AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Azure Basic 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is an Azure Resource Group?
- A physical datacenter that hosts Azure hardware
- A logical container used to organize and manage related Azure resources (Correct answer)
- A billing account that controls Azure spending limits
- A virtual network segment that isolates resources by region
Correct answer: A logical container used to organize and manage related Azure resources
A Resource Group is a logical container in Azure that holds related resources for a solution, allowing you to manage, monitor, and control access to those resources as a single unit.
Question 2: Which Azure pricing model requires no upfront commitment and charges only for the compute resources consumed during actual use?
- Reserved Instances
- Pay-as-you-go (Correct answer)
- Spot Pricing
- Enterprise Agreement
Correct answer: Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go charges you only for the services you use, billed monthly with no upfront costs or long-term contracts, making it the most flexible option for getting started.
Question 3: Which Azure service provides cloud-based identity and access management, enabling single sign-on to Microsoft cloud applications and other third-party services?
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Active Directory (Correct answer)
- Azure Security Center
- Azure Policy
Correct answer: Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that lets employees sign in and access resources, supporting single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and conditional access.
Question 4: Which Azure tool allows you to estimate the monthly cost of Azure services before deploying any resources?
- Azure Cost Management
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Pricing Calculator (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Azure Pricing Calculator
The Azure Pricing Calculator is a web-based tool that lets you configure and estimate costs for Azure products before committing to any deployment, helping with budget planning.
Question 5: What is the minimum number of Availability Zones present in an Azure region that supports them?
- 1
- 2
- 3 (Correct answer)
- 5
Correct answer: 3
Azure regions that support Availability Zones always contain at least three physically separate zones within the region, ensuring that a failure in one zone does not affect the others and enabling high-availability deployments.
Question 6: Which Azure service lets you run containerized applications on-demand without provisioning or managing the underlying virtual machine infrastructure?
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Azure Container Instances (Correct answer)
- Azure Batch
Correct answer: Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is the fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure — it launches containers directly without requiring you to manage VMs or adopt a full orchestration platform.
AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Azure Basic 1
What is an Azure Resource Group?