AZ-900 Azure Compute and Networking 2

Question 1

Which Azure compute option lets you run code without managing any underlying infrastructure, billed only for execution time?

Accepted Answer

Azure Functions

Answer

Azure Functions is a serverless service that runs event-driven code and bills based on executions and resource consumption.

Question 2

What is the primary benefit of an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set?

Accepted Answer

Automatically scaling identical VMs in or out based on demand

Answer

VM Scale Sets let you deploy and manage a group of load-balanced, identical VMs that automatically scale with demand.

Question 3

Which service provides a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration platform in Azure?

Accepted Answer

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Answer

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed service that simplifies deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters.

Question 4

A company wants to host a web app without managing servers or operating systems. Which service is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Azure App Service

Answer

Azure App Service is a platform-as-a-service offering for hosting web apps without managing the underlying OS or servers.

Question 5

What does an Azure availability zone protect an application against?

Accepted Answer

Failure of a single datacenter within a region

Answer

Availability zones are physically separate datacenters within a region, protecting against datacenter-level failures.

AZ-900 Practice Test