AZ-204 Research & Evidence-Based Practice 3

Question 1

In Azure Functions, which trigger type monitors a Service Bus queue depth and automatically scales instances to process backlogged messages?

Accepted Answer

Service Bus trigger

Answer

The Service Bus trigger integrates with KEDA-based scaling to spin up additional function instances as queue depth increases.

Question 2

Which Durable Functions orchestration pattern fans out work across multiple parallel activity functions and then waits for all results before continuing?

Accepted Answer

Fan-out/fan-in

Answer

The fan-out/fan-in pattern starts multiple activity tasks concurrently with Task.WhenAll and aggregates their results once all complete.

Question 3

What is the maximum execution timeout for an Azure Function running on the Consumption hosting plan?

Accepted Answer

10 minutes

Answer

The Consumption plan caps function execution at 10 minutes (600 seconds); the default timeout is 5 minutes but can be raised to this ceiling.

Question 4

Which Azure Service Bus feature guarantees that related messages are processed in order by a single consumer at a time?

Accepted Answer

Message sessions

Answer

Sessions group messages by a session ID and ensure a single receiver processes all messages in that session sequentially.

Question 5

Which Azure Event Hubs feature automatically captures streaming event data and writes it to Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake?

Accepted Answer

Event Hubs Capture

Answer

Event Hubs Capture writes incoming events to a storage destination on a configurable time or size window, enabling batch analytics.

AZ-204 - Microsoft Azure Developer Associate Practice Test

AZ-204 - Microsoft Azure Developer Associate Practice Test

AZ-204 Research & Evidence-Based Practice 3