CV0-004 Operations and Support Practice Question
A cloud administrator is configuring an alert for an Azure virtual machine. The alert should trigger when the average CPU percentage exceeds 90% for more than 10 minutes. Which Azure service should be used to create this metric alert?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Azure Monitor Alerts
Azure Monitor Alerts allow you to create metric alerts based on conditions like CPU percentage thresholds and evaluation periods.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Azure Advisor
Why it's wrong here
Azure Advisor produces best-practise recommendations on cost, reliability, and performance; it does not evaluate metrics or raise alerts. It is tempting because it analyses VM performance data, and would be correct if the administrator wanted proactive optimisation guidance rather than threshold-based notification.
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Azure Log Analytics
Why it's wrong here
Log Analytics stores and queries log data; it does not natively evaluate platform metrics against thresholds on a schedule. It is tempting because scheduled log searches can approximate alerting, and would be correct if the trigger depended on log events rather than the VM's CPU metric.
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Azure Security Center
Why it's wrong here
Azure Security Center (Microsoft Defender for Cloud) assesses security posture and generates security recommendations; it does not evaluate CPU utilisation thresholds. It is tempting because it surfaces VM alerts, and would be correct if the requirement were detecting security misconfigurations or threats rather than resource performance.
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Azure Monitor Alerts
Why this is correct
Azure Monitor Alerts evaluates metric rules against platform metrics such as CPU percentage, supporting the average aggregation over a ten-minute window and the 90% threshold. It is the native alerting engine for Azure virtual machines, so no agent-side scripting is needed.
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