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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A company has a policy that all Azure Storage accounts must have diagnostic settings enabled to send logs and metrics to a specific Log Analytics workspace. The governance team wants to automatically configure these diagnostic settings when a new storage account is created, without blocking the initial creation. The solution must not require manual intervention. Which Azure Policy effect should the team use in their policy definition?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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A company has a policy that every Azure virtual machine must have the Azure Monitor Agent installed and configured to send metrics to a central Log Analytics workspace. To enforce this requirement without relying on manual user action, the governance team wants to automatically deploy the agent to any existing or new VM that is missing it. They also need to generate a compliance report showing any VMs where the installation failed. Which Azure Policy effect should the team use to meet these requirements?

Question 3mediummultiple choice
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A company has multiple Azure subscriptions, each belonging to a different department. The finance department wants to set spending limits per subscription and receive automated email notifications whenever actual spending reaches 80% of the allocated budget. Which Azure feature should they configure?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A company has an Azure subscription that hosts multiple virtual machines, databases, and storage accounts. The finance team wants to receive an automated email notification when the forecasted monthly spending for the subscription exceeds $10,000. The team needs to use a native Azure feature that can track actual and forecasted costs and trigger alerts based on a monetary threshold. The solution must not require custom scripts or third-party tools. Which Azure feature should the team configure?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A company has deployed multiple Azure virtual machines for a production workload. The IT administrator wants a centralized list of prioritized recommendations to improve the security, high availability, and cost efficiency of the virtual machines. The administrator also wants to be able to view the potential impact of implementing each recommendation. Which Azure service should the administrator use?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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A company has traditionally managed on-premises servers for their internal business applications. Setting up a new test environment involves ordering hardware, waiting for delivery, racking, and configuring the OS and applications, which typically takes two to three weeks. The company is migrating their development and testing workloads to Azure. Now, developers can deploy a complete, pre-configured test environment using Azure Resource Manager templates in under two hours. This ability to rapidly provision resources and adapt to changing requirements best illustrates which benefit of cloud computing?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A company has an Azure subscription with 200 virtual machines. The compliance team requires that all virtual machines have diagnostic settings enabled to send metrics and logs to a central Log Analytics workspace. The team wants Azure to automatically configure these diagnostic settings on any VM that currently lacks them, without manual intervention. Which Azure Policy effect should the team use in the policy definition?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A company has deployed a production Azure SQL Database that is used by a critical line-of-business application. The database administrators need to be able to change the database schema and scaling settings. However, the operations team must ensure that no one can accidentally delete the database or its server. The company does not want to implement a complex backup strategy for this prevention; they want a simple control that can be applied at the resource level without affecting other management operations. What should the operations team configure to meet these requirements?

Question 9mediummultiple choice
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A company has an Azure subscription that contains production resources. The IT manager is concerned that a user who has the Contributor role might accidentally delete the entire subscription. The company wants a solution that prevents anyone from deleting the subscription, even users with the Owner role, while still allowing modifications to the resources inside the subscription. What should the administrator configure?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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A company has deployed a critical production application in an Azure resource group. The security team wants to prevent accidental deletion or modification of any resources within that resource group. They have already configured Azure RBAC roles to grant only necessary permissions to the operations team. However, they need an additional protection that even users with Owner permissions cannot delete the resource group or its resources without a two-step process to remove the protection. Which Azure feature should the company implement?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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A company is deploying two Azure virtual machines that host a critical line-of-business application. The application is stateful and requires that the VMs are located in the same datacenter but on separate physical hardware to protect against a rack-level failure. Additionally, the VMs must be updated during Azure platform maintenance in a staggered manner to ensure the application remains available. Which Azure feature should the company configure for these VMs?

Question 12mediummultiple choice
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A company runs a mission-critical application on Azure virtual machines. The application is hosted in the East US Azure region. To protect against a regional disaster, the company configures Azure Site Recovery to replicate the VMs to a secondary region (West US). If a disaster occurs in East US, the company can initiate a failover to West US and bring the application back online within minutes using the replicated data. Which cloud computing benefit does this scenario best demonstrate?

Question 13mediummultiple choice
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A company is migrating its on-premises infrastructure to Azure. In the past, to provision a new server, the IT team had to submit a formal request to the data center operations team. The operations team would then procure hardware, install the operating system, configure networking, and make the server available. This process often took several weeks. After migrating to Azure, a developer can log into the Azure portal, select a virtual machine configuration, and have it provisioned and running within minutes, without any need to interact with Azure support or operations staff. Which essential characteristic of cloud computing does this scenario best illustrate?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A company plans to deploy two Azure virtual machines that host a critical web application. Both VMs will be in the same Azure region and the same virtual network. The company’s requirements are: 1) During Azure platform-initiated maintenance (e.g., OS updates), at least one VM must remain running. 2) If a hardware failure occurs in the server rack that hosts one VM, the other VM must not be affected. 3) The solution must not incur additional costs beyond the VMs themselves. Which Azure feature should the company configure?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A company runs an e-commerce web application on Azure virtual machines that are part of a virtual machine scale set configured with an autoscale rule based on CPU utilization. During a flash sale, customer traffic surges, causing the average CPU utilization across all instances to exceed 75% for five minutes. The scale set automatically provisions three additional VM instances to handle the increased load. After the sale ends, traffic normalizes, CPU utilization drops below 30%, and the scale set automatically removes the extra instances. This scenario best illustrates which characteristic of cloud computing?

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