Question: You are designing an application that requires table storage. You are evaluating whether to use Azure Table storage or Azure Cosmos DB for Table.
Which requirement requires the use of Azure Cosmos DB for Table instead of Azure Table storage?
Answer: An SLA of 99.99%
Question: Your transactional database requirements exceed the maximum capacity of a single Azure SQL database in the General Purpose service tier.
What should you implement to resolve the capacity issue?
Answer: sharding
Question: Which Azure SQL Database service tier provides the fastest recovery time for a database?
Answer: Business critical
Question: You need to migrate an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure. The solution must include support for SQL Server Agent.
Which Azure SQL architecture should you recommend?
Answer: Azure SQL Managed Instance with the General Purpose service tier
Question: You are developing a web application that will be hosted on an Azure virtual machine. During development you require up to 6,000 IOPS and a throughput of up to 750 MB/s.
You need to provision the data disk for the development server. The solution must minimize costs.
Which data disk type should you use?
Answer: Standard SSD
Question: You are planning redundancy for an Azure Storage account. A corporate compliance policy requires that all data remains within the East US Azure region.
Which redundancy option provides the most fault tolerance while meeting the compliance policy?
Answer: Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)
Question: You are designing an application that will store data in Azure Storage.
You need to recommend a solution to ensure that data in the storage account is encrypted by using customer-managed keys.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Answer: Azure Key Vault
Question: You are planning the high availability for Azure virtual machines.
Which scenario requires the use of an availability zone?
Answer: You need redundance in the event a hardware component fails. A failure of a datacenter is acceptable.
Question: You are designing a high availability solution for SQL databases that will be migrated to Azure.
You are evaluating whether you need to implement geo-replication or failover groups.
Which requirement will cause you to choose failover groups for high availability?
Answer: You need to be able to failover a database to a secondary region.
Question: You are designing an application that will use an Azure SQL database.
You have identified the following database requirements:
- Supports four read-scale replicas
- Supports up to 25 TB of data
- Provides an SLA of 99.99%
What is the least costly service tier that meets the requirements?
Answer: General purpose
Question: Your company plans to migrate an on-premises PHP web app named WebApp1 to Azure.
You need to recommend which Azure service to use to run App1. The solution must minimize administrative effort.
Which service should you recommend?
Question: Your company plans to run large scale image analysis and processing in Azure.
You need to recommend which Azure compute service to use for the planned solution. The solution must minimize administrative effort.
Which Azure service should you recommend?
Answer: Azure Batch
Question: You are designing a small app that will receive web requests containing encoded geographic coordinates. Calls to the app will occur infrequently. You need to minimize the cost.
Which compute solution should you recommend?
Answer: Azure Functions
Question: Your company plans to migrate an ASP.NET website to an Azure App Service named App1.
You need to design a solution for App1 that meets the following requirements:
- Provides a development environment and a production environment
- Can instantly swap environments without downtime
What should you include in the design?
Answer: two deployment slots
Question: Your company has a production line that uses several hundred sensors.
You are designing an application that will ingest the sensor data by using Azure Event Hubs, and then perform anomaly detection.
Which location should the event hub use to store the data for long-time retention?
Answer: Azure Blob storage
You are developing an application that will use a message-based delivery system. The solution must be able to store over 90-GB of data and provide an audit trail of all messages.
Which messaging solution should you use?
Answer: Azure Service Bus topics
Question: Your company uses two applications that publish the following APIs:
- App1 publishes 30 APIs that reside on five servers.
- App2 publishes 40 APIs that reside on 10 servers.
You need to implement an Azure API Management solution. The solution must provide full functionality for both applications.
What is the minimum number of APIs that you must publish in Azure API Management?
Answer: 70
Question: You are designing a music-sharing application in Azure.
You need to recommend an application design that meets the following requirements:
- The application must support more than 10,000 users from many countries.
- The application must notify users when new music is uploaded to Azure.
- Users must be able to decide when they want to access new music.
What should you recommend using to route the required information for new music?
Answer: Azure Event Grid
Question: Your company has branch offices in New York, Vancouver, and Amsterdam. Each branch office has users in the IT, HR, and marketing departments.
You plan to connect all the branch offices to their closest Azure region: Vancouver to West US, New York to East US, and Amsterdam to North Europe. All the departments in each branch office will use their own Azure virtual machines.
You need to design Azure virtual networks that meet the following requirements:
- All the marketing virtual machines must be able to connect to each other.
- All the virtual machines in East US must be able to connect to each other.
- The HR virtual machines in North Europe must be prevented from connecting to other virtual machines in North Europe.
- The HR virtual machines in East US and West US must be able to connect to each other and must be prevented from connecting to the virtual machines in North Europe.
What is the minimum number of Azure virtual networks that must be included in the design?
Answer: 4
Question: You are designing a multi-tiered application that will be hosted on Azure virtual machines. The virtual machines will run Windows Server. Front-end servers will be accessible from the Internet over port 443. The other servers will NOT be directly accessible over the Internet.
You need to recommend a solution to manage the virtual machines that meets the following requirement:
- Allows the virtual machine to be administered by using Remote Desktop.
- Minimizes the exposure of the virtual machines on the Internet.
Which Azure service should you recommend?
Question: You are designing an application that will be deployed on Azure virtual machines. The deployment will consist of one virtual network and three subnets. All traffic between subnets will be inspected by a firewall appliance deployed on one of the subnets.
Which component should you include in the design to ensure traffic is inspected by the firewall appliance?
Question: Your company has five branch offices on five continents.
You plan to connect each branch office to the closest Azure region. All the branch offices will use virtual machines in the same region only.
You need to design a virtual network infrastructure for the company. The solution must ensure that Remote Desktop connections to virtual machines can be protected by using Azure Bastion.
What is the minimum number of virtual networks that must be included in the design?
- Support JSON and CSV files.
- Provide a hierarchical namespace.
- Supports Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as the data access layer.
Which data storage solution should you recommend?
What component should you recommend?Synapse Link
You are designing a solution to analyze data ingested from IoT devices in Azure IoT hub.
The data will be analyzed for anomalous conditions and then the data will be visualized in Power BI in near real-time.
Which service should you recommend to analyze the data from IoT Hub?
Answer: Azure Stream Analytics
