AZ-900 Practice Questions: Understanding Core Azure Services

The AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam covers four distinct learning objectives:

• Understand Cloud Concepts
• Understand Core Azure Services
• Understand Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Trust
• Understand Azure Pricing and Support

These practice questions are based on the AZ-900 course, entitled "AZ-900 Azure Exam Prep: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals". This set of practice questions covers the "Understand Core Azure Services" learning objectives for the AZ-900 exam. If you can answer all of the following questions correctly, you are prepared for the AZ-900 "Understand Core Azure Services" learning objectives.

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QUESTION:

A _________ is a set of datacenters deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

Paired Region
Region
Resource group

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QUESTION:

An Azure __________ is a defined area of the world that contains at least one Azure Region.

geography
datacenter
region

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QUESTION:

__________ is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures.

Azure Datacenters
Availability Zones
Resource Groups

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QUESTION:

A combination of a fault domain and an update domain is called ______________________.

a Resource Group
an Availability Zone
a redundant datacenter

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QUESTION:

A ____________ is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution.

Resource Set
Paired Datacenter
Resource Group

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QUESTION:

______________ allows you to work with the resources in your solution as a group.

Azure Resource Manager
Resource Group
Azure Manager

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QUESTION:

True or False. When naming a VM, the computer name and the virtual machine name can be different.

True
False

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QUESTION:

An Azure VM is a _____________ resource.

Network
Compute
Data

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QUESTION:

______________ let you create and manage a group of identical, load balanced VMs.

VM scale sets
Load Balancers
Availability Sets

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QUESTION:

____________ allows you to build and host web apps, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.

Web Apps
Azure App Service
JSON

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QUESTION:

____________ is a solution for easily running small pieces of code in the cloud.

Azure Functions
Azure App Service
Web Apps

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QUESTION:

A virtual network is scoped to a single region.

True
False

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QUESTION:

______________ connections are private. Traffic does not go over the internet.

Site-to-Site VPN
Point-to-site VPN
Azure ExpressRoute

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QUESTION:

Allows you to scale your applications and create high availability for your services.

Availability Zone
Load Balancer
vNet

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QUESTION:

Sends encrypted traffic between an Azure virtual network and an on-premises location over the public Internet.

Public Load Balancer
Internal Load Balancer
VPN Gateway

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QUESTION:

The max throughput for a VpnGw3 VPN gateway is _______________.

100Mbps
1Gbps
1.25Gbps

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QUESTION:

A _________________ lets you create a secure connection to your virtual network from an individual client computer.

Site-to-Site VPN
Point-to-Site VPN
ExpressRoute

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QUESTION:

_____________ is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications.

Azure Application Gateway
Availability Set
Scale Set

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QUESTION:

A ______________ is a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users.

Load Balancer
Application Gateway
Content Delivery Network

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QUESTION:

_________________ is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.

Azure Files
Blob Storage
Archive Storage

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QUESTION:

_______________ provides a unique namespace in Azure for your data.

Storage Account
Container
Blob

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QUESTION:

_____________ are made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually.

Block Blobs
Append Blobs
Page Blobs

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QUESTION:

All Azure virtual machines have at least ________ disk(s).

1
2
3

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QUESTION:

Data on the temporary disk may be lost during a maintenance event or when you redeploy a VM.

True
False

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QUESTION:

Managed disks have a maximum capacity of ______________.

4TB
32TB
2TB

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QUESTION:

___________ disks are the recommended deployment option for most workloads.

Standard HDD
Standard SSD
Premium SSD

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QUESTION:

Microsoft recommends that you use ___________ disks for new VMs.

Managed
Unmanaged

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QUESTION:

Azure file shares cannot be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of Windows, Linux, and macOS.

True
False

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QUESTION:

_____________ offers fully managed file shares in the cloud.

Blob Storage
Azure Files
Storage Account

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QUESTION:

While a blob is in Archive storage, it is offline and cannot be read, copied, overwritten, or modified.

True
False

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QUESTION:

_____________ is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database service.

HDInsight
Azure Cosmos DB
Hadoop

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QUESTION:

Azure SQL Database can be deployed as a single database with its own set of resources managed via a logical server.

True
False

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QUESTION:

_____________ is a cloud-based EDW that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.

HDInsight
CosmosDB
SQL Data Warehouse

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QUESTION:

_________________ is a managed service, hosted in the cloud, that acts as a central message hub for bi-directional communication between your IoT application and the devices it manages.

IoT Central
App Service
IoT Hub

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QUESTION:

IoT Hub supports communications both from the device to the cloud and from the cloud to the device.

True
False

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QUESTION:

______________ is a fully managed IoT Software-as-a-Service solution that makes it easy to create products that connect the physical and digital worlds.

IoT Hub
Azure IoT Central
HDInsight

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QUESTION:

____________ is a Hadoop service offering hosted in Azure that enables clusters of managed hadoop instances.

Data Lake Analytics
Azure HD Insight
CosmosDB

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QUESTION:

_______________________ is an on-demand analytics job service that simplifies big data

Azure Data Lake Analytics
HDInsight
Azure Analytics

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QUESTION:

_____________________ is a cloud service that you use to train, deploy, automate, and manage machine learning models.

Azure Machine Learning Service
Azure Machine Learning Studio
Azure AI

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QUESTION:

Azure Machine Learning service does not support open-source technologies.

True
False

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QUESTION:

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio is a command-line tool you can use to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics solutions on your data

True
False

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QUESTION:

_________________ is a cloud service that helps you automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows.

Azure Functions
Azure Logic Apps
HDInsight

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QUESTION:

_____________________ is Microsoft's cross-platform command-line experience for managing Azure resources.

Azure CLI
Azure PowerShell
Azure Portal

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QUESTION:

_______________________ provides a set of cmdlets that use the Azure Resource Manager model for managing your Azure resources.

Azure CLI
Azure PowerShell
Azure Portal

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QUESTION:

__________________ analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources.

Azure Portal
Azure Advisor
Azure AZ Module