AZ-200 Cheat Sheet 2026

The 30 highest-yield AZ-200 facts, distilled from real exam questions. Print it, save it as a PDF, or study it here — free, no sign-up.

1. What is the purpose of the Azure Monitor Workbooks feature? → Creating interactive, shareable dashboards that combine metrics, logs, and visualizations
2. Which trigger type allows an Azure Function to respond to HTTP requests? → HTTP trigger
3. How do you grant a developer read access to a specific blob container without sharing the storage account key? → Assign the Storage Blob Data Reader role via Azure RBAC on the container
4. Which Azure service provides application performance monitoring including request rates, failure rates, and dependency tracking? → Azure Application Insights
5. Which Azure Service Bus feature prevents the same message from being processed twice? → Duplicate detection
6. What happens to a Service Bus message that fails processing repeatedly and exceeds the max delivery count? → The message is moved to the dead-letter queue (DLQ)
7. Which Application Insights feature allows you to trace a single user request across multiple microservices? → Distributed Tracing (Application Map)
8. What is the primary use case for Azure Event Grid? → Reactive, event-driven routing of discrete events to multiple subscribers
9. Which Cosmos DB indexing mode indexes every item and property by default? → Consistent
10. What is the purpose of Application Insights Smart Detection? → Proactively detecting anomalies in failure rates and performance using machine learning
11. What is the purpose of a Service Bus subscription filter (SQL filter) on a topic? → To selectively route messages to a subscription based on message properties
12. In Azure Durable Functions, which function type orchestrates the execution of other functions? → Orchestrator function
13. What is the maximum number of instances the Consumption Plan will scale a single function app to by default? → 200 instances
14. Which Durable Functions pattern is best suited for running multiple independent tasks in parallel and aggregating their results? → Fan-out/fan-in
15. Which Azure Storage feature allows immutable, time-limited locks on blobs to prevent modification or deletion? → Immutability policies (WORM)
16. Which Azure Storage feature enables automatic failover of a storage account to the secondary region without manual intervention? → Microsoft-managed failover (automatic) available with GRS/RA-GRS during outages
17. How long does Azure Event Hubs retain events by default? → 1 day (24 hours), configurable up to 90 days
18. What does the ARR Affinity setting control in Azure App Service? → Session affinity routing to the same instance
19. How do you correlate logs from multiple Azure services in a single Log Analytics workspace query? → Use KQL join or union operators across multiple tables in the same workspace
20. What is the maximum message size supported by Azure Service Bus in the Premium tier? → 100 MB
21. Which Azure Storage feature allows you to mount a file share in both Windows and Linux VMs using SMB? → Azure Files with SMB protocol
22. When deploying Azure Functions in a container, which environment variable must be set to instruct the host not to install extensions? → FUNCTIONS_EXTENSION_VERSION
23. Which App Service diagnostic feature captures slow requests and request traces to help identify performance bottlenecks? → Failed Request Tracing (FREB) and Slow Request logs
24. What is the purpose of Azure Monitor Action Groups? → Defining a set of notification and remediation actions triggered by alert rules
25. What is the significance of the partition key in Azure Cosmos DB? → It distributes data across logical partitions to enable horizontal scaling
26. What is the correct way to copy a large number of blobs between storage accounts efficiently using command-line tools? → Use AzCopy with the copy command and service-to-service transfer
27. What is the 'Session' consistency level in Azure Cosmos DB? → Guarantees that a client reads its own writes within its session
28. What is the purpose of RBAC role assignments in Azure? → Grant a security principal (user/group/identity) specific permissions to an Azure resource
29. Which consistency level in Azure Cosmos DB guarantees that reads always return the most recently written value? → Strong
30. What is the maximum visibility timeout for a message in Azure Queue Storage? → 7 days