MCP Cloud Computing & Azure Services 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is Azure App Service primarily used for?
- Hosting virtual desktop environments
- Building and hosting web apps, REST APIs, and mobile back ends (Correct answer)
- Managing DNS and domain registration
- Creating machine learning models
Correct answer: Building and hosting web apps, REST APIs, and mobile back ends
Azure App Service is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends with built-in auto-scaling and high availability.
Question 2: Which Azure networking service distributes incoming traffic across multiple backend resources to increase availability?
- Azure VPN Gateway
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure Load Balancer (Correct answer)
- Azure Firewall
Correct answer: Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer operates at Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) and distributes inbound traffic among healthy backend pool instances to improve availability and scalability.
Question 3: Which Azure service provides a private, dedicated connection from an on-premises network to Azure, bypassing the public internet?
- Azure VPN Gateway
- Azure ExpressRoute (Correct answer)
- Azure Traffic Manager
- Azure CDN
Correct answer: Azure ExpressRoute
Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider, not over the public internet.
Question 4: What is the primary role of Azure Monitor?
- Deploying virtual machines automatically
- Collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments (Correct answer)
- Managing user identities and permissions
- Providing content delivery at scale
Correct answer: Collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments
Azure Monitor collects metrics and logs from Azure resources, analyzes data, and enables you to set alerts, create dashboards, and trigger automated actions.
Question 5: Which Azure service is a globally distributed, multi-model database service designed for low-latency and high-availability applications?
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure Cache for Redis
- Azure Cosmos DB (Correct answer)
- Azure Synapse Analytics
Correct answer: Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database service that guarantees single-digit millisecond response times and 99.999% availability.
Question 6: What does Azure Backup protect against in a cloud environment?
- DDoS attacks on virtual machines
- Data loss by providing cloud-based backup and recovery for Azure and on-premises workloads (Correct answer)
- Unauthorized API access
- Network latency issues
Correct answer: Data loss by providing cloud-based backup and recovery for Azure and on-premises workloads
Azure Backup provides simple, secure, and cost-effective cloud-based backup and recovery solutions for Azure VMs, SQL databases, and on-premises workloads.
Question 7: Which Azure service accelerates content delivery to global users by caching content at edge nodes close to end users?
- Azure Traffic Manager
- Azure Front Door
- Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) (Correct answer)
- Azure Application Gateway
Correct answer: Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network)
Azure CDN caches static content at strategically placed physical nodes around the world, reducing latency and improving performance for global users.
MCP Cloud Computing & Azure Services 2
What is Azure App Service primarily used for?