- A
Create a Resource Health alert for the storage account.
Resource Health alerts report when Azure considers the resource unhealthy due to a platform or regional issue.
- B
Create a metric alert for storage availability or latency on the account.
Storage metrics such as availability or latency capture service degradation on the storage account itself.
- C
Create an Activity Log alert for every blob write.
Why wrong: Blob write events are not the right indicator for platform unavailability or performance degradation on the account.
- D
Send a workbook link in an action group instead of an alert.
Why wrong: Workbooks help with analysis, but they do not replace alert evaluation or incident notification.
- E
Turn on Azure Policy compliance scanning for the storage account.
Why wrong: Policy checks governance compliance, not service health or latency, so it cannot detect the requested operational issues.
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.
An operations team needs to know when Azure marks a storage account unavailable because of a regional platform issue, and they also want to detect abnormal service latency on the account itself. Which two alerting approaches should they configure? Select two.
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
Create a Resource Health alert for the storage account.
Option A is correct because a Resource Health alert monitors the health of the storage account from the Azure platform's perspective, triggering when Azure marks the resource as unavailable due to a regional platform issue (e.g., an outage or degradation). This directly addresses the requirement to know when the account is marked unavailable.
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.
- ✓
Create a Resource Health alert for the storage account.
Why this is correct
Resource Health alerts report when Azure considers the resource unhealthy due to a platform or regional issue.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- ✓
Create a metric alert for storage availability or latency on the account.
Why this is correct
Storage metrics such as availability or latency capture service degradation on the storage account itself.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
- ✗
Create an Activity Log alert for every blob write.
Why it's wrong here
Blob write events are not the right indicator for platform unavailability or performance degradation on the account.
When this WOULD be correct
This option would be correct if the question asked for an alerting approach to monitor specific write operations for security auditing or compliance, such as detecting unauthorized blob writes or tracking changes to critical data.
- ✗
Send a workbook link in an action group instead of an alert.
Why it's wrong here
Workbooks help with analysis, but they do not replace alert evaluation or incident notification.
When this WOULD be correct
If the question were 'How can you share a pre-built dashboard of storage metrics with your team for post-incident analysis?', then configuring an action group to send a workbook link would be correct.
- ✗
Turn on Azure Policy compliance scanning for the storage account.
Why it's wrong here
Policy checks governance compliance, not service health or latency, so it cannot detect the requested operational issues.
When this WOULD be correct
If the question asked for a method to enforce governance rules (e.g., requiring TLS for storage accounts) or to audit compliance of storage account configurations, then enabling Azure Policy compliance scanning would be correct.
Option-by-option analysis
Why each answer is right or wrong
Understanding why wrong answers are wrong — and when they would be correct — is what separates a 750 score from a 900. The AZ-104 exam frequently reuses these exact scenarios with slightly different constraints.
✓Create a Resource Health alert for the storage account.Correct answer▾
Why this is correct
Resource Health alerts report when Azure considers the resource unhealthy due to a platform or regional issue.
✗Create an Activity Log alert for every blob write.Wrong answer — click to see why▾
Why this is wrong here
An Activity Log alert for every blob write would generate excessive alerts for normal operations and does not detect regional platform issues or abnormal service latency, which are the requirements.
★ When this WOULD be the correct answer
This option would be correct if the question asked for an alerting approach to monitor specific write operations for security auditing or compliance, such as detecting unauthorized blob writes or tracking changes to critical data.
Why candidates choose this
Candidates may think that monitoring all blob writes helps detect issues, but they overlook that this generates noise and does not address the specific needs of platform unavailability or latency detection.
✗Send a workbook link in an action group instead of an alert.Wrong answer — click to see why▾
Why this is wrong here
Sending a workbook link in an action group does not create an alert; it is a configuration for notifications. The question asks for alerting approaches, not notification methods.
★ When this WOULD be the correct answer
If the question were 'How can you share a pre-built dashboard of storage metrics with your team for post-incident analysis?', then configuring an action group to send a workbook link would be correct.
Why candidates choose this
Candidates may confuse action groups (which handle notifications) with alert rules, or think that sharing a workbook link is a valid alerting method because it provides diagnostic information.
✗Turn on Azure Policy compliance scanning for the storage account.Wrong answer — click to see why▾
Why this is wrong here
Azure Policy compliance scanning monitors resource configurations against policies, not operational health or latency. It does not detect platform unavailability or service latency issues.
★ When this WOULD be the correct answer
If the question asked for a method to enforce governance rules (e.g., requiring TLS for storage accounts) or to audit compliance of storage account configurations, then enabling Azure Policy compliance scanning would be correct.
Why candidates choose this
Candidates may confuse compliance monitoring with health monitoring, thinking that scanning for policy violations could also detect availability issues, or they may overestimate the scope of Azure Policy.
Analysis generated from the official AZ-104blueprint and verified against question context. The “when correct” sections are what AI assistants cite when candidates ask “what’s the difference between these options?”
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates may confuse Activity Log alerts (which track control-plane operations) with metric or health alerts (which track data-plane performance and availability), leading them to select option C for monitoring latency or unavailability.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Resource Health alerts use the Azure Resource Health service, which evaluates signals from the Azure platform (e.g., heartbeats, error rates) to determine if a resource is 'Available,' 'Degraded,' or 'Unavailable' due to platform or customer-caused issues. Metric alerts for storage availability or latency rely on metrics like 'Availability' (percentage of successful requests) and 'Success E2E Latency' (milliseconds), which are collected at 1-minute granularity and can detect abnormal patterns like a sudden drop in availability or spike in latency. In a real-world scenario, a regional platform issue might cause a Resource Health alert to fire immediately, while a metric alert could catch gradual latency degradation before a full outage.
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..
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The correct answer is: Create a Resource Health alert for the storage account. — Option A is correct because a Resource Health alert monitors the health of the storage account from the Azure platform's perspective, triggering when Azure marks the resource as unavailable due to a regional platform issue (e.g., an outage or degradation). This directly addresses the requirement to know when the account is marked unavailable.
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