AZ-900 Azure Monitoring and Service Level Agreements 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What does Azure Monitor Log Analytics allow you to do?
- Write PowerShell scripts for Azure automation
- Query and analyze log data collected from Azure resources using Kusto Query Language (KQL) (Correct answer)
- Monitor user login activity in Azure Active Directory
- Generate ARM templates from existing resources
Correct answer: Query and analyze log data collected from Azure resources using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Log Analytics is a workspace-based service within Azure Monitor that uses KQL to query logs from virtual machines, applications, and Azure services.
Question 2: What is Azure Application Insights primarily used for?
- Monitoring Azure infrastructure like VMs and networks
- Application performance monitoring and detecting anomalies in live web applications (Correct answer)
- Storing application log files in blob storage
- Managing application deployments with CI/CD pipelines
Correct answer: Application performance monitoring and detecting anomalies in live web applications
Application Insights is an APM (Application Performance Management) feature of Azure Monitor that detects performance anomalies, tracks requests, dependencies, and exceptions in live apps.
Question 3: What type of alert can Azure Monitor send when a VM CPU exceeds 80% for 5 minutes?
- A Policy alert
- A Metric alert (Correct answer)
- A Log alert
- A Service Health alert
Correct answer: A Metric alert
Metric alerts in Azure Monitor trigger when a measured value (like CPU percentage) crosses a defined threshold over a specified time window.
Question 4: What is Azure Resource Health used for?
- Showing global Azure service outages
- Providing information about the health of your individual Azure resources (Correct answer)
- Generating cost reports for your subscription
- Testing network connectivity between Azure VMs
Correct answer: Providing information about the health of your individual Azure resources
Azure Resource Health diagnoses and provides support when an Azure issue impacts your specific resources, distinguishing between Azure platform problems and your own configuration issues.
Question 5: Which Azure SLA concept describes the credits Microsoft provides if uptime falls below the guaranteed percentage?
- Service credit (Correct answer)
- Refund policy
- Cost reimbursement
- Penalty clause
Correct answer: Service credit
Azure SLAs include service credits — percentage discounts on your Azure bill — that Microsoft issues when monthly uptime falls below the guaranteed SLA threshold.
Question 6: What is the SLA for a single Azure VM using Premium SSD storage?
- 99.5%
- 99.9%
- 99.95% (Correct answer)
- 99.99%
Correct answer: 99.95%
A single Azure VM using Premium SSD managed disks is backed by a 99.95% SLA for virtual machine connectivity.
AZ-900 Azure Monitoring and Service Level Agreements 2
What does Azure Monitor Log Analytics allow you to do?