AZ-400 Monitoring and Feedback 5

Question 1

Which Azure Monitor alert type is best suited to trigger when a specific event appears in an Azure Activity Log, such as a VM being deallocated?

Accepted Answer

Activity log alert

Answer

Activity log alerts monitor the Azure control plane and fire when specific administrative or service health events are recorded in the Activity Log.

Question 2

In Application Insights, what is 'Application Map' primarily used for?

Accepted Answer

Visualizing dependencies and call relationships between application components

Answer

Application Map provides a visual topology of all components and their dependencies, highlighting failure rates and latency between services.

Question 3

A team wants to automatically create an Azure DevOps bug when an Application Insights smart detection rule identifies a performance degradation. What is the recommended integration mechanism?

Accepted Answer

Configuring an Action Group with an Azure DevOps work item action

Answer

Action Groups support an Azure DevOps work item action that automatically creates bugs or other work item types when an alert or smart detection rule fires.

Question 4

Which Azure DevOps Analytics widget shows the team's historical sprint-over-sprint delivery throughput to aid in future sprint planning?

Accepted Answer

Velocity

Answer

The Velocity widget tracks completed work (story points or item count) per sprint over time, giving teams a baseline for forecasting future sprint capacity.

Question 5

What is the difference between 'availability tests' and 'synthetic monitoring' in Application Insights?

Accepted Answer

Availability tests are a type of synthetic monitoring that pings URLs or runs multi-step web tests

Answer

Availability tests in Application Insights are a form of synthetic monitoring that proactively sends requests to your endpoints from distributed worldwide locations.

AZ-400 Practice Test

AZ-400 Practice Test

AZ-400 Monitoring and Feedback 5