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Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources
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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?
Hard2An 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?
Hard3A 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?
Hard4A support engineer is investigating a failed Azure VM backup job in Log Analytics. Match each KQL operator to the result it produces.
Medium5An 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.
Medium6Based 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?
Medium7A 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.
Hard8Based 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?
Medium9A 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.
Medium10Which two settings can you configure in an Azure Backup policy for a virtual machine? Select two.
Easy11A 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.
Easy12The 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?
Medium13An 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?
Hard14A 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.
Easy15A 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?
Hard16An 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.
Medium17An operations lead must choose the right Azure Monitor target for each requirement. Match each requirement to the Azure component that best satisfies it.
Hard18A 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.
Easy19A backup administrator is learning how Azure VM backup actions map to their purpose. Match each Recovery Services or backup item to the best description.
Medium20A 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?
Medium21You 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?
Hard22A 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.
Easy23A 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.
Easy24You want Azure to recommend ways to reduce cost, improve performance, and strengthen security across your subscriptions. Which service should you use?
Medium25A 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.
Medium26You 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.
Easy27You 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?
Medium28An administrator is comparing Azure monitoring data sources and destinations during an investigation. Match each item to the best operational use.
Medium29You 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?
Medium30A 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.
Easy31Which two statements about a Log Analytics workspace are correct? Select two.
Easy32A 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?
Hard33A 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.
Hard34Based 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?
Medium35An 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?
Easy36Based 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?
Medium37Based on the exhibit, which restore option should the administrator choose?
Easy38During a compliance review, the team must distinguish what each Azure Monitor object can and cannot do. Match each object to its primary operational scope.
Hard39Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator add to send an email and SMS notification?
Easy40A 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?
Medium41Based 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?
Easy42An 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?
Medium43Your 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?
Hard44Which two statements about Azure Backup soft delete are correct? Select two.
Easy45The 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?
Medium46A VM suffered corruption and an auditor also needs one missing file. Match each Azure Backup restore workflow to the recovery outcome it provides.
Hard47A security analyst is reviewing deleted-resource evidence, exported diagnostics, and heartbeat data. Match each monitoring term to the best description.
Hard48A 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?
Medium49The 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?
Medium50Based 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?
Medium51Based 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?
Medium52You 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?
Medium53In 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?
Medium54A user deleted a file from an Azure VM, and the administrator wants to use Azure Backup file-level recovery rather than restore the whole VM. Which two prerequisites are required before mounting the recovery point from the portal? Select two.
Hard55A 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?
Hard56Backup 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?
Medium57Based 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?
Medium58A 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?
Hard59After enabling Azure VM backup, an administrator wants to confirm whether the nightly backup succeeded. Where should the administrator check the backup status?
Easy60You want Azure to identify underutilized virtual machines and recommend ways to reduce cost and improve security posture. Which service should you use?
Medium61Based 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?
Medium62Your 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.)
Medium63Based 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?
Medium64Based 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?
Medium65You need an alert that emails administrators when CPU on VM-DB01 exceeds a threshold. Which two Azure Monitor components work together to achieve this?
Medium66A 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.
Medium67A 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?
Easy68A 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?
Easy69An 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?
Hard70A 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?
Hard71Engineers 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?
Medium72A response team is designing notification paths for Azure Monitor alerts. Match each action group receiver or action to the outcome it provides.
Medium73You need to view recommendations about underutilized virtual machines, security improvements, and cost-saving opportunities in Azure. Which service should you use?
Medium74Based 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?
Medium75Match each Recovery Services vault setting or feature to the behavior an administrator should expect after changing it.
Hard76Based 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?
Medium77You 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?
Medium78A support engineer needs to search a Log Analytics workspace for only failed sign-in records. Which KQL query should they use?
Easy79Based on the exhibit, which restore option should the administrator use to recover only the deleted file while keeping the VM online?
Easy80The 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?
Medium81A 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?
Medium82A 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?
Easy83An 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.
Medium84Based on the exhibit, what does the query return?
Medium85You 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?
Hard86Based 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?
Medium87You 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?
Easy88A 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?
Medium89A 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?
Easy90Arrange the steps to configure Azure Load Balancer with a backend pool.
Medium91Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator configure so the alert sends email and SMS when CPU stays above the threshold?
Easy92A 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?
Easy93A 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?
Hard94An 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?
Medium95Based 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?
Easy96The 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?
Easy97A 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.
Hard98Order the steps to configure Azure Traffic Manager for geographic routing.
Medium99A 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.
Medium100Based 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?
Medium101You 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.)
Medium102Your 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?
Medium103Based 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?
Medium104Your 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?
Hard105A storage account's platform logs must be searchable later with KQL in a central workspace. Which two actions should the administrator take? Select two.
Easy106You 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.)
Medium107After 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?
Hard108Based 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?
Medium109Your 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?
Hard110Based on the exhibit, you need to return only the failed operations from the log entries. Which KQL query should you use?
Easy111You need to notify the security team whenever anyone deletes a resource group in the subscription. Which alert type should you configure?
Medium112Your 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?
Hard113A 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.
Easy114Based 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?
Medium115You want Azure to identify security improvements, underutilized resources, and cost-saving opportunities across your subscriptions. Which Azure service should you use?
Medium116A 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?
Medium117Several 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?
Hard118Based 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?
Easy119A backup engineer is reviewing policy-related settings in a Recovery Services vault. Match each backup setting to the behavior it controls.
Medium120An 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?
Hard121Your 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?
Hard122Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator change if the business wants backups to be kept for 30 days instead of 7 days?
Easy123The 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?
Medium124A 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?
Easy125Your 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?
Easy126A 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.
Hard127Based 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?
Medium128You need to monitor CPU on a small set of VMs while keeping ingestion costs low. Which two actions are the best choices? Select two.
Easy129A 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?
Medium130You need to keep Azure activity log data for longer than the default retention period and make it available for analysis. What should you configure?
Hard131Based on the exhibit, which Azure feature should the administrator use to track this kind of platform-wide service issue?
Easy132A 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?
Medium133A 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?
Easy134A 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.
Easy135Based on the exhibit, which alert type should the administrator create to detect when Azure marks the storage account unhealthy because of a platform issue?
Easy136A 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?
Easy137Based on the exhibit, why does a query against AzureDiagnostics return no rows after the storage account diagnostic setting was changed?
Easy138An 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?
Easy139Based 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?
Medium140A VM backup policy is being designed in a Recovery Services vault. Match each backup policy element to the behavior it controls.
Hard141A team manages a production VM and its supporting storage account. Match each operational requirement to the Azure Monitor component that should be configured.
Hard142The 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?
Medium143A 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.
Easy144Based 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?
Medium145You 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?
Hard146A 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.
Hard147A 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?
Medium148A 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?
Hard149Based on the exhibit, which KQL operator should replace the blank to return only those columns?
Easy150Based 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?
Medium151An 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?
Hard152You 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?
Hard153A 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.
Easy154A 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?
Easy155You 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?
Easy156A 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.
Easy157A 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.
Easy158Your 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?
Hard159A 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?
Medium160An 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?
Hard161Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator configure so storage logs can be queried later with KQL?
Easy162Based on the exhibit, which KQL clause should replace the blank to show only heartbeat records from the last 30 minutes?
Easy163A 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?
Hard164A 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?
Medium165Based on the exhibit, what should the administrator check first to resolve the backup failure for the Azure VM?
Easy166Based 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?
Medium167In Log Analytics, you need to find AzureActivity records for VM stop or deallocate operations from the last 24 hours. Which query should you use?
Easy168A 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?
Easy169A 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?
Hard170Based on the exhibit, where should the administrator go next to review the failed backup job details?
Easy171A 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.
Hard172An 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.
Easy173A 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.
Hard174Based 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?
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