- A
A metric alert on the account's transaction count.
Why wrong: Transaction count may show activity, but it will not specifically indicate that Azure has marked the resource unavailable.
- B
A Resource Health alert for the storage account.
Resource Health alerts are designed to notify administrators when Azure determines that a specific resource is unavailable or degraded because of a platform issue. This works even when ordinary metrics do not change in a useful way. It is the correct choice when the requirement is to detect service or infrastructure problems that Azure reports at the resource level rather than workload performance issues.
- C
A diagnostic setting that sends logs only to a storage account.
Why wrong: Diagnostic settings can export logs, but they do not by themselves notify the team when the resource health state changes.
- D
An Azure Policy assignment that denies writes to the storage account.
Why wrong: Azure Policy can prevent configuration drift, but it does not detect platform availability problems or create operational alerts.
AZ-104 Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources Practice Question
This AZ-104 practice question tests your understanding of monitor and maintain azure resources. The scenario asks you to isolate a root cause — eliminate options that address a different problem before choosing. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
A storage account experiences a brief regional platform issue. The team wants an alert whenever Azure marks the resource as unavailable, even if no custom metric changes are detected. What should the administrator use?
Answer choices
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
A Resource Health alert for the storage account.
A Resource Health alert is designed to monitor the health of Azure resources and trigger notifications when Azure detects that the resource is unavailable due to platform issues, even if no custom metric thresholds are breached. This alert uses signals from the Azure Resource Health service, which tracks the current and historical health status of resources, making it the correct choice for detecting regional platform unavailability without relying on custom metrics.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
A metric alert on the account's transaction count.
Why it's wrong here
Transaction count may show activity, but it will not specifically indicate that Azure has marked the resource unavailable.
- ✓
A Resource Health alert for the storage account.
Why this is correct
Resource Health alerts are designed to notify administrators when Azure determines that a specific resource is unavailable or degraded because of a platform issue. This works even when ordinary metrics do not change in a useful way. It is the correct choice when the requirement is to detect service or infrastructure problems that Azure reports at the resource level rather than workload performance issues.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- ✗
A diagnostic setting that sends logs only to a storage account.
Why it's wrong here
Diagnostic settings can export logs, but they do not by themselves notify the team when the resource health state changes.
- ✗
An Azure Policy assignment that denies writes to the storage account.
Why it's wrong here
Azure Policy can prevent configuration drift, but it does not detect platform availability problems or create operational alerts.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often confuse metric alerts (which require custom metric thresholds) with Resource Health alerts (which detect platform-level unavailability), leading them to choose a metric-based option like transaction count instead of the health-specific alert.
Trap categories for this question
Command / output trap
Transaction count may show activity, but it will not specifically indicate that Azure has marked the resource unavailable.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Azure Resource Health relies on heartbeat signals from the Azure infrastructure to determine resource status (Available, Degraded, Unavailable). When a regional platform issue occurs, Resource Health reports 'Unavailable' for affected resources, and a Resource Health alert can be configured to trigger on that status change via an action group (e.g., email, SMS, webhook). This is distinct from Azure Monitor metrics, which require custom thresholds and may not reflect platform-level outages unless explicitly defined.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
- Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
- Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
A media company stores terabytes of video archives that are accessed once a year for audit purposes. Moving these objects to a cold storage tier (Azure Archive, S3 Glacier, or Google Nearline) costs a fraction of hot storage. Questions like this test whether you understand storage tiers, access frequency tradeoffs, and retrieval latency requirements.
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Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources — This question tests Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: A Resource Health alert for the storage account. — A Resource Health alert is designed to monitor the health of Azure resources and trigger notifications when Azure detects that the resource is unavailable due to platform issues, even if no custom metric thresholds are breached. This alert uses signals from the Azure Resource Health service, which tracks the current and historical health status of resources, making it the correct choice for detecting regional platform unavailability without relying on custom metrics.
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