AZ-900 Describe Azure architecture and services Practice Test 5 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company wants to host a static website (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) that is accessed by users worldwide. They need a low-cost solution that provides high availability and global reach without managing servers. Which Azure service is most cost-effective for this scenario?

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Accepted Answer

Azure Blob Storage with static website hosting. Azure Blob Storage with static website hosting is the most cost-effective solution because it allows you to host static content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) directly from a storage container without provisioning any virtual machines or app service plans. It provides built-in high availability through geo-redundant storage (GRS) and global reach via integration with Azure CDN, while the pay-per-GB storage model and no compute costs keep expenses minimal.

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Azure App Service

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Azure Virtual Machines

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Azure CDN

Question 2

A company runs a large data analytics job for a few hours each week. They want to use Azure virtual machines with the lowest possible cost, accepting that the VMs may be reclaimed by Azure at any time. Which pricing option should they choose?

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Spot VMs. Spot VMs allow you to use unused Azure compute capacity at a significant discount (up to 90% compared to pay-as-you-go) but can be evicted by Azure when capacity is needed elsewhere. This makes them ideal for interruptible, batch-style workloads like a weekly data analytics job that can tolerate interruptions and resume later.

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Reserved Instances

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Pay-as-you-go

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Dedicated Hosts

Question 3

A company's development team wants to deploy a containerized application without worrying about the underlying virtual machines or Kubernetes control plane. They need a service that automatically manages the container orchestration, scales, and provides rolling updates. Which Azure compute service should they choose?

Accepted Answer

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the correct choice because it provides a fully managed Kubernetes cluster, handling the control plane and worker node management, while allowing the development team to focus on deploying and managing containerized applications. AKS supports automatic scaling, rolling updates, and self-healing, meeting the requirement for a managed container orchestration service without worrying about underlying VMs or the Kubernetes control plane.

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Azure Container Instances (ACI)

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Azure Container Apps

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Azure Service Fabric

Question 4

An application deployed on Azure Virtual Machines needs to be resilient to failures within a single Azure region. The VMs are placed across multiple physically separate locations within the region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking. What is this feature called?

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Availability zone. Availability zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking. By placing VMs across different zones, you protect your application from a single point of failure within the region, such as a datacenter outage. This is the correct feature for achieving intra-region resilience.

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Availability set

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Region pair

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Resource group

Question 5

A company runs a containerized application on Azure. They want to use Kubernetes for orchestration but do not want to manage the control plane nodes. They need a managed Kubernetes service. Which Azure service should they choose?

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the correct choice because it provides a fully managed Kubernetes orchestration service. With AKS, Azure manages the control plane nodes (including the API server, etcd, and scheduler) automatically, so the company does not need to manage them. This meets the requirement for a managed Kubernetes service without control plane management overhead.

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Azure Container Instances

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Azure Container Registry

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Azure App Service

Question 6

A web application needs to store large amounts of unstructured data (images, documents) that will be accessed via HTTP from anywhere in the world. The data must be highly durable and scalable. Which Azure storage solution is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is designed for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as images and documents, and provides HTTP/HTTPS access from anywhere. It offers high durability (99.9999999999% with RA-GRS) and massive scalability, making it the ideal choice for globally accessible, unstructured data workloads.

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Azure SQL Database

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Azure File Storage

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Azure Cosmos DB

Question 7

A company has multiple on-premises sites that need to connect to Azure over high-throughput, low-latency private connections. They want a dedicated private connection that does not traverse the internet. Which Azure service should they use?

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Azure ExpressRoute. Azure ExpressRoute provides a dedicated private connection from on-premises sites to Azure that does not traverse the public internet, ensuring high throughput and low latency. It uses a Layer 3 VPN or direct peering via a connectivity provider, bypassing internet-based routing entirely. This makes it ideal for scenarios requiring consistent performance and security for hybrid connectivity.

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Azure VPN Gateway

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Azure Virtual WAN

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Azure Peering Service

Question 8

A company wants to deploy a web app that scales automatically based on demand. They do not want to manage any virtual machines or the underlying infrastructure. They only want to upload their code and let the platform handle everything. Which Azure compute service should they choose?

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Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that enables developers to deploy web applications without managing virtual machines or underlying infrastructure. It provides built-in autoscaling, load balancing, and patching, allowing the company to simply upload their code and let the platform handle scaling based on demand.

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Azure Virtual Machines

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Azure Functions

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Azure Container Instances

Question 9

A company deploys a multi-tier web application on Azure. The web tier and database tier must be in the same region for low latency, but the database tier must be in a different subnet and have restricted network access from the web tier only. Which Azure network solution should they use?

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Azure Virtual Network with subnets and Network Security Groups. Azure Virtual Network (VNet) with subnets and Network Security Groups (NSGs) is the correct solution because it allows you to create isolated subnets for the web and database tiers within the same region, ensuring low latency. NSGs can then be applied to the database subnet to restrict inbound traffic exclusively from the web tier's subnet using source IP or service tag rules, providing the required network segmentation and access control.

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Azure Application Gateway

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Azure Load Balancer

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Azure Traffic Manager

Question 10

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs. They need to ensure that if one VM fails, the application continues to serve users with another VM. The VMs should be placed in a configuration that protects against failures within a single datacenter. Which feature should they use?

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Availability Set. An Availability Set ensures that VMs are distributed across multiple fault domains (separate racks with independent power, cooling, and network) and update domains within a single Azure datacenter. This protects against hardware failures or maintenance events within that datacenter, so if one VM fails, another in a different fault domain continues serving users.

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Availability Zone

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Resource Group

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Scale Set

Question 11

A company wants to encrypt data at rest in Azure SQL Database using customer-managed keys stored in Azure Key Vault. They also need to be able to rotate the keys without downtime. Which feature should they use?

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Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault allows you to encrypt the database at rest using your own keys, which you can rotate without downtime because Azure SQL Database handles the re-encryption of the database encryption key (DEK) transparently in the background, without requiring database offline or performance impact.

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Always Encrypted

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Dynamic Data Masking

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Row-level security

Question 12

A company runs a web application on Azure App Service. They want to route users to the nearest regional deployment based on DNS queries to minimize latency. Which Azure service should they use for this global traffic routing?

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Traffic Manager. Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that routes incoming DNS queries to the nearest regional endpoint based on the user's geographic location, network latency, or other routing methods. This ensures users are directed to the closest Azure App Service deployment, minimizing latency for global traffic.

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Azure Load Balancer

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Application Gateway

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Azure Front Door

Question 13

A company is deploying a critical application on Azure Virtual Machines. They need to ensure that the application remains available during Azure platform updates. They also want to distribute the VMs across fault domains within an availability set. What is the primary purpose of fault domains?

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To distribute VMs across different power and cooling racks. Fault domains represent groupings of hardware that share a common power source and network switch. By distributing VMs across multiple fault domains within an availability set, Azure ensures that if a power or cooling failure occurs in one rack, only the VMs in that fault domain are affected, keeping the application available on VMs in other fault domains.

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To distribute VMs across different Azure regions

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To distribute VMs across different availability zones

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To distribute VMs across different virtual networks

Question 14

A company runs a web application on Azure App Service. They want to improve performance by caching static content and frequently accessed data closer to users in different geographic locations. Which Azure service should they use?

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Azure Content Delivery Network. Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches static content and frequently accessed data at edge nodes located closer to users, reducing latency and improving performance for geographically distributed audiences. This directly addresses the requirement to serve cached content from locations near the end users, offloading origin traffic from the App Service.

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Azure Traffic Manager

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Azure Application Gateway

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Azure Front Door

Question 15

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