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1

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security information and event management (SIEM). You need to collect logs from on-premises firewalls and send them to Sentinel. Which TWO connectors can you use? (Choose two.)

Easy
2

A company runs a legacy on-premises application that relies on a SQL Server database. They want to use Azure as a disaster recovery site with a recovery point objective of less than 15 minutes. They need to be able to fail back to the on-premises environment after a disaster. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
3

You are designing a disaster recovery solution for a multi-tier application. The application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a database tier running SQL Server on Azure VMs. The RPO must be 5 seconds, and the RTO must be 15 minutes. You need to recommend a SQL Server availability solution that meets these requirements. What should you use?

Hard
4

Refer to the exhibit. An organization deploys this ARM template to create a storage account. They need to ensure that data is replicated synchronously across two Azure regions. Does this template meet the requirement?

Medium
5

A company runs a critical database on Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need to implement disaster recovery to East US with an RPO of 1 minute and RTO of 1 hour. They also want to use the secondary database for read-only workloads during normal operations. The solution must be fully managed. Which Azure SQL Database feature should they enable?

Hard
6

A company runs a data analytics application that stores large volumes of structured data in a relational format. The data is write-intensive and the application needs to scale horizontally for high throughput. The solution must support SQL queries, including joins and ACID transactions. Which Azure database service should they choose?

Medium
7

You have an Azure SQL Database that stores sales data. You need to ensure that the database can recover to any point in time within the last 35 days. What should you configure?

Easy
8

You need to store semi-structured data from IoT devices in Azure. The data has varying schemas and high write throughput. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
9

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. They need to automate the process of granting access to resources for employees and external partners, and require periodic access reviews to ensure compliance. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
10

A company runs an Azure SQL Database in a single region. They need to ensure that the database can be restored to any point in time within the last 90 minutes with a granularity of 1 minute. Which feature should they enable?

Easy
11

Your organization plans to deploy Microsoft Entra ID Governance. You need to ensure that access to critical applications is reviewed quarterly by the application owners. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should you use?

Easy
12

An organization is migrating on-premises Oracle databases to Azure. They require minimal code changes and support for Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures. Which Azure data service best meets these requirements?

Hard
13

You need to design a solution to store log data from multiple Azure services. The data must be retained for 7 years for compliance purposes and should be queryable for analysis. Which Azure service should you use as the primary storage for these logs?

Easy
14

A company plans to deploy a web application on Azure App Service that will be accessed by users worldwide. The application must have a single endpoint and use Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies. Which Azure service should be placed in front of the App Service to meet these requirements?

Easy
15

A solution stores critical VM backups in Azure. The company wants protection against accidental or malicious deletion of backups. Which two controls should be included?

Hard
16

A company uses Azure Site Recovery to replicate VMs from the primary region to the secondary region. During a disaster, they want to ensure that the failover process is automated and includes runbooks to perform post-failover actions. Which TWO components are required? (Choose two.)

Medium
17

A healthcare organization is migrating a regulatory-compliant application to Azure. The application must be isolated from the internet and accessible only from on-premises networks via a private IP address. The solution must minimize latency and maximize throughput for large data transfers. Which Azure networking solution should the organization implement?

Hard
18

A company runs a three-tier application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They want to enable disaster recovery to East US using Azure Site Recovery. The application requires that the web tier starts first, then the application tier, and finally the database tier after a consistency check. They also need to be able to perform non-disruptive DR drills. Which Azure Site Recovery capabilities should they use together?

Medium
19

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) and Microsoft Intune. They want to block access to all corporate cloud applications (e.g., Office 365, Azure portal) from devices that are not enrolled in Intune or do not meet the company's compliance policies. The solution must work seamlessly for all cloud apps without requiring per-app configuration. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Hard
20

A company needs to provide secure remote administration access to Azure virtual machines for their IT team. The VMs are in a virtual network with no public IP addresses. The IT team uses browsers to connect. The solution should not require any custom software on the client machines. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
21

You are designing a monitoring solution for a critical application hosted on Azure Virtual Machines. The application is latency-sensitive and you need to be alerted when CPU usage exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Which Azure Monitor feature should you use?

Easy
22

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to automatically detect and respond to high-risk sign-in events, such as sign-ins from malware-linked IP addresses or leaked credentials. When such risks are detected, they want to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) or block the sign-in. They also need a dashboard to review risk events and generate reports. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
23

You deploy the above ARM template. The deployment succeeds. However, you cannot access the storage account from the Azure portal. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
24

Which TWO of the following are valid Azure Policy effects that can be used to enforce compliance?

Medium
25

Your company has a hybrid identity environment with Microsoft Entra ID and an on-premises Active Directory. You need to enable single sign-on (SSO) for users accessing Microsoft 365 applications from domain-joined devices. Which authentication method should you configure?

Easy
26

Your organization is designing a governance solution for multiple Azure subscriptions. You need to enforce that all resources are created in specific Azure regions (East US and West Europe only). Additionally, any resource group must have a cost center tag. Which THREE Azure components should you use? (Choose three.)

Hard
27

A company is deploying a multi-tier application on Azure. The web tier runs on Azure App Service, and the database tier runs on Azure SQL Database. The company wants to secure the connection between the web tier and the database by using a private endpoint for Azure SQL Database. They also want to ensure that the web tier can resolve the private endpoint's DNS name. What should you recommend?

Medium
28

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for Azure VMs running a critical application. They need a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 1 hour and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. The solution should be cost-effective and allow testing without affecting production. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
29

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They need to automatically block sign-ins from users whose accounts have been identified as high-risk for compromise. They also want users to be prompted to reset their password when the risk is detected. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
30

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to distribute incoming HTTPS traffic across multiple VMs, offload SSL termination, and provide session persistence. Which Azure load balancing solution should they choose?

Easy
31

You need to monitor Azure resources and send alerts when the CPU usage of a virtual machine exceeds 90% for 5 minutes. Which two Azure services should you use? (Select TWO.)

Medium
32

Your company has a Azure subscription with multiple resource groups. You need to ensure that all resources are tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag. What should you use?

Easy
33

Your company is deploying a critical application on Azure VMs. The application requires a static private IP address that does not change even if the VM is stopped and deallocated. The VM must be placed in an availability zone for high availability. Which networking approach should you use?

Hard
34

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an ARM template for deploying a storage account. The template is missing the storage account name parameter definition. What will happen when you attempt to deploy this template?

Hard
35

A media company needs to store large video files that are frequently accessed for the first month, then infrequently after that. They want to minimize storage costs while ensuring files are instantly accessible when needed. Which storage strategy should they implement?

Medium
36

A company is designing a solution for storing sensitive documents in Azure Blob Storage. They require that all data be encrypted at rest using a customer-managed key (CMK) stored in Azure Key Vault. Additionally, they want to prevent any accidental deletion of the key vault and its keys. Which combination of actions should they take?

Medium
37

Which THREE of the following are best practices for designing a business continuity solution using Azure Site Recovery? (Select THREE.)

Hard
38

Which TWO of the following are valid design considerations for implementing Azure SQL Database geo-replication? (Choose two.)

Medium
39

You are reviewing the data protection settings of an Azure Blob Storage container using the above JSON. Which of the following is true?

Easy
40

A software company hosts 100 small Azure SQL databases for different clients. Each database has low average usage but experiences unpredictable spikes. The company wants to minimize costs while allowing each database to burst up to a maximum resource limit during spikes. They also need to easily add new databases without manual sizing. Which Azure SQL Database deployment option should they use?

Medium
41

A company stores unstructured data such as documents and images in Azure Blob Storage. The data is accessed frequently for the first month, then only rarely for the next year, and after that must be retained for 10 years for compliance. The company wants to minimize storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective storage tiers. Which Azure Blob Storage feature should they implement?

Medium
42

A healthcare company is designing a new Azure solution that must comply with HIPAA. The solution will store patient records in Azure Blob Storage and must ensure that data is encrypted at rest using customer-managed keys. The company also requires that the encryption keys be stored in a hardware security module (HSM) and that they have full control over key rotation. Which Azure service should the solutions architect use to meet these requirements?

Hard
43

A multinational company uses Microsoft Entra ID and several Azure subscriptions. Security administrators need to review privileged role assignments every month and require justification for continued access. Which design should be recommended?

Hard
44

A company runs a mission-critical multi-tier application on Azure VMs in West US. The application consists of database VMs, application VMs, and web VMs. During a disaster, the VMs must be recovered in a specific order: database tier first, then application tier, then web tier. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 5 minutes and recovery time objective (RTO) is 15 minutes. The company wants to periodically test the recovery process without impacting production. After failover to East US, the VMs must retain their private IP addresses to avoid DNS propagation delays. Which combination of Azure Site Recovery features should they configure?

Medium
45

You are designing a disaster recovery (DR) solution for a critical application hosted on Azure VMs. The solution must meet the following requirements: - Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. - Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. - Automatically fail over to a secondary region in the event of a regional outage. - Support for non-disruptive DR testing. Which THREE components should you include in the solution? (Choose three.)

Hard
46

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a highly available Azure SQL Database solution?

Hard
47

Refer to the exhibit. Your team deploys this ARM template to a resource group in West US. After deployment, you need to ensure the storage account is geo-redundant. What is the most efficient way to modify the template to achieve this?

Hard
48

Your company is migrating a legacy application to Azure. The application uses a proprietary database that requires file-level access to data files. You need to minimize changes to the application. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

Medium
49

Your organization runs a web application on Azure App Service (Standard tier) in the West US region. The application uses Azure Blob Storage for static content and Azure SQL Database (Standard tier) for dynamic data. The compliance requirements specify a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 hour and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that meets these requirements with minimal cost. Which option should you recommend?

Easy
50

Which TWO of the following Azure storage services support hosting static websites?

Easy
51

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). External partners need temporary access to an internal application. The process must be self-service: partners request access, the request goes through an approval workflow managed by a manager from the partner's organization, and access automatically expires after 30 days. The company also wants to send reminder emails 7 days before expiration. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
52

A company runs a critical application on Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution with an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 1 hour. They also need to be able to perform patching and maintenance on the primary without downtime. Which configuration should they implement?

Hard
53

You are designing a solution to monitor and analyze security events across your Azure environment. Which TWO Azure services should you include in your design to provide centralized logging and threat detection? (Choose two.)

Medium
54

A company runs a web application on Azure App Service with a Standard tier plan. The application uses an Azure SQL Database (DTU-based) for storage. The business requires that the application remain available in the event of a single Azure region outage. Which solution meets the requirement with the least administrative effort?

Medium
55

Which TWO features of Microsoft Entra ID can be used to secure hybrid identities?

Easy
56

Which TWO of the following are valid considerations when designing a SQL Server Always On availability group in Azure VMs? (Choose two.)

Medium
57

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID. You need to implement a privileged identity management (PIM) strategy to secure administrative roles. Which TWO capabilities does PIM provide? (Choose two.)

Medium
58

Drag and drop the steps to implement Azure Site Recovery for a Hyper-V VM into the correct order.

Medium
59

You are designing an authentication solution for a mobile application that uses Azure AD B2C (now Microsoft Entra External ID). The application needs to support social logins (Google, Facebook) and also allow users to sign in with their corporate Microsoft Entra ID accounts. Which of the following identity providers should you configure?

Medium
60

A multinational corporation is designing a disaster recovery strategy for a critical application running on Azure VMs. The application must have a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The primary region is East US, and the secondary region is West US. The solution must minimize costs while meeting the requirements. What should you recommend?

Hard
61

A company is migrating on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure. They need to minimize administrative overhead for patching and backups while ensuring high availability. The solution must support automatic failover within the same Azure region. Which Azure service should they choose?

Medium
62

You are a solutions architect for a financial services company. The company is deploying a new critical application on Azure that processes sensitive customer transactions. The application consists of an ASP.NET Core web app (Azure App Service), a REST API (Azure Kubernetes Service), and an Azure SQL Database. The requirements are: - All data at rest must be encrypted using customer-managed keys (CMK) stored in a managed HSM. - All network traffic between components must be encrypted and traverse the Microsoft backbone network. - The web app must be protected against common web attacks (SQL injection, XSS). - The solution must automatically scale the API based on CPU utilization. - All API calls must be authenticated using OAuth 2.0 with Microsoft Entra ID. - Logs from all components must be sent to a central Log Analytics workspace for analysis. - The solution must have a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour and recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes for the database. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend to meet ALL requirements?

Hard
63

A company runs a high-performance computing (HPC) workload on Azure that requires extremely low latency (under 10 microseconds) between multiple VMs for MPI communication. The VMs are part of a single job and must be placed together to minimize network latency. Which VM deployment option should they use?

Hard
64

Contoso Ltd. is a global e-commerce company running its online store on Azure. The application consists of: - Frontend: Azure App Service (Windows) in West US. - Backend: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster in West US. - Database: Azure SQL Database (General Purpose, S2) in West US. - Cache: Azure Cache for Redis (Standard C1) in West US. - Storage: Azure Blob Storage (LRS) for product images. Business continuity requirements: - RPO: 5 minutes for the database. - RTO: 1 hour for the entire application. - The solution must survive a complete West US region outage. - Budget is limited; minimize additional costs. What should you recommend as the primary DR strategy?

Hard
65

You are designing a disaster recovery strategy for an Azure virtual machine running a critical application. The VM is in the East US region. Your recovery point objective (RPO) is 15 minutes, and your recovery time objective (RTO) is 1 hour. Which Azure service should you use to replicate the VM to the West US region?

Easy
66

A company uses Azure SQL Database for a line-of-business application. They need to implement a disaster recovery solution across Azure regions with RPO of 5 seconds and RTO of 30 seconds. Which feature should they use?

Medium
67

A company ingests millions of IoT events per second from sensors around the world. Each event is a JSON message with timestamp, device ID, and readings. They need to support real-time analytics dashboards and also store all raw data for long-term historical analysis. They want to minimize operational overhead. Which Azure data storage solution should they recommend?

Hard
68

You need to design a networking solution for a multi-tier application that includes a web front-end, an API layer, and a database. The web and API tiers must be accessible from the internet, while the database tier must be isolated. What is the most secure and efficient design?

Easy
69

A global e-commerce platform uses Azure Cosmos DB for its product catalog. The application requires multi-region writes to provide low-latency updates from any geographic location. Two users may update the same product item concurrently, so the solution must automatically resolve conflicts. For real-time inventory checks, reads must be strongly consistent, while product description reads can be eventually consistent. Which Cosmos DB configuration should they choose?

Medium
70

A company is designing a hybrid storage solution to connect on-premises file shares to Azure. They need to cache frequently accessed files locally for low-latency access while storing all files in Azure. The solution must support SMB protocol and integrate with existing Windows file servers. Which Azure service should they use?

Hard
71

Your company plans to deploy a new SaaS application that will be used by employees and external users. The application requires single sign-on (SSO) and must support conditional access policies that enforce MFA for external users. Additionally, the application must be able to read user profile attributes from Microsoft Entra ID. You need to design an identity solution that meets these requirements. What should you include in the design?

Hard
72

A company is designing a data storage solution for a globally distributed application that requires low-latency read access to frequently accessed data and high throughput for write operations. The data is non-relational and can be stored as key-value pairs. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
73

Which TWO of the following Azure services support storing JSON documents without requiring a predefined schema? (Select two.)

Medium
74

You need to design a storage solution for unstructured data that requires low latency (single-digit milliseconds) for frequently accessed files and must support NFS and SMB protocols. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

Easy
75

Refer to the exhibit. You run this Kusto query in Azure Monitor Logs. What does it return?

Hard
76

A financial services company needs to store sensitive transaction records in Azure for 7 years to meet regulatory compliance. The data must be immutable and cannot be deleted or modified during the retention period. Which Azure storage feature should you enable?

Hard
77

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and requires that all external users accessing resources must be approved by a designated reviewer. You need to automate the review process for external identities. What should you implement?

Medium
78

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID. You need to implement a governance strategy for guest users. Which TWO actions should you take? (Choose two.)

Medium
79

A company needs to back up an Azure virtual machine that runs a file server. They want to restore individual files quickly without restoring the entire VM. Which backup option should they use?

Easy
80

Refer to the exhibit. You run a KQL query against Azure Cosmos DB diagnostics logs. The query shows increasing latency for Query operations over time. Which is the most likely root cause?

Hard
81

A company is building a big data analytics platform that will process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data using Azure Synapse Analytics and other tools. They need a storage layer that supports hierarchical namespaces and fine-grained access control at the directory level. Which Azure storage solution should they use?

Medium
82

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. You need to implement a solution that automatically blocks sign-ins from risky users and requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) when a sign-in risk is detected. Which TWO services should you use? (Choose two.)

Easy
83

A retail company runs its e-commerce platform on Azure VMs. The application uses Azure SQL Database. You are designing a business continuity plan. The company wants to minimize recovery time for a regional outage. Which Azure service should you use to replicate the VMs to a secondary region?

Easy
84

A company deploys a web application on multiple Azure VMs in a single region. They need to distribute incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic across the VMs, offload SSL/TLS termination, and maintain session persistence (sticky sessions) so that all requests from a user session go to the same backend VM. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Medium
85

Which THREE of the following are required components for a disaster recovery solution using Azure Site Recovery for on-premises Hyper-V VMs?

Hard
86

Your company is designing a data lake solution using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. The solution must support hierarchical namespace for efficient directory operations, and must provide encryption at rest using customer-managed keys stored in Azure Key Vault. Which steps must you take to enable customer-managed key encryption for the storage account?

Hard
87

A company uses Azure SQL Database for a critical OLTP workload. They need a disaster recovery solution that automatically fails over to a secondary region with an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 1 hour. What should they implement?

Medium
88

Your Azure subscription contains multiple virtual machines (VMs) that run a line-of-business application. You need to configure alerts when the CPU usage exceeds 90% for more than 5 minutes. Additionally, the alert must automatically trigger a runbook to scale out the application. Which Azure service should you use to create this alert?

Hard
89

Which TWO of the following are valid data storage solutions for an Azure-based microservices architecture that requires high throughput and low latency? (Choose two.)

Easy
90

Your organization is building a serverless application that processes events from Azure Event Hubs and stores results in Azure Cosmos DB. The processing logic must be scalable and cost-effective, with no idle costs. Which compute service should you use?

Medium
91

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to grant a user temporary access to the Global Administrator role for a specific task. The access must require approval from a manager and automatically expire after 4 hours. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
92

You are designing a business continuity solution for a mission-critical Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. The cluster hosts a stateful application that uses Azure Disks for persistent volumes. You need to ensure that the application can be recovered in a secondary region within 1 hour of a regional failure. What should you use to replicate the persistent volumes?

Easy
93

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. They have a complex on-premises infrastructure with multiple forests and over 50,000 users. They need to synchronize identities and enable single sign-on (SSO) for Office 365. What should you recommend?

Easy
94

Your company has a hybrid identity solution with Microsoft Entra ID Connect syncing on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. You need to design a business continuity solution for the identity service in case of an on-premises outage. The solution must allow users to authenticate and access cloud applications even if the on-premises domain controllers are unavailable. Which feature should you enable?

Medium
95

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They need to grant external partners access to an internal application for a limited time (30 days). The access must be approved by a manager from the partner's organization. After the period ends, access should automatically be removed. The company also wants to send email reminders 7 days before expiration. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
96

Refer to the exhibit. You are analyzing Azure VM performance using Azure Monitor Logs. You run the KQL query shown. What is the purpose of the 'take 10' operator?

Medium
97

Which TWO Azure services can be used to automatically redirect traffic to an alternate region in the event of a regional outage? (Choose two.)

Medium
98

Your organization is designing a secure microservices architecture using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application must be compliant with PCI DSS, which requires strict network segmentation and encryption of data at rest and in transit. You need to design a solution that meets these requirements while minimizing operational overhead. The AKS cluster will be deployed in a virtual network. The application consists of multiple microservices that need to communicate with each other and with an Azure SQL Database. Some microservices are public-facing. Which design should you recommend?

Hard
99

Refer to the exhibit. You have an Azure Storage account with the settings shown. A developer reports that they cannot access the storage account from their Azure VM that is connected to subnet-a. The VM's subnet ID matches the one in the rule. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Medium
100

A company uses Azure Redis Cache to improve the performance of a web application. They need to ensure that cached data survives a failover to a secondary region. Which Azure Redis Cache tier should they choose?

Medium
101

A company is designing a solution for storing sensitive financial records that must be retained for 7 years. The solution must meet the following requirements: - Data must be immutable during the retention period. - After the retention period, data must be automatically deleted. - The solution must minimize storage costs. Which two Azure services should the company use? (Choose two.)

Medium
102

A company is designing a hybrid identity solution that allows users to access both on-premises applications and Microsoft 365 using a single identity. The solution must support legacy authentication protocols for on-premises apps and modern authentication for cloud apps. Which Azure service should the company use?

Medium
103

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID Premium P2. They need to automatically detect users with high-risk sign-ins (e.g., from anonymous IP addresses or leaked credentials) and require them to reset their password. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Medium
104

A company runs a multi-tier application on Azure VMs in the West US region. The application has web, application, and database tiers. They want to use Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery to East US. They need to ensure that after failover, the web tier starts first, then the application tier, and finally the database tier after a consistency check. They also need to be able to perform non-disruptive DR drills. Which Azure Site Recovery capabilities should they use together?

Hard
105

Your company plans to migrate an on-premises application to Azure. The application requires low-latency access to a shared file system that supports SMB protocol. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

Easy
106

You are designing a storage strategy for a data analytics solution that processes large volumes of streaming data. The data must be stored in a cost-effective manner with low latency for hot data and infrequent access for cold data after 30 days. The solution must support both batch and interactive queries. Which combination of Azure storage services should you recommend?

Hard
107

You are designing a high-availability solution for a stateful application that uses Azure NetApp Files (ANF) for persistent storage. The application must withstand a zonal failure within a region. What should you do?

Hard
108

A company uses Azure Backup to protect their critical Azure VMs. An administrator accidentally deleted a file from one of the VMs. They need to restore that specific file quickly without restoring the entire VM. Which Azure Backup feature should they use?

Easy
109

Your company is designing a hybrid network architecture to connect an on-premises data center to Azure. The requirements include: high availability, low latency, and cost optimization. Which TWO options should you recommend?

Medium
110

An enterprise data platform must store petabytes of raw files for analytics and support fine-grained access control through Microsoft Entra ID. Which storage solution should be selected?

Medium
111

A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure virtual machines (VMs) in the West US region. The application consists of multiple VMs that must be recovered in a specific order during a disaster: database VM first, then application VMs, then web VMs. They also require that after failover to East US, the VMs retain their private IP addresses to avoid DNS updates. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 5 minutes and recovery time objective (RTO) is 30 minutes. The company needs to perform quarterly disaster recovery tests without impacting production. Which combination of Azure Site Recovery features should they configure?

Hard
112

Which THREE of the following are considerations when designing a storage solution for a high-availability application on Azure?

Hard
113

A company runs a global e-commerce platform on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to replicate the VMs to a secondary region for disaster recovery. Recovery must be possible within 30 minutes of a failure. The VMs run custom software that must be started in a specific order (database tier before web tier). Which Azure service should they use to meet both the replication and orchestration requirements?

Medium
114

A global logistics company is designing a solution that ingests telemetry data from thousands of IoT devices. The data must be processed in near real-time to detect anomalies and trigger alerts. The company wants to use a serverless, event-driven architecture that can scale automatically and minimize operational overhead. Which Azure service should the solutions architect use for the stream processing component?

Hard
115

You have an Azure subscription that contains 100 virtual machines. You need to monitor the virtual machines for security vulnerabilities and receive recommendations. What should you use?

Medium
116

You are reviewing a Conditional Access policy for a Microsoft Entra ID tenant. The exhibit shows the policy configuration. Users report that they are prompted for MFA every hour even when using approved Microsoft applications. The security team wants to reduce MFA prompts but maintain security. What should you modify?

Hard
117

Match each Azure identity service to its description.

Medium
118

A gaming company is developing a multiplayer online game that requires a low-latency data store for player profiles, inventory, and session state. The data is accessed globally, and the solution must support millions of concurrent players. The company expects write-heavy workloads with occasional reads. The solution must provide single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes. The company also needs to run analytics on the data to understand player behavior, but analytics queries can tolerate higher latency (minutes). Which Azure data storage solution should the company recommend for the transactional data?

Medium
119

A media company stores raw video files and processed output in Azure. These files are accessed via REST APIs by a processing application. After processing, the files are rarely accessed but must be retained. To minimize costs, the company wants to automatically move files to a cheaper storage tier after 30 days and archive them after 90 days. Which Azure storage solution and feature should they use?

Easy
120

A company has multiple Azure virtual networks (VNets) in different regions and an on-premises data center connected via ExpressRoute. They need to implement a hub-and-spoke topology where a hub VNet hosts shared network virtual appliances (NVAs) for traffic inspection. All traffic between spokes and between spokes and on-premises must be routed through the hub. The company wants to minimize the administrative overhead of configuring and maintaining routing. Which Azure solution should they implement?

Hard
121

Your company has a large number of IoT devices sending telemetry to Azure IoT Hub. The data must be processed in near real-time to detect anomalies and trigger alerts. Additionally, the processed data must be stored in a time-series database for historical analysis. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend?

Hard
122

A company needs to store video files for a media streaming application. The files are accessed frequently for the first 30 days, then rarely after that. The solution must minimize storage costs while ensuring low-latency access during the initial period. Which storage tier should be used for the first 30 days?

Easy
123

A company is designing a solution for a global e-commerce platform that requires low-latency access to product catalog data from multiple regions. The data is read-heavy with occasional updates. The solution must support automatic scaling and provide high availability. Which Azure service should you recommend?

Hard
124

A global e-commerce company runs a web application in multiple Azure regions. They need to distribute incoming HTTPS traffic across regional deployments to provide low latency and high availability. The solution must support SSL offloading, Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies, and content caching to reduce backend load. They also need to route users to the nearest healthy backend region. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
125

A company is deploying an internal web application on Azure VMs. The application requires SSL offloading, session stickiness, and URL-based routing (e.g., /api/* to one backend, /app/* to another). The solution must operate within a single Azure region and must not be exposed to the public internet. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Medium
126

Your company runs a critical e-commerce application on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) in a single region. You need to design a disaster recovery (DR) solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour for the application tier. The application uses Azure SQL Database (single database). Which combination of Azure services should you recommend to meet the RPO and RTO?

Medium
127

You are designing a highly available architecture for a web application that runs on Azure VMs. The solution must distribute incoming traffic across multiple VMs in an availability set. Which TWO Azure components should you include? (Choose two.)

Easy
128

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in a single region. The application uses Azure SQL Database as its data store. The company needs a disaster recovery solution that can fail over the entire application stack (VMs and database) to another region with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution must be automated and minimize manual steps. Which combination of Azure services should they implement?

Medium
129

A company is designing a backup strategy for Azure resources. They have the following resources: Azure VMs, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Files shares. They need to meet the following requirements: 1) Backup of VMs must be application-consistent. 2) SQL Database backups must be retained for 10 years. 3) Azure Files backups must support soft delete. Which THREE services or features should they use?

Hard
130

A company wants to analyze IoT sensor data from millions of devices in near real-time and store the raw data for batch processing. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Medium
131

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy an Azure SQL Database with a secondary replica in another region using the ARM template shown. You need to ensure that the database can fail over automatically with zero data loss. What is missing?

Medium
132

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs across multiple availability zones in a region. They need to distribute incoming traffic across VMs in all zones, maintain session persistence, and support SSL offloading and URL-based routing (e.g., /api/* to one pool, /app/* to another). Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Medium
133

Refer to the exhibit. A role assignment has a condition that controls blob deletion. A user assigned this role tries to delete a blob with tag 'Project' set to 'ProjectB'. What will happen?

Hard
134

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to automatically detect sign-in attempts from anonymous IP addresses and sign-ins from unfamiliar locations. When such a risk is detected, they want to block the sign-in or require multi-factor authentication (MFA) in real time. Additionally, they need a dashboard that provides a summary of risk events and allows investigation. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
135

A company runs a critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the database to a secondary region (East US) with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The solution must also support non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. The company currently uses SQL Server Standard Edition. Which Azure service should they implement?

Medium
136

A company runs critical Azure VMs. They want to protect against accidental deletion or corruption of data by implementing a retention policy for Azure Backup. They need to keep daily backups for 30 days, weekly backups for 12 weeks, and monthly backups for 12 months. Which Azure Backup feature should they configure?

Medium
137

Your company has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant with 10,000 users. You plan to grant external partners access to a specific SharePoint Online site using Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration. You need to ensure that partners can authenticate using their own corporate credentials. What should you configure?

Easy
138

A company needs to store and retrieve large binary files (e.g., images and videos) for a web application. The data must be accessible via HTTPS URLs and support both public read access for anonymous users and private access for administrators. The solution must be highly durable and cost-effective for storing terabytes of data. Which Azure storage solution should they recommend?

Easy
139

A company is designing a backup strategy for a critical Azure SQL Database. The database is used in a production environment and the company requires the ability to restore to any point within the last 35 days with a maximum granularity of 5 minutes. Which backup configuration should the company choose?

Medium
140

A company has multiple on-premises sites and Azure VNets in different regions. They need to connect all networks with a single mesh topology, ensuring that any network can communicate with any other network directly. They also want to minimize administrative overhead. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
141

A data platform must support analytical queries over petabytes of files in a data lake, while preserving hierarchical namespaces and fine-grained ACLs. Which storage service should you design around?

Hard
142

A multinational company stores large amounts of unstructured data (documents, images) that must be read with low latency from multiple global regions. Data is written primarily in one region but read globally. Cost optimization is a key requirement. Which Azure storage replication option should they use?

Medium
143

Match each Azure storage redundancy option to its description.

Medium
144

Your company is deploying a web application that experiences unpredictable traffic spikes. You need to ensure the application can handle sudden increases in load automatically without manual intervention and minimize costs during low traffic periods. Which Azure service should you use?

Medium
145

Which THREE of the following are valid strategies for designing a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop? (Choose three.)

Hard
146

A company has multiple Azure virtual networks (VNets) in different Azure regions and an on-premises data center connected via ExpressRoute. They want to connect all VNets to each other and to the on-premises network securely over the Microsoft global backbone. They also want to simplify management by using a single orchestration interface. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
147

Your company runs a critical workload on Azure Virtual Machines in a single region. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that meets a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution should minimize cost. What should you recommend?

Medium
148

Your company has a hybrid identity environment with Microsoft Entra ID and on-premises Active Directory. You need to design a solution to monitor changes to privileged groups in both directories and ensure that any unauthorized changes trigger an automated response. Which THREE services should you include in the design?

Hard
149

You are designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical application hosted in Azure VMs. The primary region is East US. The application requires a recovery time objective (RTO) of 30 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which Azure service should you use to replicate the VMs?

Medium
150

A company needs to provide secure access to Azure resources for remote employees. They want to enforce multi-factor authentication and conditional access policies. The solution should not require a VPN connection. Which Azure service should they implement?

Easy
151

A company is designing a data storage solution for its IoT devices that generate telemetry data. The data is ingested at high velocity (millions of events per second) and must be stored for real-time dashboards and historical analysis. The solution must also support complex event processing and alerting. Which two Azure services should the company use together? (Choose two.)

Medium
152

Your company has a large Azure environment with thousands of resources. You need to design a solution to track resource ownership and ensure that resources are cleaned up when projects end. You want to use a tag-based approach where each resource has an 'Owner' and 'Project' tag. Additionally, you need to generate a weekly report of resources that are not tagged or have been orphaned (no recent activity). What should you include in the design?

Easy
153

A software company runs 50 small Azure SQL databases for different clients. Each database has low average usage but unpredictable spikes. The company wants to minimize cost while providing resources for peak loads and easily adding new databases without manual sizing. Which Azure data service should they use?

Easy
154

A healthcare organization needs to store patient records that must be immutable and auditable for compliance purposes. The records should be stored in a cost-effective manner with the ability to set retention policies. Which Azure storage solution should they implement?

Medium
155

A company wants to implement a backup strategy for their Azure virtual machines. They need to retain backups for 7 years for compliance and ensure backups are encrypted at rest. Which solution should you recommend?

Easy
156

You are designing a monitoring solution for a critical application running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application generates custom metrics that need to be queried in real-time for dashboards. You also need to retain logs for one year for compliance. Which combination of services should you use?

Hard
157

A startup is building a social media analytics platform that processes streaming data. They need a data store for time-series events with high write throughput and fast timestamp-based range queries. Which Azure data store is most suitable for this workload?

Medium
158

A company runs a critical OLTP application on Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need to ensure business continuity if a regional outage occurs. The solution must have a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 seconds and a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 1 hour. They also want to use the secondary region for read-only query offloading. Which Azure SQL Database feature should they enable?

Medium
159

A company wants to run a containerized application on Azure without managing virtual machines. They need automatic scaling, load balancing, and rolling updates. Which Azure compute service should they choose?

Easy
160

A company is designing private access to a PaaS database from workloads in a VNet. The database should not be reachable over its public endpoint. What should be recommended?

Medium
161

Which TWO of the following are true about Microsoft Entra ID Governance features?

Medium
162

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They need to monitor sign-in logs for anomalous activity (e.g., sign-ins from unfamiliar locations) and automatically take action such as requiring MFA or blocking sign-in. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Medium
163

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID with P2 licensing. You need to implement a strategy to automatically detect and remediate risky sign-ins without requiring user interaction for low-risk events. What should you configure?

Hard
164

Which TWO options are valid methods to secure access to Azure Cosmos DB?

Medium
165

A company deploys a web application on multiple Azure VMs. They need to distribute incoming HTTP traffic across the VMs, offload SSL/TLS termination, and maintain session persistence (sticky sessions) so that all requests from a user session go to the same backend VM. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
166

You run the above PowerShell script to upload a blob to Azure Storage. The script fails with an error: 'The specified container does not exist.' What should you do first to resolve the issue?

Hard
167

Your company has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant with 50,000 users. You need to design a solution to ensure that users can reset their own passwords without help desk intervention, while preventing password reuse for the last 10 passwords. Which feature should you enable?

Medium
168

Which TWO actions should you take to implement a least-privilege identity strategy for Azure resources?

Medium
169

Drag and drop the steps to set up Azure Private Link for an Azure SQL Database into the correct order.

Medium
170

A company runs a critical SAP HANA database on an Azure large instance. They need a disaster recovery solution that provides automatic failover to a secondary region with an RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 30 minutes. The solution must not require manual intervention to start replication. What should they use?

Hard
171

A company deploys a web application across multiple Azure VMs in a single region. They want to distribute incoming HTTP traffic evenly across the VMs, offload SSL encryption, and provide a fixed public IP address for clients. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
172

A company plans to migrate an on-premises application with strict low-latency requirements to Azure. The application must communicate with an Azure SQL Database. Which of the following is the best design to minimize latency?

Easy
173

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a backup policy for an Azure VM. The policy is defined using the Azure Backup REST API. What is the maximum number of recovery points that can be retained according to this policy?

Medium
174

Your company has multiple Azure subscriptions and needs a single pane of glass to monitor the health and performance of all resources across subscriptions. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
175

A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical application that runs on Azure VMs in a single region. The RTO is 4 hours, and the RPO is 1 hour. The application uses Azure SQL Database. The company wants to minimize the cost of the disaster recovery solution while meeting the RTO and RPO. You need to recommend a solution. What should you recommend?

Medium
176

A company wants to ensure that their Azure Storage account containing blobs is protected against accidental deletion or corruption. The solution must enable recovery of previous versions up to 30 days. Which TWO features should they enable? (Choose TWO.)

Hard
177

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator configured Azure Site Recovery replication for a VM using the policy shown. The VM workload is a critical database that requires application-consistent snapshots every 30 minutes to meet compliance. What is the issue with the current configuration?

Hard
178

Refer to the exhibit. You are assigned an Azure policy that restricts resource group locations to eastus, westus, and centralus. A user attempts to create a resource group in 'eastus2' and receives a denial. The user argues that there are existing resources in 'eastus2' and that the policy should allow it. What is the best course of action to allow the resource group creation while maintaining compliance?

Hard
179

A company has 10 branch offices, each with Windows file servers. They want to centralize file storage in Azure and allow each branch office to cache files locally for fast access. The solution must support cloud tiering so that only frequently accessed files are kept locally. Which Azure service should they implement?

Medium
180

A multinational company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The company has regional IT teams that need to manage users and groups within their respective regions. Each region has a distinct set of users in specific organizational units. The company wants to assign the User Administrator role to regional IT staff, but limit their scope to only the users in their region. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
181

A company needs to store large amounts of unstructured data such as images and videos for a content management system. The data must be accessible via HTTPS and support tiered storage for cost optimization. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
182

You need to ensure that only authorized users can access the Azure portal. What should you use?

Easy
183

A company runs a critical application on Azure Virtual Machines in a single availability set. They want to protect against an entire Azure region failure. They need a recovery time objective (RTO) of 30 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which solution should they use?

Medium
184

Refer to the exhibit. You have an Azure Storage account with hierarchical namespace enabled. You create this JSON policy to assign to a container. Users report that they can access the container from any IP, not just the specified range. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
185

You are a cloud architect at a healthcare company. They have an existing application running on Azure VMs in a single region. The application uses SQL Server on a VM for its database. The company is migrating to Azure SQL Managed Instance for better manageability and compliance. The database is 2 TB and requires point-in-time restore (PITR) capability with a retention period of 35 days. The workload is critical with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 2 hours. The company wants to minimize costs while meeting these requirements. Which of the following should you recommend?

Hard
186

A company stores backup data for Azure VMs in a Recovery Services vault. They need to ensure that the backup data is protected from accidental deletion and remains available even if the entire Azure region fails. What should you configure?

Easy
187

Your organization is implementing a security strategy for Azure resources. You need to enforce consistent security policies across all subscriptions and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Which TWO services should you use?

Easy
188

Refer to the exhibit. A KQL query is run against Azure Storage logs. The result shows a high number of 404 errors for 'GetBlob' operations. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
189

Your organization is migrating an on-premises application to Azure. The application consists of a load-balanced web tier and a backend SQL Server database. The web tier requires session persistence (sticky sessions) and SSL offload. You need to design a solution that meets these requirements with minimal operational overhead. Which Azure service should you use for the web tier load balancing?

Hard
190

A company is migrating on-premises Windows applications that require LDAP, NTLM, or Kerberos authentication to Azure VMs. They want to provide domain services for these applications without deploying and managing domain controllers. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
191

Which TWO features of Microsoft Entra ID help protect against credential compromise? (Choose two.)

Easy
192

Your company has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant with 10,000 users. You need to implement a lifecycle workflow that automatically disables user accounts when employees leave the organization, and then deletes them after 30 days. What should you use?

Hard
193

Which THREE components are required to implement a disaster recovery solution for Azure SQL Database using failover groups? (Choose three.)

Hard
194

A company runs a multi-tier application on Azure VMs. The application has front-end and back-end VMs that must be started in a specific order during failover (front-end first, then back-end). The company uses Azure Site Recovery to replicate to a secondary region. After failover, they also need to run custom PowerShell scripts to update DNS records. Which Azure Site Recovery feature should they configure?

Medium
195

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID B2B collaboration for external partners. They want to enforce that external users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access company resources only from devices that are compliant with Intune policies. Additionally, they need to require a session timeout of 1 hour. Which combination of Microsoft Entra ID features should they use?

Medium
196

A company has multiple Azure virtual networks (VNets) spread across three Azure regions (West US, East US, and West Europe). They also have an on-premises network connected to East US via ExpressRoute. They need to connect all VNets to each other and to the on-premises network. They require centralized management of routing and the ability to enforce security policies such as forcing all internet-bound traffic from any VNet to pass through a central firewall in East US. Which Azure solution should they implement?

Hard
197

Your company is implementing a new Azure subscription for a project that requires strict separation of duties. The security team requires that all resource creation must be approved by a central IT team. Additionally, any resource that does not comply with company tagging standards should be automatically reported. You need to design a solution that meets these requirements using Azure Policy and Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). What should you do?

Easy
198

Refer to the exhibit. You are an Azure administrator reviewing a custom Azure Policy definition. What does this policy do?

Medium
199

You are designing a connectivity solution for a hybrid network. The company has an on-premises network connected to an Azure virtual network via ExpressRoute. They also have a site-to-site VPN to the same Azure virtual network as a backup. When the ExpressRoute connection fails, traffic should automatically fail over to the VPN. How should you configure the routes to ensure automatic failover?

Medium
200

A company runs large-scale analytics workloads using Apache Hadoop and Spark. They need a cloud storage solution that is fully compatible with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and provides unlimited storage with high throughput for parallel processing. They also want to take advantage of tiered storage to reduce costs for older data. Which Azure data service should they use?

Hard
201

You executed the above Azure CLI commands. The remote VNet (yourVNet) has address space 10.1.0.0/16. What is the result?

Hard
202

You are designing a solution to grant external partners access to specific Azure resources. The partners must authenticate using their own corporate credentials. You need to manage their access centrally. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should you use?

Easy
203

A multinational corporation needs to store and analyze petabytes of historical data for regulatory reporting. The data is rarely accessed but must be available for queries within 5 minutes. Which Azure storage solution should they choose to minimize cost?

Hard
204

An organization wants to enforce MFA only when sign-in risk is medium or high. Which Microsoft Entra capability should be used?

Medium
205

Your company is designing a data lake solution for IoT telemetry data. The data is ingested continuously and must be stored cost-effectively while allowing occasional interactive queries. The data has a lifespan of 90 days for hot access and 3 years for archived access. Which Azure storage tiering strategy minimizes costs?

Hard
206

Your Azure environment includes multiple subscriptions that are managed by different teams. You need to ensure that all resources are compliant with your company's security policies, and any non-compliant resources must be automatically remediated or reported. Which solution should you implement?

Hard
207

A company wants to monitor sign-in failures for their Microsoft Entra ID-integrated applications. They need a dashboard in Azure Monitor showing sign-in failures by application and user location. Which data source should they stream to a Log Analytics workspace?

Easy
208

Match each Azure governance tool to its description.

Medium
209

Your organization is planning to migrate a large number of on-premises file servers to Azure. The data includes millions of small files. You need to select a storage solution that supports SMB protocol and can handle high file counts. Which TWO Azure services meet these requirements?

Medium
210

Which THREE of the following are best practices for securing an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster? (Choose three.)

Hard
211

A media company is designing a storage solution for its large video files (average 50 GB each) that are edited by multiple users simultaneously. The solution must support SMB protocol for compatibility with existing editing software and provide low-latency access. The files must be stored in a highly available configuration across multiple availability zones in a single region. Which Azure storage solution should the company recommend?

Medium
212

Which TWO data storage solutions in Azure provide built-in, automatic geo-redundancy for disaster recovery across paired regions?

Medium
213

Your company plans to use Microsoft Sentinel as a SIEM solution. You need to ensure that security events from all Azure subscriptions are collected in a single workspace. What should you configure?

Easy
214

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess the security posture of Azure resources. You need to ensure that all Azure subscriptions are covered by a single continuous export configuration that sends security alerts to a Log Analytics workspace. What should you do?

Medium
215

Your organization is implementing a hybrid identity solution with Microsoft Entra ID. Users in an on-premises Active Directory domain need to access cloud applications. You need to ensure that password changes on-premises are synchronized to Entra ID within 30 seconds. Which configuration should you use?

Medium
216

Your organization runs a critical application on Azure VMs that must be highly available within a region. The application is stateful and requires shared storage. You need to design a solution that can automatically recover from a VM failure with minimal downtime. What should you include in the design?

Medium
217

Which TWO actions should you take to ensure business continuity for an Azure App Service web app that uses Azure SQL Database? (Choose two.)

Medium
218

A company runs an SAP HANA database on Azure large instances (HLI) in the West US region. The database is critical for business operations. They need a disaster recovery solution with a recovery point objective (RPO) of near zero (seconds) and a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 30 minutes in the event of a region-wide outage. The solution must automatically replicate data to a secondary region (East US) and support automated failover. Which design should they implement?

Hard
219

A company runs SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine. They need to ensure high availability within a single Azure region. The solution must provide automatic failover with zero data loss (synchronous replication) and support read-only routing for reporting workloads. Which solution should they implement?

Medium
220

Your company has an Azure subscription with multiple virtual networks (VNets) in different regions. You need to ensure that resources in all VNets can communicate with each other privately over the Microsoft backbone network. Which Azure solution should you implement?

Easy
221

A company runs a custom analytics application that reads data using the NFS 3.0 protocol. The data consists of large files organized in a directory structure. The application also requires POSIX-like access control lists (ACLs) for fine-grained permissions. The solution must be fully managed and support high throughput for parallel reads. Which Azure data service should they use?

Medium
222

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) for identity management. They want to automatically detect sign-in risks such as sign-ins from unfamiliar locations, anonymous IP addresses, or leaked credentials. Based on the risk level, they want to apply different controls: for low-risk sign-ins, show a message but allow access; for medium-risk sign-ins, require multi-factor authentication (MFA); for high-risk sign-ins, block the sign-in. They also need to receive a weekly summary report of risk events. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Medium
223

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They have a SaaS application that supports SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management). The company wants to automatically create, update, and deactivate user accounts in the SaaS application whenever changes occur in Microsoft Entra ID. They do not want to use custom scripts. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Medium
224

Your company, Fabrikam Inc., operates a global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that provides real-time analytics. The application runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with a microservices architecture. The data tier uses Azure Cosmos DB (Core SQL API) with multi-region writes. The application also uses Azure Event Hubs for event ingestion. The business requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 10 seconds and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 0 for the entire platform. The solution must support active-active configuration across multiple Azure regions. You have been asked to recommend the disaster recovery design. Which option should you recommend?

Hard
225

You need to provide temporary shared access to a specific blob in Azure Storage for a contractor. The access must expire after 24 hours. Which feature should you use?

Easy
226

A company uses Azure Policy to enforce tagging on resources. The security team reports that some resources are missing the required 'CostCenter' tag. You need to ensure that any resource created without the required tag is automatically remediated by adding the tag with a default value. What should you configure in Azure Policy?

Medium
227

A company runs a critical application on Azure Virtual Machines in the North Europe region. The application uses a SQL Server database on a VM. The company wants to implement a backup solution that provides point-in-time restore for the database to any point within the last 35 days. The solution must minimize administrative effort and cost. What should you recommend?

Medium
228

A company needs a data storage solution for a global application that frequently accesses recent data and less frequently older data. Data is unstructured blobs. They want to automatically move blobs to cool storage after 30 days and to archive storage after 90 days. Additionally, blobs must be retained for 7 years and cannot be deleted or modified during that period. Which Azure Blob Storage features should they combine?

Medium
229

You are designing a solution for a critical application that requires low latency between multiple Azure regions. The application must handle failover automatically if a region becomes unavailable. You need to distribute traffic across regions and ensure that users are directed to the closest healthy endpoint. What should you implement?

Hard
230

You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a web application hosted on Azure App Service. The application uses Azure SQL Database. The company wants to minimize downtime during a regional outage. Which approach should you recommend?

Easy
231

Which THREE should you consider when designing a monitoring solution for a critical application that requires high availability and low latency? (Choose three.)

Hard
232

You need to provide a team of developers with access to create and manage Azure resources in a specific resource group. The developers should not be able to modify access policies for other users. Which built-in role should you assign?

Easy
233

Which TWO of the following are benefits of using Azure Files shares for lift-and-shift migrations of on-premises file servers?

Medium
234

A globally distributed application requires multi-region writes to a NoSQL database and must tolerate regional write outages. Which Azure service capability should be selected?

Hard
235

A company is designing a solution for a data analytics workload. The company receives streaming data from multiple sources, including IoT devices and social media feeds. The data must be ingested, processed in real-time, and stored for historical analysis. The company also wants to use Power BI to create real-time dashboards from the streaming data. You need to recommend a data pipeline architecture. What should you include?

Hard
236

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs. They need a backup strategy that meets the following requirements: - Daily backups retained for 35 days - Weekly backups retained for 12 weeks - Monthly backups retained for 36 months - Yearly backups retained for 10 years - Backups must be stored in a geo-redundant storage account Which THREE items must be configured? (Choose three.)

Hard
237

Your company is designing a hybrid identity solution that will allow users to authenticate to Azure resources using their on-premises Active Directory credentials. The solution must support multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies. Which TWO components should you include?

Medium
238

A company needs to store large amounts of unstructured data (log files) for analytics. The data is accessed frequently for the first 30 days, then occasionally for the next 90 days, and rarely after that but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. The data must not be modified or deleted during the retention period, and administrative access must not be able to bypass this restriction. They want to minimize storage costs. Which combination of Azure Blob Storage features should they configure?

Hard
239

A company wants to monitor sign-in activity for their Microsoft Entra ID-integrated applications. They need to detect risky sign-ins, such as sign-ins from anonymous IP addresses or unfamiliar locations, and automatically block or require multi-factor authentication. They also need a dashboard showing risk events and the ability to investigate and remediate. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
240

A company runs SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine. They need to automate database backups with application-consistency and retain backups for 10 years to meet compliance. They also want to restore to any point in time within the last 35 days. Which Azure Backup solution should they use?

Medium
241

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to ensure the application can failover to another region with minimal data loss and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The application uses managed disks and SQL Server Always On availability groups. What is the MOST cost-effective solution that meets the requirements?

Medium
242

A global e-commerce company needs a database solution that can handle high-velocity writes from user transactions across multiple regions. They require multi-region writes with automatic conflict resolution and single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes. Which Azure data store should they use?

Easy
243

A company uses Azure Cosmos DB for a globally distributed e-commerce application. They need to ensure that write operations in one region are immediately visible in all other regions. Which consistency level should they choose?

Easy
244

A company runs a critical line-of-business application on 10 Azure VMs. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the VMs to a secondary region with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 30 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution must support non-disruptive testing of failover for quarterly compliance drills. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
245

You are designing an identity solution for a large enterprise that uses Microsoft Entra ID. The company has a partner organization that needs access to a specific application. The partner uses their own identity provider (IdP). You need to enable seamless access without duplicating user accounts. What should you configure?

Medium
246

A company has deployed several Azure VMs that do not have public IP addresses. Administrators need to securely connect to these VMs using RDP and SSH from the internet over a browser without deploying a jump box or managing VPN connections. The solution must use Microsoft Entra ID authentication for single sign-on. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
247

Which TWO Microsoft Entra ID features should you use to protect against credential attacks?

Medium
248

Your organization has a critical application deployed on Azure VMs in the West US region. The application uses a Standard_D8s_v3 VM with two data disks (512 GB each) and a separate log disk (256 GB). The application writes data continuously to the data disks and logs. The business continuity requirements are: RPO of 15 minutes, RTO of 2 hours, and the ability to recover to a specific point in time within the last 7 days. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that replicates the VMs and disks to the East US region. The solution must also support failback to West US after a disaster. What should you do?

Medium
249

Your company is designing a hybrid network architecture that connects multiple on-premises sites to Azure. You need to ensure high availability and redundancy for the connection. Which TWO solutions should you recommend? (Choose two.)

Medium
250

Which THREE Azure services or features should you use to design a comprehensive monitoring solution for a hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises and Azure?

Hard
251

A company wants to automatically tier data between hot, cool, and archive access tiers based on last access time to optimize costs. Which Azure feature should they implement?

Easy
252

A healthcare company is designing a data storage solution for its electronic health records (EHR) system. The system must store patient data in Azure SQL Database with high availability. The solution must meet the following requirements: - Data must be stored in the East US region with automatic failover to a secondary region in West US in case of a regional outage. - The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) must be less than 5 seconds. - The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) must be less than 1 hour. - The solution must minimize costs while meeting the RPO and RTO. Which Azure SQL Database configuration should the company recommend?

Medium
253

A company ingests IoT sensor data into Azure Blob Storage. Data is written frequently and is accessed rarely after the first 24 hours. The company must retain the data for exactly 90 days for compliance. They want to minimize storage costs by automatically moving data to the cheapest possible storage tier as soon as possible. Which Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management policy should they implement?

Medium
254

A startup is building a web application that will be used by a small number of users initially but is expected to grow rapidly. The application runs on Linux and uses a PostgreSQL database. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and costs during the early stages. You need to recommend a platform as a service (PaaS) solution for both the application and the database. What should you recommend?

Easy
255

A company has virtual machines in Azure that need to be grouped across multiple fault domains and update domains to ensure high availability. They plan to deploy three VMs running the same application tier. Which Azure feature should they use to provide redundancy within a single region?

Easy
256

A company runs an Azure SQL Database with active geo-replication configured to a secondary region. The primary region experiences a complete outage. The company needs to promote the secondary database to become the new primary with minimal data loss. Which action should they take?

Easy
257

A company deploys a web application across multiple Azure VMs in a single region. They need to distribute incoming HTTP traffic, offload SSL termination, and perform URL-based routing to different backend pools (e.g., /images to one pool, /api to another). Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Medium
258

Your organization uses Azure Monitor to monitor a fleet of 500 VMs running Windows Server. You need to collect security event logs (Event ID 4625 for failed logons) from all VMs and send them to a Log Analytics workspace. The solution must support centralized configuration and be scalable. You also want to filter out high-volume noise events to reduce costs. What should you do?

Medium
259

You are designing a microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The solution must handle traffic spikes by automatically scaling pods based on CPU utilization. Additionally, you need to minimize cost by scaling down nodes when not in use. Which two features should you implement? (Choose two.)

Hard
260

A multinational corporation is designing a backup and disaster recovery strategy for Azure IaaS VMs. The solution must support cross-region failover, meet a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes, and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour. Which TWO options should you include in the design?

Hard
261

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to allow external business partners to access an internal web application using their own organizational identities. The solution must support self-service sign-up and enforce multi-factor authentication for partner users. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
262

Your organization needs to provide temporary, limited-privilege access to Azure resources for external auditors. The access must be time-bound and require approval from a manager. Which Azure feature should you use?

Easy
263

A financial company must store customer transaction records in Azure Blob Storage. Regulatory requirements mandate that the records must not be modified or deleted for 7 years. Even administrators must be unable to alter or remove the blobs during this period. Which Azure Blob Storage feature should they enable?

Easy
264

Refer to the exhibit. An Azure Policy is assigned to a subscription. A user tries to create a blob container via the Azure portal and receives a deny error. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
265

You are designing a storage solution for a media company that needs to store large video files (up to 50 GB each) and serve them to a global audience with low latency. The solution must be cost-effective and support resumable uploads. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

Medium
266

A global company stores customer profile data in JSON format. The application requires low-latency writes and reads from multiple regions. The solution must support multi-region writes with automatic conflict resolution and provide high availability. Which Azure Cosmos DB configuration should they choose?

Medium
267

A company needs to store and analyze petabytes of semi-structured data from IoT devices. The data is append-only and written in time order. They need to support fast queries on time ranges and also aggregate data in real-time. Which Azure data service should they use?

Hard
268

A company runs a production Azure SQL Database. They need a business continuity solution that allows point-in-time restore to any time within the last 7 days and provides geo-failover capability with RTO of 1 hour. What is the MOST COST-EFFECTIVE option?

Medium
269

A large enterprise is designing a hybrid network architecture. The company has an on-premises data center connected to Azure via ExpressRoute. They want to extend their on-premises network to Azure by using a site-to-site VPN as a backup connection. The company has multiple VNets in Azure that need to communicate with each other and with the on-premises network. The solution must be highly available and provide redundancy for the ExpressRoute connection. You need to recommend a network connectivity design. What should you include?

Hard
270

Your company runs a mission-critical application on Azure VMs. You need to design a cross-region disaster recovery solution that meets a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 minutes. The solution must minimize costs. What should you recommend?

Medium
271

A software company hosts multiple small databases for different clients on Azure SQL Database. Each database has low average usage but experiences unpredictable spikes. The company wants to minimize cost by pooling resources across databases while allowing each database to consume resources up to a set limit during spikes. They also need the ability to easily add new databases without manual sizing. Which Azure SQL Database deployment option should they choose?

Medium
272

A company runs a data analytics workload that processes large amounts of unstructured data (images and videos). The data is accessed frequently for the first month, then rarely. They need to store the data cost-effectively for 7 years to meet compliance. The solution must support fast retrieval of data within the first month. Which Azure storage solution should they recommend?

Medium
273

A company uses Azure Backup to protect on-premises Windows servers and Azure VMs. They need to restore a file from a backup of an Azure VM that was deleted three months ago. The backup policy retains daily backups for 30 days and weekly backups for 12 months. What is the CORRECT way to restore the file?

Easy
274

Your company has a hybrid identity environment with 10,000 on-premises users synchronized to Microsoft Entra ID using Microsoft Entra Connect. You plan to implement a modern access control strategy for all cloud applications. The requirements are: enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) for all users when accessing sensitive applications, allow users to self-remediate risky sign-ins via a mobile app, and minimize infrastructure complexity. You need to design the identity and governance solution. What should you do?

Hard
275

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to automatically detect identity risks, such as users with leaked credentials or sign-ins from anonymous IP addresses, and generate alerts. They also want to automatically trigger a password reset for high-risk users. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
276

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They have many guest users with access to internal SharePoint sites and applications. They need to review guest user access every 90 days and automatically remove access if the guest does not respond to the review request. The solution must be fully automated without custom scripting. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Hard
277

A company is building a global real-time collaboration platform. The application data is stored as JSON documents and needs to be available for low-latency reads and writes from multiple geographic regions. The application must support multi-region writes so that users can update data from any region with automatic conflict resolution. The company wants a fully managed database service with a guaranteed SLA for availability and throughput. Which Azure data service should they choose?

Medium
278

Your company is designing a governance strategy for Azure. You need to ensure that all resource groups in a subscription are created with a specific naming convention and mandatory tags. Which THREE services or features should you use together? (Choose three.)

Hard
279

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to enforce that all users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing sensitive applications from outside the corporate network, but allow access without MFA when coming from the corporate office IP range. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use to create this policy?

Easy
280

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this Azure Network Watcher connection monitor to test TCP connectivity on port 443 between two VMs. The test consistently shows 'Unreachable' status. Both VMs are running and have correct NSG rules allowing inbound port 443 from the source VM's IP. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
281

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to provide external business partners with access to an internal application. The access must be time-limited to 60 days, approved by a manager within the partner company, and automatically expire. The company also needs to generate reports of who has access. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they implement?

Medium
282

A company has multiple Azure VNets deployed in a hub-spoke topology. They want to inspect all outbound internet traffic from spoke VMs using a central firewall and ensure that traffic from all VNets goes through the firewall before reaching the internet. They also need to log all outbound connections. Which architecture should they implement?

Hard
283

Your company runs a mission-critical application on Azure Virtual Machines that requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 5 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 1 minute. The application uses a single VM with a managed disk. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that meets these requirements with minimal cost. What should you recommend?

Hard
284

Your company has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant with 10,000 users. You need to design a monitoring solution to detect when users are assigned to high-privilege roles (e.g., Global Administrator) and ensure that any such assignment triggers an automated investigation. Additionally, you need to monitor sign-in failures for guest users and automatically block accounts after 5 failed attempts within 10 minutes. You have the following requirements: 1) Use a cloud-native solution that minimizes administrative overhead. 2) Integrate with Microsoft Sentinel for incident response. 3) Use built-in features where possible. What should you do?

Medium
285

A company ingests millions of IoT sensor data points per second. They need a fully managed analytics service optimized for time-series data that can ingest high-velocity data, perform real-time analytics, and store data for historical analysis. The solution must integrate with Azure Stream Analytics for stream processing. Which Azure data service should they choose?

Medium
286

A company plans to migrate on-premises applications to Azure. They require users to authenticate using their existing on-premises Active Directory credentials without syncing password hashes to the cloud. Which Microsoft Entra ID authentication method should they use?

Easy
287

Your organization has a policy that all administrative access to Azure resources must be performed using just-in-time (JIT) access. Which Azure service allows you to enable JIT VM access?

Easy
288

Your company has a hybrid network with multiple on-premises sites connected to Azure via ExpressRoute. You need to design a DNS resolution strategy that allows Azure resources to resolve on-premises hostnames and on-premises clients to resolve Azure hostnames. The solution must minimize administrative overhead. What should you use?

Medium
289

Which TWO of the following are benefits of using Azure Cosmos DB for a globally distributed application?

Medium
290

A company is building a customer-facing web application. They want to allow users to sign in using their existing social accounts (Microsoft, Google, Facebook) or create a local account. The solution must be fully managed and support custom branding. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
291

Your organization uses Azure Monitor Logs to analyze application performance. You need to create a custom log query that calculates the 95th percentile of response times for a web app over the last 24 hours. Which THREE KQL functions should you use? (Choose three.)

Hard
292

A company runs SQL Server on Azure VMs using SQL Server Standard Edition. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the database to a secondary Azure region with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. They cannot use Always On Availability Groups due to licensing constraints. They also need to perform non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. Which Azure service should they implement?

Medium
293

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this ARM template to create an Azure Monitor Workbook. The template deploys successfully. What will the workbook display?

Hard
294

Which TWO of the following are features of Azure SQL Database that help ensure high availability? (Select two.)

Easy
295

A company stores terabytes of archival data that must be retained for 10 years per regulatory requirements. The data is accessed infrequently (once or twice per year) and retrieval latency of up to 5 hours is acceptable. The company wants the lowest storage cost. They also need to ensure data is encrypted at rest and immutability to prevent deletion or modification during the retention period. Which Azure storage solution should they choose?

Hard
296

You are designing a governance and compliance solution for a large Azure environment with multiple subscriptions. The solution must enforce tagging policies, restrict resource types, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Which THREE Azure services or features should you use? (Choose three.)

Hard
297

You are designing a network architecture for a multi-tier application. The front-end tier is an Azure Application Gateway that routes traffic to a web app on Azure App Service. The back-end tier is an Azure SQL Database. You need to ensure that all traffic between the Application Gateway and the web app remains within the Azure backbone network, and that the web app can only be accessed through the Application Gateway. What should you configure?

Hard
298

A startup needs a cost-effective data storage solution for its application logs. The logs are accessed infrequently but must be available for audit purposes for up to 3 years. The solution should minimize storage costs while allowing data retrieval within 24 hours when needed. Which Azure storage tier should the company recommend?

Easy
299

A healthcare organization stores patient records in Azure SQL Database. They need to ensure that all read queries against the database are directed to a read-only replica to offload the primary. Which feature should you configure?

Medium
300

Refer to the exhibit. This ARM template configures backup for an Azure App Service web app. The backup is scheduled daily. What is the primary limitation of this backup strategy in meeting a disaster recovery RPO of 4 hours?

Hard
301

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID. You need to allow external users to sign in using their own identity providers (e.g., Google, Facebook) to access a custom application. What should you configure?

Medium
302

A multinational corporation is designing a hybrid identity solution using Microsoft Entra ID. The company has multiple on-premises Active Directory forests with complex trust relationships. They require that users can authenticate to both cloud and on-premises resources using the same credentials, and they want to minimize changes to the existing infrastructure. Which THREE components should be part of the solution? (Choose three.)

Hard
303

Which THREE of the following are valid methods to securely transfer data to Azure Blob Storage? (Select three.)

Hard
304

Which TWO Azure networking services provide DDoS protection at the application layer (Layer 7)?

Medium
305

Your organization needs to ensure that all Azure resources are compliant with corporate security policies. You need to design a solution that can enforce policies at scale, audit compliance, and automatically remediate non-compliant resources. Which THREE Azure services should you include?

Medium
306

Your company uses Microsoft Sentinel for security monitoring. You need to design a solution to detect when a user account is created in Microsoft Entra ID with Global Administrator privileges. When detected, an incident must be created in Sentinel and the account should be disabled temporarily until reviewed. You want to use built-in capabilities where possible. What should you do?

Medium
307

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to improve availability to meet an SLA of 99.99% while minimizing costs. The application is stateless and can run on multiple VMs. Which solution should you recommend?

Hard
308

Your company is planning to use Azure Monitor Workbooks to create custom dashboards for IT operations. You need to select the data sources that can be used in a workbook. Which TWO data sources are supported? (Choose two.)

Medium
309

A company runs a critical application on an Azure virtual machine in the West US region. They want to enable disaster recovery to East US with the ability to perform non-disruptive DR drills. They need an RPO of a few minutes. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
310

Your company is planning to migrate a large number of on-premises servers to Azure. The migration must be completed within 3 months. You need to assess the current on-premises environment and recommend the most appropriate Azure VM sizes and costs. What should you do?

Medium
311

Your organization is deploying a critical application on Azure virtual machines. You need to ensure that the VMs are distributed across multiple fault domains and update domains within an availability set. You create an availability set with 3 fault domains and 5 update domains. How many VMs can you add to this availability set to maximize fault tolerance?

Medium
312

You are reviewing a custom RBAC role in Azure. The exhibit shows the role definition. A user with this role reports they cannot read diagnostic settings for a storage account in the Production resource group. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
313

A large enterprise has a management group hierarchy with 50 subscriptions. They need to enforce that every resource group must have a 'CostCenter' tag and that any new resource group without that tag is automatically denied creation. Additionally, they need to ensure that only the Finance team can modify tags on any resource. They also want to generate monthly compliance reports showing which resources are non-compliant. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Hard
314

Which TWO of the following are valid options to achieve high availability for Azure SQL Database? (Choose two.)

Easy
315

You are designing a storage solution for a global e-commerce platform that must serve users from multiple regions with low latency. The data includes product catalog (read-heavy, rarely updated) and user session state (write-heavy, short-lived). Which combination of Azure services meets the requirements?

Hard
316

Match each Azure compute service to its characteristic.

Medium
317

Your organization is moving to a cloud-only identity model using Microsoft Entra ID. You need to ensure that users can reset their own passwords without help desk intervention. The solution must support multi-factor authentication and notify administrators of password resets. What should you implement?

Easy
318

A company uses Azure NetApp Files for high-performance file shares accessed by Linux VMs. They need to reduce latency for read-heavy workloads. Which configuration should you implement?

Hard
319

Drag and drop the steps to implement Azure Traffic Manager for geographic routing into the correct order.

Medium
320

Your company is designing a new cloud-native application on Azure that consists of multiple microservices running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application must be accessible from the internet via a custom domain name (app.contoso.com) and must support SSL/TLS termination. You need to design a secure ingress solution that provides Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities, SSL offloading, and automatic scaling. The solution should also support path-based routing to different microservices (e.g., /api, /web). You have the following options: Option A: Deploy an Azure Application Gateway v2 with WAF in front of the AKS cluster. Configure Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) to route traffic to the services. Option B: Deploy an Azure Load Balancer with a public IP and install an NGINX ingress controller on AKS. Configure SSL termination on NGINX and use a third-party WAF. Option C: Deploy an Azure Front Door with WAF policy in front of the AKS cluster. Use Azure Private Link to connect Front Door to the internal load balancer of AKS. Option D: Deploy an Azure API Management instance with WAF and expose the microservices through API endpoints. Use Azure Application Gateway as a reverse proxy. Which option best meets the requirements for a high-performance, integrated, and managed solution with minimal operational overhead?

Hard
321

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an ARM template that assigns a policy to audit virtual machines not using managed disks. After deployment, you need to verify that the policy assignment is working. Which Azure CLI command should you run?

Easy
322

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to automatically detect sign-ins from anonymous IP addresses, sign-ins from unfamiliar locations, and other risky activities. When such a risk is detected, they want to block the sign-in or require multi-factor authentication. They also need a dashboard to review risk events. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
323

Match each Azure migration tool to its use case.

Medium
324

You are designing a high-availability solution for a stateless web application running on Azure VMs. The solution must provide automatic failover to another region in the event of a regional outage. Which Azure service should you use to distribute traffic across regions?

Easy
325

A company deploys a multi-tier web application on Azure VMs across availability zones. The web tier must have SSL termination, session persistence, and health probe monitoring. Additionally, all traffic must be inspected by a central firewall for compliance. The solution must be highly available. Which combination of Azure services should they implement?

Hard
326

A company is designing a serverless architecture for a real-time data processing pipeline. The pipeline ingests data from IoT devices, processes the data using Azure Functions, and stores the results in Azure Cosmos DB. The solution must scale automatically and minimize cold starts. Which Azure service should the company use to trigger the Azure Functions?

Medium
327

A media company needs to store large volumes of video files that are processed by an application. The files are accessed via REST APIs and are rarely accessed after the first few days. The company wants to minimize storage costs by automatically moving older files to a cheaper storage tier without any manual intervention. Which Azure storage solution should they use, and which feature should they configure?

Medium
328

A company is building a petabyte-scale data lake for analytics. They need a storage solution that supports a hierarchical namespace, POSIX-like permissions (ACLs), and is optimized for big data analytics workloads using Apache Spark and Hive. The data must be accessible over the Azure Blob Storage API. Which Azure data service should they use?

Hard
329

A company is deploying a web application that must scale out automatically based on CPU usage. The application runs on Azure App Service. Which Azure feature should they configure?

Easy
330

A small business is migrating its on-premises file server to Azure. The file server contains 2 TB of data that is accessed infrequently. The business wants to minimize costs and only pay for storage used. The solution must support SMB protocol and allow for on-premises caching to reduce latency. Which Azure storage solution should the business recommend?

Easy
331

Your company has a critical application running on Azure Virtual Machines that processes financial transactions. You need to ensure that the application remains available during an Azure region failure. The application is stateless and can scale horizontally. What is the most cost-effective design to meet the availability requirement?

Medium
332

A company wants to store log data from multiple applications for up to 30 days for analysis. The data is append-only, and queries are infrequent but need to be fast when run. Which Azure data storage solution should you recommend?

Easy
333

Refer to the exhibit. A user reports they cannot access a secret in the vault 'vault-prod'. The user has a Contributor role at the subscription scope and a Key Vault Secrets User role at the specific vault scope. What is the most likely reason for the failure?

Hard
334

Your company has multiple Azure subscriptions managed by different teams. You need to design a governance solution that ensures: 1) All subscriptions must have a consistent set of policies (e.g., allowed locations, allowed VM SKUs). 2) Compliance reports must be generated daily for each subscription. 3) Non-compliant resources must be automatically remediated where possible (e.g., add tags). 4) The solution must use a single management group hierarchy. What should you include in the design?

Hard
335

A company is deploying a web application on Azure App Service. They need to guarantee that all traffic from the internet goes through a Web Application Firewall (WAF) before reaching the app. The solution must be cost-effective for a single application. Which Azure service should they place in front of the App Service?

Medium
336

Your company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to Azure. The application requires persistent storage for configuration files that must be accessible from multiple virtual machines in a virtual network. The storage must be accessible only from within the virtual network and should not be exposed to the internet. Which Azure storage solution should you use?

Medium
337

You are designing a business continuity solution for a globally distributed SaaS application that uses Azure Cosmos DB for its operational store. The application must survive a complete regional outage with zero data loss and automatic failover. What should you use?

Hard
338

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to allow users to sign in using their existing personal Microsoft accounts, Google, and Facebook identities. They also need custom sign-up and sign-in flows with collection of specific user attributes. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
339

A company is using Azure SQL Database for a critical application. They need to ensure that the database is automatically backed up and that backups are retained for 35 days. What should they configure?

Easy
340

Which THREE Azure services can be used to monitor the performance of a web application? (Choose three.)

Medium
341

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID and has a custom application that requires users to have specific roles assigned. You need to ensure that role assignments are reviewed quarterly and automatically remove assignments that are not approved. Which feature should you use?

Medium
342

Drag and drop the steps to deploy a web app using Azure App Service with a custom domain and SSL certificate into the correct order.

Medium
343

Your company has a web application deployed on Azure App Service that experiences periodic traffic spikes. You need to ensure the application scales out quickly without manual intervention. The solution must minimize cost during low-traffic periods. What should you configure?

Easy
344

You are designing a governance strategy for Azure resources. The company has multiple departments, each requiring separate cost tracking and policy enforcement. You need to organize resources to align with the departments while minimizing management overhead. What should you use?

Medium
345

A company needs to store immutable audit logs for regulatory compliance. The logs must be stored in a write-once, read-many (WORM) state for 7 years. Which Azure storage feature should be used?

Easy
346

Your company, Contoso Ltd., operates a global e-commerce platform hosted on Azure. The architecture consists of: (1) A web front-end running on Azure App Service in multiple regions (East US, West Europe, Southeast Asia). (2) A microservices backend running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in East US. (3) A SQL Database in East US with geo-replication to West Europe and Southeast Asia for read scaling. (4) Azure Redis Cache for session state. (5) Azure Front Door for global load balancing. The platform experiences periodic traffic spikes, and during a recent spike, users reported slow page loads and intermittent errors. The operations team observed that the SQL Database in East US reached 100% DTU consumption, causing timeouts. The geo-replicated databases in other regions were underutilized. The application logic is read-heavy but also writes to a separate write-only table. You need to design a solution to improve scalability and reduce database load. The solution must: minimize latency for users, ensure write consistency, and handle traffic spikes without over-provisioning. What should you do?

Hard
347

A company deploys a containerized application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They need to expose the application to the internet and provide TLS termination. The solution must also include a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against common attacks. Which Azure service should they use as the ingress controller?

Medium
348

Your organization has a hybrid identity infrastructure with Microsoft Entra ID Connect Sync. You plan to enable Microsoft Entra ID Seamless Single Sign-On (Seamless SSO) for domain-joined Windows devices. What is the minimum requirement for the on-premises Active Directory forest functional level?

Medium
349

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying NSG flow logs. After deployment, you notice that no logs are being written to the storage account. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
350

Which THREE of the following are valid methods to secure access to Azure Storage accounts? (Choose three.)

Hard
351

A company is designing a backup and disaster recovery solution for an on-premises SQL Server database that will be migrated to Azure. The solution must meet the following requirements: 1) Point-in-time restore up to 30 days. 2) Cross-region restore in case of a regional disaster. 3) Long-term retention of backups for 7 years for compliance. Which THREE Azure services or features should the company use? (Choose three.)

Medium
352

A company is migrating on-premises applications to Azure. They require that all traffic between Azure resources and on-premises resources traverse a private connection. They also want to reduce the attack surface by eliminating exposure of management endpoints over the internet. Which solution should they implement?

Easy
353

A company is designing a hub-spoke network topology across multiple Azure regions. They plan to deploy a third-party network virtual appliance (NVA) in the hub for traffic inspection. They require that all traffic between spokes in different regions must be routed through the hub NVA, and they want to minimize the number of peered connections. Which solution should they implement?

Hard
354

You are reviewing a recovery plan for Azure Site Recovery. The exhibit shows a snippet of the recovery plan configuration. What is the purpose of the script action defined in the exhibit?

Hard
355

A company has an Azure subscription with a Log Analytics workspace. They need to ensure that all administrative operations performed on Azure resources are logged and retained for 90 days. The logs must be queryable using Kusto Query Language (KQL). What should you configure?

Easy
356

Your organization has multiple Azure subscriptions and uses Azure Blueprints to enforce governance. You need to design a blueprint that includes role assignments, policy assignments, and resource groups. Which THREE components can be included in an Azure Blueprint? (Choose three.)

Hard
357

A company is designing a data storage solution for an IoT pipeline that ingests time-series data from millions of devices. The data is append-only and queried by time range. The solution must support low-latency queries and automated retention policies. Which Azure data store should they choose?

Hard
358

Your organization plans to migrate a legacy on-premises application that uses a proprietary authentication mechanism to Azure. The application must run as a virtual machine and must not require any code changes. You need to design an identity solution that integrates with the application without modifying it. What should you use?

Medium
359

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. You need to ensure that users can access corporate resources without passwords while maintaining a high level of security. Which feature should you implement?

Easy
360

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to implement a solution that automatically detects identity-related risks such as leaked credentials, impossible travel, and sign-ins from anonymous IP addresses. They want to generate reports summarizing risk events and integrate the risk data with their existing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system via API. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Hard
361

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to grant specific IT administrators just-in-time (JIT) access to Azure virtual machines for troubleshooting. The access must be time-bound, require approval from a senior manager, and be automatically revoked after the granted time period. The company also needs an audit log of all access requests and assignments. Which Azure service or feature should they use?

Medium
362

A database workload has an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 4 hours. Cost is more important than near-zero data loss. Which design is usually more appropriate than synchronous multi-region replication?

Medium
363

You are designing a web application that will be hosted on Azure App Service. The application must authenticate users from your company's Microsoft Entra ID tenant. You need to implement authentication without writing any authentication code. What should you use?

Easy
364

A company is designing a data lake for analytics. The data includes personally identifiable information (PII) that must be anonymized before analysts access it. Which Azure service should they use to automate the anonymization process?

Hard
365

An on-premises datacenter must connect privately to Azure with predictable bandwidth and avoid traversal of the public internet. Which connectivity option should be recommended?

Medium
366

Refer to the exhibit. The JSON snippet shows the properties of a replication-protected item in Azure Site Recovery. What is the MOST LIKELY reason for the replication health being 'Critical'?

Hard
367

Your company requires that all administrative actions in Azure subscriptions be logged and retained for seven years. Which service should you use to collect and store these logs?

Easy
368

Which THREE Azure services can be used to implement a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) that meets an RTO of 2 hours and an RPO of 30 minutes? (Select THREE.)

Medium
369

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying a Log Analytics workspace using an ARM template with the parameters shown. Your compliance team requires that all log data be retained for at least 2 years. Which parameter value should you modify?

Hard
370

A company plans to store operational logs from Azure App Services in a scalable and cost-effective way. The logs must be retained for 90 days and then automatically deleted. Which Azure data storage solution should you recommend?

Easy
371

Which TWO Azure services can be used to host a MongoDB-compatible database with global distribution? (Select two.)

Medium
372

A hub-and-spoke Azure network must centralize outbound inspection and still allow spokes to resolve private endpoint DNS names. Which two components are commonly required? (Choose 2.)

Medium
373

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to enforce that all users accessing the company's internal application from mobile devices must be compliant with device management policies (e.g., require a PIN and encryption). The application does not support modern authentication. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Hard
374

Which TWO Microsoft Entra ID editions include Conditional Access? (Choose two.)

Easy
375

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an ARM template that deploys a virtual network with two subnets. Subnet-b includes a delegation to Microsoft.Web/serverFarms. What is the purpose of this delegation?

Medium
376

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to grant temporary administrative roles to users for specific tasks. The process must require approval from a designated approver, and the access must automatically expire after a defined period. The company also needs audit logs of all role assignments and activations. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they implement?

Easy
377

A company wants to store raw data from IoT devices, social media feeds, and transactional databases for analytics. They need a storage solution that supports a hierarchical namespace for organizing data into directories and allows fine-grained access control at the directory and file level. They also need to query the data using Azure Synapse Analytics in-place. Which Azure storage solution should they use?

Easy
378

A healthcare analytics platform stores semi-structured JSON documents and requires globally distributed low-latency reads with tunable consistency. Which Azure data platform should be recommended?

Medium
379

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to integrate their security operations with a third-party SIEM tool. They need to export all Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs and audit logs to the SIEM for analysis. The solution should be automated and near real-time. Which Azure service should they configure?

Medium
380

Your company uses Azure Resource Manager templates for infrastructure deployment. You need to ensure that all deployments are validated against organizational policies before resources are provisioned. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
381

You are designing a business continuity solution for a global SaaS application that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure Cosmos DB as the database. The solution must support multi-region writes and automatic failover with zero data loss. Which THREE components should you include in your design? (Choose three.)

Hard
382

You execute the above PowerShell script to create a Windows VM in Azure. After the script completes, you try to RDP to the public IP address but the connection fails. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
383

Your organization has a large number of virtual machines running in Azure. You need to centrally manage backup policies, monitor backup jobs, and ensure compliance with retention requirements. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
384

Your organization is migrating a legacy application to Azure that requires Windows authentication and a fixed IP address. The application will run on an Azure VM. You need to design a networking solution that ensures the VM retains its IP address even after a reboot and that the application can be reached by on-premises users using its hostname. Which TWO actions should you take? (Choose two.)

Medium
385

A company requires all users to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing cloud applications. However, they want to exempt users from MFA when they connect from the company's headquarters, which has a trusted IP range. They want to enforce this policy centrally. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
386

Which THREE capabilities are provided by Microsoft Entra ID Identity Governance? (Select THREE.)

Hard
387

You are designing a business continuity solution for a critical application that uses Azure Cosmos DB with multiple write regions. The application is deployed in the East US and West Europe regions. The business requires that if one region fails, the application can continue to serve writes in the remaining region with no data loss. Which consistency level should you use?

Hard
388

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing the properties of an Azure Storage account. The encryption section shows keySource as Microsoft.Keyvault and infrastructureEncryption enabled. What does infrastructureEncryption mean in this context?

Hard
389

You need to design a data storage solution for a mobile app that requires low-latency reads and writes globally. The data is JSON documents with varying schemas. Which Azure service should you choose?

Easy
390

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to enforce that all users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing sensitive applications. However, they want to exclude users when connecting from the corporate office IP range and only allow access from devices that are compliant with Intune policies. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use to create this policy?

Medium
391

A manufacturing company is designing an IoT solution to monitor equipment in real-time. Thousands of sensors send telemetry data every second. The data must be ingested, processed, and stored for analysis. The solution must handle high throughput and provide low-latency analytics. Additionally, the company wants to use Azure Machine Learning to predict equipment failures based on historical data. You need to design a data pipeline that meets these requirements. What should you include in the design?

Hard
392

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to govern data assets across Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, and on-premises SQL Server. You need to ensure that sensitive data such as credit card numbers are automatically detected and classified. What should you configure in Microsoft Purview?

Medium
393

Which THREE of the following are required to collect Windows security events into Microsoft Sentinel?

Hard
394

Your company is deploying a web application on Azure App Service. The application must be able to read secrets from Azure Key Vault without storing credentials in application code. Which feature should you enable?

Medium
395

You are designing identity governance for a company that uses Microsoft Entra ID. The company wants to grant external partners access to an internal application for 90 days. After 90 days, access must be automatically removed. Additionally, the application requires that users have multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a compliant device. You need to design a solution that meets these requirements with minimal administrative effort. What should you do?

Easy
396

Your organization uses Microsoft Azure and has a subscription with multiple resource groups. You need to ensure that only users in the Finance department can access storage accounts in the 'Finance' resource group. The solution must use role-based access control (RBAC). What should you assign?

Easy
397

Your company stores sensitive customer data in Azure Blob Storage. You must ensure that data is encrypted at rest using customer-managed keys (CMK) and that key rotation is automated. You also need to prevent data from being accessed by any Microsoft administrator. Which solution should you implement?

Hard
398

A company wants to migrate its on-premises file server to Azure with minimal application changes. The application accesses files over the SMB protocol and requires identity-based access using the existing on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). They need the solution to be fully managed with low latency. Which Azure storage solution should they choose?

Easy
399

Your company runs a critical web application on Azure Virtual Machines in a single region. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that meets a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution must be cost-effective for a planned failover test. What should you do?

Medium
400

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to automatically review and remove guest accounts that have not signed in for 90 days. They also need to generate reports for auditors. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
401

You are designing a solution to provide high availability for a critical application running on Azure Virtual Machines. The virtual machines must be placed on physically separate hardware and have guaranteed availability during Azure maintenance events. Which option meets these requirements?

Medium
402

You are designing a solution to monitor a hybrid environment consisting of Azure VMs and on-premises servers. The solution must provide centralized log analytics, security threat detection, and the ability to run custom queries across all logs. Which TWO Azure services should you include? (Choose two.)

Medium
403

Your company plans to use Microsoft Sentinel for security information and event management (SIEM). You need to ingest security logs from multiple Azure resources and on-premises servers. Which data connector should you use for Windows servers on-premises?

Easy
404

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to automate the lifecycle management of user accounts in their SaaS applications, such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. The solution should automatically create, update, and deactivate accounts when users join, move, or leave the organization. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
405

Drag and drop the steps to migrate an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database using the Data Migration Assistant (DMA) into the correct order.

Medium
406

Your organization needs to share large files (up to 100 GB) with external partners securely. The solution must allow partners to access files for a limited time and track who accessed which file. Which Azure solution should you use?

Medium
407

Your organization has a hybrid identity environment with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and on-premises Active Directory. You need to design a solution that allows users to access cloud applications using their on-premises credentials, and also enables single sign-on (SSO) for legacy on-premises applications that do not support modern authentication protocols. What should you recommend?

Hard
408

Refer to the exhibit. You run this PowerShell script in an Azure subscription. The script executes successfully. What is the outcome?

Medium
409

Match each Azure disaster recovery feature to its description.

Medium
410

A global e-commerce company deploys its web application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters in multiple Azure regions. They need a single global endpoint for users, with SSL offloading, web application firewall (WAF) protection, and URL path-based routing to the nearest healthy AKS cluster. Which Azure service should they use?

Hard
411

Drag and drop the steps to configure an Azure Application Gateway with end-to-end TLS encryption into the correct order.

Medium
412

A company is deploying a multi-tier web application on Azure. The web tier must be accessible from the internet. The application tier and database tier must be isolated within the virtual network and not directly accessible from the internet. The solution must provide SSL termination, URL-based routing, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. Which Azure service should they use to expose the web tier?

Hard
413

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs. They need to ensure that if an entire Azure region fails, the application can be recovered in another region with minimal data loss. They have a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 hour and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 4 hours. What should they implement?

Easy
414

You need to design a virtual network architecture for a three-tier application in Azure. The web tier must be accessible from the internet, the application tier must only be accessible from the web tier, and the database tier must only be accessible from the application tier. Which combination of Azure services should you use?

Easy
415

Refer to the exhibit. You are creating a role assignment in Azure. The role definition ID is for the Contributor role. What is the effect of this assignment?

Easy
416

Refer to the exhibit. You run the Azure Resource Graph query shown. A colleague asks why the query returns no results even though there are VMs in the subscription. The VMs use managed disks with Premium_LRS. What is the most likely reason for the empty result set?

Medium
417

Your organization has a containerized application running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to design a solution to securely store and manage secrets (e.g., database passwords, API keys) that the application consumes. The solution must integrate with AKS and support automatic rotation of secrets. What should you use?

Medium
418

A company deploys a stateless web application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to distribute incoming HTTP traffic across multiple VMs and perform health checks. The solution should be highly available within the region. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
419

A company is building a new application that requires a fully managed relational database. The application has varying workloads across different databases. The company wants to pool resources to optimize cost and allow each database to scale as needed. They also need automated backups with point-in-time restore and geo-replication for disaster recovery. Which Azure data service should they use?

Medium
420

A company runs a stateless web application on multiple Azure VMs behind a load balancer. They want to ensure that if a VM fails, traffic is automatically redirected to healthy VMs. Which Azure service provides this functionality with health probes?

Easy
421

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing the replication health of an on-premises Hyper-V VM replicated to Azure using Azure Site Recovery. The JSON output shows the properties of the replicated item. The replication health is 'Normal', but the last recovery point is from 2 hours ago. You need to ensure the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes is met. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Medium
422

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to ensure that users who access sensitive cloud applications from untrusted networks (e.g., public Wi-Fi) are prompted for multi-factor authentication (MFA). Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
423

Your company has an Azure subscription that contains several virtual machines (VMs) running Windows Server. You need to ensure that all VMs are compliant with a baseline security policy that includes specific registry key settings. The solution must automatically remediate non-compliant settings without manual intervention. What should you use?

Medium
424

A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure VMs in West US. They need a disaster recovery plan with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 30 minutes. The application consists of multiple VMs that must be recovered in a specific order: the database VM first, then the front-end VMs. They also need to ensure that after failover, the IP addresses of the VMs are retained to avoid DNS propagation delays. The company wants to test the recovery process periodically without affecting production. Which Azure Site Recovery features should they use?

Hard
425

Refer to the exhibit. You create this Conditional Access policy in Microsoft Entra ID. What is the result?

Medium
426

Which TWO of the following Azure services can be used to enable automatic failover of a web application across Azure regions?

Medium
427

Your company is implementing a monitoring solution for Azure virtual machines. You need to collect performance counters and log events from the VMs and send them to a centralized Log Analytics workspace. Which agent should you install on the VMs?

Easy
428

Your company plans to migrate a large number of on-premises virtual machines to Azure. You need to assess the current environment and migrate the workloads with minimal downtime. Which THREE Azure services or tools should you use? (Choose three.)

Hard
429

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID Premium P2. They need to implement a solution that allows users to request access to an access package that includes membership in a Microsoft Entra security group and access to a SharePoint Online site. The access must be time-limited and require approval by the user's manager. What should you configure?

Hard
430

A government agency is designing a solution to store sensitive citizen data. The data must be encrypted at rest and in transit. The agency requires that the encryption keys be managed by the agency and stored in a hardware security module (HSM). Additionally, the solution must comply with regulatory requirements that mandate customer-managed keys. You need to recommend a key management solution. What should you recommend?

Easy
431

A company runs a critical application using Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that automatically fails over to a secondary region (East US) with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 seconds and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 minute. The secondary region must also be able to serve read-only queries for reporting purposes. Which Azure SQL Database feature should they implement?

Hard
432

Your company is migrating on-premises virtual machines to Azure. You need to assess the current environment and get a cost estimate for Azure. Which tool should you use?

Easy
433

A company has an Azure SQL Database that they need to access from an on-premises data center over ExpressRoute. They want to use a private IP address to connect to the database, ensuring traffic never traverses the public internet. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
434

You need to design a disaster recovery strategy for an Azure SQL Database that supports a critical financial application. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 5 seconds and recovery time objective (RTO) is 30 seconds. Which option should you choose?

Medium
435

You are designing a network architecture for a three-tier application hosted in Azure. The front-end tier must be accessible from the internet, the business tier must only communicate with the front-end tier, and the data tier must only communicate with the business tier. You need to minimize exposure and use Azure-native services. Which combination of services should you use?

Hard
436

You are designing a disaster recovery plan for an Azure virtual machine running a critical application. The solution must meet an RPO of 1 hour and an RTO of 4 hours. Which TWO actions should you take? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
437

Which THREE of the following are best practices for designing a data storage solution using Azure Cosmos DB?

Hard
438

You are designing a storage solution for a globally distributed application that requires low-latency read access from multiple regions. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

Easy
439

Your company is deploying Microsoft Entra ID Governance and needs to ensure that guest users' access to internal applications expires after 90 days. Which feature should you configure?

Easy
440

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) Premium P2. They want to automatically block sign-ins from malicious IP addresses and require users to perform multi-factor authentication (MFA) when signing in from untrusted locations. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
441

A company is planning to migrate on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure. They want to minimize administrative overhead and ensure high availability with automatic failover. Which TWO Azure SQL deployment options should they consider?

Easy
442

You are reviewing a Bicep template that deploys two App Service Environments (ASE) and an Azure Traffic Manager profile. The exhibit shows the template snippet. What is the expected behavior when the primary ASE becomes unhealthy?

Hard
443

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this Azure Monitor scheduled query rule to alert when CPU usage exceeds 90% for sustained periods. However, alerts are not firing even when the condition is met. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
444

Which TWO actions should you take to ensure business continuity for an Azure SQL Managed Instance? (Choose two.)

Medium
445

Your organization is designing a solution to capture and analyze IoT data from millions of devices. The solution must ingest data at high velocity, store the data for long-term analytics, and provide real-time dashboards. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend?

Hard
446

You are designing a governance strategy for Azure resources. Your organization has multiple departments, each with its own set of Azure subscriptions. You need to enforce consistent policies across all subscriptions, such as allowed resource locations and required tags, while allowing departments to manage their own resources within those constraints. Which Azure service should you use?

Medium
447

You are designing a landing zone in Azure for a regulated financial services company. They require that all storage accounts be restricted to specific virtual networks and have encryption using customer-managed keys (CMK). Additionally, they want to ensure that any storage account creation outside of the approved network boundaries is prevented. Which combination of Azure Policy and Network Security controls should you recommend?

Hard
448

You are designing a governance strategy for a new Azure subscription. The security team requires that all resources must have a 'CostCenter' tag and an 'Environment' tag. Which Azure policy effect should you use to automatically apply the tags to new resources?

Medium
449

A financial services company runs a critical SQL Server database on Azure VMs. They require a failover solution that provides automatic detection of database health issues and automatically fails over to a secondary replica in another Azure region with no data loss and sub-minute RPO. What should they use?

Hard
450

A company runs a stateless web application on Azure VMs. They need to ensure the application remains available in the event of an entire Azure datacenter failure. They want to achieve a 99.99% SLA. Which deployment option should they recommend?

Medium
451

Your company has Azure virtual machines running a critical application. You need to back up these VMs daily and retain backups for 7 years. The solution must be cost-effective and support application-consistent backups. What should you use?

Easy
452

Your organization uses Azure Monitor to collect metrics from Azure resources. You need to create a custom metric alert that triggers when the average CPU usage of a specific virtual machine exceeds 80% for 10 minutes. Which TWO components are required? (Choose two.)

Medium
453

Your company runs a mission-critical application on Azure Virtual Machines in a single region. You need to design a monitoring solution that provides proactive alerts for performance degradation and allows the operations team to analyze historical trends. The solution must minimize cost and operational overhead. You have an existing Log Analytics workspace. What should you include in the design?

Medium
454

A company runs a critical application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in a single region. The application is stateless and uses an Azure SQL Database with active geo-replication for database DR. They need to ensure the AKS cluster can failover to a secondary region with an RTO of 15 minutes and an RPO of 5 seconds for the database. What should they recommend for the AKS cluster?

Medium
455

You are designing a data lake for advanced analytics in Azure. The data includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. The solution must support schema-on-read and have the ability to query using SQL. Which Azure service should you choose?

Hard
456

A company plans to deploy multiple virtual machines (VMs) across two Azure regions for high availability. The VMs will host a stateless web application that must be accessible via a single DNS endpoint. The solution must automatically route traffic to the nearest region with available capacity and provide failover if a region becomes unhealthy. Which Azure service should they use to meet these requirements?

Medium
457

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a storage solution for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) user profiles using FSLogix? (Choose three.)

Hard
458

A company runs a web application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to ensure that if the region fails, the VMs are replicated to another region and can be started automatically. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
459

You need to design a storage solution for a global e-commerce application that requires low-latency access to product catalog data across multiple Azure regions. The data is read-heavy and updates are rare. Which service should you use for the primary data store?

Medium
460

A company wants workload deployments to access Azure resources without storing client secrets in CI/CD variables. The pipeline runs from GitHub Actions. Which identity design should be used?

Medium
461

A company is deploying a multi-tier web application on Azure VMs. The web tier must be accessible from the internet, while the application and database tiers must be isolated within the virtual network. The solution must provide SSL termination, web application firewall (WAF) capabilities, and URL-based routing. Which Azure service should they use to expose the web tier?

Easy
462

A company runs several Azure virtual machines (VMs) that host SQL Server databases. The databases are stored on data disks attached to the VMs. The company needs to back up the databases and VMs separately. They require application-consistent backups for SQL Server to ensure transactional integrity. Additionally, they need to retain backups for up to 7 years to meet compliance requirements. The solution must minimize administrative overhead and support long-term retention of database backups. Which Azure service or feature should they use for the database backups?

Medium
463

A company is migrating a large on-premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. They need to minimize downtime during migration. The database is 500 GB and the network link is 1 Gbps. Which migration approach should they recommend?

Medium
464

Your organization has a critical application running on Azure Virtual Machines. You need to design a backup and disaster recovery strategy. Which TWO options should you include in your design to meet a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour? (Choose two.)

Medium
465

You need to design a storage solution for a large-scale media streaming application. The application serves video files to users worldwide. The solution must minimize latency for end-users and optimize content delivery costs. Which Azure service combination should you use?

Easy
466

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Key Vault. You need to ensure that a custom application can securely access secrets in Key Vault without storing credentials in code. The application runs on an Azure Virtual Machine. What should you use?

Medium
467

Your company has an Azure subscription that contains 100 virtual machines (VMs). You are designing a monitoring solution that must meet the following requirements: - Alert when any VM's CPU usage exceeds 90% for 15 minutes. - Alert when any VM's available memory drops below 1 GB. - Provide a centralized dashboard showing real-time performance metrics for all VMs. Which TWO Azure services should you include in the solution? (Choose two.)

Medium
468

Your company has an Azure subscription that contains a hub virtual network and multiple spoke virtual networks connected via VNet peering. You need to ensure that all traffic between spokes is routed through a network virtual appliance (NVA) in the hub. The NVA is configured with IP forwarding enabled. What should you configure in the spoke virtual networks?

Medium
469

Your organization plans to use Azure Policy to enforce tagging on all resources. The tags must include 'CostCenter' and 'Environment'. Resources that do not have these tags should be automatically remediated. What should you use?

Easy
470

A financial services company is migrating its on-premises SAP HANA database to Azure. The database requires high IOPS and low latency with a capacity of 4 TB. They need to choose a storage solution that supports SAP HANA certified configurations. Which Azure storage solution should they use?

Hard
471

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID. You need to enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) for all guest users accessing a specific SharePoint Online site. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Medium
472

Contoso Ltd. is a global retail company with headquarters in New York and operations in Europe and Asia. They are migrating their on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure. The databases include a customer database (500 GB), an orders database (2 TB), and a product catalog database (100 GB). The customer database requires high read throughput with sub-10 ms latency for global users. The orders database must support complex queries and reporting with point-in-time restore capability up to 35 days. The product catalog is updated infrequently but must be available for read-heavy workloads with strong consistency. Contoso wants to minimize costs while meeting performance and compliance requirements. They also need to support hybrid deployments for databases that must remain on-premises due to data sovereignty laws. You need to design a data storage solution. Which combination of Azure services and configurations should you recommend?

Hard
473

A company has multiple Azure virtual networks (VNets) in different regions. They want to connect all VNets to each other securely over the Microsoft backbone network, and also connect to their on-premises data center via ExpressRoute. What is the simplest Azure solution to enable connectivity between all VNets and on-premises?

Easy
474

A company has Azure virtual networks (VNets) in three different Azure regions and an on-premises data center connected via ExpressRoute. They need to connect all VNets to each other and to on-premises over the Microsoft global backbone. They also require centralized management of routing and the ability to enforce security policies such as forced tunneling for internet-bound traffic. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
475

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs across multiple availability zones in the East US region. They need to distribute incoming HTTPS traffic across the VMs, offload SSL termination, and ensure that client requests from the same user session are sent to the same backend VM (session persistence). Which Azure load balancing solution should they choose?

Medium
476

You are designing a governance strategy for multiple Azure subscriptions. You need to ensure that all resources in a specific subscription are deployed only in the West US region. Additionally, any new resource group must contain a tag named 'Environment' with a value of 'Production'. What combination of Azure Policy initiatives should you assign?

Hard
477

Your company has a hybrid infrastructure with on-premises servers and Azure virtual machines. You need to design a backup strategy that includes on-premises file servers and Azure VMs. The solution must support long-term retention for compliance (7 years) and provide immediate recovery for recent versions. What should you include in the design?

Easy
478

A company uses Azure Cosmos DB with a single write region. They need to ensure business continuity with an RPO of 5 seconds and RTO of 1 minute in case of a regional outage. What configuration should they use?

Hard
479

Which TWO Azure services provide native support for change data capture (CDC) to stream database changes to other systems?

Easy
480

A company is migrating a MongoDB-compatible application to Azure. The application requires low-latency reads and writes globally. It needs to support multi-region writes so that updates can be made from any region with automatic conflict resolution. The data is JSON documents that can vary in schema. The company wants a fully managed database service with native support for MongoDB APIs. Which Azure data service should they choose?

Medium
481

Which THREE components are required to monitor and audit Azure resource changes using Azure Monitor?

Hard
482

A financial services company runs a critical SQL Server database on Azure Virtual Machines. They require a disaster recovery solution with an RPO of less than 15 seconds and an RTO of less than 1 hour. Which technology should they implement?

Medium
483

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an Azure Site Recovery replicated item for a VM. The replication health is Normal, and the last recovery point is at 10:30 AM. The primary region experiences a failure at 10:35 AM. You initiate a failover at 10:40 AM. What is the maximum potential data loss?

Hard
484

A company is deploying a containerized microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application requires persistent storage that can be attached to pods and supports dynamic provisioning. Which Azure storage solution should they use?

Easy
485

An Azure SQL Database supports a customer-facing application. The company requires automatic failover to a paired region with minimal administrative action. Which feature should be recommended?

Hard
486

You are designing a governance solution for a Microsoft Azure environment that contains multiple subscriptions. You need to ensure that all resources are compliant with corporate security policies. The solution must automatically remediate non-compliant resources. What should you include in the design?

Medium
487

Which TWO Azure services can be used to provide a fully managed DNS solution that supports custom domains and DNSSEC?

Medium
488

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing an Azure Policy definition. Which virtual machines will be denied?

Hard
489

Your company plans to migrate on-premises file servers to Azure. The solution must support SMB protocol and integrate with Microsoft Entra ID for authentication. You need to choose a service that provides fully managed file shares accessible from multiple Azure regions. Which Azure service should you use?

Medium
490

A company runs a critical SQL Server database on Azure Virtual Machines in a single region. They need a disaster recovery solution across regions with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero. The database is update-intensive with frequent writes. Which configuration should they implement?

Medium
491

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs. They need to distribute incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic based on the URL path: requests to /api/* go to one VM pool, requests to /images/* go to another pool. They also need to offload SSL/TLS termination. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
492

You are designing an identity solution for a multinational company that uses Microsoft Entra ID. The company has a requirement that all users must authenticate using biometrics or FIDO2 security keys. Which Entra ID feature should you configure?

Hard
493

Your company needs to store configuration data (key-value pairs) for applications in a highly scalable and low-latency manner. The data is accessed frequently. Which Azure service should you choose?

Easy
494

You are designing a backup strategy for Azure VMs running critical business applications. The solution must support application-consistent backups and allow for restoration to a different region. Which Azure service and configuration should you use?

Hard
495

A company plans to deploy a web application on Azure virtual machines. They want to protect against a datacenter failure within a region. The VMs must be distributed across multiple physically separate locations with independent power, cooling, and networking. Which deployment option should they use?

Easy
496

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to implement disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The database VMs have a very high data change rate, and the company wants to minimize replication costs. They also need to ensure that in the recovery plan, database VMs start before application VMs, and a script updates DNS records after failover. Which combination of ASR configurations should they use?

Hard
497

Your company has an Azure subscription with multiple virtual networks connected via VNet peering. You need to design a solution to allow VMs in different peered VNets to resolve each other's private IP addresses using custom DNS suffixes. The solution must minimize administrative overhead. What should you implement?

Medium
498

A company is deploying a new application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application requires persistent storage that can be dynamically provisioned and accessed by multiple pods simultaneously. Which Azure storage solution should the company use?

Easy
499

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to automate the process of granting users access to a specific application only during business hours and revoking it automatically. The access should be based on a request-approval workflow. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
500

A company deploys Azure VNets in multiple regions and has on-premises data centers. They need to connect all VNets to each other and to on-premises sites using the Microsoft global network for optimal routing. They also want to simplify management by using a single orchestration interface. Which Azure service should they use?

Hard
501

You are designing a monitoring solution for a multi-region application deployed on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Database. The solution must provide a unified view of metrics and logs from all resources, detect anomalies using machine learning, and send alerts to the operations team. Which TWO capabilities should you include in the design?

Medium
502

A company is designing hub-and-spoke networking. Spoke VNets must use a central Azure Firewall for outbound internet traffic. Which two configurations are required?

Hard
503

Your company plans to store sensitive customer data in Azure Blob Storage. The data must be encrypted at rest and in transit. Additionally, access must be audited and restricted based on user identity. Which configuration meets these requirements?

Hard
504

A company needs to connect its on-premises data center to Azure for hybrid workloads. The connection must be private, dedicated, and provide guaranteed bandwidth. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
505

A company has two on-premises data centers and an Azure subscription. They need to connect each data center to Azure with a private, high-bandwidth, and reliable connection. They also want a low-cost backup connection for each data center in case the primary connection fails. Which combination of connectivity options should they recommend?

Medium
506

A company deploys a web application on Azure virtual machines (VMs) across multiple availability zones. The application needs to automatically distribute incoming HTTPS traffic, offload SSL/TLS termination, and provide session persistence. Additionally, the solution must include a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against common web vulnerabilities. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Medium
507

Your company operates in a highly regulated industry and must retain all sign-in logs for 7 years. The logs must be immutable and cannot be modified or deleted by administrators. You need to design a monitoring solution that stores sign-in logs in a cost-effective manner while meeting compliance requirements. The solution should also allow for real-time analysis of sign-in activity. What should you include in the design?

Medium
508

Your organization is implementing a zero-trust security model. You need to ensure that all access to corporate resources from mobile devices is conditional based on device compliance, user risk, and location. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should you use?

Medium
509

Your company has an Azure subscription with a single virtual network. You need to design a solution to back up Azure VMs to meet a 7-day retention policy. The backup data must be stored in a separate region for compliance. What should you use?

Easy
510

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to block all access to corporate applications from devices that are not managed by their organization. They require that only devices enrolled in Microsoft Intune and compliant with company policies can access company resources. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
511

You are designing a solution to store sensitive documents in Azure Blob Storage. The data must be encrypted at rest and access must be audited. You need to ensure that the encryption keys are managed by your organization and that access to the keys is logged. Which combination of Azure services should you use?

Medium
512

A company runs a critical application on Azure virtual machines (VMs) in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the VMs to East US with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. The application consists of multiple VMs, and the company needs to be able to fail over a single VM without impacting others during an actual disaster. They also want to periodically test the recovery process without affecting the production environment. Which Azure Site Recovery feature should they use to enable non-disruptive testing?

Easy
513

You are designing a monitoring solution for a hybrid environment with on-premises servers and Azure VMs. You need to collect performance data from all servers and visualize it in a single dashboard. Which Azure service should you use?

Hard
514

A company runs a file server on Azure VMs using Windows Server. The server stores business-critical documents. You need to design a backup strategy that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 1 hour and recovery time objective (RTO) of 4 hours. The solution must be cost-effective. Which backup solution should you use?

Medium
515

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs. The application stores session state and frequently accessed product data. They need a low-latency, in-memory cache to reduce database load and improve response times. The cache must be managed and support data persistence with replication across availability zones within the region. Which Azure service and tier should they choose?

Medium
516

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to allow external business partners to request access to a specific application. The access must be time-limited and require approval from the partner's manager. Additionally, access must automatically expire after the defined period. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Easy
517

You are designing a backup and disaster recovery strategy for a SQL Server database hosted on an Azure virtual machine. The database is critical and has a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 4 hours. Which TWO services should you include in the solution?

Hard
518

Your company has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant with 10,000 users. You are designing an identity governance solution to automate user access reviews for critical applications. The compliance team requires that access reviews be conducted quarterly and that any reviewer who does not respond within 7 days have their decisions auto-approved. You need to implement the solution using Microsoft Entra ID Governance. What should you do?

Medium
519

An organization is designing a storage solution for Azure VMs running a database that requires low latency and high IOPS. The data is critical and must be durable with automatic replication across multiple datacenters in the same region. Which Azure managed disk type and redundancy option should they choose?

Hard
520

A company needs to store and analyze petabytes of IoT telemetry data. The data is append-only and rarely updated. They require SQL-based querying and columnar storage for fast analytics. Which Azure storage solution should you choose?

Easy
521

A company wants to automatically detect sign-in attempts from anonymous IP addresses and sign-ins from unfamiliar locations. When such a risk is detected, they want to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) or block the sign-in in real time. Additionally, they need a dashboard that shows risk events and allows generating weekly risk reports. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
522

You are designing a backup and disaster recovery strategy for an Azure SQL Database instance that runs a critical business application. The database is 500 GB and experiences high transaction rates. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 1 minute and recovery time objective (RTO) is 1 hour. What should you recommend?

Medium
523

A company runs a large-scale write-intensive application that requires a horizontally scalable relational database. They need to distribute data across multiple nodes to handle high write throughput while supporting SQL queries, including joins and transactions. The solution must be fully managed and provide elastic scaling. Which Azure database service should they choose?

Hard
524

You are reviewing a PowerShell script for Azure SQL Database. The exhibit shows the script that sets backup retention. What is the effect of running this script?

Medium
525

A company has multiple Azure virtual networks (VNets) in different regions connected via VNet peering. They also have an on-premises data center connected to Azure via ExpressRoute. They need to provide internet-bound traffic from all Azure VNets through a single, centralized network virtual appliance (NVA) in the hub VNet for security inspection. They also need to ensure that traffic between VNets and on-premises is routed optimally without going through the internet. Which Azure solution should they implement?

Medium
526

A company has a disaster recovery plan that requires testing failover of Azure VMs regularly without impacting the production environment. Which feature of Azure Site Recovery should they use?

Easy
527

A company wants to ensure that their Azure SQL Database can continue to serve read-write traffic if the primary region becomes unavailable. They require minimal data loss. What should they implement?

Easy
528

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) for identity management. They want to enforce that only devices compliant with security policies (e.g., BitLocker enabled, antivirus running) can access corporate cloud applications (Microsoft 365 and custom SaaS apps). They also need a dashboard to monitor device compliance status. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature(s) should they configure?

Medium
529

Drag and drop the steps to implement Azure Backup for an Azure virtual machine into the correct order.

Medium
530

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs across availability zones. They need to distribute HTTPS traffic, offload SSL termination, and maintain session persistence. They do not require traffic inspection. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
531

You are designing a disaster recovery solution for an Azure IaaS workload. The application runs on Azure VMs in a single region and requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 4 hours. Which of the following is the most cost-effective approach to meet these requirements?

Medium
532

A company has an Azure subscription with many resource groups. The security team requires that all diagnostic settings for every Azure resource be automatically configured to send logs to a central Log Analytics workspace. You need to design a solution that enforces this configuration at scale without manual intervention. What should you include in the design?

Medium
533

A company deploys a web application on multiple Azure virtual machines (VMs) in a single region. The application receives HTTP and HTTPS traffic. They need to distribute the traffic across the VMs, offload SSL/TLS termination, and ensure that client requests from the same user session are always sent to the same backend VM (session persistence). Additionally, they need to route requests based on URL paths (e.g., /api/* to one pool, /images/* to another). Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
534

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) Premium P2. They need to automatically detect users whose credentials have been leaked and require them to reset their password at their next sign-in. Additionally, they want to block sign-ins from anonymous IP addresses (e.g., Tor network). Which combination of Microsoft Entra ID features should they enable to meet both requirements?

Hard
535

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a data storage solution for a high-throughput IoT ingestion pipeline in Azure?

Hard
536

A company runs a web application on Azure VMs in a single region. The application must scale out automatically based on CPU utilization. The VMs are behind an Azure Load Balancer. Which Azure service should they use to automatically add or remove VMs based on demand?

Easy
537

Your organization has multiple Azure subscriptions. You need to create a central view of policy compliance across all subscriptions. What should you use?

Medium
538

Refer to the exhibit. You need to enable public access to the storage account for a specific IP address while keeping the default action as Deny. What should you do?

Hard
539

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to generate periodic reports of user sign-ins and audit activities for compliance. They want to store the logs for 1 year. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
540

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a Bicep template for a storage account. You need to ensure that the storage account is only accessible via HTTPS and uses TLS 1.2. Which property validates this requirement?

Hard
541

A company deploys a critical multi-tier application on Azure VMs. The application includes a database tier that must be recovered to the same point in time as the application tier after a disaster. They use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for disaster recovery to a secondary region. They also need to run a custom script after failover to update connection strings. Which ASR feature should they use?

Easy
542

A company plans to migrate on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure. They need to minimize changes to existing applications and want to use the latest features of SQL Server. Which Azure data service should they use?

Easy
543

You are designing a solution to securely store and manage secrets for multiple applications deployed in Azure. The solution must support automated rotation of secrets and provide audit logging. Which Azure service should you use?

Medium
544

You manage a globally distributed application using Azure Cosmos DB. You need to design a business continuity strategy that ensures zero data loss and automatic failover in case of a regional outage. The application must continue to serve reads and writes during a region failure. What should you recommend?

Hard
545

A company plans to deploy a multi-tier application on Azure. The web tier requires SSL termination and health probes. The application tier must be isolated from the internet. The database tier requires high availability. They want to minimize administrative overhead and use Azure native services. Which architecture should they recommend?

Medium
546

You need to design a solution to monitor the performance of an Azure SQL Database. You want to create a dashboard that shows the top 10 queries by CPU usage over the last hour. What should you use?

Easy
547

You are designing a monitoring solution for a hybrid environment with on-premises servers and Azure VMs. You need to collect security events and performance data centrally, and create custom alerts. The solution must use the same agent for both environments. Which agent should you deploy?

Medium
548

You are designing a disaster recovery solution for a multi-tier web application on Azure VMs. The solution must meet an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. The application includes a SQL Server database. Which THREE actions should you take? (Choose THREE.)

Medium
549

You need to design a storage solution for a website that hosts static content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and requires low-cost, scalable storage with integrated CDN delivery. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
550

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to automatically detect sign-ins from users with leaked credentials and prompt those users to reset their password during the next sign-in. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they enable?

Easy
551

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to govern data across Azure and on-premises sources. You need to ensure that sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, is automatically detected and classified in Azure Blob Storage. Which Purview feature should you configure?

Easy
552

A company wants to collect metrics and logs from all Azure resources in their subscription, including custom metrics from their applications, and create dashboards and alerts. Which Azure service should they use as the primary monitoring platform?

Easy
553

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and has a hybrid identity deployment with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on-premises. You need to synchronize user identities to Microsoft Entra ID, but you must ensure that password hashes are never stored in the cloud. Which synchronization method should you use?

Medium
554

A company stores large amounts of log data in Azure Blob Storage. Logs are accessed frequently for the first 30 days, then rarely accessed afterward, but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. The company wants to minimize storage costs. They need to configure automatic data movement and retention policies. Which combination of Azure Blob Storage access tiers and lifecycle management policy should they use?

Medium
555

You need to design a storage solution for an application that stores large amounts of unstructured data that is accessed frequently for the first 30 days, then rarely after that. Compliance requirements mandate that data be retained for 7 years. Which of the following is the most cost-effective storage solution?

Easy
556

A multinational company uses Microsoft Entra ID with a custom domain. They need to implement a governance strategy for Microsoft 365 groups, ensuring that group expiration policies are enforced and that group owners receive renewal notifications. What should you configure?

Hard
557

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. They want to ensure that users accessing sensitive data from unmanaged devices are prompted for multifactor authentication (MFA) and must accept a terms-of-use. Which policy should be configured?

Easy
558

Your company is migrating on-premises applications to Azure. You need to ensure that users can sign in using their existing on-premises Active Directory credentials without duplicating accounts. Which identity solution should you recommend?

Easy
559

Refer to the exhibit. A company is analyzing Azure Storage diagnostic logs using this KQL query. They notice a high number of GetBlob operations on BlockBlobs. The storage account is used for a web application that serves static content. What should they recommend to reduce the number of GetBlob operations?

Hard
560

A company has an on-premises data center and wants to connect it to Azure with a dedicated, private network connection that is not routed over the public internet. They also need a higher service-level agreement (SLA) compared to VPN-based connections. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
561

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an ARM template to configure backup for an Azure Web App. The deployment fails with an error: 'The resource 'Microsoft.Web/sites/config' cannot be nested under a parent resource that is not deployed.' What is the MOST LIKELY cause?

Hard
562

Which TWO Azure services can be used to implement a serverless event-driven architecture that processes messages from a queue and stores results in a database? (Choose two.)

Easy
563

A large enterprise is designing a data analytics platform in Azure that will ingest terabytes of data daily from multiple sources, including IoT devices, social media feeds, and internal databases. The data must be stored in a raw format for future processing, and then transformed and aggregated for reporting. The company requires low-latency querying for real-time dashboards and the ability to run complex batch analytics using Spark. The solution must also provide a unified data governance layer for cataloging and lineage tracking. Which combination of Azure services should the company choose to meet all these requirements with minimal operational overhead?

Hard
564

You need to configure a monitoring solution for Azure virtual machines that collects performance counters, event logs, and enables alerting based on CPU usage exceeding 90%. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
565

A company runs a critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine. They need a high-availability solution within a single region that provides automatic failover, zero data loss (synchronous replication), and support read-only routing for reporting workloads. Which solution should they implement?

Hard
566

A company uses Azure SQL Database (Premium tier) for their application. They need to offload reporting queries to a read-only copy of the database to reduce load on the primary. The read-only copy must be kept in sync synchronously within the same Azure region. They also need automated failover to the read-only copy if the primary fails. Which Azure SQL Database feature should they enable?

Medium
567

A company is deploying a web application on Azure App Service. The application must authenticate users with their Microsoft Entra ID credentials. The development team wants to use the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for authentication. Which App Service authentication feature should they use to simplify integration?

Medium
568

You need to design a monitoring solution for a set of Azure virtual machines running a business-critical application. The solution must provide centralized log management, enable real-time analysis of security events, and support custom alerts for anomalous behavior. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
569

A company runs a SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine. They need to increase the storage capacity and improve I/O performance for their transaction log. The current data disk is a standard HDD. They want to achieve higher IOPS and throughput without increasing the size of the VM (the VM size supports up to 8 data disks). The database workload is write-intensive on the transaction log. Which configuration should they implement?

Medium
570

A company plans to deploy a stateless web application on Azure virtual machines. They want to ensure that the application remains available in the event of a hardware failure within a single Azure datacenter. The VMs must be placed in a way that ensures they are on different physical servers and racks, but are still within the same datacenter. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Easy
571

A company runs a critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine. They need a backup strategy that supports point-in-time restore down to the second and long-term retention of backups for 7 years to meet compliance. They want to offload backup management to Azure. Which backup solution should they use?

Medium
572

Refer to the exhibit. A custom role is created. A user assigned this role reports being unable to view the VM's boot diagnostics in the Azure portal. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
573

A company has an on-premises Hyper-V environment with 20 virtual machines running various workloads. They want to use Azure as a disaster recovery site. The required recovery point objective (RPO) is 15 minutes, and the recovery time objective (RTO) is 2 hours. They want to automate failover and failback. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
574

A company stores JSON documents for a mobile app backend. The data needs to be accessible from multiple global regions with low latency writes from any region. The app uses a client-side library that supports automatic conflict resolution for concurrent updates. Which Azure data service should they choose?

Medium
575

A company needs to store sensor data from IoT devices. Each device sends a message every second. The data is time-series and will be queried for real-time dashboards and historical analysis. The solution must support high ingestion rates and low-latency queries on recent data. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
576

A company uses Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to run a containerized microservices application. They need a disaster recovery solution that can automatically fail over to a secondary region if the primary region fails. The solution must minimize data loss for stateful workloads. What should they implement?

Medium
577

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an ARM template with the above parameters. After deployment, you need to ensure that the storage account automatically moves blobs that are not accessed for 30 days to the archive tier. What should you do?

Medium
578

A company is designing a hybrid network solution connecting an on-premises data center to Azure. They require high availability with active-active routing and need to support up to 10 Gbps throughput. Which Azure service should they include in the design?

Medium
579

An application requires a highly available key-value store with sub-millisecond read and write latencies across multiple Azure regions. The data model is simple and does not require complex queries. Which Azure data store should they choose?

Medium
580

A company needs to store audit logs for 7 years to meet compliance requirements. The logs are generated at a high volume and must be cost-effective. They need to run occasional queries on recent logs (less than 30 days old) but rarely on older ones. Which Azure storage solution should they recommend?

Medium
581

Which TWO Azure services can be used to store unstructured data such as documents, images, and videos?

Easy
582

A company has several Azure Virtual Machines running Windows Server with critical applications. They need to back up these VMs to a secondary Azure region to protect against regional disasters. The backup must be application-consistent and support file-level restore. Which solution should they implement?

Medium
583

A company deploys a web application in two Azure regions for high availability. They need to automatically direct users to the nearest healthy region based on geographic location and endpoint health. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
584

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They want to protect against a regional disaster by replicating VMs to East US using Azure Site Recovery. They have both managed and unmanaged disks. They need to ensure that after failover, the recovery VMs are automatically placed in a specific availability set to support the application's multi-tier architecture. Additionally, they want to minimize downtime during planned failover. Which configuration should they use?

Hard
585

A company has an on-premises data center and wants to connect it to Azure to extend their network. They require a dedicated, private, high-bandwidth connection that is not routed over the public internet. They also want a lower-cost backup connection for redundancy in case the primary connection fails. Which combination of connectivity options should they implement?

Easy
586

Which TWO of the following are true about Azure Blob Storage access tiers?

Easy
587

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to automatically remove guest users who have not signed in for 60 days. Additionally, they must generate a report of all guest access for auditors. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they implement?

Medium
588

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this ARM template to create a storage account in the West US region. The business continuity requirement states that if the primary region becomes unavailable, the storage account must be readable within 1 hour. What is the most important limitation of this configuration?

Hard
589

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs the PowerShell script to enable replication for a VM. The script fails with an error that the VM is not found. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
590

A company runs a critical line-of-business application on Azure VMs within a single region. The application tier is deployed across multiple VMs. They need to protect against a failure of an entire Azure datacenter within that region. The solution should automatically distribute the VMs across physically separate locations with independent power, cooling, and networking. The company also requires the lowest possible latency between application and database tiers within the same location. Which deployment strategy should they use?

Medium
591

A financial services company needs to store transaction logs for regulatory compliance. The logs must be stored in a cost-effective manner, and they must be immutable to prevent tampering. The logs are accessed infrequently but must be retained for 7 years. Which Azure storage solution should you recommend?

Medium
592

A company has multiple virtual networks in different Azure regions. They need to connect all VNets together securely over the Microsoft backbone. They also need to connect to an on-premises data center via ExpressRoute. The solution should support transitive routing between all connected networks. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
593

Drag and drop the steps to implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for a role into the correct order.

Medium
594

A financial services company is designing a data platform on Azure that must comply with strict regulatory requirements. The platform will store sensitive customer data in Azure SQL Database. The company needs to prevent data exfiltration and ensure that only authorized Microsoft Entra ID users can access the data. The solution must also encrypt data at rest and in transit. Which combination of Azure services should the company implement?

Hard
595

You are designing a globally distributed application that requires low-latency reads and writes for a web application with user session data. The solution must support multi-master writes and provide 99.999% availability. Which Azure data service meets these requirements?

Medium
596

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator reviews the backup status of a VM. The last backup failed. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
597

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in a single region. They need to ensure business continuity with an RPO of 1 hour and RTO of 4 hours. The application has dependencies on virtual networks, storage accounts, and other Azure resources. They want to use Azure Backup as the primary disaster recovery tool and must be able to restore the entire application in a secondary region if the primary region fails. Which backup strategy should they recommend?

Medium
598

A company deploys a multi-tier application on Azure virtual machines. They need to implement disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery. The recovery plan must ensure that the database VMs are started before the application VMs, and the application VMs before the web VMs. They also need to run a script after failover to update DNS records. Which ASR feature should they use?

Medium
599

A company needs a fully managed NoSQL database for a JSON document-oriented application that requires low latency (single-digit milliseconds) for reads and writes at any scale. The application will run globally and needs multi-region writes with automatic failover. Which Azure data store should they use?

Medium
600

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID B2B to collaborate with external vendors. They want to enforce that external users must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access company resources only from compliant devices (e.g., managed by Intune). They also want to require a session timeout of 1 hour. Which combination of Microsoft Entra ID features should they use?

Hard
601

You are designing a monitoring solution for a critical application that runs on Azure Virtual Machines. The application generates custom performance counters. You need to alert when the custom counter exceeds a threshold and trigger an Azure Automation runbook to remediate. Which two Azure services should you combine? (Select TWO.)

Hard
602

A company stores website static assets in Azure Blob Storage. The assets are updated weekly and must be available for immediate access for 30 days. After 30 days, older versions can be moved to the Cool tier to save costs but must still be accessible within seconds. They want an automated solution. What should they configure?

Easy
603

You are an Azure administrator. The above Azure Policy definition is assigned to a subscription. A developer tries to deploy a Virtual Machine with SKU Standard_DS2_v2. What will happen?

Medium
604

Match each Azure monitoring service to its function.

Medium
605

Contoso, Ltd. is migrating a legacy on-premises application to Azure. The application uses a SQL Server database with complex queries and requires read-heavy workloads with sub-10-millisecond latency. The solution must support geo-replication for disaster recovery. Which Azure data service should you recommend?

Medium
606

You are designing a monitoring solution for an Azure function app that processes messages from Azure Service Bus. The function app is critical and must be highly available. You need to monitor for poison messages and trigger an alert when the dead-letter queue count exceeds 100. What should you use?

Hard
607

AdventureWorks is a global retailer with a cloud-native architecture. They have a microservices application deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Each microservice needs to store its own data. The data requirements vary: (1) Shopping cart service: key-value data with high write throughput and low latency, data can be lost if not critical; (2) Order service: transactional data with strong consistency and ACID compliance; (3) Product catalog service: semi-structured product data that supports complex queries and is globally distributed for low-latency reads. The solution must use Azure PaaS services and minimize operational overhead. You need to design the data storage for each microservice. What should you recommend?

Hard
608

Refer to the exhibit. You are an Azure administrator for a company that enforces a policy that no virtual networks or network security groups can be created. However, a developer reports that they successfully created a virtual network. What is the most likely reason the policy did not block the creation?

Hard
609

A multinational corporation is designing a data storage solution for its global customer data. The data must be stored in the Azure region closest to each customer to minimize latency, but all data must be accessible from a central analytics platform for reporting. The solution must also comply with data residency regulations that require customer data to remain in the country of origin. Which Azure storage solution should the company recommend?

Medium
610

You are designing a backup strategy for Azure virtual machines that must support application-consistent backups and be capable of restoring to a different Azure region. Which solution should you use?

Easy
611

Your organization has a complex Azure environment with multiple subscriptions. You need to design a governance strategy that ensures: 1) All resources must have specific tags (CostCenter, Environment, Owner). 2) Any resource without required tags must be reported to the compliance team weekly. 3) Virtual machines must not be deployed in certain regions due to data sovereignty. 4) The solution must be automated and use native Azure services. You already have an Azure Log Analytics workspace and a central automation account. What should you include in the design?

Hard
612

You are designing a network topology for a multi-tier application in Azure. The application has a web tier, an API tier, and a database tier. You need to ensure that the web tier can communicate with the API tier, and the API tier can communicate with the database tier, but the web tier cannot directly access the database tier. Which Azure networking solution should you implement?

Medium
613

A company runs an application on Azure VMs that uses Azure SQL Database. They need a disaster recovery solution that ensures the application can fail over to a secondary region with minimal data loss. The solution must include automatic failover for the database and manual failover for the VMs. Which TWO Azure services should they use? (Choose two.)

Hard
614

You are designing a cloud-native application that will run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application needs to authenticate users and manage access to resources. Which identity service should you use?

Easy
615

Your company has multiple Azure subscriptions. You need to ensure that all security-related logs from Azure resources are centralized in a single Log Analytics workspace for analysis. Which Azure service should you use to collect and route these logs?

Easy
616

You are designing a solution to store large binary files (videos) that are accessed infrequently but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. The solution must minimize storage costs while allowing retrieval within 24 hours. Which Azure storage tier should you use?

Easy
617

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They need to protect against a regional disaster using Azure Site Recovery. The VMs use unmanaged disks. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be 15 minutes and the recovery time objective (RTO) must be 1 hour. Additionally, they must be able to perform quarterly disaster recovery drills that do not affect the production environment. Which configuration should they use in Azure Site Recovery?

Medium
618

You are tasked with ensuring that all VMs in the subscription have Azure Hybrid Benefit enabled for Windows Server. You create the Azure Policy shown in the exhibit. However, after assignment, the compliance report shows that some D-series VMs are still non-compliant. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
619

A SaaS application must allow external partner users to sign in with their own organization credentials while the company controls application access. What should be used?

Hard
620

A company uses Azure Site Recovery to replicate critical Azure virtual machines (VMs) to a secondary Azure region for disaster recovery. The VMs use managed disks and are part of a multi-tier application. After a failover, the recovery VMs must be automatically placed into a specific availability set to maintain the application architecture. How should the administrator configure this in Azure Site Recovery?

Medium
621

A company needs to store sensitive customer data in Azure Blob Storage with encryption at rest using customer-managed keys (CMK) stored in a hardware security module (HSM). Which Azure service should they use to manage the keys?

Hard
622

A company is building a petabyte-scale data lake for analytics. The workload includes Apache Spark and Hive jobs that read and write large files. The storage solution must support a hierarchical namespace for efficient directory operations, POSIX-like access control lists (ACLs) for fine-grained permissions, and must be accessible via the Azure Blob Storage API for compatibility with existing tools. Furthermore, the solution should be optimized for analytics workloads with high throughput. Which Azure data service should they choose?

Hard
623

You are a solutions architect for a large healthcare organization that uses Microsoft 365 and Azure. The organization has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant with 15,000 users. The security team requires that all users use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing cloud applications. Currently, only 60% of users have registered for MFA. The organization wants to enforce MFA registration for all users within 30 days. The solution must minimize user disruption and allow users to register their MFA methods during their normal work hours. The organization uses Microsoft Intune for mobile device management and has a conditional access policy that requires MFA for all cloud apps. You need to design a solution to enforce MFA registration. What should you do?

Medium
624

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) Premium P2. They want to enforce that users accessing sensitive cloud applications from outside the corporate network must use multi-factor authentication (MFA). Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
625

Refer to the exhibit. A custom Azure RBAC role is defined as shown. A user assigned this role is unable to delete blobs in a container. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
626

A company runs a critical web application on Azure VMs in two availability zones. They need to ensure the application remains available during a regional outage with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 15 minutes. What should they implement?

Medium
627

Which TWO of the following are benefits of using Azure Policy? (Choose two.)

Easy
628

A company deploys a web application on Azure virtual machines (VMs) across multiple availability zones in the East US region. The application receives HTTPS traffic. They need to distribute incoming traffic across the VMs, offload SSL/TLS termination, and ensure that client requests from the same user session are always sent to the same backend VM (session persistence). Which Azure load balancing solution should they choose?

Medium
629

A company runs multiple on-premises workloads that are critical. They need a disaster recovery solution that can replicate workloads to Azure and enable failover in the event of an on-premises outage. The solution must support non-VMware and non-Hyper-V physical servers. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
630

A multinational organization is designing a Microsoft 365 deployment for 10,000 users. The organization requires that all users have a consistent experience and that desktop settings follow users across devices. The solution must also support offline access to files and automatic sync. Which Microsoft 365 service should the organization use?

Hard
631

Which TWO of the following are requirements for using Azure SQL Database auto-failover groups? (Select two.)

Hard
632

Your organization has a hybrid identity solution using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and on-premises Active Directory. You need to design a solution that allows users to use their on-premises credentials to authenticate to cloud applications, but you want to avoid synchronizing password hashes to the cloud. Which authentication method should you choose?

Hard
633

A company has multiple Azure subscriptions and wants to enforce consistent network policies across all VNets. They need to ensure that all traffic going out to the internet is inspected by a central firewall. The solution must be scalable and support multiple regions. What should they implement?

Hard
634

A company is designing a hub-spoke network topology in Azure. The hub contains a third-party network virtual appliance (NVA) for inspection. Spokes need to communicate with each other, and all inter-spoke traffic must be routed through the NVA in the hub. Which configuration should they use?

Hard
635

A company has Microsoft Entra ID Premium P2 licenses and wants to ensure that privileged roles (e.g., Global Administrator) are only activated when needed and with approval. They also need to regularly review who has access to these roles. Which combination of features should they use?

Medium
636

You are designing a network architecture for a three-tier application in Azure. The web tier must be accessible from the internet. The application tier must only accept traffic from the web tier. The database tier must only accept traffic from the application tier. Which TWO Azure services should you use to enforce these network rules? (Choose two.)

Easy
637

A company deploys a web application on Azure VMs within a single region. They need to distribute incoming HTTP traffic across multiple VMs, offload SSL encryption, and maintain session persistence (sticky sessions) for user sessions. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
638

Your organization has a hybrid identity infrastructure using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on-premises. You plan to deploy a critical application on Azure VMs that must remain available even if the on-premises network connection fails. The application authenticates users via on-premises AD DS. You need to design an identity disaster recovery solution that works during a network outage. What should you implement?

Hard
639

A company has an on-premises application running on physical servers with various operating systems. They want to use Azure as a disaster recovery site with an RPO of less than 1 hour and an RTO of less than 4 hours. They need to replicate the servers to Azure and support failover and failback. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
640

Your company runs an on-premises application that needs to be failed over to Azure in the event of a disaster. The application uses a SQL Server database and requires an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour. You plan to use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for the VMs and Azure SQL Database for the database. Which combination of actions should you take?

Medium
641

A company is designing a virtual network architecture for a three-tier application (web, application, database). They want network isolation between tiers and secure access from the internet to the web tier only. Which Azure networking solution should they use?

Easy
642

A company runs a file server on an Azure VM in the East US region. They want to back up the file shares to Azure and be able to restore individual files if accidentally deleted. They also need to be able to restore the entire file share to a secondary region (West US) in case of a regional disaster. The solution should automatically protect the file shares and provide versioning for up to 30 days. Which Azure service and configuration should they recommend?

Medium
643

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID and has recently deployed Microsoft Sentinel. You need to design a monitoring solution to detect brute-force attacks against user accounts. The solution should use built-in analytics rules where possible and must trigger an automated response to temporarily disable the affected account. What should you include in the design?

Easy
644

A company wants to allow remote users to access an internal web application hosted on-premises without opening inbound firewall ports. They need seamless single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft Entra ID credentials. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
645

You are designing a backup strategy for Azure VMs that host a file server. The backup must support daily backups with a retention of 30 days, and the ability to restore individual files quickly. The solution must minimize backup storage costs. What backup policy should you configure?

Medium
646

Which TWO actions should you take to design a monitoring solution for a multi-tier application running on Azure VMs? (Select TWO.)

Medium
647

A company runs a critical application on Azure virtual machines in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates VMs to East US with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 2 hours. They also need to perform non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
648

You are designing a backup strategy for Azure Files shares that contain critical data. The backup must support snapshot-based backups and allow restoration to a specific point in time. The solution must also protect against accidental deletion. What should you use?

Medium
649

A global company is deploying a microservices application on AKS clusters in multiple Azure regions. They need to provide a single endpoint for users worldwide with SSL offloading, web application firewall, and URL path-based routing to the nearest healthy AKS cluster. They also need global load balancing with automatic failover. Which Azure service should they use?

Hard
650

A multinational corporation needs to design a global DNS solution for Azure resources. They require automatic failover across Azure regions and low-latency responses based on the client's geographic location. The solution must also support custom domains without exposing the underlying Azure public IP addresses. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Hard
651

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security monitoring. You need to create a rule that triggers an incident when a user from a specific IP address performs more than 10 failed sign-ins within an hour. Which rule type should you use?

Medium
652

A company is designing a storage solution for its backup data. The backups must be stored for 10 years for compliance reasons. The solution should minimize storage costs while ensuring data durability. Which two Azure services should the company consider? (Choose two.)

Easy
653

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to enable users to reset their own passwords without contacting the help desk. They also want to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) during the password reset process. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they enable?

Easy
654

A company manages a fleet of millions of IoT devices that send telemetry data every minute. The data must be stored for 10 years to meet compliance requirements. For the first 30 days, data is accessed frequently for real-time dashboards and alerting. After 30 days, data is only accessed occasionally for historical analysis and reporting. The solution must be cost-effective and support high ingestion rates. Which Azure service should the company use to store and query this data?

Medium
655

A multinational company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity. They need to grant external partners access to specific SharePoint Online sites. The access must be time-limited and require approval from a resource owner. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
656

You are designing a monitoring solution for Azure SQL Database. The requirement is to track query performance metrics such as CPU usage, data IO, and wait statistics over time. You need to identify performance bottlenecks and provide historical data for analysis. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
657

A company needs to implement a hybrid identity solution that allows users to access both on-premises applications and Microsoft 365 using a single identity. The company has on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). They want to synchronize identities to the cloud while also enabling password writeback for self-service password reset. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
658

Refer to the exhibit. You are a security administrator reviewing a custom Azure Policy assignment. The policy definition with ID 'abc123' is an initiative containing two policies: one that audits storage accounts with blob public access enabled and one that deploys a diagnostic setting for network security groups. The scope includes a production resource group. However, the compliance state shows 'Non-compliant' for several resources. What is the most likely reason for the non-compliance?

Hard
659

Which THREE of the following are best practices for designing a business continuity solution using Azure Backup? (Choose three.)

Hard
660

A company is designing a data storage solution for a global e-commerce platform that requires low-latency access to product catalog data from multiple Azure regions. The data is read-heavy, with occasional updates. Which Azure data store should they recommend?

Medium
661

Which Azure service can be used to implement a globally distributed database that supports multi-region writes and provides low-latency access to users worldwide?

Medium
662

A large enterprise wants to enforce zero-trust conditional access policies that use real-time user risk, sign-in risk, and device compliance. Which combination of Microsoft Entra ID features should they use?

Hard
663

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs. They want to back up the VMs using Azure Backup. The retention requirements are: daily backups for 35 days, weekly backups for 52 weeks, and yearly backups for 10 years. Which backup policy should they create?

Medium
664

A mission-critical web application must tolerate a full Azure region outage. The business requires automatic failover and global HTTP acceleration. Which two components should be included in the design? (Choose 2.)

Hard
665

A SaaS company uses Azure SQL Database for a multi-tenant application. They have 80 tenant databases, each with varying and unpredictable usage patterns. The company wants to optimize costs without sacrificing performance and wants the ability to easily add new tenant databases without over-provisioning. Which deployment option should they use?

Medium
666

A company wants to deploy a web application on Azure virtual machines (VMs). The application experiences variable traffic patterns, so the company needs to automatically add or remove VM instances based on CPU utilization. They also want the application to remain highly available even if an Azure datacenter fails. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Medium
667

A company runs a high-performance computing (HPC) workload that requires low-latency access to large files (hundreds of GB) from thousands of Azure VMs concurrently. The files must be accessible via the NFS protocol and the solution must be a fully managed, POSIX-compliant file system that can scale throughput linearly with capacity. Which Azure storage solution should they choose?

Hard
668

Your company, Contoso Ltd., is a global financial services firm with a primary data center in London and a disaster recovery site in Paris. They are migrating their on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure. The databases include: (1) a 2-TB customer database with high transaction throughput, requiring an RPO of 5 seconds and an RTO of 30 seconds; (2) a 500-GB reporting database that is read-only and can tolerate an RPO of 1 hour and an RTO of 2 hours; (3) a 100-GB archival database that is accessed once a month. The solution must minimize costs while meeting requirements. You need to recommend a storage and database strategy for each database. What should you recommend?

Hard
669

A company has multiple branch offices and needs to connect them to Azure and to each other using a scalable, managed solution that simplifies network architecture. The solution should support automatic routing and integration with ExpressRoute and VPN. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
670

You are designing a business continuity solution for a global e-commerce platform that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in multiple regions. The application must remain available even if an entire Azure region fails. The application uses Azure Cosmos DB for its database. You need to ensure that the application can continue to serve traffic with minimal disruption. What should you recommend?

Hard
671

A company stores log data in Azure Blob Storage. The logs are accessed frequently for the first 30 days, then only occasionally for up to 1 year, and after that must be retained for 7 years for compliance purposes. The company wants to minimize storage costs by automatically moving data to cheaper tiers. Which Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management policy should they implement?

Medium
672

Refer to the exhibit. The ARM template provisions a VM. The deployment succeeds but the VM fails to start. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
673

A company needs a fully managed NoSQL database for a new application with a key-value and document data model. They require single-digit millisecond latency at any scale, multi-region writes with automatic conflict resolution, and a serverless capacity option to handle unpredictable traffic. Which Azure data service should they use?

Easy
674

You are designing a data storage solution for an IoT application that ingests millions of events per second. Each event is a small JSON message (under 1 KB). The solution must support real-time analytics and allow queries on recent data (last 24 hours) with low latency. Historical data (older than 24 hours) should be stored in a cost-optimized manner for occasional compliance queries. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend?

Hard
675

You need to design a storage solution for a data lake that will store petabytes of structured and unstructured data. The data must be accessible from Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning. The solution must optimize costs by automatically moving data to cooler tiers when access frequency decreases. Which Azure storage solution should you use?

Easy
676

Your company is migrating a critical on-premises database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. The database is 500 GB and requires minimal downtime during migration. You need to choose the best migration approach. What should you recommend?

Medium
677

Fabrikam Inc. runs a file-sharing service used by 500 employees globally. The service is deployed on Azure VMs in the North Europe region. The VMs store data on Azure Files shares (Standard performance tier) mounted via SMB. The company's business continuity policy requires: - RPO: 1 hour for any data loss. - RTO: 4 hours to restore service after a regional disaster. - All data must be backed up and recoverable in a different region. - Budget is a concern; prefer cost-effective solutions. Currently, there is no backup in place. You need to design a solution. What should you do?

Medium
678

You need to store billions of small JSON files (average 50 KB) that are accessed infrequently but must be available within seconds when requested. Which Azure storage solution is most cost-effective?

Easy
679

A company has an Azure virtual network (VNet) in the East US region hosting a web application. They need to securely connect to an on-premises data center in the same region using a dedicated, private network connection with high throughput and low latency. They also need a backup connection for redundancy in case the primary connection fails. Which connectivity solution should they implement?

Medium
680

You are designing an identity lifecycle management solution for a multinational company. Employees frequently change departments, and you need to automate the assignment and removal of application access based on their current department. Which THREE Microsoft Entra features should you use?

Medium
681

Your company runs a Windows-based application on Azure Virtual Machines in the Brazil South region. The application uses Azure Files for shared storage and Azure SQL Database (Hyperscale tier) for the database. The business requires a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 30 minutes for the entire application. The solution must be cost-effective and leverage Azure-native services. You have been asked to design the disaster recovery strategy. Which option should you recommend?

Medium
682

A company runs a SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine in a single region. They need to increase storage capacity and improve I/O performance for their transaction-intensive workload. They also want to ensure high availability within the same datacenter (99.99% SLA). What should they do?

Medium
683

A company runs a critical web application on Azure VMs in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the VMs to the East US region. The recovery point objective (RPO) must be 30 minutes, and the recovery time objective (RTO) must be 1 hour. The company also needs to perform quarterly disaster recovery drills without impacting the production environment. Additionally, after a failover, the solution must automatically update traffic management to route users to the East US region. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Medium
684

A company wants to configure policies that detect risky sign-ins (e.g., from anonymous IPs or unfamiliar locations) and automatically require multi-factor authentication (MFA) when such risk is detected. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use to create these policies?

Medium
685

A small business is moving its on-premises file server to Azure. The company has 50 users and stores approximately 500 GB of data, which includes documents and spreadsheets. The users need to access the files from their Windows laptops both at the office and remotely. The company wants to minimize costs while ensuring that files are always available and secure. You need to recommend a storage solution. What should you recommend?

Easy
686

A company uses Azure Firewall to secure outbound traffic from a hub virtual network. The security team reports that some traffic is bypassing the firewall because of asymmetric routing. You need to design a solution to force all outbound traffic through the firewall. What should you implement?

Hard
687

A global e-commerce company stores product catalog data in a JSON document format. The application requires low-latency reads and writes from multiple geographic regions. The solution must support multi-region writes with automatic conflict resolution and provide a guaranteed 99th percentile latency. Which Azure Cosmos DB API and consistency level should they choose?

Medium
688

Which THREE of the following are best practices for designing an Azure SQL Database solution for performance and scalability?

Hard
689

A company wants to cache frequently accessed session state and product data for their e-commerce website. They need the cache to be highly available with a 99.9% SLA and provide fast read and write access. The solution must be fully managed. Which Azure Cache tier should they choose?

Medium
690

You are designing a hybrid storage solution where on-premises applications need low-latency access to file shares hosted in Azure. The solution must cache frequently accessed files locally and sync changes bidirectionally. Which Azure feature should you use?

Medium
691

Which TWO actions can be performed using Microsoft Entra ID Governance? (Choose two.)

Medium
692

A media company is building a video streaming platform on Azure. The platform will store original high-definition videos and convert them to multiple resolutions for distribution. The company needs a cost-effective storage solution for the original videos, which are accessed infrequently but must be instantly available when needed. The converted videos will be served to end users globally and must be cached at edge locations for low latency. You need to design a storage and content delivery solution. What should you recommend?

Medium
693

You are designing a containerized microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The application must scale automatically based on HTTP traffic. You need to minimize cost by scaling down to zero pods when there is no traffic. Which scaling solution should you use?

Medium
694

A company deploys a web application on multiple Azure VMs within an availability set. They need to distribute incoming HTTP traffic evenly across the VMs and provide health probe monitoring. The solution must support SSL termination and source IP affinity (session persistence). Which Azure load balancing solution should they choose?

Easy
695

Which TWO are benefits of using Microsoft Entra ID Governance? (Choose two.)

Medium
696

Your company has a large number of unstructured files (images, videos) that need to be stored cost-effectively in Azure. The data is accessed infrequently but must be available within minutes when needed. Which storage tier should you recommend?

Easy
697

A media company stores large video files that are accessed once a month for audits. When needed, they must be available for download immediately (within seconds). The company wants to minimize storage costs. Which Azure Blob Storage access tier should they use?

Medium
698

Your company uses Azure Backup to protect on-premises file servers and Azure VMs. The compliance team requires that backup data be stored in a secondary region to protect against regional disasters. Which Azure Backup feature should you enable?

Easy
699

Your company uses Azure SQL Database and needs to retain backups for 7 years for compliance. Which backup retention policy should you configure?

Easy
700

Your company has a global application deployed across multiple Azure regions. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that meets a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution should use Azure-native services and minimize costs. Which option should you choose?

Medium
701

Your company is migrating a legacy on-premises application to Azure. The application requires low-latency access to a shared file system that supports SMB protocol. The solution must be highly available within a single Azure region and must not require the application to be modified. Which Azure service should you recommend?

Medium
702

Which THREE conditions should be met to implement a successful Azure landing zone for a new enterprise subscription? (Choose three.)

Hard
703

Your company deploys a line-of-business application on Azure App Service. The application requires custom domain names and SSL/TLS certificates. You need to ensure that the application can be accessed via a custom domain with HTTPS. What should you configure in the App Service?

Easy
704

You need to design a network topology for a global e-commerce platform on Azure. The solution must provide low-latency access to static content and protect the backend APIs from DDoS attacks. The backend APIs are deployed in multiple regions behind an internal load balancer. Which services should you use?

Hard
705

A company has headquarters and multiple branch offices worldwide, each with its own on-premises network. They want to connect all these sites to Azure and to each other over a single, centrally managed solution. They need high bandwidth connectivity for site-to-site traffic, support for both VPN and ExpressRoute connections, and automatic routing management without the complexity of configuring multiple VPN tunnels or BGP manually. Which Azure service should they use?

Medium
706

A company is planning to migrate a legacy application to Azure VMs. The application requires a static IP address for licensing purposes. The VM must be highly available within a single region. Which combination of Azure resources should they use?

Hard
707

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) and Microsoft Intune. They want to block all access to internal corporate applications from devices that are not enrolled in Intune and do not meet the company's compliance policies. The solution must apply to all cloud app access seamlessly. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Medium
708

A company needs to store millions of small JSON files (average 10 KB each) for a serverless application. The data must be accessed via HTTPS and support high read throughput. Which Azure storage solution is most cost-effective?

Easy
709

Drag and drop the steps to set up Azure Key Vault for storing secrets and access them from an Azure function into the correct order.

Medium
710

A healthcare organization is deploying a new application on Azure that will handle Protected Health Information (PHI). The application must be compliant with HIPAA. The security team requires encryption at rest and in transit, and the ability to audit access to the data. The solution should minimize administrative overhead. Which storage solution should you recommend?

Hard
711

A company is designing a governance solution for a large Azure environment with multiple subscriptions. They need to ensure that all resources are deployed only in approved Azure regions and that all resources have a specific tag 'CostCenter'. They also need to be able to delegate management of policies to individual business units while maintaining central control. Which two features should be included in the design? (Choose two.)

Medium
712

A company runs a SQL Server database on an Azure VM in West Europe. They need to back up the database daily and retain backups for 7 years for compliance. They also require the ability to restore the database to a secondary Azure region (North Europe) if the primary region fails. They want to minimize operational overhead and costs. Which Azure Backup configuration should they use?

Medium
713

Match each Azure service to its primary function.

Medium
714

A company runs a critical Azure SQL Database in the West US region. They need a disaster recovery solution that automatically fails over to a secondary region (East US) with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 5 seconds and a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 1 hour. Additionally, they want to offload read-only workloads to the secondary database during normal operations. Which Azure SQL Database feature should they enable?

Easy
715

A company wants to deploy containerized microservices on Azure without managing virtual machines. The solution must support automatic scaling based on demand, built-in load balancing, rolling updates for zero-downtime deployments, and a fully managed platform. Which Azure compute service should they choose?

Medium
716

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. You need to design a monitoring solution for sign-in logs to detect suspicious activity. Which TWO Azure services should you include in the design?

Medium
717

A company is deploying a web application that must be accessible from the internet. The application is hosted on Azure virtual machines in a virtual network. The solution must provide SSL termination, web application firewall (WAF) protection, and URL path-based routing (e.g., /api/* to one backend pool, /app/* to another). The web tier must not be directly exposed to the internet. Which Azure load balancing solution should they use?

Easy
718

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to allow users to sign in to multiple SaaS applications using their Microsoft Entra ID credentials without being prompted again for each application. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they enable?

Easy
719

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to integrate their on-premises Active Directory with Microsoft Entra ID to enable single sign-on (SSO) for cloud applications. Users should be able to use the same password for on-premises resources and cloud applications. The company has a large on-premises user base and wants to avoid additional infrastructure for federation. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they implement?

Easy
720

You need to monitor the sign-in activities of users in Microsoft Entra ID and detect risky sign-ins, such as those from anonymous IP addresses. Which service should you use?

Easy
721

You are designing a data storage solution for a global e-commerce platform that handles millions of transactions per day. The platform uses Azure Cosmos DB for its transactional data. The company wants to implement a real-time analytics pipeline to monitor sales trends and detect anomalies. The analytics must be performed on the transactional data with minimal latency (under 5 seconds). The solution must not impact the transactional workload's performance. The analytics queries involve aggregations over time windows and joins with reference data stored in Azure SQL Database. You need to recommend a solution. Which option should you choose?

Hard
722

You are designing a monitoring solution for a cloud-native application that uses Azure Functions, Azure Storage, and Azure Cosmos DB. The solution must provide centralized log collection and analysis, enable proactive alerting on application errors, and support long-term log retention for compliance (7 years). What should you include in the design?

Easy
723

A company stores petabytes of sensor data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. They need to run complex analytics queries that involve joining multiple datasets and aggregating time-series data. The queries must complete within seconds. Which Azure service should they use for querying?

Hard
724

Which THREE factors should you consider when selecting a partition key for an Azure Cosmos DB container? (Select three.)

Hard
725

Your organization is migrating a legacy on-premises application to Azure. The application uses a monolithic architecture and requires high availability. The application tier runs on Windows Server and uses a SQL Server database. You need to design a migration strategy that minimizes changes to the application code while maximizing availability. The application can be stateless if session state is externalized. You have the following requirements: (1) The application must be resilient to Azure region failures. (2) The database must have an RPO of 5 minutes and RTO of 1 hour. (3) The migration must be completed within 6 months. (4) The solution should use platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services where possible to reduce operational overhead. Which approach should you recommend?

Hard
726

Which THREE Azure Monitor capabilities can be used to detect and diagnose performance issues in a multi-tier application?

Hard
727

You are designing a data storage solution for a multi-tenant SaaS application. Each tenant's data must be isolated and encrypted with a tenant-specific key. The solution must support automatic key rotation and the ability to revoke a tenant's access immediately by disabling their key. The data will be stored in Azure Blob Storage. Which two actions should you include in your design? (Choose two.)

Medium
728

A company backs up their Azure VMs using Azure Backup. They need to meet compliance that requires backups to be stored in a separate geographic region. Additionally, they want to be able to restore the entire VM to that secondary region in case of a regional disaster. What should they configure?

Medium
729

Which THREE components are required to implement a complete monitoring solution with Azure Monitor? (Choose three.)

Hard
730

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID to manage identities for employees and partners. They need to allow partners to self-service reset their passwords using a mobile app notification. Which feature should you enable?

Medium
731

A company is designing an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster for a microservices application. They need to ensure that pods can securely access Azure resources such as Azure Key Vault and Azure SQL Database without using service principals or connection strings. Which AKS feature should they enable?

Medium
732

Refer to the exhibit. You deploy this ARM template to a resource group in the East US region. You specify the parameter storageAccountType as 'Standard_GRS'. Which of the following is true about the deployed storage account?

Easy
733

A company stores sensitive customer data in Azure Blob Storage. They need to ensure that data at rest is encrypted using a customer-managed key stored in Azure Key Vault. Which of the following should they use?

Easy
734

A global e-commerce company runs a product catalog application that requires low-latency reads and writes from multiple geographic regions. The data is key-value structured and must be replicated with multi-region write capability. The company needs a fully managed NoSQL database service with guaranteed 99th percentile latency and automatic conflict resolution. Which Azure data service should they choose?

Medium
735

Match each Azure security service to its purpose.

Medium
736

Your company is designing a new application that will process large volumes of streaming data from IoT devices. The data will be ingested, processed in near real-time, and stored for long-term analytics. You need to design a solution that meets the following requirements: (1) Ingest up to 1 million events per second. (2) Process events with a latency of less than 10 seconds. (3) Store processed data for 7 years for compliance. (4) Enable ad-hoc querying of the stored data. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend?

Medium
737

You are the Azure architect for a healthcare organization that needs to store patient medical records (unstructured data) and provide secure access to doctors and nurses via a web application. The data must be encrypted at rest and in transit. Access must be authorized based on the requester's role (doctor, nurse, admin). The solution must be cost-effective and support high concurrency. You decide to use Azure Blob Storage. You need to design the access control mechanism. What should you recommend?

Medium
738

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to allow external business partners to request access to a specific internal application. The access must be time-limited and require approval from a manager within the partner's organization. Additionally, access should automatically expire after the defined period. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
739

A startup is building a new mobile app backend. They need a fully managed relational database service with built-in high availability, automatic backups, and built-in intelligence to optimize performance. They want to minimize administrative overhead for tasks like patching and scaling. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
740

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security information and event management (SIEM). You need to ensure that an alert is generated when an Azure VM is created with an open inbound SSH port (22) from the internet. The solution should use existing Azure resources and minimize administrative overhead. What should you use?

Medium
741

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and requires that all external users invited via B2B collaboration must authenticate using multi-factor authentication (MFA). You need to enforce this for all guest users. What should you configure?

Hard
742

A company wants to store application configuration settings and secrets (e.g., database connection strings, API keys) securely with automatic rotation. Access must be controlled and audited. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
743

Your organization is migrating a legacy on-premises application to Azure. The application uses a proprietary authentication protocol that is not supported by Microsoft Entra ID. You need to integrate the application with Microsoft Entra ID without modifying the application code. What should you do?

Hard
744

Your company runs a web application on Azure App Service (Standard tier) in a single region. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that can fail over to another region within 30 minutes. The application uses Azure SQL Database (General Purpose tier) and Azure Blob Storage. What should you implement?

Medium
745

Your company uses Microsoft Sentinel for security monitoring. You need to design a solution that automatically responds to incidents involving high-severity alerts. The response should include creating an incident in Microsoft Teams and sending an email to the security team. What should you use?

Medium
746

You are designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical application running in Azure. The application uses Azure SQL Database. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 5 seconds, and the recovery time objective (RTO) is 30 minutes. Which Azure SQL Database configuration should you recommend?

Easy
747

Refer to the exhibit. You assign this Azure Policy to a resource group. A user attempts to create a new Azure SQL Server without specifying an administrator login. What will happen?

Easy
748

Which TWO of the following are requirements for using Azure Site Recovery to protect Azure VMs? (Choose two.)

Medium
749

Your company runs a stateless web application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to design a disaster recovery solution that ensures the application is available in another Azure region within 30 minutes of a regional failure. The solution must balance cost and complexity. What should you recommend?

Hard
750

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID to manage identities for 5,000 employees. You plan to implement Microsoft Entra ID Governance to automate the user provisioning lifecycle for a third-party SaaS application. The application supports SCIM 2.0. You need to ensure that user accounts are automatically created, updated, and disabled in the application based on changes in Entra ID. What should you do?

Medium
751

Which TWO Azure services can be used to provide cross-region disaster recovery for Azure App Service web applications with a custom domain? (Select TWO.)

Easy
752

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview for data governance. You need to classify sensitive data in Azure SQL Database and automatically apply sensitivity labels. What should you configure?

Easy
753

You need to monitor the performance and health of your Azure virtual machines, including custom metrics and logs. You also need to set up alerts based on specific thresholds. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
754

Your organization is designing a monitoring solution for a critical application running on Azure VMs. You need to collect performance metrics and logs from the VMs and send them to a centralized Log Analytics workspace. You also need to visualize the data in near real-time. Which combination of services should you use?

Medium
755

A media company uploads large video files to Azure Blob Storage. Users frequently access recent videos, while older videos are rarely accessed after 30 days. The company wants to minimize storage costs while ensuring that recently accessed videos are immediately available. Which storage tier strategy should you recommend?

Hard
756

Your organization is deploying a critical application in Azure that must maintain an uptime SLA of 99.99%. The application runs on Azure Virtual Machines in a single region. You need to design a monitoring solution that alerts the operations team within 5 minutes of any VM unavailability. The solution must minimize false positives and avoid alert fatigue. What should you include in the design?

Hard
757

Refer to the exhibit. You are analyzing a deployment of Azure Storage account with customer-managed key encryption. The deployment fails with an error indicating that the key vault is not accessible. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Hard
758

A company runs a critical application on Azure VMs in a single region. The application writes data to Azure SQL Database (PaaS) and Azure Blob Storage. The company needs a disaster recovery plan with an RPO of less than 5 minutes for the database and less than 15 minutes for the blob storage, and an RTO of less than 1 hour for the entire solution. What should they recommend?

Medium
759

Your company has a critical application that uses Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in a single region. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that can automatically fail over to a secondary region in the event of a regional outage. The application data is stored in Azure Cosmos DB. What should you do?

Medium
760

A global e-commerce company uses Azure Cosmos DB to store its product catalog. The catalog is read-heavy, with users worldwide expecting consistent reads with a 99th percentile latency under 10 ms. Writes to the catalog are performed by a central admin team in one region. The company needs to minimize write latency and cost while ensuring that users always see the same data within a single session. Which Cosmos DB configuration should the company choose?

Hard
761

A multinational company plans to deploy a new application on Azure. The application must comply with GDPR and requires data residency in the EU. The solution should minimize latency for users in Europe and provide disaster recovery across regions. Which Azure architecture should the company implement?

Medium
762

A business-critical App Service application must survive a full regional outage. The recovery design should fail over automatically based on endpoint health and avoid DNS-cache delay where possible. Which service should front the regional deployments?

Hard
763

A company stores petabytes of image files for a content delivery network. The images are accessed frequently for the first week, then rarely afterward. They must be retained for 5 years for compliance. The company wants to minimize storage costs while maintaining performance for frequently accessed data. Which storage solution and tier strategy should they recommend?

Hard
764

A multinational company runs a mission-critical application on Azure VMs in the West US region. The application uses Azure SQL Database (Business Critical tier) and Azure Cache for Redis. The company needs to ensure the application can fail over to a secondary region within 5 minutes during a regional outage. The design must minimize data loss. Which solution should you recommend?

Hard
765

You are designing a governance strategy for an Azure environment that includes multiple subscriptions. The security team requires that all storage accounts must have HTTPS traffic only. Any non-compliant storage account must be automatically remediated. What is the most efficient solution?

Hard
766

You are designing a network topology for a global e-commerce company that operates multiple web applications. The company has three main offices (New York, London, Tokyo) connected via ExpressRoute to Azure. Users access the applications through a public endpoint. The company requires that traffic be routed to the nearest healthy application instance based on geographic location, and that the solution provide automatic failover if an entire region goes down. Additionally, the company wants to protect against DDoS attacks at the network layer. You need to recommend a solution that meets these requirements while minimizing cost. What should you include in the design?

Hard
767

Your organization has 500 users in Microsoft Entra ID. You need to ensure that users can only access Microsoft 365 apps from compliant devices (compliant with Intune policies). Users are already enrolled in Intune. The compliance policies are defined. You need to configure the access control mechanism. What should you do?

Easy
768

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) Premium P2. They need to automatically block sign-ins from anonymous IP addresses (e.g., Tor) and force users from risky sign-ins to reset their password. They want to minimize administrative effort and use built-in features. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they enable?

Medium
769

Your company is deploying a new application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You need to monitor the health and performance of the cluster, including container logs, metrics, and request rates. Which Azure service should you enable?

Easy
770

Your company has an Azure subscription with 100 virtual machines. You need to monitor the performance of these VMs and be alerted when the average CPU usage across a set of VMs exceeds 80% for 10 minutes. The set of VMs is defined by a tag (Environment=Production). Which Azure Monitor solution should you implement?

Hard
771

A company stores log data in Azure Blob Storage. Logs are accessed frequently for the first 30 days, then rarely accessed but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. They want to minimize storage costs. Which storage tier and lifecycle management rule should they use?

Easy
772

A company must prevent non-compliant devices from accessing Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Which design should you recommend?

Medium
773

A company plans to migrate a legacy web application to Azure. The application runs on multiple Windows virtual machines (VMs) in an availability set. The VMs must be exposed to the internet via a single endpoint that performs SSL termination and health checks. The load-balancing solution must preserve the original client IP address for logging purposes. Which Azure service should the company use?

Easy
774

Your company uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. You need to ensure that only devices compliant with your company's security policies can access corporate resources. Which solution should you implement?

Easy
775

A company deploys a containerized microservices application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They need to expose the application to the internet with TLS termination and provide a single endpoint for multiple services. The solution must also include a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Which Azure service should they use as the ingress controller?

Medium
776

You are designing a storage solution for a healthcare application that stores patient records. The solution must meet the following requirements: - Support for both structured and unstructured data. - Provide low-latency access to frequently accessed data. - Automatically move cold data to a lower-cost tier. - Encrypt data at rest using customer-managed keys. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend?

Hard
777

Which THREE considerations are important when designing a data archiving solution for Azure Storage to optimize costs?

Medium
778

You are a Solutions Architect for an e-commerce company that runs its online store on Azure. The application consists of: - Azure App Service (Windows) hosting the web frontend - Azure SQL Database (General Purpose, serverless) for product catalog and orders - Azure Cache for Redis for session state - Azure Blob Storage for product images The application is deployed in the East US region. The company wants to implement a disaster recovery (DR) plan that can fail over to a secondary region (West US) with minimal data loss. The requirements are: - RPO: 5 minutes for the database - RTO: 30 minutes for the entire application - The solution must be cost-effective and not require manual intervention during failover. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to meet these requirements?

Easy
779

Your company uses Azure SQL Database and needs to archive data older than 7 years for compliance. The archived data must be stored in the most cost-effective manner, must be immutable, and must be deleted exactly after 10 years. What should you use?

Hard
780

A company has a hub-spoke network topology in Azure. They have multiple spoke VNets connected to a hub VNet via peering. They need to ensure that all east-west traffic between spoke VNets goes through a network virtual appliance (NVA) in the hub for inspection. Additionally, all outbound internet traffic from spoke VMs must use a single public IP address. What should they configure?

Hard
781

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They need to grant external partners access to an internal application for a limited time (30 days). The access request must be approved by a manager from the partner's organization, and after 30 days the access must automatically expire. They also want to send email reminders 7 days before expiration. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

Medium
782

You are designing a solution to securely store secrets, keys, and certificates for a cloud application. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
783

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID). They want to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing the Azure portal, but do not want MFA to be required for other applications like Office 365. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
784

Refer to the exhibit. You are implementing an Azure Policy to control VM SKU deployment. You assign this policy to a subscription. A developer attempts to deploy a virtual machine with SKU Standard_DS2_v2. What is the outcome?

Hard
785

You are designing a disaster recovery solution for a SQL Server database hosted on an Azure VM. The recovery point objective (RPO) is 5 minutes, and the recovery time objective (RTO) is 1 hour. Which strategy should you recommend?

Medium
786

A logistics company runs a customer-facing web application on 20 Azure VMs behind an Azure Standard Load Balancer. The company requires a 99.99% availability SLA for the VMs. The VMs are currently all deployed in a single availability set within one Azure region. What should you recommend to meet the SLA requirement with minimal architectural changes?

Medium
787

A company has Azure virtual networks (VNets) in three different Azure regions (West US, East US, and West Europe). They also have an on-premises data center connected to the East US region via ExpressRoute. They need to connect all VNets to each other and to the on-premises network. The solution must support transitive routing between all sites and provide centralized management of connectivity and routing policies. Which Azure service should they use?

Easy
788

You need to design a solution to store configuration data for a cloud-native application. The configuration must be centrally managed, versioned, and accessible to multiple services without hard-coding values. Which Azure service should you use?

Easy
789

A company runs an application on Azure VMs that must be backed up according to regulatory compliance: daily backups retained for 30 days, weekly backups retained for 12 months, and yearly backups retained for 7 years. The backups must be stored in a secondary region for disaster recovery. They want to use Azure Backup for VMs. Which backup policy and storage configuration should they implement?

Medium
790

A company is designing a highly available architecture for a web application on Azure VMs. The solution must protect against both planned and unplanned downtime and provide automatic failover. Which TWO Azure services should the company use together? (Choose two.)

Medium
791

Contoso is a global e-commerce company that runs its platform on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Istio service mesh. The application uses Azure Cosmos DB (API for MongoDB) with multi-region writes enabled. The platform also uses Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise for session caching. The business requires a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 30 seconds and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 0 for all tiers. You need to design a disaster recovery solution that meets these requirements with high availability. What should you recommend?

Hard
792

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to require users to use multi-factor authentication when accessing the Azure portal from any device. They do not want to require MFA for other applications. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Easy
793

Which TWO are valid methods to authenticate users in a Microsoft Entra ID hybrid identity solution? (Select TWO.)

Easy
794

A company runs a mission-critical SQL Server database on an Azure virtual machine using SQL Server Standard Edition. They need a disaster recovery solution that replicates the database to a secondary Azure region with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour. The solution must support non-disruptive disaster recovery drills. The company cannot modify the SQL Server configuration or use Always On features due to licensing constraints. Which Azure service should they use?

Hard
795

Your company plans to deploy a new application to Azure. The application will be used by external partners. You need to design an identity solution that allows partners to authenticate using their own corporate credentials while ensuring that the application can enforce conditional access policies based on partner device compliance. What should you include in the design?

Medium

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