MCSD Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the purpose of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)?
- Stores relational data
- Provides cloud-based identity and access management (Correct answer)
- Monitors application performance
- Manages virtual networks
Correct answer: Provides cloud-based identity and access management
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service for authenticating and authorizing users.
Question 2: Which Azure service provides a fully managed relational database with built-in high availability?
- Azure Table Storage
- Azure SQL Database (Correct answer)
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Data Lake
Correct answer: Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed PaaS relational database service built on SQL Server with built-in HA.
Question 3: What does Azure Redis Cache primarily help with?
- Storing raw files
- Improving application performance by caching frequently accessed data in memory (Correct answer)
- Sending notifications
- Running batch jobs
Correct answer: Improving application performance by caching frequently accessed data in memory
Azure Redis Cache stores frequently accessed data in memory to reduce latency and offload backend databases.
Question 4: Which deployment model hosts the application in Azure while the developer manages the OS and runtime?
- SaaS
- PaaS
- IaaS (Correct answer)
- FaaS
Correct answer: IaaS
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) gives the developer control over the OS, runtime, and middleware on Azure VMs.
Question 5: What is the primary use of Azure Key Vault?
- Running scheduled jobs
- Securely storing and managing secrets, keys, and certificates (Correct answer)
- Monitoring resource usage
- Managing user roles
Correct answer: Securely storing and managing secrets, keys, and certificates
Azure Key Vault centrally stores cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates to improve application security.
Question 6: Which Azure messaging service is best suited for fan-out (publish/subscribe) scenarios?
- Azure Queue Storage
- Azure Service Bus Topics (Correct answer)
- Azure Event Grid
- Azure Notification Hubs
Correct answer: Azure Service Bus Topics
Azure Service Bus Topics support publish/subscribe messaging, allowing one message to be delivered to multiple subscribers.
MCSD Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 2
What is the purpose of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)?