AZ-400 Monitoring and Feedback 4

Question 1

Which Azure Monitor component is specifically designed to monitor the health and performance of containerized workloads in AKS?

Accepted Answer

Container Insights

Answer

Container Insights (part of Azure Monitor) collects performance metrics and logs from AKS nodes, pods, and containers for container health monitoring.

Question 2

In Azure DevOps, what is the purpose of 'Release Gates' in a release pipeline?

Accepted Answer

Automatically evaluate pre/post-deployment conditions using external data sources

Answer

Release Gates query external systems (e.g., Azure Monitor alerts, REST APIs) and block or allow pipeline progression based on real-time conditions.

Question 3

A team uses Azure Monitor to track SLOs. Which feature allows them to define and visualize the percentage of time a service met its performance target?

Accepted Answer

SLO workbooks in Azure Monitor

Answer

Azure Monitor provides SLO workbook templates that calculate and display error budgets and compliance percentages against defined service-level objectives.

Question 4

Which distributed tracing concept links telemetry from multiple services into a single end-to-end request flow in Application Insights?

Accepted Answer

Operation ID / correlation ID

Answer

Application Insights propagates an operation ID (correlation ID) across service calls, allowing all telemetry for a single user request to be linked.

Question 5

What Azure service can be used to receive and process Azure Monitor alerts via a push-based event stream for custom automated remediation?

Accepted Answer

Azure Event Hubs

Answer

Azure Event Hubs can receive Azure Monitor diagnostic data and alerts as a high-throughput event stream for downstream processing and automated remediation.

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AZ-400 Monitoring and Feedback 4