Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions

An e-commerce application emits a high volume of telemetry data to Azure Application Insights. You need to reduce the cost of data ingestion while preserving statistical accuracy for performance metrics. Which sampling technique should you use?

You need to monitor the real-time CPU utilization of an Azure virtual machine. Which Azure Monitor feature is designed for this purpose?

You have an Azure App Service web app that experiences intermittent slowness. You enable Application Insights and notice that the "Failed Requests" metric is low, but "Server Response Time" is high for a subset of requests. You want to identify the specific code path causing the delay. Which feature should you use?

An Azure Function processes events from Event Hubs. You need to monitor the number of events that were successfully processed and those that were dropped due to processing errors. Which approach should you use?

Your e-commerce application sends telemetry to Application Insights. You need to reduce ingestion costs while preserving the ability to detect trends in performance metrics. Which sampling type should you configure?

You need to monitor the CPU utilization of an Azure VM in real-time and set up an alert when it exceeds 90%. Which Azure Monitor feature should you use?

You need to diagnose a slow-performing Azure Function. Application Insights shows that the function's dependency calls to an external API take an unusually long time. Which Application Insights feature should you use to visualize the end-to-end request flow?

An Azure web app is experiencing high memory usage. You want to collect memory dumps periodically to analyze the issue without restarting the app. Which Azure App Service diagnostic feature should you use?

An application uses Azure Application Insights for monitoring. You need to write a query to analyze the number of failed requests and exceptions over the past hour. Which query language should you use?

Your web app hosted on Azure App Service is experiencing high memory usage. You need to capture a memory dump for analysis without restarting the app. Which diagnostic feature should you use?

You need to monitor the performance of an Azure web app. You want to track the average response time and the number of failed requests over the last hour. Which Azure service should you use?

You are troubleshooting an Azure Function that intermittently throws exceptions. You have enabled Application Insights. You need to capture the exact line of code that caused the exception, even for exceptions that occur during high load. Which feature should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure Web App with Application Insights. You notice that certain requests have high server response times. You need to identify which specific database queries are causing the delays. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

Your Azure web app is running in a production environment. Users report that the app is slow. You need to identify the root cause without impacting production traffic. Which approach should you use?

You are using Application Insights to monitor a web app. You want to automatically analyze and alert on sudden increases in request failure rates, without manually setting static thresholds. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure App Service using Application Insights. You notice that HTTP 500 errors are increasing, but the standard server response time metric remains normal. You suspect that the errors are occurring in an external API call made by the application. How can you identify the dependency that is failing?

You are monitoring an Azure Function app that processes messages from an Event Hub. You want to be alerted if the function is failing to process messages (e.g., exceptions) and automatically restart the function host. Which Azure service should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure App Service using Application Insights. You notice that the server response time is high for certain requests. You need to drill down to see which external dependencies (like databases or APIs) are causing the delay. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure Web App using Application Insights. You need to track the duration and status code of an external API call made by the app. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You have enabled Application Insights on your Azure Web App. You notice that some server-side exceptions are not appearing in the Application Insights portal. What is the most likely reason?

You are monitoring an Azure Web App with Application Insights. You notice a sudden spike in failed requests. You need to quickly identify which specific URL path is causing the most failures. Which blade in the Application Insights portal should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure Web App with Application Insights. You notice that the dependency duration for a SQL database call has significantly increased. You need to identify the specific SQL query that is causing the slowness. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You are running an Azure App Service web app on the Basic tier. Users report slow initial responses due to cold starts. You need to keep the app warm without upgrading the hosting plan. Which feature should you enable?

You are monitoring an Azure App Service with Application Insights. You need to create a custom dashboard that shows the number of requests over time and the average server response time. Which Application Insights feature should you use to create this dashboard?

You are monitoring an ASP.NET Core web API with Application Insights. You want to view the SQL queries being executed, including the command text and duration, in the Application Insights portal. Which actions must you take? (Select all that apply.) (Choose 2.)

You are using Application Insights to monitor a web application. You need to create an alert that triggers when the server response time exceeds 5 seconds for more than 10% of requests in a 5-minute window. Which type of Azure Monitor alert should you create?

You are monitoring an Azure web application with Application Insights. You notice a sudden increase in the number of failed requests. You want to be notified automatically when such anomalies occur, without manually setting static thresholds. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You are using Application Insights to monitor an ASP.NET Core web API. Users report that a specific endpoint is slow, but you cannot reproduce the issue in development. You need to identify which line of code is causing the delay in production. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure web application with Application Insights. You want to create a custom dashboard that shows the number of requests over time and the average server response time. Which Application Insights feature should you use to create this dashboard?

You are using Application Insights to monitor a web application. The business team wants to track how many users click a specific button on the page. You need to send custom telemetry data from the client-side JavaScript. Which Application Insights JavaScript SDK method should you call?

You are monitoring an e-commerce application with Application Insights. You need to analyze all exceptions that occurred in the last 24 hours, grouped by the exception type. You also need to include the URL where each exception was triggered and the number of times each type occurred. Which Log Analytics Kusto query should you use?

You manage a web application hosted on Azure App Service. You need to monitor the application's availability from multiple geographic locations. The test should check that the homepage loads successfully and returns HTTP 200 within 5 seconds. You want to receive an alert if the test fails from any location. Which type of Application Insights test should you create?

You are debugging a performance issue in a live web application monitored by Application Insights. You need to see real-time metrics such as request rate, response times, and any exceptions as they occur, without waiting for the usual telemetry pipeline. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You need to analyze all exceptions that occurred in the last 24 hours from an application monitored by Application Insights. You want to group them by exception type, and for each type show the URL where it occurred and the count. Which Log Analytics Kusto query should you use?

You manage a web application on Azure App Service. You need to monitor its availability from multiple geographic locations, checking that the homepage loads and returns HTTP 200 within 5 seconds. You want an alert if any location fails. Which type of Application Insights test should you create?

You are monitoring an Azure web application with Application Insights. You need to identify the top 5 slowest API endpoints over the last 7 days. The results should show the endpoint URL, average response time, and request count. Which feature or query should you use?

You are monitoring a web application with Application Insights. The application occasionally returns HTTP 500 errors. You want to be notified immediately when the error rate exceeds 5% of all requests in a rolling 5-minute window. Which feature of Application Insights should you configure?

You are investigating a slow API call in your Azure web app. Application Insights shows that the request took 10 seconds. You need to view all the dependencies (database calls, external HTTP requests) that contributed to this request. What should you use?

You need to emit a custom metric in Application Insights that tracks the number of page views per browser. You expect high volume (millions of events per day). Which API should you use to ensure efficient pre-aggregation and avoid performance issues?

You are using Application Insights to monitor a web application. You notice that a specific request is slow. You want to see the complete end-to-end transaction details, including all dependency calls and exceptions for that single request. Which feature should you use?

You have a web application monitored by Application Insights. You want to receive an alert when the average server response time exceeds 2 seconds for a rolling 5-minute period. Which alert rule type should you create?

You are monitoring an Azure web app using Application Insights. You need to create a query that returns the average duration of requests for each HTTP method (GET, POST, etc.) over the last hour, sorted by duration. Which Kusto query should you use?

You have an App Service web app with Application Insights configured. You want to create an alert that fires when the server response time exceeds 2 seconds for a rolling 10-minute window. Which type of alert rule should you create?

An Azure App Service application has slow API requests. The developer needs distributed tracing across requests and dependencies. What should be enabled?

Application Insights ingestion cost is rising because a high-traffic app emits large telemetry volume. The team needs statistically useful telemetry while reducing ingestion. What should be configured?

A developer needs to run a Kusto query against application request data to identify 95th percentile latency by operation. Where should the query be run?

A production API needs proactive alerting for unexpected exceptions. Which two elements are required for a useful Azure Monitor alert?

An Azure App Service application has availability failures. The developer needs distributed tracing across requests and dependencies. What should be enabled?

Application Insights ingestion cost is rising because a high-traffic app emits large telemetry volume. The team needs statistically useful telemetry while reducing ingestion. What should be configured? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

A developer needs to run a Kusto query against application request data to identify 95th percentile latency by operation. Where should the query be run? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

A production API needs proactive alerting for failed dependency calls. Which two elements are required for a useful Azure Monitor alert?

An Azure App Service application has memory pressure. The developer needs distributed tracing across requests and dependencies. What should be enabled?

Application Insights ingestion cost is rising because a high-traffic app emits large telemetry volume. The team needs statistically useful telemetry while reducing ingestion. What should be configured? The architecture review board prefers a managed AWS-native control.

A developer needs to run a Kusto query against application request data to identify 95th percentile latency by operation. Where should the query be run? The architecture review board prefers a managed AWS-native control.

A production API needs proactive alerting for high telemetry cost. Which two elements are required for a useful Azure Monitor alert?