App Service Environments, and Azure Kubernetes Service clusters into that private network. This isolation is achieved through network segmentation and is the fundamental building block for private connectivity in Azure.

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Azure Virtual WAN

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Azure ExpressRoute

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Azure Network Security Group

Question 12

Which Azure service allows you to create managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the SMB protocol?

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Azure Files. Azure Files provides fully managed file shares in the cloud that can be accessed via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, making it the correct choice. It allows you to lift and shift legacy applications that rely on SMB file shares without modifying code, and it supports both SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 protocols.

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Azure Blob Storage

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Azure Disk Storage

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Azure Data Lake Storage

Question 13

Which Azure service provides a fully managed platform for building real-time analytics and complex event processing using SQL-like queries on streaming data?

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Azure Stream Analytics. Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables real-time analytics and complex event processing (CEP) on streaming data using a SQL-like query language. It ingests data from sources like Azure Event Hubs or IoT Hub, applies temporal windows and pattern matching, and outputs results to sinks such as Azure SQL Database or Power BI, all without requiring infrastructure management.

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Azure HDInsight

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Azure Synapse Analytics

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Azure Data Factory

Question 14

Which Azure service provides IoT device management, real-time analytics, and bi-directional communication between IoT devices and the cloud?

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Azure IoT Hub. Azure IoT Hub is the correct service because it is specifically designed to provide secure, bi-directional communication between IoT devices and the cloud, along with device management capabilities and real-time analytics. It supports multiple protocols (MQTT, AMQP, HTTPS) and integrates with Azure Stream Analytics for real-time data processing.

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Azure Event Hubs

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Azure Notification Hubs

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Azure Service Bus

Question 15

Which Azure service provides a content delivery network (CDN) to cache static content at edge locations close to users?

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Azure CDN. Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) is the dedicated Azure service designed to cache static content—such as images, CSS, JavaScript files, and videos—at strategically placed edge nodes (Points of Presence, or PoPs) around the world. By serving content from the edge location closest to the user, Azure CDN reduces latency, offloads origin server traffic, and improves load times for global audiences. This directly matches the question's requirement for a service that caches static content at edge locations.

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Azure Traffic Manager

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Azure Front Door

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Azure Application Gateway