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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

Use this page to practise AZ-104 Backup practice questions. The goal is not to memorise dumps, but to understand the concept, review the explanation and improve your exam readiness.

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Backup questions

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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.

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.

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.

A backup archive must survive a regional outage, and engineers need to read the secondary copy if the primary region is unavailable. Which two redundancy options meet both requirements? Select two.

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

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?

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 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.

A Linux VM deployed from a custom image shows only a black screen after reboot, and SSH never becomes available. The administrator needs to inspect the startup process without logging into the OS. Which two Azure features should be used? Select two.

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.

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?

A stateless web app runs on two Ubuntu VMs behind an Azure Load Balancer. The region supports availability zones. The business wants the app to survive a full datacenter outage and also avoid having both VMs on the same maintenance boundary. Which deployment should you choose?

A support engineer has several recovery scenarios after Azure VM backup. Match each recovery need to the restore option that best fits.

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?

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

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.

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.

A user deleted one Excel file from a file share backed up with Azure Backup. You want to restore only that file, not the entire share. What should you use?

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?

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