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Professional Standards & Competencies Flashcards

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  1. An Azure developer must ensure their web app meets the AZ-204 requirement for secure secret management. Which approach is the recommended best practice?

    Answer: Use Azure Key Vault references in App Service configuration

    Azure Key Vault references allow App Service to fetch secrets at runtime without exposing them in code or config files.

  2. A developer is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for an Azure Function app. Which professional standard ensures infrastructure changes are auditable and repeatable?

    Answer: Infrastructure as Code using Bicep or ARM templates

    Infrastructure as Code tools like Bicep or ARM templates version-control infrastructure definitions, making deployments auditable and repeatable.

  3. When publishing an Azure SDK-based application, a developer wants to follow the principle of least privilege. What should they assign to the app's managed identity?

    Answer: Only the specific RBAC roles needed for required operations

    Least privilege means granting only the permissions required for the application to function, minimizing the blast radius of a compromise.

  4. A team is adopting blue-green deployments for their Azure App Service. What is the primary professional competency this addresses?

    Answer: Zero-downtime releases and safe rollback capability

    Blue-green deployments use staging slots to enable traffic swapping, allowing zero-downtime releases with instant rollback if issues arise.

  5. An AZ-204 candidate is reviewing logging standards for a distributed Azure application. Which service provides centralized correlation of logs across multiple services?

    Answer: Azure Application Insights with distributed tracing

    Application Insights supports distributed tracing with operation IDs that correlate telemetry across microservices and components.

  6. A developer needs to ensure their Azure-hosted API complies with GDPR. Which Azure feature helps enforce data residency requirements?

    Answer: Azure Policy with allowed locations definitions

    Azure Policy can enforce that resources are only deployed to approved geographic regions, supporting data residency and compliance requirements.

  7. When handling exceptions in an Azure Service Bus consumer, what professional practice prevents message loss while allowing problematic messages to be investigated?

    Answer: Allow the message to exceed max delivery count so it moves to the dead-letter queue

    Letting a message exceed its max delivery count moves it to the dead-letter queue, preserving it for investigation without blocking other messages.