scenario questions

You are deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. You need to ensure that pods can access Azure resources (e.g., Azure Storage) using a managed identity without storing credentials. What should you configure?

You are developing a serverless application using Azure Functions that processes order messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. Each order message is approximately 64 KB in size. The function must process messages in order and exactly once. The current implementation uses a Service Bus trigger with batch processing enabled. You notice that occasionally duplicate messages are processed. You need to ensure exactly-once processing while maintaining message ordering. What should you do?

A company stores sensitive data in Azure Blob Storage. They require that all access to the storage account be authenticated via Microsoft Entra ID and that users must have the 'Storage Blob Data Reader' role assigned. A developer reports being unable to read blobs using the Azure portal despite having the role assigned. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing an Azure Logic App that processes files from an FTP server. The workflow must run every 10 minutes and process only new files. You need to ensure that files are not processed more than once. What should you use?

A company uses Azure API Management to expose APIs. They need to enforce rate limiting per subscription key and also allow a burst of requests for a short period. Which policy should they apply?

You deploy a containerized application on Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application writes data that must persist across container restarts and be accessible from multiple instances. Which volume mount should you configure?

You are developing an Azure App Service web app that must authenticate users via Microsoft Entra ID. Which TWO components are required to set up authentication?

A Kubernetes-based image resize worker on AKS must pull images from Azure Container Registry without storing registry passwords in Kubernetes secrets. What should be used?

Your Azure App Service app uses SignalR Service to push real-time updates to clients. You notice that some clients are disconnected after 30 minutes of inactivity. What is the most likely cause and solution?

Arrange the steps to implement Azure Functions with a Cosmos DB trigger in the correct order.

You are building a compliance solution that stores terabytes of data in Azure Blob Storage. Data is appended frequently and never modified. Regulatory requirements mandate that no data can be overwritten or deleted for 7 years. Which storage configuration should you enable?

A company uses Azure Logic Apps to integrate with a third-party REST API. The API has a rate limit of 100 requests per minute. You need to ensure that the Logic App respects this limit. Which connector feature should you configure?

You are using Azure Event Grid to respond to blob storage events (blob created). You need to ensure that only JPEG image files trigger a function for processing, while other files are ignored. The number of files is high, and you want to minimize cost and latency. How should you filter events?

You need to store a large (terabytes) append-only dataset for compliance purposes. The data must be immutable to prevent tampering after writes. You also want to minimize storage cost and achieve high write throughput. Which Azure Storage solution should you use?

Trey Research uses Azure Service Bus for messaging between microservices. One microservice written in Node.js needs to send messages to a queue. The team wants to use managed identity to authenticate to Service Bus. The microservice runs in an Azure Container Instance (ACI) with a user-assigned managed identity. The identity has been granted 'Sender' role on the Service Bus namespace. The team uses the @azure/service-bus SDK. Which code snippet should the developer use to create a ServiceBusClient?

Your Azure App Service app must access Azure Key Vault secrets without storing credentials in code. Which service should you use to manage identities?

You develop an Azure Function app that processes orders. The function must write order status updates to a database. You need to ensure that if the function fails after writing to the database, the order is not lost and can be retried. Which pattern should you implement?

Your application uses Azure App Service and needs to authenticate users via Microsoft Entra ID. Which THREE components must be configured in the App Service authentication settings?

You are designing a serverless application using Azure Functions that needs to read from an Azure Storage Blob, process the data, and write to Azure Cosmos DB. Which THREE bindings are required?

You have an Azure App Service web app with a system-assigned managed identity. You need to grant it permission to read secrets from an Azure Key Vault. Which RBAC role should you assign to the managed identity at the Key Vault scope?

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?

A developer needs to store a large number of binary files (images) that are accessed frequently from a web app. Which Azure storage solution is most cost-effective?

You are building a serverless API using Azure Functions. The API must authenticate requests using Microsoft Entra ID. You need to restrict access to users from a specific Microsoft Entra tenant only. What should you configure in the function app?

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 manage a set of APIs using Azure API Management (APIM). One backend API requires an API key passed in the 'X-API-Key' header. The API key is stored securely in a named value in APIM. You need to configure APIM to add this header to all requests to that backend without exposing the key to API consumers. Which policy should you add to the inbound processing for that API?

You are building a mobile app backend using Azure Functions. The function must send push notifications to devices using the Notification Hubs service. You need to authenticate the function to Notification Hubs using the principle of least privilege. What should you use?

You have an Azure Function app that uses a Service Bus queue trigger. The function processes messages, but sometimes it takes longer than 5 minutes to process a single message. You notice that the message is processed multiple times. What is the most likely cause?

You are creating an Azure function that uses an output binding to write messages to an Azure Storage Queue. The function must ensure that messages are not lost if the function fails after writing to the queue. Which approach should you use?

You are deploying a web app to Azure App Service that must use a custom domain with TLS/SSL. You have purchased an SSL certificate from a third-party CA. How should you upload and bind the certificate to the custom domain?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Functions to process events from Azure Event Hubs. The function must process events in order and exactly once per partition. What should you do?

A company uses Azure Service Bus for messaging between microservices. They need to ensure that messages are processed in order within a partition. Which feature should they enable?

Which TWO methods can you use to authenticate an Azure App Service web app to Azure SQL Database without storing credentials in code? (Choose two.)

Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. You need to receive alerts when a user modifies a Key Vault access policy. What should you configure?

You are building a serverless application that processes images uploaded to an Azure Blob Storage container. When a new blob is added, an Azure Function (PowerShell) is triggered to generate a thumbnail and store it in a different container. The function must run with the least privilege necessary. The function uses a managed identity assigned to the function app. You need to grant the function access to read blobs from the source container and write blobs to the destination container. The storage account already has a private endpoint configured. What is the correct way to assign permissions?

An application calls a Event Grid event stream through HTTP. The developer must implement retries without overwhelming the remote system during partial outages. Which retry pattern is best?

Your company uses Azure API Management to expose APIs to external partners. You need to validate that each incoming request includes a valid JSON Web Token (JWT) issued by your Microsoft Entra ID tenant, and reject requests without valid tokens. What should you configure?

You have an Azure App Service web app that uses Azure SQL Database. The connection string is stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to automatically rotate the database password every 30 days without app downtime. Which solution should you implement?

Refer to the exhibit. You have a custom RBAC role definition. A user assigned this role reports they can read, write, and delete blobs, but cannot list the containers in the storage account. What is the most likely reason?

Refer to the exhibit. An Azure OpenAI Service account is deployed with this ARM template. After deployment, a developer tries to call the OpenAI endpoint from an Azure App Service that has no public IP. The request is blocked. What change should be made to allow access?

A company uses Azure API Management (APIM) to expose a set of REST APIs. A new requirement mandates that all API calls must be throttled per user based on usage tiers (Free, Basic, Premium). User identity is provided via a JWT token. Which policy should the developer configure in APIM to enforce this throttling?

Which THREE are best practices for implementing an API using Azure API Management? (Choose three.)

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a role assignment for a managed identity. The JSON shows the role and scope. What access does this assignment grant?

You are building an application that subscribes to an Azure Event Grid topic using a custom webhook endpoint. The endpoint is a web API hosted on Azure App Service. You need to ensure that only Event Grid can invoke your webhook endpoint, preventing unauthorized requests. What should you implement in your webhook endpoint?

A web app experiences intermittent high latency. You discover that the Azure SQL database is experiencing a high number of connection timeouts. The application uses Entity Framework Core with the default connection pooling settings. You need to improve database connection reliability without changing the application code. What should you do?

A web app running on Azure App Service must integrate with Microsoft Graph API to read user profiles. The app is registered in Microsoft Entra ID and uses the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow. However, after deployment, the app fails to acquire tokens. What is the most likely cause?

A company uses Azure Functions to process messages from Azure Service Bus. The function needs to scale out during high load. Which consumption plan should you choose to enable automatic scaling?

You are designing a solution for a multi-tenant SaaS application where each tenant's data is stored in separate Azure SQL databases. You need to ensure that no tenant can access another tenant's database, even if the application is compromised. What should you implement?

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 are building a web application that uses Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. The application needs to call Microsoft Graph API to read user profiles and send emails on behalf of the signed-in user. You want to ensure that the user's consent is obtained only once and that the application can refresh tokens silently. Which OAuth 2.0 flow should you implement?

You are implementing an order processing system using Azure Durable Functions. The function must send notifications to multiple channels (email, SMS, push) in parallel and wait for all to complete before sending a confirmation. Which Durable Functions feature should you utilize?

Match each Azure DevOps component to its function.

A company uses Azure Functions with a consumption plan. The function processes messages from a queue. During peak hours, the function takes longer to execute, and some messages are processed twice. What is the most likely cause?

You need to store large amounts of unstructured data (images and videos) that are accessed rarely (a few times per year) but must be available within minutes when requested. The data must be geo-redundant for disaster recovery. You want to minimize storage costs. Which storage tier and redundancy option should you choose?

Your company develops a multi-tenant SaaS application hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Each tenant has isolated compute resources. You need to ensure that no single tenant can consume all cluster resources and affect others. You also want to optimize resource utilization by packing pods efficiently. You evaluate the following approaches: A) Use namespace resource quotas per tenant and let the Kubernetes scheduler handle packing. B) Deploy each tenant to a separate AKS cluster. C) Use Azure Policy to enforce pod resource limits. D) Use a service mesh to control traffic between tenants. Which approach should you recommend?

You deploy a web application in Azure App Service. You need to authenticate users via Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) with minimal custom code. Which App Service feature should you configure?

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Container Registry (ACR) to store Docker images. You need to ensure that only authorized users can deploy images from ACR to an AKS cluster. What should you do?

You deploy the above policy to an Azure API Management API. What is the effect?

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?

Your company is migrating a legacy on-premises .NET Framework 4.7.2 web application to Azure. The application uses session state stored in-memory and reads/writes to a local SQL Server database. The migration must minimize code changes, support auto-scaling, and handle session state across multiple instances. You plan to use Azure App Service with Windows OS. You need to recommend a solution for session state storage and database connectivity. Which option should you choose?

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an Azure Key Vault using this ARM template. Your team plans to use RBAC to manage access. The vault must be accessible from Azure services (e.g., Azure VMs) without public IP addresses. After deployment, a developer reports that they cannot access secrets from a VM in the same region, even though the VM has a managed identity with the Key Vault Secrets User role. What is the most likely cause?

Your company is migrating a monolithic application to Azure. The application consists of several components that need to be deployed and scaled independently. You need to design a container orchestration solution. Which TWO services should you consider?

You are developing a web application that allows users to upload profile pictures to Azure Blob Storage. The application generates thumbnails using an Azure Function that is triggered by blob creation. You need to ensure that the function only processes image files and ignores other file types. What should you do?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances. The container image is stored in a private Azure Container Registry (ACR). You need to ensure that ACI can pull the image without storing credentials in the container group definition. What should you use?

Which TWO Azure services can be used to store and manage secrets, such as API keys and connection strings? (Choose 2)

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?

Your company uses Azure API Management to expose APIs to external partners. You need to implement rate limiting per subscription key to prevent abuse, but you also want to allow burst traffic up to a certain limit. Which policy should you configure?

A web app needs to access Azure Key Vault secrets for database credentials. The app runs as a managed identity in Azure App Service. Which authentication method should be used to retrieve secrets without storing credentials in the app code?

You need to restrict access to an Azure Storage account so that only a specific subnet of a virtual network can access the data. Additionally, you need to allow management access from the Azure portal (e.g., to view containers). Which configuration should you apply?

An Azure Functions document rendering job processes Service Bus messages. The function sometimes fails after partially completing work. Which two practices improve correctness?

You are reviewing the ARM template for an App Service. What is the effect of the 'alwaysOn' property set to true?

You are creating an Azure Container Instance using the Azure CLI command shown in the exhibit. The container needs to connect to a SQL database. After running the command, you notice that the DB_PASSWORD environment variable is visible in the container's logs. What is the most likely reason?

Your organization runs a critical e-commerce application on Azure App Service. The application uses a Standard App Service plan with three instances. During a flash sale, traffic spikes cause some requests to fail with HTTP 503 errors. The operations team reports that the app's CPU usage reaches 95% during spikes. You need to ensure the application remains responsive without manual intervention. The solution must minimize cost while handling unpredictable traffic patterns. You evaluate the following options: A) Enable autoscale to scale out based on CPU usage threshold of 70%, with a maximum of 10 instances. B) Change the App Service plan to Premium v3 and enable zone redundancy. C) Implement a queue-based load leveling pattern using Azure Queue Storage and a background process. D) Use Azure Front Door with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy to distribute traffic. Which option should you recommend?

You have an order processing system using Azure Service Bus. Each order generates multiple messages that must be processed in order and by the same consumer. Which Service Bus feature ensures this?

A Blob Storage workflow for product images must prevent accidental overwrite and support recovery of prior versions. Which two features should be enabled?

Avanade is developing a .NET Core console application that runs on an Azure VM. The application needs to read a secret from Azure Key Vault. The VM has a system-assigned managed identity enabled. The managed identity has been granted 'Get' and 'List' permissions on the Key Vault secrets. The code uses the Azure.Identity and Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets NuGet packages. Which code snippet should the developer use to authenticate to Key Vault?

Which TWO of the following are valid reasons to use Azure Table Storage instead of Azure Cosmos DB?

You are developing a microservices application that needs to send messages between services asynchronously. Which Azure service should you use to decouple the components and ensure reliable message delivery?

Coho Vineyard has an Azure Logic App that processes orders. The workflow must call a third-party API that uses Basic authentication. The credentials (username and password) must be stored securely in Azure Key Vault. The Logic App uses a system-assigned managed identity. The managed identity has been granted 'Get' permission on the Key Vault secrets. Which approach should the team use to pass the credentials to the third-party API?

You need to deploy a container that runs a simple web server on Azure Container Instances. The container should be accessible via a public IP address. Which property should you set in the container group configuration?

An Azure Functions image resize worker must run for up to 30 minutes and uses a VNet integration feature. The team wants serverless scaling without managing virtual machines. Which hosting plan should be used? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

A single-page app signs in users with Microsoft Entra ID and calls a protected API. The app cannot safely keep a client secret. Which OAuth flow should be used? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

An application writes millions of small log entries (500 bytes each) daily. The logs are rarely read, and when read, they are accessed sequentially. You need to minimize storage costs and maximize write throughput. Which Azure Blob Storage type should you use?

You are developing a solution that needs to store and retrieve JSON documents with a flexible schema. The data is accessed via REST API and requires low-latency reads. Which Azure Storage service should you use?

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?

You have an Azure API Management instance that exposes a REST API. You need to secure the API using OAuth 2.0 with Microsoft Entra ID. The API should accept tokens from multiple client applications. Which policy should you add to the inbound processing section?

You are implementing a serverless function in Azure Functions that processes messages from an Azure Storage Queue. The function must ensure that each message is processed at least once and that processing failures are retried up to 5 times. After 5 failed attempts, the message should be moved to a poison queue. What should you configure?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application requires a connection string to an Azure SQL Database. The connection string contains a password that is stored as a secret in Azure Key Vault. The container image expects to read the connection string from an environment variable named SQL_CONNECTION_STRING. You want to pass the secret securely without embedding it in the YAML deployment file and without modifying the container image. The ACI container group will use a system-assigned managed identity that has access to the Key Vault secret. Which approach should you use?

You deploy a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application needs to store configuration settings that might change at runtime. You need to update the configuration without redeploying the container. What should you do?

Your company uses Microsoft Sentinel for security information and event management (SIEM). You need to detect and automatically respond to a potential credential theft attack where an anomalous number of failed logins are followed by a successful login from a different geographic location. Which Microsoft Sentinel feature should you use?

You are developing a serverless function app that processes credit card payments. The function app must securely store the payment gateway API key. Which Azure service should you use to store the key?

A single-page app signs in users with Microsoft Entra ID and calls a protected API. The app cannot safely keep a client secret. Which OAuth flow should be used?

An Azure Functions IoT command API must run for up to 30 minutes and uses a VNet integration feature. The team wants serverless scaling without managing virtual machines. Which hosting plan should be used?

A background data pipeline runs on a schedule and must read user profile data from Microsoft Graph. No user is present during execution. The service authenticates to Microsoft Entra ID and calls the Graph API. Which permission type and OAuth 2.0 flow are correct for this scenario?

A Cosmos DB container for session records receives hot-partition throttling because the partition key has only five possible values. What should the developer change?

You are developing an application that stores user-uploaded profile pictures in Azure Blob Storage. Users frequently access these pictures for the first 7 days after upload, then rarely. To minimize costs, you need to automatically delete pictures that are older than 30 days. Which Azure Storage feature should you use to achieve this?

Refer to the exhibit. You executed the Azure CLI command to create a storage account. Later, you attempt to connect from an application that uses TLS 1.1. The connection fails. What is the most likely reason?

You are developing a .NET Core application that stores session state data. The data is infrequently updated but must be read quickly for every user request. You need a serverless, globally distributed storage solution with low latency reads. Which Azure storage solution should you use?

You are building an Azure Logic App that processes orders. When an order is placed, the Logic App must send a message to an Azure Service Bus queue. The queue is secured using managed identity. Which connector action should you use?

You find the above ARM template for an App Service. What is a security concern with this configuration?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Container Instances (ACI) to run a batch job that processes images. The job is triggered by a message in Azure Queue Storage. Each image takes about 5 minutes to process. You need to ensure that the container runs only when there are messages in the queue and scales automatically. What should you use?

Which TWO Azure services can be used to implement a pub/sub messaging pattern?

You are a developer for a large e-commerce company. The company has a global customer base and runs a critical web application on Azure App Service (Premium v3 plan) deployed in multiple regions. The application uses Azure Cosmos DB (multi-region writes enabled) for product catalog and session state. Recently, the operations team reported that during peak shopping hours (e.g., Black Friday), the application becomes slow and some users experience timeouts. You have implemented Application Insights to collect telemetry. After analyzing the data, you find that the Cosmos DB write operations are experiencing high latency (average 200ms) and occasional throttling (429 errors). The read latency is acceptable. The App Service instances are scaled out to 20 instances during peak, and CPU usage is around 70%. You need to optimize the solution to reduce write latency and eliminate throttling without over-provisioning resources. The solution must be cost-effective and require minimal code changes. What should you do?

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 deploying a containerized application using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to ensure that sensitive configuration data, such as API keys, is not stored in container images. Which Kubernetes resource should you use?

Which TWO actions should you take to securely store and access secrets for a legacy application that cannot be modified? The application runs on an Azure Virtual Machine and needs to read a database connection string. The solution must use Azure Key Vault and adhere to the principle of least privilege.

You have an Azure Function app that processes orders. The function uses a queue trigger from Azure Storage. Recent load tests show that the function is not scaling out fast enough under high load. What should you do to improve scaling?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances. The application requires a custom domain name and SSL/TLS certificate. What should you do?

A Windows desktop application uses standard .NET file system calls such as File.ReadAllText and Directory.GetFiles. The team wants to move the file storage to Azure. The application code must not be rewritten. Which Azure storage service supports this requirement?

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an Azure Policy definition. When applied to a subscription, what is the effect of this policy?

You are designing a solution where an Azure Logic App needs to send emails via Microsoft Graph. The Logic App should authenticate without user interaction. What authentication method should you use?

You are deploying a multi-tier application: a frontend web app (Azure App Service) that calls a backend API (another Azure App Service). Both apps use Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. The frontend needs to authenticate to the backend on behalf of the signed-in user. You need to configure the OAuth 2.0 flow correctly. You have already registered both applications in Microsoft Entra ID. Which configuration should you apply?

You are creating an Azure Functions app that uses a Blob Storage trigger to process new files. The function must process files only when they are completely written (i.e., no ongoing writes). You need to avoid processing partially written files. Which TWO configurations should you consider?

You are developing an ASP.NET Core web API that uses Microsoft Entra ID for authentication via Microsoft.Identity.Web. The application needs to authorize actions based on custom roles such as "Editor" and "Reviewer". These roles are not defined in Microsoft Entra ID app roles or directory roles; instead, they are stored in an application database and can be assigned dynamically by administrators. You need to implement authorization with minimal impact on performance and without modifying the application's authentication flow. Which approach should you use?

You are developing a solution that uploads large files to Azure Blob Storage. Users report that uploads fail after 4 minutes. You need to ensure uploads can complete successfully. What should you do?

You are building a serverless API using Azure Functions with an HTTP trigger. The API must authenticate requests using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). You need to validate the token in the function code. Which component should you use?

You are designing a backup solution for a virtual machine. Monthly backups are large VHD files (up to 1 TB) that must be retained for 7 years. After creation, backups are accessed only rarely (once or twice per year). You need to minimize storage cost. Which storage tier should you use for the VHD files?

You have an Azure Logic App that processes orders. Occasionally, the Logic App fails due to a transient error from a downstream API. You want to automatically retry the failed action after 10 seconds, up to 3 times, with exponential backoff. Which configuration should you set on the action?

A company has an Azure Service Bus namespace with a topic that receives high-throughput messages. They need to ensure that if a subscriber fails, messages are not lost and can be replayed. The subscriber is a client application that uses the PeekLock receive mode. What should they configure?

You are building an IoT solution that generates millions of small log entries (each less than 1 KB) per day. The logs are rarely read, and when they are read, they are always accessed in chronological order. You need to minimize storage costs and maximize write throughput. Which Azure Blob Storage type should you use?

You are a developer at a financial services company. You need to design a solution for processing real-time stock trade data. The system receives thousands of trades per second from an on-premises system. Each trade must be validated, enriched with reference data, and then stored in a data lake for analytics. You have the following requirements: - The processing must be serverless and scale automatically with high throughput. - The enrichment step requires calling an external REST API that can handle up to 100 requests per second. If the API is overwhelmed, trades must be retried with exponential backoff. - The solution must minimize cost and operational overhead. - Trades must be processed in order per stock symbol. You provision an Azure Event Hubs namespace with a single event hub. Trades are sent to the event hub with the stock symbol as the partition key. You configure an Azure Functions app with an Event Hubs trigger to process events. The function validates, enriches by calling the external API, and writes the enriched trade to Azure Data Lake Storage. During testing, you notice that some trades are processed out of order for the same stock symbol when the external API throttles requests. What should you do to ensure ordering per stock symbol?

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an API in Azure API Management using an ARM template. The API is configured to use OAuth 2.0 authentication. The deployment fails with a validation error. What is the most likely cause?

Match each Azure messaging pattern to its description.

You are building an Azure Logic App that needs to call an external HTTP API secured with OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. The client ID and client secret are stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to obtain an access token and include it in the Authorization header of each request. Which combination of actions should you use within the Logic App?

A company stores customer images in Azure Blob Storage. They need to reduce costs by automatically moving blobs that have not been accessed for 30 days to Cool tier, and after 90 days to Archive tier. They also need to delete blobs after one year. Which two Azure features should they implement? (Choose two.)

You need to ensure that data stored in Azure Blob Storage is encrypted at rest using a customer-managed key stored in Azure Key Vault. Which feature should you configure?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must call a third-party REST API. The API requires an API key passed as a query parameter. You need to store the API key securely and automatically add it to each request. Which approach should you use?

You are a developer at a global e-commerce company. The company uses Azure Blob Storage to store product images and customer uploads. The application is deployed in the East US region. You need to design a solution that meets the following requirements: - Customers upload images (up to 10 MB) that must be immediately accessible worldwide after upload. - You must minimize egress costs for data transfer from Azure to customers. - The solution must be resilient to regional outages. - You must not use any custom caching logic. Which approach should you implement?

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Table Storage to store time-series data. You need to query data for a specific device within a time range efficiently. Which two properties should you use as the PartitionKey and RowKey?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Azure CLI command to retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault. The output shows the secret metadata but not the secret value. The command returns without error. What is the most likely cause?

An application publishes order events that multiple independent subscribers must process. Subscribers may be added later without changing the publisher. Which Azure messaging service should be used?

You are developing a web application that uses Azure Files shares for storing user documents. Users complain that they sometimes see stale file listings. The application uses the SMB protocol. What should you do to ensure the file listing is always current?

You are using Azure Blob Storage to store large media files. Clients upload files directly to the storage account using SAS tokens. You need to ensure that the SAS token expires 1 hour after creation. Which parameter should you set when generating the SAS token?

You have an Azure Function app that uses an Event Hubs trigger. The function processes events in batches. You notice that some events are being processed more than once. Which setting should you adjust to minimize duplicate processing?

Your application stores user profile images in Azure Blob Storage. You need to serve these images to users with low latency from a domain name that you own. What should you use?

Which TWO Azure services can be used to implement a publish-subscribe messaging pattern?

Which TWO Azure services can be used to trigger an Azure Function in response to a new blob being added to an Azure Storage account? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Azure CLI command to list blobs in a container that are larger than 1 MB. The command returns no results even though you know there are blobs larger than 1 MB. What is the most likely cause?

Your web app running on Azure App Service requires access to a storage account using managed identity. You enable the system-assigned managed identity on the App Service and assign the 'Storage Blob Data Contributor' role at the storage account scope. However, the app receives 403 errors when trying to read blobs. What is the most likely cause?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Functions to process messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. Which TWO configurations can improve the throughput of the function?

You are deploying a sensitive configuration to Azure Container Instances. The configuration must be encrypted at rest and not visible in the container logs. What should you use?

You need to design a solution to securely store and access secrets (e.g., API keys, connection strings) for a set of Azure Functions. The solution must minimize administrative overhead and avoid storing secrets in code or configuration files. Which THREE should you include? (Choose three.)

Your company stores sensitive financial documents in Azure Blob Storage. You need to ensure that only authorized users can access the blobs, and you must avoid exposing storage account keys. You want to generate time-limited URLs that grant access to specific blobs. What should you use?

You deploy the ARM template shown in the exhibit. After deployment, you need to change the replication to geo-redundant storage (GRS) with read access (RA-GRS). What should you do?

Your company develops a microservices application deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to enable secure communication between services using managed identities. Which Azure service should you use to manage the identities and access control for the pods?

Your web app needs to authenticate users with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). Which OAuth 2.0 flow should you use for a single-page application (SPA) that uses MSAL.js?

An app must store relational state and perform transactions across multiple tables with T-SQL support. Which Azure data service should the developer choose?

Your company uses Azure App Service to host a web application that requires periodic database maintenance. The maintenance tasks are time-consuming and must run outside of peak hours. You need to schedule these tasks to run automatically at 2:00 AM every Sunday. The tasks should be implemented as an Azure Function that runs in the same App Service plan to reduce costs. What should you do?

You are developing an application that needs to store and retrieve large binary objects (up to 5 TB) in Azure Blob Storage. The application requires the ability to access data from any URL via HTTP/HTTPS. Which Blob Storage access tier should you use?

Your Azure Function app needs to call a third-party REST API that requires OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow. The API expects a JWT token signed with a client certificate. You want to store the certificate securely and rotate it automatically. Which Azure service and feature should you use?

You are developing a serverless API using Azure Functions. The API should only be accessible from a specific virtual network. You need to configure network security. What should you do?

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

You have an Azure Storage account that hosts blobs for a public website. You need to grant a partner application read-only access to a specific container for 24 hours without using a storage account key. What should you create?

You are designing a solution that needs to react to changes in an Azure Cosmos DB container in real-time. Whenever a new document is inserted or updated, a downstream service must be triggered to process the change. You want to build a serverless solution that reliably captures each change exactly once. Which Azure Cosmos DB feature should you use?

A company stores sensitive customer data in Azure Blob Storage. They require that all access to the storage account be logged and that any access from outside the corporate network be denied. They also need to allow read access from a specific Azure web app without exposing the storage account publicly. Which three actions should be taken? (Choose three.)

An API receives JWT access tokens from Microsoft Entra ID. Which two token properties should the API validate before accepting a request?

You are developing a solution that processes orders from an e-commerce website. The order processing logic is CPU-intensive and can take up to 30 seconds per order. You need to ensure that the web front-end remains responsive and that orders are processed reliably. What should you use?

You are building an API that needs to validate JWT tokens issued by Microsoft Entra ID. The API is registered as an application in Entra ID. Which endpoint should the API use to obtain the signing keys?

You are developing a microservice that needs to publish events to multiple subscribers. Each subscriber should receive the event independently and at its own pace. The event must be retained for up to 7 days. Which Azure messaging service should you use?

You are a developer for a startup that is building a real-time chat application on Azure. The application uses Azure Web PubSub to broadcast messages to clients. The security team requires that only authenticated users can connect to the Web PubSub service. You plan to use Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. The application backend is an Azure Function that generates access tokens. What is the correct course of action to secure the Web PubSub service?

You are developing a mobile app that uses Azure Cognitive Services to analyze images. The app must authenticate to the Computer Vision API using a key that is rotated monthly. What is the best practice for handling the key?

You are developing a web app that uses Azure AD B2C for customer identity. The app must allow users to sign in with their social media accounts like Facebook and Google. Which Azure AD B2C policy type should you configure?

You are building a solution that processes events from multiple Azure Event Hubs. Events must be dispatched to different downstream services based on the event type. You need a serverless solution that can handle high throughput and uses managed identity to authenticate to Event Hubs. Which Azure service should you use?

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. You need to ensure that users accessing a line-of-business application from unmanaged devices must complete a multi-factor authentication (MFA) challenge. What should you configure?

Arrange the steps to implement Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management to archive blobs after 30 days in the correct order.

A background service must call Microsoft Graph without a signed-in user. Which Microsoft identity platform permission model is required?

A background service must call Microsoft Graph without a signed-in user. Which Microsoft identity platform permission model is required? The team wants the control to be enforceable during normal operations.

You are developing a serverless application using Azure Functions that processes orders. Each order must be validated by calling a third-party API. If the third-party API is unavailable, the function should retry with exponential backoff. How should you implement this?

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?

Your company has several Azure subscriptions, and you need to create a custom role that allows security engineers to start and stop Azure virtual machines but not delete them or modify their network interfaces. The role must be scoped to a specific resource group. How should you define this custom role?

You are deploying a Docker container to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The container must use GPU resources for machine learning inference. You need to select the appropriate option to provision GPU-enabled containers. What should you do?

You need to restrict access to an Azure Storage blob container so that only users from your Microsoft Entra tenant can read blobs, and deny all other access including anonymous traffic. What should you configure?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Event Grid to handle events from multiple Azure services. The events must be filtered and routed to different endpoints based on event type. Which component should you use to filter events before they are sent to subscribers?

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this ARM template to a resource group. The template fails with a 'ResourceNotFound' error. What is the most likely cause?

A company has an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. They want to ensure that pods can securely access Azure SQL Database without using connection strings or secrets. The solution must use the principle of least privilege. What should they implement?

Which TWO Azure Monitor features can help troubleshoot a web app that returns slow response times intermittently?

You deploy the above ARM template. Later, you update the web app's code by deploying a new ZIP package to Azure Blob Storage and updating the WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE setting with the new package URL. However, the web app continues to run the old code. What is the most likely cause?

You are deploying an Azure App Service that uses a Linux container to host a custom web application. You need to configure continuous deployment from a GitHub repository. Which TWO actions should you take?

Your application writes temperature data to Azure Table Storage every second. You have noticed that queries for the latest readings are slower than expected. What is the most likely cause?

Which TWO actions should you take to secure an Azure Function app that is triggered by an HTTP request? (Choose two.)

A serverless app must react whenever audit documents are inserted or updated in Cosmos DB. Which trigger should the Azure Function use?

Your company is building a microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application must securely access Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. Which identity type should you use for the pods?

You are building a data pipeline that writes billions of small log records (each ~200 bytes) to Azure Blob Storage. The logs are always written in chronological order and are read sequentially in order. You must minimize storage cost and achieve maximum write throughput. Which blob type should you use?

You are developing an API using Azure API Management (APIM). The API is backed by an Azure Function that processes requests. You need to implement caching for responses that are expensive to compute. The cache should expire after 10 minutes. What should you configure in APIM?

You need to process large volumes of streaming data from IoT devices in near real-time. The processed data must be stored in Azure Cosmos DB for further analysis. Which Azure service should you use for stream processing?

Refer to the exhibit. You have an Azure Storage account with a blob container named container1. The container's public access level is set to Blob (anonymous read access for blobs only). You attempt to assign the custom role defined in the JSON using Azure PowerShell. The role assignment fails. What is the most likely reason?

You have an Azure Storage account that contains a blob container with thousands of small files. You need to generate a URL that allows users to download a single file for a limited time without changing the storage account's firewall rules or requiring authentication. Which approach should you use?

A IoT command API runs in Azure App Service and must call a private API hosted inside a virtual network. Which feature allows outbound access from the app to the VNet?

You need to create a custom RBAC role that allows a security group to start and stop Azure virtual machines in a specific resource group, but not delete them or modify their network interfaces. Which set of actions should you include in the role definition?

You deploy a web application to Azure App Service. You need to deploy a new version of the application without downtime and have the ability to test the new version before switching traffic. Which feature should you use?

You are designing a solution that stores customer order data in Azure Table Storage. The data includes OrderID (string), CustomerID (string), OrderDate (datetime), and TotalAmount (decimal). You need to query orders for a specific customer within a date range efficiently. Which partition key and row key design should you use?

You have multiple Azure virtual machines that need to access the same Azure Key Vault to retrieve certificates. You want to minimize administrative overhead while ensuring each VM can authenticate without managing credentials. Which identity type should you use?

A company develops a web app that processes images uploaded by users. The app uses Azure Cognitive Services to analyze images for moderation. The solution must minimize latency when calling the Cognitive Services endpoint. Which service should the developer use to call the endpoint?

You design an application that writes millions of small sensor readings (each ~100 bytes) to Azure Blob Storage. The data is appended to files every minute and after 7 days it is archived for compliance. You need to minimize write costs and storage costs. Which blob type and tier strategy should you use?

You are optimizing an Azure API Management instance that handles 10,000 requests per second. You notice that caching is not effective. The cache hit ratio is below 10%. You need to increase the cache hit ratio. What should you do?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the above Azure CLI command to upload a blob to Azure Blob Storage. The command fails with the error 'This request is not authorized to perform this operation.' You have verified that the storage account name and container name are correct, and the file exists. What should you do to resolve the error?

You are designing a serverless data processing pipeline. The pipeline receives JSON messages from an Azure Event Hubs instance. Each message must be enriched with data from a Cosmos DB database and then written to a Parquet file in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. The enrichment step involves a lookup that takes approximately 2 seconds per message. The pipeline must process up to 1000 messages per second. You need to choose the most cost-effective and scalable compute option. Consider the following options: A) Use a single Azure Function with Event Hubs trigger and output to Data Lake Storage. B) Use a Durable Functions orchestration with fan-out/fan-in pattern. C) Use Azure Stream Analytics with a reference data input from Cosmos DB and output to Data Lake Storage. D) Use an Azure Databricks notebook with structured streaming. Which option should you recommend?

You manage an API in Azure API Management. You need to cache API responses such that different responses are returned based on the product subscription key used by the caller. Which set of policies should you implement?

You develop an Azure Durable Functions application that orchestrates a series of activities. The orchestrator function calls activity functions that perform long-running tasks. You need to ensure that the orchestrator function can handle transient errors and retry failed activity functions. Which feature should you use?

A developer is building a microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One service needs to consume messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The solution must minimize cost and automatically scale based on the number of messages. Which approach should the developer choose?

Your company uses Azure App Service to host a web application. You need to allow only authenticated users from your Microsoft Entra ID tenant to access the app, without writing any authentication code. Which feature should you configure?

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?

A business process requires sending an approval email, waiting up to 48 hours for a manager's response, and then updating a SharePoint list based on the decision. The process owner has no programming experience and wants to build this without writing code. Which Azure service is the most appropriate?

You are designing a solution to store user-uploaded images. The images are accessed infrequently (a few times per month) and must be available for download within seconds when requested. You need to minimize storage costs while meeting the access requirements. Which Azure Blob Storage access tier should you choose for the container?

Which TWO approaches can you use to call an external REST API from an Azure Function while ensuring the API key is not exposed in the function code?

You are a developer for a company that runs a critical e-commerce application on Azure. The application consists of an Azure App Service web app, an Azure SQL Database, and an Azure Cache for Redis. The web app experiences occasional performance degradation that you suspect is due to inefficient database queries caused by caching issues. You have enabled Application Insights on the web app. You need to identify the root cause of the performance issues and optimize the solution. The solution must minimize cost and administrative overhead. You have the following options: Option A: Configure Azure SQL Database Intelligent Insights to automatically tune database queries. Option B: Use Application Insights Profiler to capture and analyze database query performance. Option C: Implement Redis cache-aside pattern and ensure that all database queries check the cache first. Option D: Enable Azure SQL Database Query Performance Insight to identify the most costly queries and then implement caching. Which option should you recommend?

A company uses Azure API Management (APIM) to expose APIs to external partners. They need to enforce rate limiting per subscription key. Which APIM policy should be configured?

You manage an API in Azure API Management. You need to enforce a rate limit of 200 requests per minute for each subscription key. Which policy should you include in the inbound policy section?

Arrange the steps to create and use a shared access signature (SAS) for an Azure Storage blob in the correct order.

You develop a C# application that stores sensitive documents in Azure Blob Storage. You need to generate a time-limited shared access signature (SAS) that allows a client to only read and list blobs in a specific container. The SAS must be valid for exactly 1 hour from the current time. Which code snippet correctly creates the SAS? (Assume BlobServiceClient and BlobContainerClient are properly initialized.)

You are building a serverless application that needs to react to insertions and updates in an Azure Cosmos DB container. You want to process these changes using an Azure Function. Which trigger should you configure for the function?

A company stores secrets (e.g., connection strings) in Azure Key Vault and needs them automatically rotated every 90 days. Which solution should they implement?

You are designing a solution that runs background jobs to process images. The jobs can run up to 10 minutes each. You need to ensure the jobs are resilient to failures and can be retried automatically. Which Azure service should you use?

You need to store large files that are written once and then frequently read for the first 30 days. After 30 days, the files are rarely accessed (once or twice per year) but must remain available for 5 years. You want to minimize storage costs. Which storage tier and lifecycle management rule should you apply?

You are using Azure Logic Apps to integrate with a third-party CRM. The CRM API requires OAuth 2.0 authentication with a client secret. The secret must be stored securely and rotated automatically. What should you do?

You need to store millions of small JSON documents (each less than 1 KB) that are accessed by key. The data is read-heavy and requires low-latency access. Which Azure storage solution should you use?

An application stores customer invoices in Azure Blob Storage. Deleted blobs must be recoverable for 14 days. What should be enabled?

You are developing a web application that will be deployed to Azure App Service. You need to configure automatic scaling based on CPU usage. Which TWO settings should you configure?

You need to allow a client application to read a specific blob from Azure Blob Storage for one hour, without exposing your storage account key. Which approach should you use?

You have an Azure Function app that uses .NET 8 isolated process. The function must connect to an Azure SQL database using a managed identity. The function app has a system-assigned managed identity enabled. Which code snippet correctly retrieves the access token?

Your Azure Functions app uses Durable Functions to orchestrate a workflow. The orchestration sometimes fails with a 'FunctionRuntimeException' due to a timeout. You need to increase the maximum orchestration time. What should you modify?

Your application writes millions of small log entries per hour to an Azure Storage account. You notice throttling errors (HTTP 503) during peak traffic. You need to minimize throttling without changing the application code. What should you do?

You are designing a cost-effective solution to store log files that are accessed infrequently after 30 days. The logs must be retained for 7 years for compliance. Data must be available within 1 hour of a request. Which Azure Blob Storage access tier and lifecycle management rule should you use?

You find the above ARM template snippet in a deployment. What is the effect of this configuration on the App Service?

A developer is implementing Key Vault certificate retrieval. The application runs on Azure App Service and must avoid stored credentials. Which design should be used?

Your Azure Function app uses an Event Hub trigger. Under high load, some events are processed multiple times. You need to ensure exactly-once processing without losing events. What should you implement?

You are a developer for a healthcare company that stores patient diagnostic images in Azure Blob Storage. The images are uploaded by medical devices and must be retained for 7 years due to regulatory requirements. After 7 years, the data must be permanently deleted. The images are accessed infrequently after the first month. You need to design a storage lifecycle management policy to minimize costs while meeting compliance. The storage account uses general-purpose v2 with LRS. The container is named 'diagnostics'. Which of the following policies should you implement?

You are designing a solution to securely store connection strings for an Azure Function app that connects to Azure Service Bus. The connection string contains a Shared Access Key. The company policy requires that secrets be rotated every 90 days and that no secret is stored in source code or configuration files. The solution should minimize operational overhead. What should you use?

You store application logs in Azure Blob Storage. The logs are accessed frequently for the first 7 days, then rarely. After 30 days, they must be deleted to minimize cost. Which approach should you use?

A healthcare organization uses Azure API Management (APIM) to expose FHIR APIs to external partners. The FHIR backend is an Azure API for FHIR that requires OAuth 2.0 tokens from Microsoft Entra ID. APIM must validate tokens before forwarding requests to the backend. The organization also needs to rate-limit requests per subscription key and log all requests to Azure Monitor for audit. Which combination of APIM policies should be implemented?

Three microservices collaborate on a single user transaction: an App Service API, an Azure Function that processes a Service Bus message, and a downstream storage service. Traces appear separately in Application Insights with no parent-child relationship. What is needed to correlate all three into a single end-to-end trace?

You deploy an Azure Function app that uses the Premium plan. The function processes messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. Under heavy load, some messages are processed multiple times. You need to ensure exactly-once processing without losing messages. What should you do?

Which THREE of the following are true about Azure Blob Storage access tiers? (Choose THREE.)

A developer is implementing least-privilege storage access. The application runs on Azure App Service and must avoid stored credentials. Which design should be used?

You are developing a web API that must authenticate requests using Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) and OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens. You want to validate the token in your API code. Which library should you use?

You develop an application that stores large binary files (up to 1 GB) in Azure Blob Storage. The application must minimize latency when reading these files from different geographic regions. The files are updated infrequently (once per month) and must be read-only for the application. You need to configure the storage account for optimal read performance and cost. What should you use?

A developer deleted a secret from Azure Key Vault with soft-delete and purge protection enabled (retention 90 days). After 50 days, the secret is needed again. What is the correct recovery method?

You need to store terabytes of archival data that must be retained for 10 years. The data is accessed once or twice per year. You need to minimize storage costs. Which Azure Storage tier should you use?

You are deploying a microservices application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One service needs to retrieve configuration values from Azure App Configuration. The configuration includes sensitive values that must be stored in Azure Key Vault. The solution should not require application code changes to reference Key Vault. What should you use?

A company uses Azure App Service to host a web application. They need to ensure that only authenticated users from their Microsoft Entra ID tenant can access the app. They also want to prevent unauthenticated requests from reaching the app code. Which configuration should they implement?

A background service must call Microsoft Graph without a signed-in user. Which Microsoft identity platform permission model is required?

A developer needs to store session state for a web app that runs on multiple instances behind a load balancer. The state must be persisted across restarts. Which Azure service should they use?

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

Your team monitors Azure Functions with Application Insights. After a recent deployment, cold start latency increased. Which feature should you enable to mitigate this?

You are developing an application that writes telemetry data to Azure Table Storage. Each telemetry event is about 5 KB in size, and the application writes up to 10,000 events per second. The data is queried by device ID and timestamp range. What is the most efficient partitioning strategy to maximize write throughput and query performance?

You are developing an application that reads data from Azure Table Storage. The application must retrieve all entities for a specific partition key. Which query approach is the most efficient?

Your company has a storage account with a hierarchical namespace enabled (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2). You need to authorize an application to write data to a specific container using a managed identity. The application runs on an Azure VM with a system-assigned managed identity. Which role assignment should you use?

A company uses Azure Functions with an HTTP trigger and Azure Cosmos DB. They need to securely store connection strings for Cosmos DB and rotate them automatically every 90 days. Which service should they use?

Your application uses Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. You need to query items by a property that is not the partition key. The container has 10,000 RU/s. How can you optimize this query to minimize cost and latency?

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 are implementing a custom API that calls a downstream API secured with OAuth 2.0. The downstream API requires a client credentials grant flow. You need to securely store the client secret and obtain an access token. What should you use?

Which TWO authentication methods can be used to authorize access to Azure Blob Storage without requiring shared keys?

Images are uploaded to a high-volume Blob Storage account. An Azure Function with a Blob Storage trigger processes each new image. The team has observed processing delays of up to 10 minutes on accounts with large numbers of containers and blobs. They need processing to start within seconds of upload. What should the developer change?

A containerized checkout API deployed to Azure Container Apps must scale to zero when idle and scale out based on queue length. What should the developer configure?

You need to monitor the performance of an Azure App Service web app. Which metric indicates high CPU usage?

Which THREE services can be used to implement a pub/sub messaging pattern in Azure?

Refer to the exhibit. You are using Azure CLI to list blobs in a container. The command fails with an authorization error. The storage account has firewall rules enabled, and you are running the CLI from a machine that is not on the allowed network list. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

A system receives high-volume event notifications from Azure resources and routes them to serverless handlers. Events are lightweight and should use native event routing. Which service should be used? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Your organization uses Azure Key Vault to store secrets. Developers need to retrieve secrets during application runtime. You want to minimize latency and avoid network overhead. Which approach should you recommend?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Get-AzStorageAccount cmdlet and see the output above. You need to enable the hierarchical namespace feature for this storage account. What should you do first?

A company uses Azure Service Bus to decouple microservices. They need to ensure that messages are processed in the order they are received, and that each message is handled by exactly one consumer instance even when the system scales out. Which feature should they enable?

You are designing an Azure Table Storage table to store temperature readings from IoT devices. Each reading includes a device ID (string), timestamp (datetime), temperature value, and location. You need to optimize the table design for this query: "Retrieve all temperature readings for a specific device ID within a given one-hour time range." The query must be efficient and minimize partition scans. Which PartitionKey and RowKey combination should you use?

You have implemented a long-running order processing workflow using Azure Durable Functions. The orchestration may run for hours and involves multiple activity functions. You need to monitor the status of all running orchestrations and receive alerts when an orchestration fails. Which approach provides the most comprehensive and real-time monitoring?

Your application stores user-generated content in Azure Blob Storage. You need to implement a shared access signature (SAS) that allows users to upload files to a specific container but not read or delete. The SAS must be valid for one hour. Which type of SAS should you use?

You are monitoring an Azure App Service using Application Insights. You want to alert when the average server response time exceeds 2 seconds over a 5-minute window. What should you create?

You are configuring an Azure Event Grid subscription to trigger an Azure Function when a blob is created in a storage account. However, the function is not being triggered. You have verified that the function endpoint is reachable and the storage account is in the same region. What is the most likely cause?

Your application uses Azure Cosmos DB with the SQL API. You notice that read requests are being throttled (HTTP 429) during peak hours. You need to improve read performance without changing the application code. Which action should you take?

Your company uses Azure Blob Storage to store sensitive documents. You need to ensure that all access to the storage account is encrypted in transit and that clients must use TLS 1.2 or higher. Which configuration should you enforce?

You have an Azure Container Apps environment running multiple microservices. One microservice is experiencing high CPU usage and slow response times. You need to configure autoscaling rules to scale based on HTTP requests. Which scaling rule should you add?

You have an Azure App Service that runs a web API. The API is accessed by multiple client applications. You need to implement authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID. The solution must allow client applications to obtain access tokens using the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow. Which authentication setting should you configure in the App Service?

You are deploying a web application to Azure App Service. The application needs to read configuration settings that vary by deployment environment (development, staging, production). You want to minimize application changes and leverage Azure services. What should you use?

A containerized booking backend deployed to Azure Container Apps must scale to zero when idle and scale out based on queue length. What should the developer configure?

Refer to the exhibit. The APIM policy is applied to an API. What is the effect of this policy?

You need to store billions of small telemetry data entries (each ~100 bytes) from IoT devices. The data is written once and rarely updated. You need to run analytical queries on the last 30 days of data daily. The queries scan large ranges of data by timestamp and require sub-second response times. You need the lowest storage cost while meeting query latency requirements. Which Azure Storage solution should you use?

You are developing a .NET application that needs to store and retrieve large binary objects (up to 4.7 TB) in Azure Blob Storage. The application requires the lowest possible latency for reads and must support object-level tiering. Which blob type should you use?

You are developing a web application that allows users to upload images. The application is deployed on Azure App Service. After upload, the images must be processed to generate thumbnails and to extract metadata. The processing should happen asynchronously and must be resilient to failures. You need to design the solution using serverless components. The solution must minimize latency for the user during upload, and the processing must be retried automatically if it fails. You also need to ensure that the processing is idempotent, so that duplicate messages do not cause duplicate thumbnails. Which approach should you use? Option A: Use Azure Functions with a Blob Storage trigger to process each image as it is uploaded. The function generates thumbnails and stores metadata in Cosmos DB. Use the `leaseBlob` property to prevent duplicate processing. Option B: Use Azure Functions with an Event Grid trigger to process images. The function generates thumbnails and stores metadata in Cosmos DB. Use Event Grid's built-in retry policy and idempotent logic in the function. Option C: Use Azure Logic Apps with a Blob Storage connector to process images. The logic app generates thumbnails and stores metadata in Cosmos DB. Configure retry policy on the connector. Option D: Use Azure Functions with a Service Bus queue trigger. The web app sends a message to the queue after upload. The function processes the message, generates thumbnails, and stores metadata. Use message deduplication to ensure idempotency.

You are developing an Azure Function that uses a Service Bus queue trigger. You need to ensure that the function processes messages one at a time to guarantee order. Which configuration should you use?

A developer is building a solution that sends emails via SendGrid from Azure. Which Azure service should they use to integrate with SendGrid?

You are using Azure Monitor to collect logs from multiple Azure resources. You need to query logs to find all error events from the last 24 hours. Which query language should you use?

You are developing an ASP.NET Core web app that uses Azure SQL Database. The SQL connection string contains a password that must be rotated every 30 days. The app runs on Azure App Service. You want to store the connection string securely and enable automatic rotation without redeploying the app. Which approach should you use?

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 developing a .NET Core application that uploads large files (up to 50 GB) to Azure Blob Storage. The application must support resuming uploads that are interrupted due to network failures. Which approach should you use?

You develop a containerized application that runs on Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application needs to securely access Azure SQL Database using a connection string. You want to minimize administrative effort and avoid storing secrets in the container image. What should you do?

Which THREE Azure Storage features can be used to enforce immutability for compliance requirements?

You are designing a solution that stores sensitive customer data in Azure Blob Storage. The data must be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed key (CMK) stored in Azure Key Vault. Additionally, the solution must support automatic key rotation every 90 days. You need to configure the encryption settings. Which combination of Azure services and features should you use?

A company runs an ASP.NET Core web app on Azure App Service. They need to implement health checks that monitor the app's dependencies, such as a database and an external API. The health endpoint should return a 200 status if all dependencies are healthy, a 503 if any dependency is unhealthy, and a 400 if the request is malformed. Which approach should you take?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must call an external API secured with OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. The external API is registered in a different Microsoft Entra ID tenant. You need to obtain an access token and add it to the request headers. Which action and authentication configuration should you use?

You need to grant a user from another Microsoft Entra ID tenant access to a specific blob container in your Azure Storage account. The solution must use Azure RBAC and minimize administrative overhead. What should you do?

A storage account for thumbnail metadata must allow an application to read only blobs under one container for two hours. The application should not receive the account key. What should be issued? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Your company has a set of REST APIs that are exposed through Azure API Management (APIM). One of the backend APIs is secured and requires an OAuth 2.0 access token from Microsoft Entra ID. The APIM instance has a system-assigned managed identity with permissions to request tokens for the backend API's scope. You need to configure APIM to automatically obtain a token and pass it to the backend API when requests come in. What should you do?

Your application uses Azure Key Vault to store cryptographic keys. You need to ensure that keys are automatically rotated every 90 days without any manual intervention. Which Key Vault feature should you configure?

A company has an Azure App Service web app that reads from Azure Blob Storage. The app uses a connection string stored in app settings. Recently, the storage account key was rotated, and the app started throwing authentication errors. What should the developer do to resolve this issue without redeploying the app?

You are building an Azure Logic App that needs to call an external REST API. The API requires an API key to be passed in the 'X-API-Key' header. You have stored the API key as a secret in Azure Key Vault. The Logic App uses a managed identity that has read access to the Key Vault secret. You want to retrieve the API key securely at runtime and include it in the HTTP request. Which approach should you use?

Which TWO are best practices for securing an Azure API Management instance?

A microservices application deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) needs to securely store and retrieve configuration settings. The configuration should be updated without redeploying containers. Which Azure service should be used?

You are developing an app that processes orders. When an order is placed, you need to send a confirmation email and update an inventory database. The email service may be slow but must not delay the order processing. Which approach should you use?

A web app uses Azure Key Vault to store secrets. The app runs in a production environment and needs to authenticate to Key Vault without storing connection strings in configuration files. Which authentication method should be used?

Which THREE components are required to implement Azure AD B2C custom policies for sign-up and sign-in? (Choose three.)

Refer to the exhibit. You are analyzing the Azure Blob Storage service properties configured for a storage account. A web application hosted at https://www.contoso.com attempts to make a PUT request to a blob. The request fails with a CORS error. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing a serverless application using Azure Functions. The function must process messages from an Azure Storage Queue and write results to Azure Cosmos DB. Which binding should you use for the output?

Three analytics pipelines each need to read every event from the same Azure Event Hub: one pipeline archives events to cold storage, one computes real-time aggregations, and one feeds a machine learning model. How should the developer configure Event Hubs to allow all three to consume independently without interfering with each other?

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy the ARM template to create an Azure Key Vault. After deployment, you attempt to add an access policy to grant a user 'Get' secret permissions using the Azure portal, but the option is grayed out. What is the most likely reason?

You are developing an application that writes log entries to Azure Blob Storage. Each log entry is approximately 500 bytes, and you expect to generate millions of entries per day. The logs are rarely read, and when they are read, you need to retrieve ranges of logs sequentially. Which blob type should you use to minimize storage costs and maximize write throughput?

A Durable Functions workflow for a checkout API must call five independent activity functions and continue only after all results are available. Which pattern is appropriate?

A function consumes messages from Azure Service Bus. Which two settings help handle transient failures safely? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Refer to the exhibit. You deployed an Azure Storage account with this ARM template. Users outside the allowed IP range receive '403 Forbidden' errors. What is the MOST likely cause?

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 deploy a containerized background job to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The job should automatically restart only if it exits with a non-zero exit code (i.e., crashes). You want to minimize costs. Which restart policy should you configure?

Twenty Azure Functions across different teams all need read access to the same Azure Cosmos DB account. The security team wants to revoke or modify this access for all twenty functions at once without visiting each Function App individually. What managed identity design satisfies this requirement?

Tailwind Traders uses Azure Logic Apps to orchestrate a multi-step business process. The workflow must call an external REST API that requires OAuth 2.0 authentication. The API is registered in Microsoft Entra ID. The Logic App must authenticate using a system-assigned managed identity. The API's app registration has been configured to accept tokens from the managed identity. Which connector should the team use in the Logic App to call the API, and how should they configure authentication?

Your company is deploying a multi-container application using Azure Container Instances (ACI) in a virtual network. You need to ensure that containers can communicate with each other using localhost. Which TWO actions should you take?

Which THREE Azure services can be used to trigger an Azure Function when a new blob is uploaded to a storage account?

You host a web application on Azure App Service using multiple deployment slots (production and staging). After swapping staging into production, users report errors. You need to ensure that the staging slot is warmed up before swapping and that any errors during swap cause an automatic rollback. What should you configure?

Refer to the exhibit. You run this Azure CLI command to configure an Azure Web App for Containers. The web app fails to start, and the logs show 'unauthorized: authentication required'. What is the most likely cause?

You need to secure access to an Azure Storage account that hosts sensitive data. The requirement is to restrict access to only requests originating from a specific virtual network. Which feature should you configure?

You are reviewing an Azure Policy definition that applies to storage accounts. The policy has an effect of 'deny' and specifies network ACLs. What is the intended behavior of this policy?

You are developing a microservices-based application deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One of the microservices needs to securely retrieve secrets (e.g., database connection strings) from Azure Key Vault. The application uses managed identity for authentication. You need to implement a solution that meets the following requirements: 1) The microservice should retrieve secrets from Key Vault without storing any credentials in the application code or configuration files. 2) The solution must support automatic rotation of secrets without application restart. 3) The solution should minimize latency and avoid direct calls to Key Vault on every request. 4) The application is written in .NET 8 and uses the Azure SDK. What should you do?

You are building a web application that allows users to upload profile pictures. The images are up to 5 MB in size and must be stored durably. The images are accessed infrequently after upload (a few times per month). You want to minimize storage costs while ensuring the data is available within seconds when requested. Which Azure Blob Storage access tier should you use for the blob container?

You are developing an API that will be hosted on Azure API Management (APIM). The API must be accessible only to clients that present a valid JSON Web Token (JWT) issued by Microsoft Entra ID. Which APIM policy should you use to validate the JWT?

You have a Durable Functions orchestration that calls an activity function which may throw an exception due to a transient network issue. You want to retry the activity up to 3 times with a 2-second delay between attempts and exponential backoff. Which method should you use in the orchestrator function?

Your company develops a REST API for a global e-commerce platform that stores product images in Azure Blob Storage. The API uses shared access signatures (SAS) to grant temporary read access to the images. The security team requires that SAS tokens be generated using a user delegation key derived from the application's Microsoft Entra ID credentials, not from the storage account key. Additionally, the SAS must be scoped to a specific container and have a maximum validity of 1 hour. You need to implement the SAS generation in the API using the Azure Storage SDK for .NET. The application authenticates with Microsoft Entra ID using a managed identity assigned to the Azure App Service hosting the API. Which approach should you use?

You are deploying a microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to monitor the resource consumption of each pod and set up alerts when CPU usage exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. What should you use?

An Azure Container Instance running a claims processing function requires a password at startup. The password must not be visible in the portal or container logs. What should be used?

You deploy a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application writes logs that must persist across container restarts and be accessible from a file system. The solution must minimize cost and complexity. Which configuration should you use?

You need to store large binary files (up to 2 GB) that are frequently overwritten in place (entire file replaced). You want to minimize storage cost and write latency. Which Azure Blob Storage type 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 developing an application that writes logs to Azure Blob Storage. Each log entry is small (less than 1 KB) and you need to store millions of entries per day. You want to minimize storage costs and maximize write throughput. Which blob type should you use?

A image resize worker runs in Azure App Service and must call a private API hosted inside a virtual network. Which feature allows outbound access from the app to the VNet?

You are developing a .NET Core application that needs to authenticate users via Microsoft Entra ID and call Microsoft Graph API. You register an app in the Microsoft Entra admin center and configure the necessary permissions. However, when the app tries to acquire a token, it receives an 'interaction_required' error. What is the most likely cause?

A report export service hosted on App Service returns intermittent 502 errors during deployment. The team wants zero-downtime release with validation before traffic moves. What should be implemented?

You are deploying a microservice to Azure Container Apps. The service requires a custom domain and SSL/TLS certificate. Which resource should you configure to meet these requirements?

You have an Azure Cosmos DB container with a high number of physical partitions. You observe that some partitions are hitting the request unit (RU) limit while others are underutilized. What should you do to better distribute the workload?

Your Azure Container Apps solution uses Dapr for microservices communication. Which THREE Dapr building blocks are essential for service-to-service invocation and state management?

You have a web application that writes user-uploaded images to Azure Blob Storage. The application uses a shared access signature (SAS) token with read and write permissions. Users report that sometimes they receive 'AuthorizationFailure' errors when uploading images, but the issue is intermittent. What is the most likely cause?

A company uses Azure API Management (APIM) to expose APIs to external partners. They want to validate JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) from partners' Microsoft Entra ID tenants before requests reach the backend. The solution must support multiple partner tenants and minimize latency. What should you implement?

Your company develops a microservices-based application deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One of the microservices is a web API that processes user uploads and stores them in Azure Blob Storage. The API is stateless and scales horizontally. You need to implement authentication and authorization for the API using Microsoft Entra ID. The API should validate tokens issued by Entra ID and allow only users with the 'Files.Upload' scope. You need to configure the API's code and AKS deployment accordingly. Which approach should you use?

You need to authenticate an Azure Function to an Azure SQL Database using a managed identity. The function has a system-assigned managed identity enabled. Which connection string setting should you use in the function's application settings?

A table stores session records in Azure Table Storage. Queries frequently retrieve all records for one customer in a time range. What key design is best?

You need to deploy an Azure App Service web app that uses a custom domain (www.contoso.com) and SSL/TLS certificate. The certificate is stored in Azure Key Vault. What should you use to bind the certificate to the App Service?

You have an Azure Function that processes messages from an Event Hubs event stream. The function is failing with 'Message lock lost' errors. The processing time per event is about 10 minutes. What should you do to resolve the errors?

Your company wants to implement a zero-trust security model for its Azure resources. Which THREE practices should you adopt? (Choose three.)

You are developing a solution that processes large files uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. Each file must be processed by a long-running operation that may take up to 30 minutes. You need to use Azure Functions with a consumption plan. How should you handle the processing?

You are developing a web application that will be deployed to Azure App Service. The application allows users to upload files, which are stored in Azure Blob Storage. You need to ensure that only authenticated users can upload files and that each user can only see their own files. You plan to use shared access signatures (SAS) for secure access. The application uses Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. You want to generate SAS tokens on the server after the user authenticates. Which approach should you use?

You are designing an ASP.NET Core web API that authenticates users via Microsoft Entra ID. The application needs to authorize access to resources based on custom roles (e.g., 'Admin', 'Editor') that are not defined in Microsoft Entra ID app roles or groups. The role mappings are dynamic and stored in an application database. How should you implement authorization in the API?

You are developing a microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One of the services needs to securely access Azure SQL Database without storing connection strings in the application code. You need to use managed identities. What should you do?

You are developing a web app that authenticates users via Microsoft Entra ID. The app needs to read the user's profile and send emails on their behalf. You want to minimize user consent prompts. Which OAuth 2.0 grant type should you use?

You are deploying a container group to Azure Container Instances that runs a stateful application. The application writes data to the /data directory. You need to ensure that the data is preserved if the container restarts. Which volume mount type should you use?

A web app for a webhook processor needs separate staging and production environments. The team must warm up the new version before swapping traffic. Which App Service feature should be used?

Refer to the exhibit. An Azure Function is configured with an Event Hub trigger to process telemetry data. The function uses the EventProcessorHost to read events. The developer notices that the function is not processing all events; some events are skipped. What is the most likely cause?

A Kubernetes-based IoT command API on AKS must pull images from Azure Container Registry without storing registry passwords in Kubernetes secrets. What should be used?

You are developing a .NET Core application that uses Azure Service Bus queues. You need to implement a dead-lettering mechanism for messages that cannot be processed after 5 delivery attempts. Which property should you set on the queue to automate this?

You need to deploy a microservice that runs a long-running background job (up to 30 minutes). The job should not be affected by App Service recycling. Which Azure technology 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 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 designing a solution to send email notifications from an Azure App Service web app. The app must use a third-party email service that requires an API key. You need to minimize management overhead and ensure the key is rotated automatically. What should you do?

You are migrating an on-premises application to Azure. The application uses a network file share (NFS) to store files. You need to minimize code changes. Which Azure storage service should you use?

Wide World Importers has an Azure API Management (APIM) instance that exposes several APIs. One API is a custom REST API hosted on an Azure App Service. The API requires authentication via a subscription key. APIM is configured to require subscription keys for all APIs. The team wants to offload authentication to APIM so that backend services do not need to validate keys. However, the backend API also needs to know the identity of the calling application for logging. The team decides to use APIM's OAuth 2.0 authorization with Microsoft Entra ID. The backend API should receive the JWT token from APIM. How should the team configure APIM to pass the token to the backend?

Match each Azure monitoring tool to its purpose.

You are implementing a Durable Functions orchestration that calls an activity function which may fail transiently. You want to retry the activity up to 3 times with a 5-second delay and exponential backoff. Which code snippet should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You have an Azure Policy definition as shown. Your team creates a storage account with network rules set to 'Deny' by default, and then adds an IP rule to allow traffic from a specific IP range. What compliance state will this storage account be reported as?

You are developing a solution that processes messages from an Azure Storage Queue. Each message triggers a long-running operation that may take up to 30 minutes. You need to ensure that if the processing fails, the message is not lost and can be retried later. The current implementation uses a console application that polls the queue and deletes messages after processing. What should you change?

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

You need to deploy a containerized application to Azure that must be restarted automatically if it crashes. The solution should minimize management overhead. Which compute service should you use?

A single-page app signs in users with Microsoft Entra ID and calls a protected API. The app cannot safely keep a client secret. Which OAuth flow should be used? The architecture review board prefers a managed Azure-native control.

A company exposes an internal REST API to external partners using Azure API Management. They need to enforce a rate limit of 100 requests per minute per subscription. Which policy should they add?

Your company has an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. You need to deploy a containerized application that requires persistent storage across pod restarts. The storage must be backed by Azure Disk and support ReadWriteOnce access mode. Which volume type should you use?

You are developing a background job that runs every hour on Azure App Service. The job must be resilient to restarts and should not affect the web app's performance. Which technology should you use?

You are developing an ASP.NET Core web API hosted on Azure App Service. The API needs to read secrets from Azure Key Vault at startup. You have enabled a system-assigned managed identity for the App Service. Which code should you use to create the Key Vault SecretClient?

Arrange the steps to configure auto-scaling for an Azure App Service in the correct order.

Your Azure Functions app (running on the Consumption plan) processes messages from an Azure Storage queue. Occasionally, the function fails due to a timeout after 5 minutes. You need to increase the maximum execution time without changing the plan. What should you do?

You have an application that stores user profile pictures in Azure Blob Storage. Users upload images via a web app. You need to ensure that the images are served securely over HTTPS and that only authenticated users can access them. The web app uses Azure App Service with built-in authentication. You want to avoid storing any access keys in the web app's configuration. What should you do to grant the web app access to the blobs?

You are using Azure CLI to upload a blob using your Azure AD credentials (--auth-mode login). The command fails with an authorization error. What is the most likely cause?

A company stores secrets in Azure Key Vault. Developers need to retrieve secrets from a web app without storing connection strings in code. Which authentication method should the web app use?

You have an Azure Event Grid topic that receives storage blob created events. You only want to process events for files with a '.jpg' extension. You need to minimize cost and latency. How should you filter the events?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application writes temporary data to a local disk that must persist across container restarts (e.g., after a crash). Which configuration should you use?

An application uses Azure Functions with a Durable Functions extension to orchestrate a workflow. The workflow calls multiple external APIs. The developer needs to handle transient failures when calling these APIs. Which pattern should the developer implement?

Match each Azure container service to its primary use case.

Your application writes millions of small records (each under 1 KB) to Azure Table Storage every day. You notice that query performance degrades over time. Which design change would most improve performance?

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Container Instances (ACI) to run a batch processing job. The job runs for approximately 30 minutes and requires access to a configuration file stored in Azure Files. You need to ensure the container instance can access the file share securely without using a public endpoint. Which TWO actions should you take?

A company integrates an Azure Logic App with Microsoft Teams to send notifications when a new file is added to an Azure Blob storage container. The Logic App currently polls the blob container every minute. They want to reduce latency and avoid polling. What should they do?

You need to grant a user access to read and write blobs in a specific container for exactly 24 hours. The user is external to your organization. Which two methods can you use? (Choose two.)

You need to securely connect an on-premises application to Azure Blob Storage without exposing data to the public internet. Which feature should you use?

A company deploys an Azure App Service web app that stores sensitive data in Azure Blob Storage. The security team requires that all access to the blob storage must be authenticated and authorized via Microsoft Entra ID, and that no anonymous access is permitted. The web app must also be able to access the storage using its managed identity. Which configuration should the company implement?

Your company uses Azure API Management to manage APIs. You need to implement policies that ensure only authenticated requests from partners are allowed, and that responses are cached to improve performance. Which THREE policies should you configure?

Match each Azure security feature to its function.

Refer to the exhibit. An Azure App Service deployment is configured using this ARM template snippet. The web app is built from a GitHub repository. However, when a pull request is merged to main, the app does not automatically deploy. What is the most likely cause?

You are using Azure API Management to expose a legacy SOAP API as a RESTful API. The SOAP API has complex XML schemas. You need to transform the SOAP response to JSON. Which policy should you use?

Your IoT solution generates billions of small telemetry entries (each ~100 bytes). Data is written once and rarely updated. You need to run analytical queries on the last 30 days of data daily, scanning large ranges by timestamp, requiring sub-second response times. You want the lowest storage cost. Which Azure Storage solution should you use?

A company is designing a serverless application using Azure Functions. They need to orchestrate multiple functions in a workflow, handle errors, and manage state. Which TWO features should they use?

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an ARM template that assigns the 'Storage Blob Data Contributor' role to the managed identity of an App Service named 'myapp' at the storage account 'mystorageacct' scope. The deployment fails with an error that 'principalId' is null. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing a web application that processes images uploaded by users. The images must be resized and analyzed for offensive content before being stored. You need to implement the solution with minimal latency and cost. What should you do?

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 building an API that needs to send notifications to multiple subscribers. Each subscriber has a different callback URL, and you need to ensure each notification is sent exactly once and retried on failure. Which Azure service should you use?

Your application uses Azure Key Vault to store cryptographic keys used for signing. You need to ensure that the keys can be used by multiple applications, but only one application should be able to delete the key. What should you do?

Your API is secured using Azure AD (now Microsoft Entra ID) tokens. You need to validate the token in your custom code. Which library should you use to validate the token's signature, issuer, and audience?

You deploy a microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Some pods report OOMKilled errors. Which diagnostic step should you take first?

You are using Azure Application Insights to monitor a web application. You need to create a custom dashboard that shows the number of failed requests per endpoint over the last 24 hours. Which query language should you use?

Your application uses Azure Queue Storage to process orders. Occasionally, messages are not processed and remain in the queue. You need to ensure that messages are automatically retried after a specified time if they are not deleted. What should you configure?

You deploy a container to Azure Container Instances. The container needs to persist data when it restarts. You mount an Azure Files share to a directory inside the container. Which volume type is this?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must send a confirmation email to users after a purchase. Your company uses Office 365 for email and you want to use the corporate email address. Which connector should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an ARM template that includes the above network security group rule. The rule is intended to block all outbound internet traffic from a virtual network. However, after deployment, virtual machines in the subnet still have outbound internet access. What is the most likely reason?

Your application uses Azure Functions and needs to authenticate to a downstream API using OAuth 2.0. The function app uses a system-assigned managed identity. Which token endpoint should the function app call to get a token for the downstream API?

You need to store millions of small JSON documents (each ~1 KB) that are frequently updated by multiple concurrent users. You require low-latency access to individual documents. Which Azure Storage solution should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You have an HTTP-triggered Azure Function that writes the request body to a blob in the 'samples-workitems' container. The function runs successfully but does not create a blob. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing an application that writes blobs to Azure Blob Storage. The application requires high throughput and must handle transient failures. You need to implement a retry policy. Which approach should you use?

You need to diagnose why an Azure App Service web app returns HTTP 503 errors during peak traffic. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

You are deploying an Azure Functions app that processes messages from an Azure Storage queue. The function must ensure that each message is processed at least once, and if processing fails, the message should be retried up to 5 times before being moved to a poison queue. Which configuration should you set?

You are planning to migrate an on-premises application to Azure App Service. The application consists of a web frontend and a background worker that processes messages from a queue. Which TWO Azure services should you use to implement this solution?

Contoso is building a serverless application using Azure Functions. One function needs to read messages from an Azure Event Hub and store them in Azure Blob Storage. The function uses the Event Hubs trigger. The team wants to authenticate to both Event Hubs and Blob Storage using managed identities. The Function app has system-assigned managed identity enabled. Which role assignments are required on the Event Hubs namespace and the storage account?

You deploy a microservices application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application uses Azure Cache for Redis to store session state. Users report that they are frequently logged out. You suspect that the session data is being evicted from the cache. Which configuration change should you make to reduce evictions?

A developer is implementing Key Vault certificate retrieval. The application runs on Azure App Service and must avoid stored credentials. Which design should be used? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Which TWO Azure services can be used to implement serverless event-driven architectures?

A company uses Azure Logic Apps to integrate with a third-party SaaS application. The Logic App must send an HTTP request to the SaaS API and handle pagination. Which connector should be used?

A developer needs to deploy a web app that uses Azure SQL Database. They want to connect to the database using a connection string without storing it in code. Which feature of Azure App Service should they use?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances. The application must restart automatically if it crashes. You set the restart policy to 'Always'. However, the container keeps restarting continuously even when there is no crash. What is the most likely cause?

You are deploying a containerized application on Azure Container Instances (ACI) that needs to run as a background job every hour. The job processes data from an Azure SQL Database and sends a report via email. You need to minimize costs while ensuring the job runs reliably on schedule. The job takes about 10 minutes to complete. What should you do?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must call a third-party REST API secured with OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. The client ID and client secret are stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to securely obtain an access token and include it in requests to the API. Which approach should you use in the Logic App?

You are building a serverless workflow using Azure Logic Apps. The workflow must start when a new blob is uploaded to a specific container in Azure Blob Storage. Which trigger should you configure?

Your company is building a real-time dashboard that displays sales data from multiple stores. The data is generated as events from point-of-sale systems and must be ingested with low latency. The dashboard needs to display aggregated data (e.g., total sales per store per minute) with a maximum delay of 5 seconds from event generation. You have decided to use Azure Event Hubs for ingestion and Azure Stream Analytics for real-time processing. The processed data will be stored in Azure Cosmos DB for the dashboard to query. However, the dashboard requires that the data in Cosmos DB be updated as soon as new aggregations are available. You need to design the output from Azure Stream Analytics to Cosmos DB. Which output configuration should you use?

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 are troubleshooting an Azure App Service that runs a Node.js application. The application returns HTTP 500 errors intermittently. Application Insights is configured. Which telemetry item should you examine first to find the root cause?

You need to restrict access to an Azure web app so that only traffic from a specific virtual network (VNet) can reach it. The web app is already deployed. What should you configure on the web app?

Your company has an application running on Azure Virtual Machines that needs to access secrets in Azure Key Vault. You want to restrict network access to the Key Vault so that only the virtual network/subnet containing the VMs can reach it. You also want to ensure that the solution works with the least management overhead. Which configuration should you use?

Your company uses Azure Key Vault to store secrets. You need to ensure that if a secret is deleted, it can be recovered within 30 days. Which Key Vault feature should you enable?

A company deploys a stateful application as a container in Azure Container Instances (ACI). They need persistent storage that can be shared across multiple container instances and retain data after container restarts. Which volume mount should they use?

You need to ensure that secrets stored in Azure Key Vault are automatically rotated every 90 days. Which feature should you configure?

You have an Azure App Service web app that experiences high CPU usage during peak hours. You need to scale out automatically based on CPU load. Which scaling solution should you use?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Event Hubs to ingest telemetry data. The data must be encrypted at rest and in transit. Additionally, you need to ensure that only authorized applications can publish messages to the event hub. Which combination of features should you use?

Which TWO Azure services can be used to securely store and retrieve secrets, such as API keys and connection strings, for use in cloud applications?

You are building a solution that needs to process large CSV files uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. Each file can be up to 1 GB. You want to minimize processing time and cost. Which approach should you recommend?

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy an Azure Storage account using the ARM template snippet. A developer reports that they cannot connect to the storage account from their machine with IP 10.0.0.5, even though they have the proper RBAC role. What is the most likely reason?

A developer writes an Azure Function that uses the Azure.Storage.Blobs SDK to upload a file to Blob Storage. The function runs locally but fails when deployed to Azure with a '403 Forbidden' error. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Container Apps. Your application is a microservice that needs to expose a gRPC endpoint. The service must scale to zero when idle. What should you do?

Which TWO actions can you take to improve the performance of an Azure App Service web app that makes calls to an external API? (Choose two.)

You are developing a mobile app backend using Azure Functions. The app allows users to upload profile pictures. The pictures are stored in Azure Blob Storage and the metadata (user ID, blob URL, upload timestamp) is stored in Azure SQL Database. You need to implement a process that automatically generates a thumbnail for each uploaded picture and updates the metadata with the thumbnail URL. The thumbnail generation is CPU-intensive and may take up to 30 seconds per image. The solution should be serverless and cost-effective. Which combination of Azure services should you use?

You are troubleshooting a containerized application running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application logs indicate that it cannot connect to an Azure SQL Database using a managed identity. The pod is configured with a user-assigned managed identity. Which step is most likely missing?

A developer exposes several backend APIs through Azure API Management. Clients must be throttled by subscription to protect the backend. What should be configured?

Your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster experiences node failures. Which Azure service provides automated node repair?

Arrange the steps to deploy an Azure App Service using Azure CLI in the correct order.

Your Azure App Service web app experiences slow response times during peak hours. You suspect the App Service plan is under-provisioned. You need to scale out the app automatically based on CPU usage. What should you configure?

You are developing a solution that stores user-uploaded profile pictures. Users upload pictures that are then displayed on their profile page. After 30 days, if the user hasn't logged in, the system moves the picture to cold storage. You need to choose the initial access tier for the container to optimize cost and performance for frequently accessed pictures. Which tier should you use?

You are a developer at Contoso Ltd. The company has an existing .NET Core web application hosted on Azure App Service that allows users to upload images. The application currently stores images directly to Azure Blob Storage using connection strings stored in the Web.config file. The security team has mandated that all secrets must be stored in Azure Key Vault and rotated automatically. Additionally, the application must be able to access the Key Vault without storing any credentials in the application code or configuration files. The application uses Microsoft Entra ID for user authentication. You need to modify the application to meet these requirements with minimal changes to the application code. You have the following resources: an Azure Key Vault instance with the secrets (storage account connection string) already stored; a managed identity enabled for the App Service. You want to use the Key Vault references feature of Azure App Configuration or direct Key Vault access. Which approach should you take?

Arrange the steps to implement Azure AD authentication in an ASP.NET Core web app in the correct order.

A company stores sensitive data in an Azure Storage account. They need to restrict access based on the client's IP address and require that clients use a valid SAS token. Which mechanism should they 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?

Which FOUR are valid ways to authenticate to Azure Blob Storage from an application? (Choose four.)

You have an Azure Function app that uses Durable Functions. You notice that some orchestrations are taking longer than expected. You need to monitor the history of orchestration instances. What should you use?

You need to secure a web API that is called from a single-page application (SPA). The API uses Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. Which OAuth 2.0 flow should the SPA use?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Container Instances (ACI) to run a batch job. The job must run only once a day and should not incur costs when idle. Which configuration should you use?

You are deploying a microservice that needs to read secrets (e.g., connection strings) from Azure Key Vault. The service runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You want to minimize code changes and automatically rotate secrets. Which approach should you use?

You are deploying a new version of an ASP.NET Core web application to Azure App Service. You want to test the new version with a subset of users before making it available to everyone. You also need to be able to switch back instantly if issues are found. Which App Service feature should you use?

An application calls a third-party shipping API through HTTP. The developer must implement retries without overwhelming the remote system during partial outages. Which retry pattern is best?

You are developing a web app that uses Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. The app must authenticate using a system-assigned managed identity. Which endpoint should you use to get an access token for Key Vault?

You are building a web application that stores user-uploaded images in Azure Blob Storage. The application requires that images be accessible only via a time-limited URL. Which security mechanism should you use?

A long-running claims processing function must process thousands of independent files. The developer wants status tracking, checkpoints, and replay-safe orchestration. Which Azure Functions capability should be used?

Refer to the exhibit. A developer deploys this ARM template to create a blob container. Later, they attempt to upload a file to the container using a SAS token. What is the result?

A storage account for thumbnail metadata must allow an application to read only blobs under one container for two hours. The application should not receive the account key. What should be issued?

An Azure Functions report export service processes Service Bus messages. The function sometimes fails after partially completing work. Which two practices improve correctness?

You are configuring an Azure App Service web app to authenticate users with Microsoft Entra ID. You need to ensure that only users from your organization's tenant can access the app. Which setting should you configure?

You are designing a microservices solution using Azure Container Apps. One service must be exposed externally via HTTPS, while others should only be accessible within the environment. You need to configure networking for this scenario. What should you do?

A company uses Azure Cosmos DB for a global e-commerce platform. They need to query product inventory across multiple regions with low latency. The data is partitioned by product category. Some queries filter on category and price range. What indexing policy should be configured to optimize these queries?

You are developing an application that needs to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault. The application will run as an Azure Functions app. Which authentication method should you use to access Key Vault?

You need to securely transfer an on-premises database backup to Azure Blob Storage. The backup file is 500 GB. You have limited bandwidth (10 Mbps) and need the transfer to complete within 24 hours. What is the best solution?

You are deploying an Azure App Service using an ARM template. After deployment, you find that the application settings are not applied. What is the most likely issue?

You need to send email notifications from an Azure Function app when a new user registers in your application hosted on Azure App Service. Which Azure service should you use to send the emails?

You query Application Insights with the KQL query in the exhibit. The chart shows a spike in 500 errors at 2:00 PM. What is the next step to diagnose the cause?

You are deploying a function app that processes sensitive data. You need to ensure that all function app secrets (e.g., connection strings) are stored securely and automatically rotated. Which service should you use?

An application stores sensor readings in Azure Table Storage. Each sensor produces thousands of readings per hour. Queries always filter by sensor ID and time range. A developer needs to choose the partition key and row key. Which design best balances query performance and write throughput?

Your company stores API keys and connection strings in Azure Key Vault. You need to grant an Azure Function read access to these secrets using the principle of least privilege. Which identity type should you assign to the Function App?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must call an external API that uses the OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant. The API requires the user to sign in interactively to grant consent. You want to minimize development effort and securely manage the token lifecycle. Which built-in action and authentication method should you use?

You are querying Azure Monitor metrics using Kusto Query Language (KQL). The query is supposed to return average metric values per hour per resource provider, but it returns no results. What is the most likely issue?

You are designing a solution that requires asynchronous processing of messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The solution must guarantee at-least-once delivery and handle poison messages automatically. Which combination of Service Bus features should you use?

You are developing a solution that needs to perform a multi-step workflow. The workflow involves calling several third-party APIs, and some steps may require waiting for a human approval via email. The workflow may run for hours. You want to use Azure Functions to implement this orchestration. Which Azure Functions feature should you use?

Messages failing to process are redelivered by Azure Service Bus. After a message has been delivered and abandoned the maximum number of times (MaxDeliveryCount), where does Service Bus move the message?

Your team is using Azure DevOps to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. You want to automatically roll back a deployment if the new version causes a high error rate. Which Azure service should you use to implement this?

Your company has an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster that hosts multiple microservices. You are tasked with deploying a new microservice that processes incoming HTTP requests and publishes messages to an Azure Service Bus topic. The microservice must scale based on the number of messages in the topic, and it must support graceful shutdown to complete in-flight requests. You need to choose the appropriate compute platform. The microservice is stateless and can be containerized. You want to minimize operational overhead and cost. The solution must automatically scale to zero when there are no messages. Which option should you choose? Option A: Deploy the microservice as an Azure Function with a Service Bus trigger on the Consumption plan. Option B: Deploy the microservice as a container in AKS with a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler based on Service Bus queue length. Option C: Deploy the microservice as an Azure Container App with a Service Bus scale rule. Option D: Deploy the microservice as an Azure App Service WebJob with continuous mode.

Which THREE Azure services can be used to send email notifications from an application?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure Container Instances (ACI) to run a batch processing job. The job is expected to run for up to 2 hours. You need to minimize costs. Which ACI configuration should you use?

You are designing a solution that requires atomic operations on a counter stored in Azure Blob Storage. The counter must be updated by multiple instances without conflicts. Which approach should you use?

Which TWO Azure services can be used to monitor and diagnose performance issues in an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster?

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?

Refer to the exhibit. You run these Azure CLI commands for an Azure Function app. When the app is accessed from https://app.contoso.com, what is the expected behavior?

Your application stores sensitive data in Azure Table Storage. You need to encrypt the data at rest. What should you do?

Arrange the steps to create a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps for an Azure App Service in the correct order.

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 Azure-native control.

Your company has an Azure App Service web app that runs on a Standard App Service plan. You need to scale out the app to handle increased traffic during business hours and scale in during off-hours. What should you configure?

A queue-processing application stores work items in Azure Queue Storage. A worker crashes after receiving a message. What determines when the message becomes available for another worker?

You need to store and retrieve large binary files (up to 100 GB each) with low latency. The files will be accessed by multiple geographic regions. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

You are developing an Azure Function that runs on a Consumption plan. The function needs to process a large file uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. The processing is CPU-intensive and may take up to 30 minutes. What should you use to implement the function?

Which THREE factors should you consider when choosing between Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for a containerized workload? (Choose three.)

A company has an Azure App Service web app that occasionally returns 500 errors. You need to diagnose the root cause without impacting production traffic. Which feature should you use?

Your application uses Azure App Service and needs to authenticate users via Microsoft Entra ID. You want to minimize code changes. 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?

Your application uses Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. You need to implement server-side computed properties that depend on multiple document fields. The computation must be performed atomically. Which approach should you use?

You are developing an application that stores user secrets. You need to ensure that the secrets are encrypted at rest and rotated automatically. Which Azure service should you integrate?

You are developing a web application that runs on Azure App Service. The application needs to store session state. Which Azure service provides the best performance and reliability for session state storage?

You need to monitor the performance of an Azure App Service web app. You want to track the number of HTTP 500 errors over the last hour. Which Azure Monitor metric should you use?

Which TWO of the following are valid authentication options for accessing Azure Storage from an application? (Choose TWO.)

You are developing a microservice that processes images. After processing, it needs to store the result in Azure Blob Storage and send a message to Azure Service Bus for further processing. Which Azure SDK client should you use to minimize overhead?

You deploy a web app to Azure App Service. Users report intermittent 500 errors. How should you enable detailed error logging?

A company uses Azure Logic Apps to integrate with a third-party CRM system. The CRM API requires OAuth 2.0 authentication. The developer needs to securely store the client secret and refresh token. Which Azure service should the developer use?

You need to deploy an Azure Functions app that runs on a dedicated App Service plan. The function must be triggered by an HTTP request and call a downstream API that requires OAuth 2.0 authentication. Which approach should you use to store the API credentials securely?

A Durable Functions workflow for a booking backend must call five independent activity functions and continue only after all results are available. Which pattern is appropriate?

You have an Azure App Service web app that uses a custom domain with TLS/SSL binding. You need to migrate the app to a new App Service plan in a different region. What is the correct order of steps?

You are designing a solution that requires storing millions of small (1-5 KB) messages from IoT devices. Each message has a unique device ID and timestamp. You need to support efficient point queries by device ID and time range, and also support aggregation queries (e.g., count of messages per device per hour). Which Azure storage solution should you use?

Your application uses Azure App Configuration with Microsoft Entra ID authentication. You want to ensure that only authorized services can read configuration values. What is the recommended approach?

Which TWO actions should you take to ensure high availability for a stateful ASP.NET application deployed on Azure App Service?

You are designing a solution to store large amounts of unstructured data that is accessed infrequently (once a quarter). You need to minimize storage costs. Which Azure storage tier should you use?

You are developing a solution that needs to run a background task every 10 minutes to clean up temporary files in Azure Blob Storage. You want to use Azure Functions with the Consumption Plan to minimize cost. Which trigger type should you use?

A system receives high-volume event notifications from Azure resources and routes them to serverless handlers. Events are lightweight and should use native event routing. Which service should be used? The architecture review board prefers a managed Azure-native control.

You are building a serverless application that needs to store user profile data. The data includes simple fields like name, email, and preferences. The data is frequently accessed by user ID. You need a schema-less, low-latency storage solution that is cost-effective for millions of small records. Which Azure Storage solution should you use?

You have a blob as shown in the exhibit. You need to read the content of this blob. What must you do first?

You are developing a containerized application that will be deployed to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application consists of a web front-end and a background worker that processes messages from an Azure Storage Queue. You need to ensure that the worker container runs continuously and processes messages as they arrive. The solution must minimize cost and management overhead. What should you do?

Your organization uses Azure Policy to enforce compliance. You need to ensure that all Azure SQL databases have Advanced Data Security (ADS) enabled. What type of Azure Policy effect should you use to automatically enable ADS if it is not already enabled?

Your company deploys a microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application consists of a frontend service, an order service, and a payment service. The order service writes messages to an Azure Service Bus queue, and the payment service processes them. You need to ensure that the payment service can scale independently based on the queue length, and that the processing is fault-tolerant: if the payment service crashes during message processing, the message should not be lost and should be retried. You also need to minimize cost by reducing the number of idle instances. You configure the payment service as an Azure Function triggered by the Service Bus queue. Which configuration options should you set?

You are developing an Azure Functions app that processes events from an Event Hubs instance. The function must scale out automatically based on the number of partitions in the Event Hub. You need to ensure that each function instance processes events from at least one partition. Which TWO configurations should you use?

You need to grant access to a blob stored in Azure Blob Storage for 30 minutes to a user who does not have an Azure account. Which security mechanism should you use?

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 are designing a solution that uses Azure Batch for parallel processing of large datasets. Each task requires significant CPU and memory. You need to minimize compute costs while ensuring tasks complete within a deadline. Which pool configuration should you use?

You are building a solution that uploads large files (up to 100 GB) to Azure Blob Storage. Users frequently experience timeout errors when uploading files over slow network connections. Which approach should you use to maximize reliability?

A company deploys an Azure Function app that processes orders. The function needs to scale out automatically when the queue length grows and be billed only for execution time. Which hosting plan should you use?

A system receives high-volume event notifications from Azure resources and routes them to serverless handlers. Events are lightweight and should use native event routing. Which service should be used?

You have an Azure App Service web app that experiences high CPU usage during peak hours. You need to scale out automatically based on CPU load. What should you configure?

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 need to send notifications to mobile devices when a new file is uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. Which Azure service should you use to route the event to a notification hub?

You are developing an Azure Function that processes messages from an Azure Storage queue. The function must handle transient failures when writing to a downstream database. You need to implement a retry policy. What is the recommended approach?

You need to run a batch job every night that processes data from Azure Blob Storage and writes results to Azure SQL Database. The job may run for up to 2 hours. Which Azure service 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?

You are developing an API that processes sensitive personal data. The API is exposed via Azure API Management (APIM). You need to ensure that only authorized applications can call the API, and you want to validate the token at the APIM gateway without modifying the backend code. What is the most efficient approach?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must send email notifications via Office 365 when a new order is placed. You need to securely store the Office 365 credentials and reference them in the Logic App. Which approach should you use?

A company deploys a microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They need to automatically scale individual microservices based on custom metrics (e.g., queue depth). Which feature should they use?

Refer to the exhibit. The exhibit shows an Azure Event Grid subscription configuration. You notice that the webhook endpoint is not receiving events when a .png file is uploaded to the 'images' container. What is the most likely reason?

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?

You are using Azure Logic Apps to orchestrate a workflow that calls a third-party API. The API occasionally returns HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests). How should you handle this to ensure the workflow completes successfully without manual intervention?

A company deploys a microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They need to securely store configuration settings such as database connection strings and API keys. The solution must minimize administrative overhead and automatically rotate keys. What should they use?

You are building a solution that processes real-time telemetry from IoT devices. The telemetry data must be ingested, processed with minimal latency, and stored in Azure Blob Storage for long-term analytics. You need to choose the serverless compute service that is best suited for this scenario. What should you use?

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 implementing an Azure Durable Functions orchestration. The orchestration calls several activity functions that may fail transiently. You need to retry an activity up to 3 times with a 5-second delay, doubling the delay each time (exponential backoff). Which method should you use to call the activity?

Your organization has a custom application that stores customer data in Azure Cosmos DB. You need to encrypt the data at rest using a customer-managed key stored in Azure Key Vault. Which type of Cosmos DB encryption should you configure?

Your team uses Azure DevOps to deploy a web app to Azure App Service. The deployment fails intermittently with a '500 Internal Server Error' after successful code upload. You want to capture a memory dump of the process when the error occurs. What should you configure?

You deploy the above ARM template resource. After deployment, the web app cannot connect to Application Insights. The Application Insights resource exists in the same region. What is the most likely cause?

Arrange the steps to secure an Azure API Management API using OAuth 2.0 with Azure AD in the correct order.

You need to store billions of small log entries (each ~200 bytes) written in chronological order from multiple producers. The logs are read sequentially in bulk once per day. You need to maximize write throughput and minimize storage costs. Which Azure Storage solution should you choose?

You develop an app that uses Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. The app requires reading a specific item by ID with low latency. You need to ensure the query is as fast as possible. What should you use?

You need to store a large number of small files (each < 100 KB) that will be accessed frequently from a web application. The files are static assets (CSS, JavaScript, images). Which Azure storage option provides the best performance for serving these files directly to users?

You are developing a real-time analytics application that ingests IoT sensor data every second. The data is written to Azure Blob Storage as small JSON files (each ~1 KB). The application also needs to query the data based on device ID and timestamp. You need to design a storage solution that allows efficient querying without writing custom code for indexing. You have decided to use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. What should you do to optimize query performance?

Your team is migrating a legacy application to Azure. The application uses a proprietary database that is not supported by Azure SQL or Cosmos DB. You need to provide a managed database service with minimal rearchitecture. Which Azure service should you use?

Your Azure Functions app uses a consumption plan and processes messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. You notice that message processing takes up to 10 minutes, and some messages are being processed multiple times. What is the most likely cause?

An application publishes order events that multiple independent subscribers must process. Subscribers may be added later without changing the publisher. Which Azure messaging service should be used? The team wants the control to be enforceable during normal operations.

A Blob-triggered function processing audit documents fires multiple times for the same blob after retries. What should the function design include?

Refer to the exhibit. You created a custom RBAC role definition. A user assigned this role at the subscription scope. What can the user do?

A company uses Azure Service Bus to receive order messages. Each order message must be processed exactly once, and duplicate messages are not tolerated due to financial transactions. However, the order processing system sometimes fails and retries, leading to potential duplicates. What Service Bus feature should be enabled on the message to support idempotent processing?

You develop a serverless application using Azure Functions. The function must process images uploaded to a blob container. You need to ensure the function runs only when a new blob is created, and that it scales out automatically for high upload volumes. Which trigger and hosting plan combination should you use?

You are developing an Azure Function that processes messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The function must use a managed identity to authenticate to the Service Bus to avoid managing secrets. Which configuration step is essential for this setup?

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?

The team needs to receive an email when an App Service's HTTP 5xx error rate exceeds 5 percent for more than five consecutive minutes. No custom code should be written. What combination of Azure Monitor features implements this requirement?

You develop an IoT solution using Azure IoT Hub. Devices send telemetry data that must be processed by a custom Azure Function. You need to ensure that the Function processes messages in order per device and exactly once. Which IoT Hub feature should you use?

You are using Azure File Sync to sync on-premises file shares to Azure. You need to ensure that files are cached locally on the on-premises server for fast access, but only the most frequently accessed files should be cached. What should you configure?

You are developing an Azure Functions app that processes large files from Azure Blob Storage. When a file is uploaded, the function triggers and reads the entire file into memory, causing high memory usage. You need to optimize the function to handle large files efficiently. Which approach should you recommend?

You are building a real-time dashboard that displays data from Azure Event Hubs. You need to aggregate events over a one-minute window and update the dashboard every minute. Which Azure service should you use?

An application calls a Service Bus topic through HTTP. The developer must implement retries without overwhelming the remote system during partial outages. Which retry pattern is best?

You have an Azure Storage account with hierarchical namespace enabled (Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2). You need to provide an application with delegated access to a specific directory and its contents, with the ability to list, read, and write files. The access must be scoped to the directory and not allow access to other parts of the storage account. Which approach should you use?

An Azure Container Instance running a webhook processor requires a password at startup. The password must not be visible in the portal or container logs. What should be used?

Your Azure Logic App needs to send emails using Microsoft Graph API on behalf of the signed-in user. The user is authenticated with Microsoft Entra ID. Which authentication method should you use in the Logic App?

A developer needs to grant an Azure Function read access to secrets in Azure Key Vault without storing any credentials in the function code or configuration. Which approach should they use?

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.

You have an Azure Function app that needs to retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault at runtime. You want to avoid storing any credentials in code or configuration. Which mechanism should you use?

An application needs to upload large thumbnail metadata to Blob Storage reliably over unstable networks. Which upload approach should be used?

Your company uses Azure API Management to expose APIs to external partners. You need to enforce throttling limits per subscription key. Which policy should you add?

A function consumes messages from Azure Service Bus. Which two settings help handle transient failures safely?

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 building an event-driven solution that processes orders from an Azure Storage Queue. Each order triggers an Azure Function. To improve reliability, you need to automatically retry processing if an exception occurs, but only up to 3 times. You must also preserve the original order message in a poison queue after max retries. Which configuration should you use in the function's host.json?

You are designing a serverless application using Azure Functions. The solution must process messages from an Azure Service Bus queue and update a Cosmos DB database. Which binding configuration should you use on the function?

A single-page app signs in users with Microsoft Entra ID and calls a protected API. The app cannot safely keep a client secret. Which OAuth flow should be used? The team wants the control to be enforceable during normal operations.

You are deploying an Azure Functions app using ARM template. The exhibit shows a portion of the template. You notice that the AzureWebJobsStorage connection string includes the account key directly. What is the MOST important security concern?

You are developing an Azure Function that reads secrets from Azure Key Vault. The function must not use any static credentials in configuration files. You need to authenticate to Key Vault using the function's own identity. Which Azure service feature should you enable?

A developer is configuring a web app to authenticate users with Microsoft Entra ID. The web app needs to call a downstream API that also uses Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. The developer must ensure that the web app can securely obtain access tokens for the downstream API. Which authentication flow should the developer implement?

An application publishes order events that multiple independent subscribers must process. Subscribers may be added later without changing the publisher. Which Azure messaging service should be used? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

You are designing a solution for a healthcare application that stores patient data in Azure Cosmos DB. The data must be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed key stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to ensure that the key can be rotated without downtime. Which approach should you recommend?

You are developing an API that uses managed identity to access Azure Key Vault. The API runs in an Azure App Service with system-assigned managed identity enabled. You need to retrieve a secret value. Which API endpoint should your code call?

You are building an Azure Logic App that calls an external REST API secured with the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow. You have registered an app in Microsoft Entra ID with client ID and client secret stored in Azure Key Vault. The Logic App uses a system-assigned managed identity with Get permission on the secret. Which action should you use in the Logic App designer to authenticate to the API?

You are developing a solution that processes events from Azure Event Hubs and stores them in Azure Blob Storage. The processing must be idempotent and exactly-once. Which approach should you use?

Your company uses Azure Logic Apps to automate workflows. A workflow must call an external REST API that requires an API key in the header. You need to securely store the API key and reference it in the Logic App without exposing it in the workflow definition. What should you do?

You deploy an Azure Function app that runs on the Consumption plan. The function writes logs to Application Insights. You notice that some log entries are missing during periods of high load. You need to ensure that all logs are captured without significantly increasing cost. What should you do?

You are developing a web application that relies on a third-party weather API. The API has a rate limit of 10 requests per second per API key. You need to ensure your application never exceeds this limit and also caches responses for 10 minutes to reduce call frequency. Which combination of Azure services should you implement?

Your AKS cluster runs a microservices application. You need to expose an internal service only within the cluster virtual network. Which Service type should you use?

Your application running on Azure App Service is experiencing intermittent timeouts. You have configured Application Insights to collect telemetry. Which metric should you analyze in the Azure portal to identify the slowest dependencies?

An application uses Azure Event Hubs to ingest telemetry data. The team wants to process the data in near real-time and store aggregated results in Azure SQL Database. Which Azure service should they use?

You have an Azure App Service that uses a system-assigned managed identity. You need to grant it permission to read a secret from Azure Key Vault. Which RBAC role should you assign at the Key Vault scope?

You have an Azure Storage account with a blob container. You need to grant a user read-only access to a specific blob for 24 hours without requiring them to authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID. What should you use?

Which TWO features of Azure App Service can help you reduce application downtime during deployments?

You are implementing an Azure Durable Functions application that processes orders. The function must call three external APIs (payment gateway, inventory system, and shipping calculator) in parallel, then aggregate the results once all three have completed. Which Durable Functions pattern should you use?

Configuration values that control whether a new checkout experience is enabled must be changeable without redeploying the App Service application. The team uses ASP.NET Core. Which Azure service provides the correct combination of runtime configuration reload and feature flag management?

Match each Azure service to its primary purpose.

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 developing a web app that runs on Azure App Service. The app needs to read a connection string from configuration. Which is the recommended approach to access the connection string in the app code?

You are developing a solution that requires multiple Azure virtual machines to access the same set of files concurrently. The files are updated frequently and must be accessible with low latency. You need to choose a shared storage solution that integrates with Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) for authentication. Which Azure storage solution should you use?

Your company stores secrets in Azure Key Vault. You need to ensure that when a secret is disabled, it does not become accessible to applications that already have a cached copy. Which additional step must you take?

An Azure Functions image resize worker must run for up to 30 minutes and uses a VNet integration feature. The team wants serverless scaling without managing virtual machines. Which hosting plan should be used?

Audit logs are written daily as block blobs to an Azure Storage account. Logs older than 90 days must move to Cool tier automatically; logs older than 365 days must be deleted. The developer wants to implement this with no custom code and no recurring jobs. What is the correct solution?

A company uses Azure Blob Storage to store sensitive documents. They want to ensure that data is encrypted at rest using customer-managed keys (CMK) stored in Azure Key Vault. They also need to be able to revoke access to the data immediately if a security breach is detected. Which feature should they enable?

Which TWO options are valid ways to scale an Azure Functions app running on the Premium plan?

You are developing an application that uses Azure Queue Storage. The application processes messages and must ensure that a message is not lost if the processing fails. Which visibility timeout setting should you use?

You are building a serverless application using Azure Functions. The function processes large CSV files uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. Each file can be up to 100 MB. The function must parse the file and insert each row into a SQL database. You need to minimize cold start latency and ensure the function can handle the processing within the default timeout. What should you do?

Which THREE actions should you take to securely access Azure Key Vault from an Azure App Service? (Choose three.)

You are reviewing an ARM template that deploys an Azure App Service. The template sets an app setting 'MyApiKey' that references a Key Vault secret. However, the deployment fails with an error that the app service cannot access the secret. What is the most likely cause?

A company is developing an application that processes orders. The application uses Azure Service Bus queues to decouple order submission from processing. During peak hours, some messages are not processed within the required time, causing order delays. The team needs to increase throughput without changing the existing message processing logic. What should they do?

You have an Azure Function app that processes messages from a Service Bus queue. Under high load, some messages are not processed within the expected time. You need to identify whether the function is throttling due to high CPU or due to a downstream dependency. Which Application Insights feature should you use?

The mobile app team needs to send push notifications to 10 million devices running both iOS and Android. On iOS, notifications go through Apple Push Notification service (APNs); on Android, through Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The team wants a single Azure service that abstracts platform differences and scales without managing separate APNs and FCM integrations per platform. Which service should they use?

You are developing a web application that uses Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. You need to perform a point read by document ID and partition key. Which API method should you use to achieve the best performance and lowest cost?

You need to upload a large file (500 MB) to Azure Blob Storage from a .NET application with high throughput and resilience to network interruptions. Which approach should you use?

Which FOUR of the following are true regarding Microsoft Entra ID authentication for Azure Storage?

You need to monitor the CPU and memory usage of an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) over the last 30 days. Which Azure service should you use?

An API receives JWT access tokens from Microsoft Entra ID. Which two token properties should the API validate before accepting a request? The team wants the control to be enforceable during normal operations.

You are developing a C# application that stores sensitive documents in Azure Blob Storage. The application needs to generate a time-limited shared access signature (SAS) that allows a client to only read and list blobs in a specific container. The SAS must be valid for exactly 1 hour from the current time. Which code snippet correctly creates the SAS? (Assume the BlobServiceClient and BlobContainerClient are properly initialized.)

You deploy a container to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The container runs a background job that should automatically restart only if it exits with a non-zero exit code (i.e., crashes). You want to minimize costs. Which restart policy should you configure?

You are running a containerized application on Azure Container Instances. The application requires a custom DNS server. How should you configure this?

Your company, Contoso Ltd., operates a global e-commerce platform. The platform stores product images in Azure Blob Storage. Currently, the images are stored in a single storage account in the West US region. The application uses HTTP to download images. Users in Europe report slow load times. You need to reduce latency for European users. The solution must minimize costs and administrative overhead. You also need to ensure that images are served over HTTPS. You have the following requirements: 1) Users in Europe must have low-latency access. 2) The solution must be cost-effective. 3) The solution must not require changes to the application code. 4) Images must be served over HTTPS. Which course of action should you recommend?

You are designing a solution that processes orders from an e-commerce website. The solution must guarantee that each order is processed exactly once. Which TWO Azure services can you use to achieve this requirement?

A booking backend uses Azure Functions with HTTP triggers. The developer wants to reject unauthenticated calls before function code executes. Which feature should be configured?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances. The application requires a custom domain name and SSL/TLS termination. You need to configure these features. Which resource should you create alongside the container group?

Refer to the exhibit. You are creating an Azure Service Bus queue using an ARM template. The requirement is that messages should be automatically dead-lettered after 3 failed delivery attempts. Does this configuration meet the requirement?

An application publishes order events that multiple independent subscribers must process. Subscribers may be added later without changing the publisher. Which Azure messaging service should be used? The architecture review board prefers a managed Azure-native control.

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Container Instances to run a batch job. The job requires 8 GB of memory and 4 vCPUs. You need to minimize costs. Which container group configuration should you choose?

A Cosmos DB container for session records receives hot-partition throttling because the partition key has only five possible values. What should the developer change? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

You are developing a microservices application. Each microservice must authenticate to Azure SQL Database using its own identity. You need to minimize credential management overhead. What should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this ARM template to create an Azure App Service. After deployment, the application stops responding after a few minutes. The application is a .NET 6 web API that runs in a Linux container. What is the most likely cause?

An App Service application uses a staging deployment slot connected to a staging database and a production slot connected to a production database. Both use an app setting called 'DbConnectionString'. After a slot swap, the production slot starts using the staging database connection string. What configuration change prevents this?

Backend APIs exposed through Azure API Management are consumed by multiple subscribers. The product owner wants to prevent any single subscriber from sending more than 100 requests per minute, while allowing subscribers with heavier plans to have higher limits configured separately. Which APIM policy implements per-subscriber rate limiting?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must consume messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The queue messages are JSON payloads containing order information. The Logic App must process each message exactly once and in the order they are received. You need to configure the trigger in the Logic App. Which trigger type and property should you choose?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must call an external REST API. The API requires an API key passed in the Authorization header. You need to store the API key securely and reference it in the Logic App without exposing it in the workflow definition. What should you do?

You are building an integration solution that connects an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure Data Factory. The on-premises network does not allow direct inbound connections from Azure. You need to securely transfer data from the database to Azure Blob Storage. Which data factory component should you use?

You are deploying a critical application on Azure App Service. The application must be highly available across two Azure regions. You need to implement a disaster recovery strategy that meets the following requirements: automatic failover with minimal data loss, and the ability to test failover without affecting production. Which THREE actions should you perform?

You need to deploy a web app that uses Azure SQL Database. The connection string must be securely stored and automatically rotated without application downtime. What should you use?

You are developing a serverless application using Azure Functions that processes sensitive data. The function needs to access Azure Key Vault to retrieve a secret. You want to use managed identity for authentication. What should you do first?

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?

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an ARM template for a storage account. A security audit requires that all storage accounts enforce TLS 1.2 or higher. Does this configuration meet the requirement?

Refer to the exhibit. A developer is creating an Azure Data Factory pipeline to copy data from Azure Blob Storage to Azure SQL Database. The pipeline fails with a timeout error when copying large files. Which action should the developer take to resolve the issue?

Your application running on Azure App Service is experiencing intermittent high latency. You have enabled Application Insights and noticed that the 'Server response time' metric spikes during peak hours. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

You are designing a data archiving solution for compliance. Data must be stored for 7 years, with immediate deletion prohibited until the retention period expires. The solution must minimize storage costs while ensuring data is not modifiable. Which THREE Azure features should you combine?

You want to ensure that data in an Azure Storage account is replicated across multiple Azure regions to protect against regional outages. Which replication option should you choose?

Your company runs a critical web application on Azure App Service (Windows) that experiences intermittent high CPU usage. The application uses the Standard tier with auto-scaling based on CPU percentage. During auto-scale events, there is a delay of several minutes before new instances become available, causing temporary performance degradation. You need to reduce the latency of scaling out. What should you do?

Your company stores sensitive documents in an Azure Storage account. You need to ensure that only authorized Microsoft Entra ID users can read the documents, and that shared keys (account access keys) cannot be used. Which two steps must you take? (Choose the most appropriate single answer that describes the combined action.)

You run the command above to create an Azure Container Instance. The container exits with a non-zero exit code. You need to check the logs to debug the issue. Which command should you use next?

Your company stores backup files in an Azure Blob Storage account. These files are written once and then need to be retained for 7 years. During the first year, the files are accessed weekly. After the first year, they are accessed rarely (once per month). You want to minimize storage costs. Which combination of access tiers and lifecycle management should you apply?

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 company uses Azure File Sync to sync on-premises file shares to Azure Files. You notice that some files are not syncing to Azure. You need to diagnose the issue with minimal administrative effort. Which Azure service should you use?

You are developing a solution that must encrypt data before it is sent to Azure Blob Storage. You need to manage encryption keys yourself using Azure Key Vault. Which approach should you use?

You have an Azure App Service web app that uses a system-assigned managed identity. The web app needs to authenticate to an Azure SQL Database to read and write data. You want to use the managed identity to avoid storing credentials in connection strings. Which steps are required to configure this access?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Azure CLI command shown for an Azure Function app. What is the effect of this setting?

A document rendering job in Azure App Service must safely access Key Vault secrets without connection strings in configuration. Which two steps are required?

A company uses Azure Functions to process orders. The function needs to read messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. Which binding should the developer configure in the function.json?

You are developing an Azure Function that runs on a Consumption Plan. The function calls an external API that enforces a rate limit of 10 requests per second. When the function scales out to multiple instances, you must ensure the rate limit is not exceeded. Which pattern should you implement?

Your application uses Azure Key Vault to store secrets. You need to ensure that the application can access secrets without storing any credentials in the application code or configuration files. What should you use?

Which THREE tools can you use to diagnose performance issues in an Azure App Service? (Choose three.)

You are developing a web application that allows users to upload images. The application runs on Azure App Service. You need to ensure that uploaded images are stored in Azure Blob Storage and that the application remains responsive. What should you use?

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?

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this ARM template to an App Service named 'myapp'. After deployment, users report they are able to access the app without being prompted to log in. What is the most likely reason?

You have a multi-tenant application that uses Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) for authentication. You want to allow only specific tenants to access your app. What is the recommended approach?

You are developing a serverless function using Azure Functions that needs to write logs to a Log Analytics workspace. The function uses a managed identity. Which RBAC role should you assign to the function's managed identity?

You are developing an ASP.NET Core web API that authenticates users via Microsoft Entra ID. The application needs to authorize access to resources based on custom roles (e.g., 'Admin', 'Editor') that are not present in Microsoft Entra ID. The role mappings are dynamic and stored in an application database. How should you implement authorization?

You need to store millions of small log entries (each <1 KB) per day from an IoT device. The logs are rarely read. Which storage solution is most cost-effective?

You develop an Azure Functions app that processes images triggered by blob uploads. You need to ensure the function can process images in parallel and handle high upload volumes without missing events. Which trigger and plan combination is recommended?

You are developing a web app that processes images uploaded by users. The processing can take up to 30 seconds per image. You need to ensure that the web app remains responsive and can handle spikes in traffic. Which Azure service should you use to offload the image processing?

A .NET app performs point reads from Cosmos DB by id and partition key. The team wants the lowest latency and best throughput efficiency. Which API call pattern should be used?

You are building a solution that uses Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL. You need to implement a change feed processor to handle real-time updates. The application runs on multiple instances to ensure high availability. Which lease container configuration ensures that each instance processes a distinct set of partitions?

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?

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

Which TWO actions should you take to secure an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster that runs a critical workload? (Choose two.)

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?

Your company has a multi-tier application running on Azure Virtual Machines. The application experiences high CPU usage during peak hours. You need to implement autoscaling for the virtual machine scale set based on CPU usage. The scaling should be aggressive when CPU exceeds 80% and conservative when CPU drops below 30%. Which scaling rule configuration should you use?

Your company has a microservices application deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One service, OrderProcessor, needs to read messages from an Azure Service Bus queue and write results to Azure Cosmos DB. The processing must be reliable: if the service crashes mid-processing, the message should not be lost and should be retried. You also need to ensure that messages are processed in order within a partition. The solution should minimize code changes and leverage platform features. Which approach should you use?

You are using Azure File Storage to share configuration files across multiple virtual machines running a legacy application. The application requires SMB 3.0 protocol with encryption. You need to ensure the file share is accessible from all VMs without exposing it to the internet. Which configuration should you use?

You have an Azure CDN profile that caches content from a storage account. Users in Europe report that images load slowly. You need to improve performance for European users. What should you do?

You need to implement a solution for storing and retrieving large amounts of unstructured data (e.g., images, videos, backups) in Azure, with high durability and availability. The solution must allow access from anywhere via HTTP/HTTPS and support both public and private access. Which TWO Azure storage services should you consider?

You are building a solution that processes images uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. Each image must be analyzed by Azure AI Vision (Computer Vision). You need to trigger the analysis automatically when a new blob is created. Which Azure service should you use?

You are developing an Azure Functions app that processes orders. Each order triggers a function that writes to Azure Cosmos DB. You notice occasional throttling (429 errors) from Cosmos DB during peak hours. The function app uses the Consumption plan. What is the most cost-effective way to reduce throttling?

A high-traffic API sends approximately 80,000 telemetry events per second to Application Insights. Monthly ingestion costs are too high. The team wants to reduce data volume by roughly 80 percent while still seeing representative samples of all request types. What should the developer configure?

You are using Azure Cognitive Search to index documents stored in Azure Blob Storage. The indexer is failing with the error 'Data source credentials are invalid.' You have verified that the connection string for the storage account is correct. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing a solution that needs to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault. The solution will run as an Azure App Service managed identity. Which authentication method should you use?

A company is building a microservices application on Azure Container Instances. Each microservice needs to authenticate to Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. They want to avoid storing any credentials in the container images or environment variables. What should they do?

An app uses Azure Event Grid to publish events. The events must be delivered to an Azure Function that processes them. Which Event Grid event delivery model should be used?

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

You are deploying a background processing job that reads messages from an Azure Storage Queue. The job must run on the same compute resources as the main web application and must not require additional deployment or monitoring overhead. Which solution should you use?

You need to deploy a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI) with a public IP address and a DNS name label. Which YAML property should you configure for the DNS name?

The team is writing an Azure Function that needs to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault at runtime. The security policy prohibits storing client secrets, connection strings, or certificates in application settings or source code. What is the recommended approach?

You are designing a solution to store and serve large media files (500 MB to 2 GB) to a global audience. The files must be accessible via HTTPS with low latency. Which Azure Storage option should you use?

Your application runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It needs to access Azure Key Vault secrets. You want to avoid using a service principal. Which solution should you implement?

You are designing a solution to store large amounts of structured data that is accessed frequently and requires low-latency reads. The data must be globally distributed and support automatic failover. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must connect to a third-party CRM system using a custom API. The API requires an API key in the header of every request. You need to securely store the API key and reference it in the Logic App. Which approach should you use?

A developer is building an application that needs to store and retrieve large binary files (e.g., images, videos). The application runs on Azure Virtual Machines. Which Azure service provides the most cost-effective storage for these files?

You are building a solution that processes orders and needs to send order confirmation emails reliably. You choose Azure Logic Apps with a Gmail connector. However, you are concerned about hitting Gmail's sending limits. What should you do to handle this?

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?

Your company runs a web application on Azure App Service that uses a custom domain. The application must be accessible only via HTTPS. You have already uploaded an SSL certificate for the custom domain. However, users can still access the site via HTTP. You need to enforce HTTPS redirection. What should you do?

You are building an Azure Logic App that needs to call a third-party REST API. The API requires an API key to be passed in the 'X-API-Key' header. You have stored the API key as a secret in Azure Key Vault. The Logic App uses a managed identity that has read access to the Key Vault secret. You want to retrieve the API key securely at runtime and include it in the HTTP request. Which approach should you use?

You need to consume an Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics API from a Python application. The API requires a subscription key. Where should you store the key to ensure security?

Northwind Traders is building a microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). One service needs to read messages from an Azure Service Bus queue and write them to an Azure SQL database. The solution must use managed identities for authentication. The AKS cluster is integrated with Microsoft Entra ID. The development team wants to avoid managing service principals and secrets. The team has chosen to use the Azure Identity SDK for authentication. The service will run as a pod in AKS. Which approach should the team use to authenticate to Service Bus and Azure SQL Database?

A developer exposes several backend APIs through Azure API Management. Clients must be throttled by subscription to protect the backend. What should be configured? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

An application stores customer invoices in Azure Blob Storage. Deleted blobs must be recoverable for 14 days. What should be enabled? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

You are developing a worker role that processes events from an Azure Event Hub. The worker runs on multiple virtual machines to ensure high availability. Each partition of the Event Hub should be processed by only one instance at a time, and events from the same partition must be processed in order. You need to manage partition leasing and checkpointing efficiently. Which Azure SDK class should you use?

You need to provide temporary access to a file in Azure Blob Storage for a duration of one hour. The solution must not require authentication. What should you generate?

You are migrating an on-premises .NET Framework app to Azure. The app uses Windows authentication and requires persistent storage. You want to minimize rework. Which Azure compute service should you choose?

Your application uses Azure Service Bus topics. You need to ensure that messages are processed in the order they were sent within a session. What must you configure?

A company deploys a web application to Azure App Service. They want to deploy a new version of the app with zero downtime and the ability to quickly roll back if needed. Which deployment feature should they use?

You need to upload a large file (10 GB) to Azure Blob Storage with the ability to pause and resume the upload. Which approach should you use?

A document rendering job hosted on App Service returns intermittent 502 errors during deployment. The team wants zero-downtime release with validation before traffic moves. What should be implemented?

A team develops an Azure Functions app that processes IoT telemetry. They notice cold start latency is impacting performance. The function uses the Consumption plan. Which action reduces cold starts most effectively?

You need to grant a user the ability to read and write blobs in a specific container for 24 hours. The solution must use delegated access without exposing the storage account key. What should you use?

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Functions to process events from Azure Event Grid. The function must handle events reliably. Which TWO options should you implement?

Refer to the exhibit. A developer runs this Azure CLI command to set an app setting for a web app. What is the impact on the web app?

A background worker retrieves a message from Azure Queue Storage and begins processing. The processing logic takes longer than the configured visibility timeout. Before the worker finishes, the timeout expires. What happens to the message?

A developer is implementing least-privilege storage access. The application runs on Azure App Service and must avoid stored credentials. Which design should be used? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

Refer to the exhibit. You run this KQL query in Azure Resource Graph Explorer. The query returns no results. What is the most likely reason?

A web app for a claims processing function needs separate staging and production environments. The team must warm up the new version before swapping traffic. Which App Service feature should be used?

Which TWO actions can help you reduce latency for a globally distributed web application? (Choose two.)

Your application uses Azure Blob Storage to store images. You need to automatically move blobs older than 30 days to the Cool tier and delete blobs older than 365 days. What should you implement?

You need to store billions of small log entries (each ~200 bytes) generated from multiple IoT devices. The logs are written in chronological order and are rarely updated. You need to run queries that scan large ranges of data by timestamp each day. You want to maximize write throughput and minimize storage costs. Which Azure Storage solution should you choose?

You are using Azure Cache for Redis to cache frequently accessed database query results. You need to ensure that the cache is updated automatically when the underlying data changes. Which pattern should you implement?

A company uses Azure Logic Apps to automate business processes. They need to call an external REST API that requires OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant. Which connector should they use with minimal configuration?

Your company uses Azure Key Vault to manage encryption keys for data at rest in Azure Storage. You need to ensure that the storage account uses a customer-managed key (CMK) stored in Key Vault. Additionally, you need to periodically rotate the key automatically. Which configuration should you implement?

A developer is building an app that uses Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics. The app needs to detect the language of text input. Which Azure SDK method should be called?

You have an Azure Storage account configured as shown in the exhibit. You need to ensure that all traffic to the storage account uses HTTPS. Which Azure CLI command should you run next?

You need to upload large files (up to 100 GB) to Azure Blob Storage from a web application. The upload must be resilient to network failures and support pausing/resuming. Which approach should you use?

You manage an API in Azure API Management. The API response varies depending on the caller's subscription key. You need to cache responses per subscription key to reduce backend load. Which policy configuration should you use?

You are developing an ASP.NET Core web API that is hosted on Azure App Service. The API needs to read secrets from Azure Key Vault at startup. You want to avoid storing any credentials in the application code or configuration. Which approach should you use?

Which THREE features of Azure API Management help enforce security policies for APIs? (Choose three.)

A checkout API uses Azure Functions with HTTP triggers. The developer wants to reject unauthenticated calls before function code executes. Which feature should be configured?

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?

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?

Your Azure Logic Apps workflow fails intermittently with timeout errors. What should you do to improve reliability?

An application stores large media files (up to 5 GB) that are frequently appended to but rarely read sequentially. Which Azure Blob Storage type should be used to optimize writes and cost?

The internal API team is deploying a containerized .NET API that receives sporadic requests — sometimes none for hours, then bursts of activity. Cost is a priority. The team wants the container to stop running when idle and start automatically when a request arrives, with no server management overhead. Which Azure service is the best fit?

You are building a solution that processes orders from multiple regions. Orders must be processed in the order they are received, but processing can take up to 5 minutes. You need to ensure exactly-once processing and minimize latency. Which Azure service and configuration should you use?

You are developing a background job that runs every hour to process data. You choose Azure Functions with a timer trigger. What is the correct format for the cron expression to run at the start of every hour?

You have an Azure App Service web app that experiences fluctuating traffic. During peak hours, the CPU usage reaches 90% and response times increase. You want to automatically scale out the number of instances when CPU usage exceeds 75% and scale in when it drops below 25%. The scaling should be gradual to avoid thrashing. Which configuration should you use?

You are developing a .NET 8 application that stores customer data in Azure Blob Storage. The application uses the Azure.Storage.Blobs SDK. You need to ensure that the blob containers are created only if they do not already exist. Which method should you call?

You are building a serverless image-processing solution using Azure Functions. The function must automatically run whenever a new image is uploaded to a blob container and must scale out to handle high upload volumes. Which trigger and hosting plan should you use?

You are developing an Azure Functions app that uses Durable Functions to orchestrate a long-running workflow. The workflow involves calling multiple external APIs. You need to ensure that the orchestration can survive a function app restart. Which feature should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs this Azure CLI command. What is the result?

You are developing an Azure Function that processes messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The function uses a Service Bus queue trigger and runs on a Consumption Plan. The queue receives a high volume of messages in bursts. You need to ensure that the function scales out to handle the load but does not exceed 10 concurrent instances. Which configuration should you apply?

Fabrikam Inc. has an Azure Function app that processes image uploads. Each time a blob is added to a container in Azure Blob Storage, the function is triggered. The function resizes the image and stores the result in another container. Currently, the function uses an Azure Storage account connection string stored in application settings. The security team requires that no connection strings or access keys be stored in application settings. The function must use managed identity to access the storage account. The storage account is in the same subscription. Which action should the team take?

You are designing a solution to ingest billions of small IoT sensor messages (each ~500 bytes). Messages arrive at high velocity and must be retained for 90 days. You need to query the data efficiently by device ID and timestamp. You want to minimize storage cost and write latency. Which Azure Storage solution should you use?

External partners are given Shared Access Signatures to upload product images to a specific Blob Storage container named 'images'. A partner reports accidentally uploading files to the 'contracts' container, which should not be accessible. What is the most likely configuration mistake?

You are deploying a web app on Azure App Service that stores secrets in Azure Key Vault. The app uses managed identity to access Key Vault. During testing, you get a 403 Forbidden error when the app tries to read a secret. What is the most likely cause?

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 are developing a solution that needs to consume an external SOAP web service. Which approach should you use to integrate it into a modern .NET Core application?

A company uses Azure Event Hubs to ingest telemetry data from IoT devices. The data is processed by a stream analytics job that outputs to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. The developer needs to ensure that the stream analytics job can authenticate to Event Hubs without storing connection strings in code. Which authentication method should the developer use?

You are deploying a sensitive application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to ensure that secrets, such as database connection strings, are encrypted at rest and in transit, and that the cluster has no static credentials. Which feature should you enable?

You need to execute a PowerShell script every night to clean up unused resources in your Azure subscription. The script should run with a specific service principal identity that has the necessary permissions. You want a serverless solution with minimal management overhead. Which Azure service should you use?

You are deploying a Node.js application to Azure Web Apps for Containers. The application needs to read configuration settings from Azure App Configuration. What is the recommended method to securely connect the app to the configuration store?

Which TWO of the following are valid use cases for Azure Queue Storage? (Choose TWO.)

You are developing a microservices application deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to ensure that service-to-service communication is encrypted using mutual TLS (mTLS) without modifying application code. What should you do?

You need to deploy a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI) with a public IP address and DNS name label. The container must restart automatically if it exits unexpectedly. Which configuration should you use?

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to authenticate an Azure function to an Azure SQL database using managed identity?

You are deploying an application to Azure App Service that requires a custom startup script to initialize the environment. Where should you place the startup script in the application code?

You are designing a solution that uses Azure File Shares. The application requires low-latency access to files from multiple Azure virtual machines in the same region. The files are accessed frequently and must support SMB protocol. Which storage account type and tier should you recommend?

You need to call a third-party REST API from your Azure Function app. The API requires an API key in the header. Where should you store the API key to keep it secure?

You are processing messages from an Azure Storage queue in a worker role. To handle messages that repeatedly fail, you want to move them to a separate 'poison' queue after 5 delivery attempts. Which property of the received message should you check to determine the number of attempts?

You need to reduce costs for an Azure Functions app that runs intermittently. The current Consumption plan bills for execution time. Which change would be MOST cost-effective?

You have an Azure Storage account with cool tier blobs. You need to implement lifecycle management to move blobs to the archive tier after 30 days if they have not been accessed, and delete them after 365 days. Which lifecycle management rule action should you configure?

You deploy the above ARM template resource for a web app. The web app reads the connection string from the 'DefaultConnection' name. However, the web app fails to connect to the database with an error 'Login failed for user 'myuser'. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing an application that runs on Azure App Service. The application needs to store session state. The session state must be shared across multiple instances of the app and survive restarts. You need to choose a session state provider. What should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Azure CLI command to store a secret in Key Vault. Later, you run 'az keyvault secret show --vault-name myvault --name MySecret'. What will be displayed?

You are deploying a Java application to Azure App Service on Linux. The application requires a specific JDK version not available in the built-in stack. You need to provide the JDK without creating a custom container. What should you do?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Container Instances. The application requires writing temporary files to a local filesystem. You need to ensure that the files persist if the container restarts. What should you do?

A report export service in Azure App Service must safely access Key Vault secrets without connection strings in configuration. Which two steps are required?

You are reviewing an ARM template that deploys a network security group (NSG) for a web application. The exhibit shows the security rules. The web application runs on port 443. You need to ensure that HTTPS traffic from the internet can reach the web servers. What is the issue with the current configuration?

A company stores archival data in Azure Blob Storage. The data is accessed only a few times per year, and retrieval can take up to 15 hours. Which blob access tier minimizes storage costs while meeting these requirements?

A workflow must process 500 customer records in parallel and then aggregate all results into a single summary report. The team wants to use Azure Durable Functions so the orchestration state is durable and the solution can resume after a Function App restart. Which Durable Functions pattern matches this requirement?

You are developing a .NET Core application that stores user profile images in Azure Blob Storage. The images are accessed frequently in the first week after upload, then rarely afterwards. You need to minimize storage costs while maintaining immediate access for the first week. What should you do?

You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a storage account containing critical data. The storage account is in the West US region. You need to ensure that if West US becomes unavailable, read access to the data is still possible with minimal latency. The data must be replicated asynchronously. Which replication strategy should you choose?

A developer accidentally deleted a secret from Azure Key Vault. Soft-delete is enabled with a retention period of 90 days. After 60 days, you attempt to recover the secret. What should you do?

You are designing a solution that stores large media files (up to 5 GB each) in Azure Blob Storage. The application must support concurrent uploads with the ability to pause and resume. You need to ensure efficient use of network bandwidth and provide progress reporting. Which approach should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You run this KQL query in Azure Monitor Logs. What does the timechart display?

You have an Azure Web App that uses Azure SQL Database. You need to securely connect to the database using Managed Identity. Which connection string setting should you use?

A financial services company uses Azure Container Instances (ACI) to run batch processing jobs. Each job processes sensitive financial data and must use a custom container image stored in Azure Container Registry (ACR). The security requirements are: the ACI container must authenticate to ACR using a managed identity, the container must run as a non-root user, and all secrets must be injected via environment variables from Azure Key Vault using the managed identity. The ACI instance must also be deployed into a virtual network (VNet) to restrict network access. What configuration should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You are configuring Azure Monitor autoscale for a virtual machine scale set using the above JSON metric configuration. The autoscale rule is supposed to scale out when average memory usage exceeds 80%. However, autoscale is not triggering even when memory usage is consistently above 90%. What is the most likely cause?

A company uses Azure SQL Database and needs to encrypt sensitive columns (e.g., credit card numbers) at rest and in transit, with the ability to allow specific applications to decrypt. They want to manage encryption keys centrally in Azure Key Vault and avoid managing certificates. Which technology should they use?

Your company is developing a real-time dashboard that displays live metrics from IoT devices. The backend processes device data using Azure Functions with an Event Hubs trigger. The processed data is stored in Azure Cosmos DB. You need to ensure that the system can handle a sudden increase in device data without losing messages or overloading Cosmos DB. The solution must minimize latency and cost. What should you do?

You are developing an application that stores sensitive user data in Azure Table Storage. You need to ensure that data is encrypted at rest and that only authorized users can access it. What should you implement?

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?

Which THREE are valid ways to authenticate an Azure Functions app to an Azure Service Bus namespace?

You are designing a serverless application using Azure Functions that processes high-volume events from Azure Event Hubs. The events are then written to Azure Cosmos DB. The function must guarantee at-least-once delivery and be resilient to failures. The Cosmos DB account uses the SQL API and is configured with a single write region. You need to design the function to handle transient failures when writing to Cosmos DB without losing events. What should you do?

A retail company uses Azure Logic Apps to integrate with third-party APIs. One Logic App sends purchase orders to a supplier's HTTP endpoint. The supplier requires that the request include an OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from their authorization server. The company wants to manage the client credentials (client ID and client secret) securely and rotate them automatically. The Logic App must also log all requests for auditing. What should you do?

Your Azure Function app processes messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The function is triggered by Service Bus messages. Occasionally, the function throws an unhandled exception after the message is processed but before the function completes. What happens to the message?

You need to expose an on-premises API securely to external partners without opening firewall ports. Which Azure service should you use?

Your company uses Azure API Management (APIM) to expose several APIs. One of the backend APIs requires an API key that is stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to configure APIM to retrieve the API key from Key Vault and pass it to the backend in a header without exposing the key in policy definitions. Which APIM 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 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 developing an ASP.NET Core web app that will be deployed to Azure App Service. The app needs to authenticate users from a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. You want to minimize development effort and rely on platform features. What should you do?

You are deploying a web app to Azure App Service. The app uses environment-specific configuration (e.g., connection strings). You need to manage these settings without redeploying the app. Which feature should you use?

Users of a web application hosted on App Service are randomly signed out when the app is scaled out to three instances. Investigation shows that session data stored in in-process memory is not available when subsequent requests hit a different instance. What is the recommended solution?

You are developing a web app that authenticates users via Microsoft Entra ID. The app needs to access the Microsoft Graph API to read user profiles. Which type of permission should you request in the app registration to ensure the app can read profiles without user interaction?

Your company wants to send email notifications to users via a third-party email service (SendGrid) from an Azure Logic App. What is the recommended way to securely store the SendGrid API key?

Adventure Works is developing a payment processing system on Azure. The system uses an Azure Service Bus queue to decouple the frontend from the backend. The frontend sends a message to the queue. A backend service, running as an Azure WebJob, processes the message and calls a third-party payment gateway via HTTPS. The backend must authenticate to the payment gateway using a client certificate stored in Azure Key Vault. The WebJob must be able to access the certificate without storing any secrets in configuration. The WebJob runs in an App Service plan with system-assigned managed identity enabled. Which approach should the team use to retrieve the certificate and authenticate to the payment gateway?

You are designing a serverless application using Azure Functions. The function must process messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. The processing time for each message can vary from a few seconds to several minutes. You need to minimize costs while ensuring that messages are processed in a timely manner. Which hosting plan should you recommend?

You are developing a solution that uses Azure Functions with a consumption plan. The function processes messages from an Azure Service Bus queue. During a load test, you notice that the function takes a long time to start processing messages after a period of inactivity. What is the most likely cause of this cold start delay?

Your company uses Azure Logic Apps to automate a business process. The process needs to call an external REST API that requires an API key passed in the Authorization header. You need to store the API key securely and reference it in the Logic App. Which approach should you use?

You are building an event-driven application that needs to publish messages to multiple independent subscribers. Each subscriber must be able to filter messages based on custom properties, and each subscriber must receive all messages that match its filter, even if other subscribers have different filters. The solution must guarantee message delivery. Which Azure messaging service should you use?

An e-commerce platform writes orders to a Cosmos DB container. A downstream inventory service must process every new or updated order exactly once, even if the inventory service restarts mid-batch. The solution must scale horizontally when order volume increases. What is the recommended design?

You are deploying a containerized application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application needs to access Azure SQL Database securely. Which approach should you use to avoid storing credentials in the container image?

You are developing a solution that stores large media files in Azure Blob Storage. Users access these files frequently for the first 30 days, then rarely afterwards. To optimize costs, you need to automatically move blobs to a cooler tier after 30 days of creation. Which Azure feature should you use?

Refer to the exhibit. You are configuring access to an Azure Storage container using Azure RBAC via a custom role definition. You want to allow a user to list blobs in a container only if the request originates from the IP range 203.0.113.0/24. However, the user reports that they can list blobs from any IP. What is the issue?

An API receives JWT access tokens from Microsoft Entra ID. Which two token properties should the API validate before accepting a request? The architecture review board prefers a managed Azure-native control.

Arrange the steps to implement Azure Key Vault for storing and retrieving secrets in an application in the correct order.

Arrange the steps to deploy a containerized application to Azure Container Instances (ACI) from Azure Container Registry (ACR) in the correct order.

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.

Which TWO actions should you take to enable a user-assigned managed identity for an Azure App Service web app?

You need to store small binary blobs (average 50 KB) that are accessed very frequently for a short period, then never accessed again. The total volume is high. Which storage tier is most cost-effective for the initial upload?

Which TWO permissions should be granted to an application's managed identity to allow it to read secrets from Azure Key Vault and use them to access Azure Storage?

Your company stores customer payment data in an Azure SQL Database. You need to ensure that only the application's managed identity can access the database, and no SQL logins or passwords are used. Which authentication method should you configure?

You are developing an Azure Functions app that processes orders. The function must scale out automatically during peak hours but should not incur costs when idle. Which hosting plan should you use?

You are reviewing an ARM template snippet for an Azure App Service. The exhibit shows the site configuration. You need to ensure that the app supports WebSocket connections for a real-time feature. Which setting must be added?

You deploy a containerized web application to Azure Container Instances (ACI). The application writes session data to a local directory. You need the data to persist across container restarts (e.g., after a crash or redeployment). Which storage configuration should you use?

You receive an error when deploying this ARM template: 'The serverFarmId property is required.' What is missing from the template?

You are building an Azure Logic App that must send an email notification when a new file is added to a SharePoint Online document library. Which connector and trigger should you use?

You deploy an Azure App Service web app that uses a system-assigned managed identity. The app needs to read a secret stored in Azure Key Vault to connect to a third-party service. You want to grant the minimum required permissions to the managed identity. Which Azure RBAC role should you assign to the managed identity at the Key Vault scope?

Contoso Ltd. is migrating a legacy on-premises application to Azure. The application processes customer orders and sends confirmation emails. The new solution must use Azure Functions with an HTTP trigger to receive orders, store order data in Azure Cosmos DB, and send emails via SendGrid. Security requirements: All connections must use managed identities where possible. No secrets should be stored in code or configuration files. Cosmos DB and SendGrid API keys must be retrieved at runtime from Azure Key Vault. The Azure Function app must be able to access Key Vault without storing any connection strings or secrets in application settings. The development team plans to use the Azure.Identity and Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets libraries. Which approach should the team use to authenticate to Key Vault?

A company uses Azure Functions to process messages from Azure Service Bus. The function currently uses the Consumption plan. They notice that during high load, messages are processed slowly due to scaling latency. Which change would improve throughput most?

Match each Azure compute service to its execution model.

You are designing a solution to store application secrets. You need to ensure that secrets are encrypted at rest and access is audited. Which TWO Azure services should you use?

Your Azure Function app uses an event-driven architecture with Azure Event Hubs. You need to ensure that if the function fails to process an event, the event is retried up to three times and then sent to a dead-letter queue. What should you configure?

You need to deploy a web application to Azure App Service. The application requires a custom domain name and SSL/TLS certificate. You want to automate the deployment using Azure CLI. Which command should you use to upload the SSL certificate to the App Service?

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

Your company runs a batch processing job on Azure Batch. The job processes large datasets and requires access to Azure Storage. You need to ensure that the compute nodes can securely access the storage account without exposing credentials. What should you configure?

A company has an Azure Function app that processes messages from an Azure Storage queue. The function fails intermittently with timeout exceptions when the queue has many messages. What is the best approach to handle this?

A serverless app must react whenever audit documents are inserted or updated in Cosmos DB. Which trigger should the Azure Function use? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

You are developing an ASP.NET Core application that needs to access Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. You have enabled a managed identity for the App Service. Which Azure SDK class should you use to authenticate to Key Vault?

A long-running webhook processor must process thousands of independent files. The developer wants status tracking, checkpoints, and replay-safe orchestration. Which Azure Functions capability should be used?

Which Azure Blob Storage access tier is optimized for infrequently accessed data with a minimum storage duration of 30 days?

A company uses Azure DevOps to deploy microservices to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They need to securely pull container images from Azure Container Registry (ACR) during deployment without storing credentials. Which authentication method should they use?

You have an Azure App Service web app that uses a system-assigned managed identity. The app needs to read a secret stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to grant the app the minimum required permissions to access the secret. Which RBAC role should you assign to the managed identity at the Key Vault scope?

You are developing an ASP.NET Core web API that authenticates users via Microsoft Entra ID. The API needs to call a downstream API (also secured by Microsoft Entra ID) on behalf of the signed-in user (On-Behalf-Of flow). You have already configured the web API to authenticate users with Microsoft.Identity.Web. How should you implement the token acquisition for the downstream API?

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

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 company has an Azure Storage account that stores sensitive data. They need to ensure that all access to the storage account is secured using Microsoft Entra ID authentication and that no storage account keys are used. Which configuration should be applied to enforce this?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Azure CLI command shown. What is the result?

You are a developer for a fintech company. Your application consists of multiple Azure Functions that process sensitive financial transactions. The functions need to access an Azure SQL Database and an Azure Storage account. Security requirements are: (1) No secrets or connection strings should be stored in application settings or code. (2) Access must be restricted to the specific resources each function needs. (3) All access must be audited. (4) The solution must support local development debugging. You have already enabled system-assigned managed identity for each function app. Which course of action should you take to meet the requirements?

A retail system uses Azure Service Bus to process orders. Each order has multiple messages (e.g., payment, shipping, confirmation) that must be processed in sequence. You need to guarantee that all messages belonging to the same order are handled by the same consumer in order. Which Service Bus feature should you use?

You are designing a solution that writes millions of small log records (each 200 bytes) to Azure Blob Storage. The logs are written every second, always appended to a single file. The file must be read periodically by a batch process that reads the entire file. You need to maximize write throughput and minimize storage costs. Which blob type and access strategy should you choose?

A Cosmos DB workload for telemetry events has predictable traffic during business hours and almost no traffic overnight. The team wants to reduce cost while keeping performance during peak hours. What should be configured?

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?

You are designing a microservices architecture where each service needs to publish events to multiple subscribers. You choose Azure Event Grid. However, one of the subscribers is a third-party service that requires HTTPS endpoint and custom headers in the event delivery. How should you configure Event Grid?

A developer needs to call a third-party REST API from an Azure Function app. The API requires OAuth2 client credentials flow. Which approach should they use to securely store and retrieve the client secret?

You are designing a solution that reads messages from an Azure Service Bus queue and processes them using an Azure Function. The function must process messages in order and ensure no duplicate processing. Which configuration 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 designing a background job processing solution using Azure Batch. The job runs a large number of tasks that are CPU-intensive and require access to large input files stored in Azure Blob Storage. You need to minimize the time to process all tasks while controlling costs. Which THREE actions should you take?

You have an Azure Function app that processes messages from a Service Bus queue. The function uses the Service Bus trigger. You notice that under high load, some messages are processed multiple times. What is the most likely cause?

You are developing a .NET Core web application that needs to send an email notification when a user registers. You decide to use Azure Communication Services Email. Which authentication method should you use to securely connect from your application to Azure Communication Services?

Your team develops a containerized web app using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to ensure that the application can automatically scale based on HTTP request load. Which Kubernetes resource should you configure?

Which TWO are best practices when using Azure Service Bus for high-throughput messaging?

Refer to the exhibit. A developer deploys this ARM template to create a web app with a connection string to Azure Cosmos DB. The deployment succeeds but the web app cannot connect to Cosmos DB. What is the most likely cause?

Multiple teams need different levels of access to the same Azure Key Vault: the DevOps team needs to create and rotate secrets, the application team needs read-only secret access, and the auditing team needs list-only access. The security team wants audit logs of all access decisions and the ability to manage permissions through a single system. What access model should the developer recommend?

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 developing a solution that processes large files uploaded by users to Azure Blob Storage. Each file must be validated for malware using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps before being moved to a different container for further processing. The validation can take several minutes. What is the most cost-effective and scalable approach?

A developer exposes several backend APIs through Azure API Management. Clients must be throttled by subscription to protect the backend. What should be configured?

You are building a solution that needs to send millions of events per second to Azure for processing. Which Azure service should you use to ingest the events?

Your company has an on-premises Windows service that exposes a custom TCP endpoint. You are building an Azure Logic App that needs to send data to this endpoint. Due to network security policies, you cannot open inbound ports in the firewall. You need to establish a secure bidirectional connection without configuring a VPN. Which Azure service should you use?

You are reviewing a lifecycle management rule configured on an Azure Storage account. The rule is defined as shown in the exhibit. You notice that blobs tagged with project=temp are not being moved to the Archive tier as expected. What is the most likely cause?

You are designing a solution to process thousands of images uploaded to Azure Blob Storage. Each image must be resized and metadata extracted. The processing must be serverless and cost-effective. Which Azure service should you use?

You need to enable client-side encryption for data stored in Azure Blob Storage. The encryption keys must be managed by your organization using Azure Key Vault. What 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?

Which TWO actions should you take to reduce the cost of an Azure App Service plan that is underutilized?

You are configuring a managed identity for an Azure App Service to access Azure Key Vault. The identity has been assigned, but the app receives a 403 Forbidden when trying to retrieve a secret. What is the most likely cause?

A company runs a critical web app on Azure App Service that must handle traffic spikes without downtime. They set up autoscaling rules based on CPU percentage. However, during a spike, the app becomes unresponsive before new instances are added. What should they do?

You are using Azure API Management (APIM) to expose a REST API. The backend API requires mutual TLS (client certificate) for authentication. The client certificate is stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to configure APIM to use this certificate when calling the backend, without exposing the certificate contents in the policy files. Which APIM feature and policy should you use?

You are developing a web app that authenticates users via Microsoft Entra ID. The app needs to call a downstream API on behalf of the signed-in user. Which OAuth 2.0 flow should you implement?

You need to implement a shared access signature (SAS) for an Azure blob container that allows a client to list blobs and read blob contents. The SAS must be valid for one hour and should not allow write or delete operations. Which permissions should you include in the SAS token?

An application uses Azure Redis Cache to improve performance. The team notices that cache misses are high and the cache is not effectively reducing database load. What should they do to improve cache hit ratio?

You develop an Azure Function that writes to Azure Blob Storage. During testing, you notice that the function fails intermittently with a 503 (Service Unavailable) error. What is the most likely cause?

Your web app hosted on Azure App Service needs to consume an external SaaS API that requires an API key. The key must be stored securely and rotated without redeploying the app. What is the best approach?

You are building an Azure Logic App that needs to call an external API secured with OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow. You have registered an application in Microsoft Entra ID with client ID 'myClientId' and client secret stored in Key Vault. Which action should you use to authenticate?

Your company uses Azure Service Bus topics and subscriptions to send order notifications. You notice that some messages are not being delivered to a subscription. The subscription has a SQL filter that matches messages with a 'region' property equal to 'EU'. You verify that the messages have 'region' set to 'eu' (lowercase). What is the most likely cause?

You are developing a web API hosted on Azure App Service. The API must authenticate requests using Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens. You want to validate the token in your ASP.NET Core API code with minimal custom validation logic. Which library should you use?

Your app uses Azure Key Vault to store secrets. You need to grant the app access to read secrets using managed identity. Which RBAC role should you assign to the app's managed identity?

After deploying a new version to the staging slot and swapping to production, users report a 60-second spike in 503 errors. The application takes 45 seconds to initialize its connection pools and caches before it can serve traffic. What is the root cause, and what should the developer configure to prevent this?

A developer is building a function app that processes messages from an Azure Storage queue. The function must scale automatically based on queue length. Which hosting plan supports this automatic scaling?

Your application runs on Azure App Service and needs to access Azure Queue Storage. You want to avoid storing connection strings in configuration files. Which approach should you use?

Your company uses Azure Key Vault to store secrets. You need to ensure that only a specific Microsoft Entra ID application can read a particular secret, while other applications are denied access. You want to apply the principle of least privilege. Which access control method should you configure?

You are developing a web app that experiences intermittent slow responses. You enable Application Insights and notice that the server-side request duration is normally under 200ms, but some requests take over 5 seconds. Which diagnostic tool should you use to identify the root cause?

A background service must call Microsoft Graph without a signed-in user. Which Microsoft identity platform permission model is required? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

You need to store temperature readings from IoT devices in Azure Table Storage. Each reading includes a device ID (string), timestamp (datetime), temperature value, and location. You must optimize for the query: "Retrieve all temperature readings for a specific device ID within a given one-hour time range." Which PartitionKey and RowKey combination should you use?