How should I use these Backup practice questions?

Read each scenario carefully and choose your answer before revealing the explanation. Then check why your choice was right or wrong. Repeat until the reasoning feels automatic.

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Backup practice questions

Practise AZ-104 Backup practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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What the exam tests

What to know about Backup

Backup questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

Watch out for

Common Backup exam traps

▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Backup questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1easymultiple choice

Backup practice questions

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Common Backup exam traps

Backup questions

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?

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.

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.

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?

Before changing a production VM's data disk, you want a point-in-time copy that can be restored later without affecting the VM. What should you create?

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?

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?

Exhibit

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?

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

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

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?

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?

Every backup job for a newly deployed Azure VM fails immediately and reports that the VM agent is not ready. Which two checks should the administrator perform first? Select two.

You need to assign the same RBAC role to 15 administrators so they can manage backups for several virtual machines. You want to minimize ongoing administrative effort when membership changes. What should you use?

Order the steps to recover an Azure VM using Azure Backup.

Match each access scenario to the SAS or key type that best fits it.

You need to ensure that a virtual machine is protected by Azure Backup and can be restored from centralized backup data if the VM is deleted. Which Azure resource should you configure first?

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.

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.

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