CCNA Connect Consume Services Questions

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?

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

You run the above PowerShell script to upload a blob to Azure Storage. The script fails with an error. Which part of the script is causing the failure?

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 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?

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?

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 AWS-native control.

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?

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 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 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?

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?

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?

Your application uses Azure Cache for Redis to cache session state. You notice that after a scaling operation, some users are prompted to log in again. What is the most likely cause?

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?

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?

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 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 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?

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?

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 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?

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 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?

Which TWO scenarios require the use of Azure Event Hubs over Azure Service Bus? (Choose two.)

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 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?

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?

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?

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 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?

Which THREE factors should be considered when choosing between Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs for a messaging solution? (Choose 3)

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 AWS-native control.

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?

A developer needs to authenticate an Azure Function app to call Microsoft Graph API. Which THREE components are required?

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?

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?

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?

Which TWO are valid ways to authenticate to Azure Service Bus from an application? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

A function consumes messages from Azure Service Bus. Which two settings help handle transient failures safely? The architecture review board prefers a managed AWS-native control.

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 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?

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?

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?

Which TWO authentication methods can be used to call a Microsoft Entra ID-protected web API from a client application?

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.

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?

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?

You are designing a solution that needs to relay events from an on-premises system to Azure Event Grid. The on-premises system cannot make outbound HTTPS calls. Which Azure service should you use as a bridge?

Which THREE are valid ways to authenticate an Azure app to an Azure resource using managed identities?

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?

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?

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 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?

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