AZ-900 Basic 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Azure service category does Azure SQL Database belong to?
- IaaS
- PaaS (Correct answer)
- SaaS
- On-premises
Correct answer: PaaS
Azure SQL Database is a managed PaaS offering where Microsoft handles the underlying infrastructure.
Question 2: What is the smallest grouping that contains Azure resources for management?
- Subscription
- Resource group (Correct answer)
- Management group
- Region
Correct answer: Resource group
A resource group is a logical container that holds related Azure resources.
Question 3: What is an Azure 'region'?
- A single physical server
- A geographic area containing one or more datacenters (Correct answer)
- A billing account
- A user role
Correct answer: A geographic area containing one or more datacenters
An Azure region is a geographic area that contains one or more datacenters.
Question 4: What do Availability Zones protect against?
- Software bugs
- Datacenter-level failures within a region (Correct answer)
- User password loss
- API rate limits
Correct answer: Datacenter-level failures within a region
Availability Zones are physically separate datacenters within a region that protect against datacenter failures.
Question 5: Which Azure scope is used to organize multiple subscriptions together?
- Resource group
- Management group (Correct answer)
- Tag
- Region pair
Correct answer: Management group
Management groups let you organize and govern multiple subscriptions together.
Question 6: What is the main purpose of an Azure subscription?
- To define network speed
- To provide a billing and access boundary for resources (Correct answer)
- To store backups
- To encrypt data
Correct answer: To provide a billing and access boundary for resources
A subscription is a logical unit that links resources to billing and access management.
Question 7: Which compute option lets you run code without managing servers?
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Functions (Correct answer)
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure DNS
Correct answer: Azure Functions
Azure Functions is a serverless service that runs code without provisioning servers.
AZ-900 Basic 3
Which Azure service category does Azure SQL Database belong to?