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Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

This AZ-104 domain covers keeping Azure workloads healthy: Azure Monitor metrics and logs, Log Analytics workspaces, KQL queries, alerts and action groups, Application Insights, Network Watcher, and backup/recovery via Recovery Services vaults. The exam tests these through scenario questions asking you to select the right monitoring tool, alert configuration, diagnostic setting, or recovery action for a stated requirement.

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What to know about Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

Configure Azure Monitor alerts with action groups, write KQL queries in Log Analytics, and set up Recovery Services vault backups. Get alert scopes and conditions right, since wrong signals cause missed or noisy notifications.

Configuring Azure Monitor diagnostic settings to route resource logs to Log Analytics, Storage, or Event Hubs

Writing KQL queries in Log Analytics to filter, summarize, and aggregate Azure activity and resource logs

Creating metric and log search alerts with action groups, plus interpreting alert processing rules

Using Network Watcher tools like IP flow verify, connection troubleshoot, and NSG flow logs

Watch out for

Common Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources exam traps

  • ▸Confusing metric alerts with log search alerts, then choosing the wrong alert type for a requirement needing KQL query logic.
  • ▸Forgetting that diagnostic settings must be enabled per resource before logs appear in Log Analytics, so queries return nothing.
  • ▸Assuming Azure Backup automatically restores VMs; recovery requires selecting a recovery point and restore type in the vault.

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All Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources questions (177)

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1

The subscription activity log is being sent to a Log Analytics workspace. An alert must fire when any resource group is deleted, but delete operations initiated by the automation account rg-cleaner@contoso.com must be ignored. Which query should be used in the alert rule?

Hard
2

An administrator enabled diagnostic settings on a storage account and selected the resource-specific table format for Log Analytics. A coworker later queried AzureDiagnostics and received no rows. What should the administrator tell the coworker to do?

Hard
3

A Windows VM in Azure is protected by Azure Backup. A developer accidentally deleted one application folder, but the VM must keep serving users while the administrator restores only that folder. What should the administrator do?

Hard
4

A support engineer is investigating a failed Azure VM backup job in Log Analytics. Match each KQL operator to the result it produces.

Medium
5

An administrator is reviewing a KQL query used to investigate failed operations in a Log Analytics workspace. Match each KQL operator to the effect it has on the query output.

Medium
6

Based on the exhibit, which KQL query should you use to find failed storage account delete operations in the last hour and count them by caller?

Medium
7

A backup administrator manages three Recovery Services vaults. They need a single place to review the latest job outcome across all vaults, and then drill into the failed job details for one VM. Which two Azure experiences should they use? Select two.

Hard
8

Based on the exhibit, the security team needs 30 days of searchable log data for a storage account and wants to create queries that can be used in workbooks and alerts. The current configuration only sends data to an archive location. What should the administrator configure?

Medium
9

A production team wants to match common Azure Monitor components to the action each one performs. Match each item on the left to the best description on the right.

Medium
10

Which two settings can you configure in an Azure Backup policy for a virtual machine? Select two.

Easy
11

A helpdesk engineer wants to determine whether a VM issue is caused by a Microsoft platform problem or a problem limited to one specific VM. Which two Azure features should they use? Select two.

Easy
12

The team needs alerts for VM CPU and storage capacity thresholds, but they want to keep telemetry ingestion costs as low as possible. Which approach is best?

Medium
13

An operations team wants to know when Azure marks a specific storage account unhealthy because of a regional platform issue. They do not want to depend on a custom metric, a Log Analytics query, or any polling script. What should they create?

Hard
14

A VM must be backed up every day, and backups must be retained for several days after creation. Which two settings are configured in an Azure Backup policy? Select two.

Easy
15

A storage account hosts application logs that security wants to search in Log Analytics for 30 days and keep in a separate retained copy for one year. They also want to monitor storage metrics in the same place for troubleshooting. What should be configured on the storage account?

Hard
16

An operations team monitors a group of Azure VMs and storage accounts. Match each Azure Monitor component to the behavior it provides in day-to-day operations.

Medium
17

An operations lead must choose the right Azure Monitor target for each requirement. Match each requirement to the Azure component that best satisfies it.

Hard
18

A production VM needs an email and SMS notification when CPU percentage stays above 80 percent for five minutes. Which two Azure Monitor components should the administrator configure? Select two.

Easy
19

A backup administrator is learning how Azure VM backup actions map to their purpose. Match each Recovery Services or backup item to the best description.

Medium
20

A help desk analyst wants a query in Log Analytics that returns Azure virtual machines that have stopped sending a heartbeat for more than 15 minutes. Which KQL query should the analyst run?

Medium
21

You need to collect performance counters and event logs from multiple Azure virtual machines and query the data centrally by using Kusto Query Language. Which Azure resource should you deploy?

Hard
22

A subscription admin wants to investigate who changed a resource and also review the platform-generated events for that subscription. Which two types of logs can be sent to Log Analytics and queried later? Select two.

Easy
23

A support engineer is narrowing a Log Analytics query to only failed backup jobs and wants to show only the needed columns. Which two KQL operators should they use? Select two.

Easy
24

You want Azure to recommend ways to reduce cost, improve performance, and strengthen security across your subscriptions. Which service should you use?

Medium
25

A help desk analyst needs a KQL query that identifies each VM's most recent heartbeat so computers can be flagged if their last check-in is older than 20 minutes. Which two KQL elements should be used? Select two.

Medium
26

You want to send a storage account's platform logs to a workspace so they can be queried with KQL later. Which two items are part of the required configuration? Select two.

Easy
27

You need to collect guest operating system performance counters and Windows event logs from several Azure virtual machines into a central queryable platform. Which Azure component should you configure?

Medium
28

An administrator is comparing Azure monitoring data sources and destinations during an investigation. Match each item to the best operational use.

Medium
29

You need to notify the operations team by email when average CPU utilization on VM-App01 exceeds 80 percent for 15 minutes. Which Azure Monitor components should you configure?

Medium
30

A user deleted a single document from a backed-up Windows VM. Which two Azure Backup actions are appropriate if only that file must be recovered? Select two.

Easy
31

Which two statements about a Log Analytics workspace are correct? Select two.

Easy
32

A production VM must generate an alert when average CPU exceeds 80 percent for 10 minutes. The alert must be evaluated continuously, but email notifications should be suppressed outside 08:00 to 18:00 on weekdays. What should the administrator configure?

Hard
33

A production Azure VM farm runs customer-facing APIs. Operations wants an automatic notification when the average Percentage CPU on any VM stays above 85 percent for 10 minutes, and the notification must reach both email and SMS recipients. Which two Azure Monitor items must be configured? Select two.

Hard
34

Based on the exhibit, the OS disk on a production VM is corrupted, but the VM must stay in place and keep its NIC and data disks. Which restore option should you choose?

Medium
35

An administrator accidentally deletes a VM backup item from a Recovery Services vault. The company wants a built-in protection feature that helps recover the deleted backup item during the retention window. Which feature is this?

Easy
36

Based on the exhibit, the backup policy must support 30-day recovery for daily backups while keeping 12 months of monthly copies. Which setting should be changed?

Medium
37

Based on the exhibit, which restore option should the administrator choose?

Easy
38

During a compliance review, the team must distinguish what each Azure Monitor object can and cannot do. Match each object to its primary operational scope.

Hard
39

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator add to send an email and SMS notification?

Easy
40

A user deleted one Excel file from a Windows Server VM that is protected by Azure Backup. The VM must keep running, and the administrator must restore only that file as quickly as possible. What should the administrator do?

Medium
41

Based on the exhibit, a metric alert already exists for VM01, but the on-call team never receives an email when CPU exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. What should you configure to deliver the notification?

Easy
42

An admin enables backup on a newly deployed Azure VM, but every backup job fails immediately with a message that the VM agent is not ready. What should the administrator verify first?

Medium
43

Your operations team needs to receive a Microsoft Teams or email notification whenever a production application becomes unavailable. You have already created an availability test in Azure Monitor. What should you configure next?

Hard
44

Which two statements about Azure Backup soft delete are correct? Select two.

Easy
45

The operations team manages several Azure VMs in one resource group. They need an alert whenever average CPU percentage on any VM in the group stays above 80% for 10 minutes, and the alert must send email and SMS to the on-call team. What should the administrator configure?

Medium
46

A VM suffered corruption and an auditor also needs one missing file. Match each Azure Backup restore workflow to the recovery outcome it provides.

Hard
47

A security analyst is reviewing deleted-resource evidence, exported diagnostics, and heartbeat data. Match each monitoring term to the best description.

Hard
48

A help desk engineer needs a Log Analytics query that returns each computer whose most recent heartbeat is older than 20 minutes. Which query should they use?

Medium
49

The subscription admin wants to receive an alert whenever anyone deletes a resource group, regardless of which resource type was inside it. Which alert type should be used?

Medium
50

Based on the exhibit, a user deleted one file from a Windows Azure VM. The VM is still running, and the administrator wants to restore only that file instead of recovering the full machine. Which restore approach should be used?

Medium
51

Based on the exhibit, a subscription activity log is already being sent to Log Analytics. The operations team wants an alert that fires when any resource group is deleted, but it should ignore deletions performed by a known automation account. Which approach should the administrator use?

Medium
52

You need to receive an email when average CPU usage on VM-App01 exceeds 85 percent for 10 minutes. Which Azure Monitor components should you configure?

Medium
53

In Log Analytics, you want an alert that fires if VM01 has not sent a Heartbeat record in the last 15 minutes. Which query should be used as the alert condition?

Medium
54

A team already has a metric alert on a production VM. The alert should continue evaluating 24/7, but email notifications must be sent only Monday through Friday from 08:00 to 18:00 local time. What should the administrator add or change?

Hard
55

Backup protection was enabled on a new Azure VM, but every backup job fails immediately with a message indicating the guest agent is not ready. What should the administrator verify first?

Medium
56

Based on the exhibit, the support team needs a searchable 90-day history of who deleted Azure resources and when. The current workspace only contains VM guest logs. Which configuration should you add?

Medium
57

A Windows VM protected by Azure Backup is missing one application file, but the VM must stay online during recovery. Which restore approach should the administrator use?

Hard
58

After enabling Azure VM backup, an administrator wants to confirm whether the nightly backup succeeded. Where should the administrator check the backup status?

Easy
59

You want Azure to identify underutilized virtual machines and recommend ways to reduce cost and improve security posture. Which service should you use?

Medium
60

Based on the exhibit, you want the resource logs for the storage account to appear in Log Analytics so you can investigate read and write failures. What should you configure?

Medium
61

Your company has a hybrid infrastructure with Azure VMs and on-premises servers. You need to configure Azure Monitor to collect and analyze performance and event data from all servers in a centralized workspace. Which three of the following steps are required to achieve this? (Choose three.)

Medium
62

Based on the exhibit, a production VM must send an email and SMS notification if average CPU stays above 85% for 10 minutes. The team created the alert rule, but no one receives notifications when the condition is met. What should the administrator add to the alert rule?

Medium
63

Based on the exhibit, compliance requires one backup every week to be kept for 52 weeks, in addition to the daily backups already configured. What should you change in the backup policy?

Medium
64

You need an alert that emails administrators when CPU on VM-DB01 exceeds a threshold. Which two Azure Monitor components work together to achieve this?

Medium
65

A team wants to monitor average CPU on a small set of Linux VMs and OS disk free space, but they want the lowest telemetry ingestion cost possible. Which two actions should they take? Select two.

Medium
66

A team wants to keep Azure platform logs for a storage account in a central location and analyze them with queries. The logs should be queryable together with other Azure resource logs. What destination should the administrator choose for the diagnostic setting?

Easy
67

A line-of-business app must keep serving users if an entire Azure region becomes unavailable. Is Azure Backup by itself enough to meet this requirement?

Easy
68

An operations team manages an Azure virtual machine scale set that hosts a stateless API. They already collect guest logs in Log Analytics, but they do not want to ingest extra performance data just to watch CPU. They need an alert when average CPU across the scale set stays above 80% for 10 minutes, and the notification must support email and a webhook. What should they configure?

Hard
69

A Recovery Services vault protects 40 VMs by using one daily backup policy that retains recovery points for 7 days. One finance VM must keep daily recovery points for 30 days, but the other VMs should remain on the 7-day policy. What should the administrator do?

Hard
70

Engineers need a single Log Analytics workspace to investigate incidents by querying Windows event logs from a VM and Azure resource logs from a storage account. What should the administrator configure?

Medium
71

A response team is designing notification paths for Azure Monitor alerts. Match each action group receiver or action to the outcome it provides.

Medium
72

You need to view recommendations about underutilized virtual machines, security improvements, and cost-saving opportunities in Azure. Which service should you use?

Medium
73

Based on the exhibit, the alert rule is firing, but the operations team is not receiving any notification. What should you change to make the alert send an email when the condition is met?

Medium
74

Match each Recovery Services vault setting or feature to the behavior an administrator should expect after changing it.

Hard
75

Based on the exhibit, the team wants to validate that a protected Azure VM can be recovered without affecting production. Which restore approach best meets the requirement?

Medium
76

You need to be notified whenever the average CPU usage of VM-App01 exceeds 80 percent for 10 minutes. The solution must send an email to the operations team automatically. What should you configure?

Medium
77

You manage an Azure subscription that contains a virtual machine named VM1 running a line-of-business application. The application writes diagnostic data to the Windows Event Log. The security team requires that all events from the 'Application' log with a level of Error or Critical be retained for 30 days and be searchable by using Kusto Query Language (KQL). You need to configure the minimum components required to meet these requirements. What should you do?

Medium
78

A support engineer needs to search a Log Analytics workspace for only failed sign-in records. Which KQL query should they use?

Easy
79

Your company must retain Azure Activity Log data beyond the default retention period and make it available for long-term analysis. What should you configure?

Hard
80

Based on the exhibit, which restore option should the administrator use to recover only the deleted file while keeping the VM online?

Easy
81

The team already exports subscription activity logs to a Log Analytics workspace and wants an alert that can ignore delete operations performed by a known automation account. What should they create?

Medium
82

A production virtual machine is experiencing intermittent performance spikes. The operations team wants an alert when average CPU usage stays above 80 percent for 10 minutes and wants email and SMS notifications sent automatically. What should the administrator configure in Azure Monitor?

Medium
83

A security admin wants Key Vault audit logs and metrics sent to a Log Analytics workspace for later search. Which Azure setting should be configured on the vault?

Easy
84

An employee deleted one spreadsheet from a Windows VM that is protected by Azure Backup. The VM must stay online while the administrator recovers only that file. Which two restore methods are supported? Select two.

Medium
85

Based on the exhibit, what does the query return?

Medium
86

You need to retain Azure Firewall logs for long-term analysis in a Log Analytics workspace and also archive them in a storage account for compliance. What should you configure on the Azure Firewall resource?

Hard
87

Based on the exhibit, which KQL query should you use in a scheduled query alert to trigger only when five or more failed events occur within any 15-minute window?

Medium
88

You want to send a storage account's read, write, and delete events to a Log Analytics workspace for later investigation. Which feature should you configure?

Easy
89

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?

Medium
90

A file server VM is corrupted after a bad change. The team needs to recover the whole machine to the latest recovery point, not just one file. Which restore workflow should they use?

Easy
91

Arrange the steps to configure Azure Load Balancer with a backend pool.

Medium
92

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator configure so the alert sends email and SMS when CPU stays above the threshold?

Easy
93

A production VM is using too much CPU. You want Azure to notify the operations team by email when Average Percentage CPU stays above 80 percent for 5 minutes. What should you configure?

Easy
94

A production subscription contains 20 virtual machines across two resource groups. Operations needs an email and SMS notification whenever any single VM's average Percentage CPU stays above 85 for 10 minutes. The alert should be managed as one rule, and evaluation must happen independently for each VM. What should the administrator configure?

Hard
95

An employee deleted one spreadsheet stored on a Windows VM that is protected by Azure Backup. The administrator must recover only that file without restoring the entire VM. What should be used?

Medium
96

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator deploy to monitor CPU and free disk space on a small set of VMs while keeping telemetry cost low?

Easy
97

The Azure portal shows that a storage service in the region is experiencing an outage that affects several Microsoft customers. The administrator wants to view official Azure status updates for that issue. Which Azure Monitor feature should be used?

Easy
98

A platform team is tuning alerting for a production VM and the surrounding Azure resources. Match each Azure Monitor component to the function it performs in this design.

Hard
99

Order the steps to configure Azure Traffic Manager for geographic routing.

Medium
100

A team is choosing the right Azure Monitor alert type for different operational signals. Match each alert type to the situation it is best suited for.

Medium
101

Based on the exhibit, the security team wants an alert whenever someone changes the configuration of a storage account, such as disabling public network access. The current rule is a metric alert on transaction count. What should you use instead?

Medium
102

You are an Azure administrator for a company that runs critical virtual machines (VMs) in Azure. You need to configure a monitoring solution that will alert you when the average CPU usage of a specific VM exceeds 90% for more than 15 minutes. Which three of the following actions should you take to set up this alert? (Choose three.)

Medium
103

Your operations team wants to query collected VM log data by using Kusto Query Language and retain it centrally for analysis. Which Azure resource should you deploy?

Medium
104

Based on the exhibit, the operations team wants an alert that fires when any VM has not sent a heartbeat in the last 15 minutes. Which KQL query should they use as the condition for the log alert?

Medium
105

Your company must retain Azure Activity Log data beyond the built-in retention period and make it available for long-term analysis. Which configuration should you use?

Hard
106

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.

Easy
107

You are responsible for managing a large Azure environment with multiple subscriptions. You need to ensure compliance with company policies by auditing resource changes and enabling automated remediation for non-compliant resources. Which three of the following Azure services or features should you use? (Choose three.)

Medium
108

After a bad script ran, one file at C:\Finance\Q4.xlsx was deleted from a Windows VM. The VM is still running, and the team wants only that file restored without replacing the operating system disk or restarting the VM. What should the administrator use from Azure Backup?

Hard
109

Based on the exhibit, the team wants a single notification setup that can be reused by several alert rules across different subscriptions. What should the administrator create?

Medium
110

Your company wants to know when an Azure service outage in the region might affect subscribed resources, even if no metric threshold has been crossed yet. Which alert type should you configure?

Hard
111

You have an Azure subscription with a virtual machine scale set named VMSS1 that runs a web application. You need to configure autoscale for VMSS1 based on CPU usage. The autoscale rule must scale out when the average CPU usage exceeds 70% for 5 minutes and scale in when it drops below 30% for 10 minutes. You also need to ensure that the scale set never scales below 2 instances or above 10 instances. Which three actions should you perform? (Choose three.)

Medium
112

Based on the exhibit, you need to return only the failed operations from the log entries. Which KQL query should you use?

Easy
113

You need to notify the security team whenever anyone deletes a resource group in the subscription. Which alert type should you configure?

Medium
114

Your operations team needs to run Kusto queries across collected sign-in logs, VM performance counters, and Azure Activity Log data in a central location. What should you deploy?

Hard
115

A team needs an alert that emails the operations group whenever a VM's average CPU percentage stays above 85% for 10 minutes. Which two Azure Monitor components must you configure? Select two.

Easy
116

Based on the exhibit, the VM backup item was accidentally deleted from the vault yesterday, but the VM itself still exists. What should you do to resume protection with the existing backup item?

Medium
117

You want Azure to identify security improvements, underutilized resources, and cost-saving opportunities across your subscriptions. Which Azure service should you use?

Medium
118

A developer deleted a single configuration file on a Windows Azure VM. The administrator wants to restore only that file from the latest backup without replacing the entire VM. Which restore workflow should be used?

Medium
119

Several Azure Monitor alerts across different subscriptions must notify the same on-call group by email, SMS, and webhook whenever they fire. The operations team wants to define the notification target once and reuse it from future metric alerts, log alerts, and activity log alerts. What should be created?

Hard
120

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator configure so the operations team receives an email when the VM's average CPU stays above 80% for 10 minutes?

Easy
121

A backup engineer is reviewing policy-related settings in a Recovery Services vault. Match each backup setting to the behavior it controls.

Medium
122

An organization must retain Azure Key Vault audit data for 18 months, search the data in Log Analytics, and keep a second copy if the workspace retention policy is later shortened. The operations team already has an action group for notifications. What should be configured on the Key Vault?

Hard
123

Your company needs to retain Azure Activity Log data longer than the built-in retention period and make it available for future analysis. What should you configure?

Hard
124

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator change if the business wants backups to be kept for 30 days instead of 7 days?

Easy
125

You need to send an email whenever CPU utilization on VM-Prod01 exceeds 90 percent for 15 minutes. Which Azure Monitor components should you configure?

Medium
126

The operations team wants an email and SMS notification whenever any production virtual machine's average CPU stays above 85 percent for 10 minutes. They also want to reuse the same notification targets for future alerts. What should they configure?

Medium
127

A user accidentally deleted a file from an Azure VM. The administrator wants to recover only the deleted file from the most recent backup instead of restoring the entire VM. What should the administrator use?

Easy
128

Your team wants every protected Azure VM in a vault to be backed up once each day and kept for 30 days. Which Recovery Services vault setting should you configure?

Easy
129

A backup operations team exports Recovery Services vault logs to Log Analytics. They need a query that returns only failed backup jobs from the last 24 hours and displays just the vault name, protected item name, and error description. Which two KQL operators should the query include? Select two.

Hard
130

Based on the exhibit, a backup administrator accidentally stopped protection for a critical VM and then deleted its backup item. The team wants Azure Backup to retain the deleted item long enough to recover it after the mistake is discovered the next day. What should be enabled on the vault?

Medium
131

You need to monitor CPU on a small set of VMs while keeping ingestion costs low. Which two actions are the best choices? Select two.

Easy
132

A storage account is failing writes, and the team also wants to correlate those errors with subscription-level changes such as role assignments or deployments. What should the administrator configure?

Medium
133

You need to keep Azure activity log data for longer than the default retention period and make it available for analysis. What should you configure?

Hard
134

Based on the exhibit, which Azure feature should the administrator use to track this kind of platform-wide service issue?

Easy
135

A security team needs platform logs and metrics from an Azure Key Vault to be searchable later in a Log Analytics workspace so they can investigate administrative changes and access trends. What should you configure on the Key Vault?

Medium
136

A company wants an alert to be sent by email and SMS whenever a production virtual machine's CPU percentage goes above 80 percent. The administrator also wants the notification targets to be reusable by other alerts later. What should the administrator configure first?

Easy
137

A user deleted several files from an Azure VM, and the administrator wants to use Azure Backup file recovery. Which two items are needed to start the recovery process? Select two.

Easy
138

Based on the exhibit, which alert type should the administrator create to detect when Azure marks the storage account unhealthy because of a platform issue?

Easy
139

A company wants to enable backup for an Azure virtual machine and later restore the VM if needed. Which Azure service should the administrator use to manage the backup plan and restores?

Easy
140

Based on the exhibit, why does a query against AzureDiagnostics return no rows after the storage account diagnostic setting was changed?

Easy
141

An administrator wants to send a virtual machine's guest logs to a central workspace so they can search them later with queries. Which configuration should be created on the VM or its resource provider first?

Easy
142

Based on the exhibit, an administrator needs to recover one deleted configuration file from a running Azure VM without replacing the VM. Which restore option should be used?

Medium
143

A VM backup policy is being designed in a Recovery Services vault. Match each backup policy element to the behavior it controls.

Hard
144

A team manages a production VM and its supporting storage account. Match each operational requirement to the Azure Monitor component that should be configured.

Hard
145

The team accidentally stopped protection for a VM and deleted its backup data. They want Azure Backup to keep deleted backup items recoverable for a grace period so the item can be undeleted if needed. Which vault feature should be enabled?

Medium
146

A security team wants platform logs from a storage account sent for long-term retention and later analysis. Which three destinations can an Azure diagnostic setting send data to? Select three.

Easy
147

Based on the exhibit, the operations team says the alert is too noisy because short CPU spikes after nightly maintenance trigger notifications. They want an alert only when VM1's average CPU stays above 80% for at least 10 minutes. What should you change?

Medium
148

You need to collect Windows event logs and performance counters from multiple Azure virtual machines and query the data by using Kusto Query Language. Which Azure resource should you use?

Hard
149

A finance VM is backed up daily. The team wants short-lived snapshots so recently changed files can be recovered quickly, but they also need daily recovery points retained for 30 days. Which two backup policy settings should be configured? Select two.

Hard
150

A Recovery Services vault currently keeps daily Azure VM recovery points for 7 days. The business changes the requirement to keep daily recovery points for 30 days. Where should the administrator change the setting?

Medium
151

A storage account becomes unavailable because Azure has a regional platform issue. The operations team wants a notification whenever Azure marks the resource or region unhealthy, and they want to avoid continuous log ingestion just to detect the outage. What should they configure?

Hard
152

Based on the exhibit, which KQL operator should replace the blank to return only those columns?

Easy
153

Based on the exhibit, a user accidentally deleted one file from the VM and you need to restore only that file without recovering the entire virtual machine. What should you use?

Medium
154

An administrator accidentally stopped protection for a critical VM and then deleted its backup item. The mistake was discovered a day later, and the organization wants deleted backup data to remain recoverable for a grace period. Which feature should be enabled on the Recovery Services vault?

Hard
155

You need to suppress alert notifications for a group of virtual machines every Sunday during a planned maintenance window, without deleting the underlying alert rules. What should you configure?

Hard
156

A VM was corrupted and the team wants to recover it from Azure Backup without using the original damaged disks. Which two restore targets are supported? Select two.

Easy
157

A VM named VM01 stopped sending Heartbeat records to Log Analytics 15 minutes ago. Which KQL query should you run to confirm the VM's recent heartbeat entries?

Easy
158

You already created a metric alert rule. You want the alert to send email and call a webhook when it fires. Which component should you link to the alert rule?

Easy
159

A help desk analyst needs to find Azure VM heartbeat records in Log Analytics and limit results to the last 30 minutes. Which two KQL elements should be used? Select two.

Easy
160

A customer wants official information about whether an Azure service issue is affecting their subscription or the wider Azure platform. Which two sources should they check? Select two.

Easy
161

Your company wants to query performance and event data from multiple Azure virtual machines by using Kusto Query Language. The operations team also wants to centralize retention and analysis of this data. What should you deploy?

Hard
162

A virtual machine is already protected by Azure Backup. The business wants the VM backed up every day at 11:00 PM and wants daily recovery points retained for 30 days, without re-onboarding the VM. What should the administrator modify?

Medium
163

An administrator enabled diagnostic settings on an Azure Storage account using the resource-specific schema. A coworker then ran a query against AzureDiagnostics and got no rows, even though failed blob writes occurred during the last hour. What is the best fix?

Hard
164

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator configure so storage logs can be queried later with KQL?

Easy
165

Based on the exhibit, which KQL clause should replace the blank to show only heartbeat records from the last 30 minutes?

Easy
166

A virtual machine is already protected by Azure Backup. The current policy runs daily at 23:00 and keeps daily recovery points for 30 days. The business now wants the same schedule but wants new daily recovery points retained for 90 days. No new vault or re-registration should occur. What should the administrator do?

Hard
167

A Virtual Machine Scale Set must add instances automatically when average CPU usage is above 75 percent and remove instances when CPU drops below 30 percent. Which feature should you configure?

Medium
168

Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator check first to resolve the backup failure for the Azure VM?

Easy
169

Based on the exhibit, a VM is protected by Azure Backup. The business wants daily backups at 11:00 PM, retention of daily recovery points for 30 days, and no changes to the existing vault or VM. The current policy already backs up every day but keeps recovery points for only 7 days. What should the administrator modify?

Medium
170

In Log Analytics, you need to find AzureActivity records for VM stop or deallocate operations from the last 24 hours. Which query should you use?

Easy
171

A team wants an email and SMS notification whenever the average CPU on a production VM stays above 85% for 10 minutes. The same notification setup may be reused by other alerts later. Which Azure feature should you configure?

Easy
172

A platform team wants to investigate incidents involving Azure VM performance, storage failures, and subscription-level changes in one place. They want to minimize Log Analytics ingestion cost. Which telemetry approach should they use?

Hard
173

Based on the exhibit, where should the administrator go next to review the failed backup job details?

Easy
174

A Windows VM fails shortly after startup when a custom extension runs, and the administrator cannot use RDP to inspect the machine. The goal is to see what happened during boot and confirm whether the failure occurred before the guest OS finished loading. Which two features should be used first? Select two.

Hard
175

An administrator enabled Azure VM backup yesterday and now wants to confirm whether the most recent backup job succeeded. Which two places can they check? Select two.

Easy
176

A VM suddenly stops responding, and the operations team needs to determine whether the issue is caused by a Microsoft platform problem or is isolated to that specific VM. Which two Azure portal features should be reviewed? Select two.

Hard
177

Based on the exhibit, a security team wants to search Key Vault audit events in Log Analytics for 30 days and create alerts when secrets are accessed unexpectedly. The current diagnostic configuration is not sending the right data. What should the administrator enable?

Medium

Frequently asked questions

What does the Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources domain cover on the AZ-104 exam?
Configure Azure Monitor alerts with action groups, write KQL queries in Log Analytics, and set up Recovery Services vault backups. Get alert scopes and conditions right, since wrong signals cause missed or noisy notifications.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 177 Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources questions in the AZ-104 question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
What is the best way to practise this domain?
Start with a short focused session (10 questions) to identify gaps, then work through explanations. Repeat with a longer session once the weak areas feel solid.
Can I practise only Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources questions?
Yes — the session launcher on this page filters questions to this domain only. Choose any session length for inline explanations and scoring.
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