Course #3 Practice Test Flashcards
When choosing a region to deploy resources on Azure, which of the following is NOT listed as a key factor to consider?
A) Available Features
B) Location
C) Price
D) The number of resource groups in your subscription.
D) The number of resource groups in your subscription.
What is the primary purpose of Availability Zones within an Azure Region?
A) To provide a globally unique name for storage accounts.
B) To act as the billing boundary for multiple subscriptions.
C) To provide fault isolation by using multiple independent datacenters.
D) To connect virtual networks across different regions.
C) To provide fault isolation by using multiple independent datacenters.
Which layer in the Azure resource organization hierarchy acts as the billing boundary?
A) Management Groups
B) Resource Groups
C) Resources
D) Subscriptions
D) Subscriptions
When comparing Azure compute options, which type generally offers more customization and control but requires managing more responsibilities?
A) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) like Virtual Machines.
B) Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Azure App Service.
C) Serverless compute like Azure Functions.
D) Container services like Azure Container Instances.
A) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) like Virtual Machines.
Availability Sets provide high availability for which type of Virtual Machines?
A) Groups of identical VMs managed centrally.
B) Unique or non-identical VMs within a single zone.
C) VMs deployed across multiple regions.
D) VMs that automatically scale based on load.
B) Unique or non-identical VMs within a single zone.
Which Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) compute option is described as being ideal for short-life, event-driven applications triggered by external events?
A) Azure App Service
B) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
C) Azure Container Instances (ACI)
D) Azure Functions
D) Azure Functions
What acts as the privacy and isolation boundary for Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure, and is required when creating a VM?
A) Availability Zone
B) Resource Group
C) Virtual Network
D) Management Group
C) Virtual Network
Which of the following statements is true about Azure Network Peering?
A) It uses an encrypted tunnel over the public internet.
B) It is generally slower and more expensive than a VPN connection.
C) Connections are not encrypted, but stay on Microsoft’s private backbone.
D) It is limited to connecting virtual networks within the same subscription.
C) Connections are not encrypted, but stay on Microsoft’s private backbone.
Which type of IP address assigned to a VM is released when the VM is stopped and deallocated, resulting in a new address upon restart?
A) Dynamic IP address
B) Static IP address
C) Private IP address
D) Public endpoint
A) Dynamic IP address
Compared to a VPN connection, which of the following is a characteristic of ExpressRoute?
A) It is less expensive and less permanent.
B) It traverses the public internet using an encrypted tunnel.
C) It is faster, more private, and substantially more expensive.
D) It is primarily used for connecting individual devices to Azure.
C) It is faster, more private, and substantially more expensive.
Why is an Azure Storage account required to have a globally unique name across all of Azure?
A) It acts as the billing boundary for the account.
B) It has a public-facing endpoint associated with everything inside it.
C) It is the management layer for creating storage services.
D) It holds different types of data in different formats.
B) It has a public-facing endpoint associated with everything inside it.
Which Azure Blob Storage tier is described as being offline data that is not instantly available and requires a rehydration request to access?
A) Hot
B) Cool
C) Cold
D) Archive
D) Archive
When attaching a managed disk to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM), what regional requirement must be met?
A) The disk must be in a different region than the VM for redundancy.
B) The disk and the VM must be in the same region.
C) The disk must be in a region paired with the VM’s region.
D) There are no regional restrictions for managed disks and VMs.
B) The disk and the VM must be in the same region.
Which storage redundancy option includes an additional three copies of data in a secondary or paired region, where the primary region uses LRS?
A) ZRS (Zone-Redundant Storage)
B) GRS (Geo-Redundant Storage)
C) LRS (Locally Redundant Storage)
D) GZRS (Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage)
B) GRS (Geo-Redundant Storage)
Premium performance options like Premium Block Blobs and Premium File Shares are limited to which redundancy options?
A) LRS and ZRS
B) GRS and GZRS
C) LRS and GRS
D) ZRS and GZRS
A) LRS and ZRS
