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's platform logs must be searchable later with KQL in a central workspace. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
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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Create a diagnostic setting on the storage account
Option A is correct because a diagnostic setting on the storage account is required to route platform logs (e.g., storage read/write/delete operations) to a destination. Option C is correct because a Log Analytics workspace is the destination that enables KQL-based searching and analysis of those logs. Without both, the logs cannot be stored in a central, queryable repository.
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.
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Create a diagnostic setting on the storage account
Why this is correct
Diagnostic settings tell Azure which resource logs and metrics to export from the storage account.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Configure a NAT gateway on the storage subnet
Why it's wrong here
A NATgateway changes outbound connectivity, but it does not collect or store logs.
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Send the logs to a Log Analytics workspace
Why this is correct
Sending logs to Log Analytics makes them queryable later with KQL in one place.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Assign the Reader role on the subscription
Why it's wrong here
Reader access allows viewing resources, but it does not route platform logs anywhere.
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Enable a VM backup policy
Why it's wrong here
A VM backup policy protects virtual machines, not the logging pipeline for storage accounts.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates may think simply enabling logging on the storage account (e.g., via the 'Logging' blade) is sufficient, but without a diagnostic setting and a Log Analytics workspace destination, the logs are not searchable with KQL in a central workspace.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
A diagnostic setting streams platform logs and metrics to one of three destinations: Log Analytics workspace, Event Hubs, or Azure Storage. When sent to a Log Analytics workspace, the logs are ingested into the AzureMonitor table (e.g., StorageBlobLogs) and can be queried with KQL. The diagnostic setting must be explicitly created per resource; it is not enabled by default. In real-world scenarios, centralizing logs from multiple storage accounts into a single Log Analytics workspace allows cross-resource KQL queries and alerting.
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: Create a diagnostic setting on the storage account — Option A is correct because a diagnostic setting on the storage account is required to route platform logs (e.g., storage read/write/delete operations) to a destination. Option C is correct because a Log Analytics workspace is the destination that enables KQL-based searching and analysis of those logs. Without both, the logs cannot be stored in a central, queryable repository.
What should I do if I get this AZ-104 question wrong?
Identify which exam domain this question belongs to, review the core concept, then practise similar questions from the same domain.
What is the key concept behind this question?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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