Microsoft Azure Certification Flashcards
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What is the AZ-900 exam primarily designed to test?
Answer: Foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and Azure services without requiring technical experience
AZ-900 (Microsoft Azure Fundamentals) is an entry-level exam that validates foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and Azure services. It is intended for non-technical business roles and those beginning their Azure journey.
Which of the following is an example of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering in Azure?
Answer: Azure App Service
Azure App Service is a PaaS offering — you deploy and run web applications without managing the underlying infrastructure (OS, runtime patching). Microsoft handles the platform.
What concept describes distributing workloads and data across multiple Azure regions to protect against regional outages?
Answer: Geo-redundancy
Geo-redundancy involves replicating data or deploying services across multiple geographically separated Azure regions, ensuring continuity if an entire region experiences an outage.
Which Azure cost management feature allows you to set spending limits and receive alerts when costs approach or exceed a defined threshold?
Answer: Azure Budgets
Azure Budgets allow you to set cost or usage thresholds and configure alert notifications when spending reaches defined percentages of the budget.
In Azure, what is the role of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)?
Answer: To grant users only the permissions they need to perform their job roles, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access
RBAC allows you to assign specific permissions to users, groups, or service principals based on their role, following the principle of least privilege to minimize security risk.
What Azure feature provides a hierarchical structure to organize multiple Azure subscriptions under a single management boundary?
Answer: Management Groups
Management Groups allow you to organize multiple Azure subscriptions into a hierarchy, enabling you to apply governance policies, RBAC, and budgets across all subscriptions in the group.