AZ-300 Azure Monitoring & Management 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Azure service aggregates metrics, logs, and traces from Azure and hybrid resources into a central platform for monitoring and alerting?
- Azure Security Center
- Azure Monitor (Correct answer)
- Azure Service Health
- Azure Advisor
Correct answer: Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from Azure and on-premises environments, providing metrics, logs (Log Analytics), and alerts.
Question 2: What does Azure Log Analytics provide in the context of Azure Monitor?
- Real-time performance dashboards
- A log data store with Kusto Query Language (KQL) for querying and analyzing collected logs (Correct answer)
- Network packet capture
- Automated remediation runbooks
Correct answer: A log data store with Kusto Query Language (KQL) for querying and analyzing collected logs
Log Analytics is the Azure Monitor workspace that stores log data and allows querying with KQL to gain insights across resources.
Question 3: Which Azure Monitor feature allows you to define an alert when a metric crosses a threshold, such as CPU > 90% for 5 minutes?
- Activity Log Alerts
- Metric Alerts (Correct answer)
- Log Search Alerts
- Smart Detection
Correct answer: Metric Alerts
Azure Monitor Metric Alerts evaluate metric signals at regular intervals and fire when the metric crosses the defined threshold for the specified period.
Question 4: What is the purpose of Azure Workbooks in Azure Monitor?
- Schedule automated tasks
- Create rich, interactive visual reports combining metrics, logs, and parameters (Correct answer)
- Manage alert rules
- Configure diagnostic settings
Correct answer: Create rich, interactive visual reports combining metrics, logs, and parameters
Azure Workbooks provide a flexible canvas for combining data from multiple Azure Monitor sources into interactive reports with visualizations and parameterized filters.
Question 5: Which Azure service provides insights into the planned maintenance and service incidents that may impact your Azure resources?
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Service Health (Correct answer)
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Policy
Correct answer: Azure Service Health
Azure Service Health tracks active incidents, planned maintenance, and health advisories for Azure services in your subscriptions and regions.
Question 6: What does Azure Advisor provide?
- Real-time threat detection
- Personalized best practice recommendations for cost, reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence (Correct answer)
- Log query interface
- Automated policy enforcement
Correct answer: Personalized best practice recommendations for cost, reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence
Azure Advisor analyzes your resource configurations and usage and provides prioritized recommendations across five pillars to optimize your Azure environment.
AZ-300 Azure Monitoring & Management 1
Which Azure service aggregates metrics, logs, and traces from Azure and hybrid resources into a central platform for monitoring and alerting?