MCSD Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which Azure service is used to run event-driven, serverless code without managing infrastructure?
- Azure App Service
- Azure Functions (Correct answer)
- Azure Logic Apps
- Azure Batch
Correct answer: Azure Functions
Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that executes code in response to triggers without managing servers.
Question 2: What is Azure Blob Storage primarily used for?
- Relational database storage
- Storing unstructured data like images, videos, and documents (Correct answer)
- Running virtual machines
- Hosting web applications
Correct answer: Storing unstructured data like images, videos, and documents
Azure Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data such as files, images, and media.
Question 3: Which Azure storage table characteristic makes it a NoSQL service?
- It supports stored procedures
- It stores data as schema-less key-value pairs (Correct answer)
- It requires foreign keys
- It uses SQL joins
Correct answer: It stores data as schema-less key-value pairs
Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL service that stores data as schema-less key-value pairs, allowing flexible entity structures.
Question 4: What does Azure Service Bus provide?
- Block-level storage
- Reliable cloud messaging between distributed applications (Correct answer)
- Virtual networking
- DNS resolution
Correct answer: Reliable cloud messaging between distributed applications
Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise messaging service for decoupling applications using queues and topics.
Question 5: Which Azure feature automatically scales resources based on demand?
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Autoscale (Correct answer)
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Policy
Correct answer: Azure Autoscale
Azure Autoscale automatically adjusts the number of compute resources based on metrics like CPU usage or request count.
Question 6: What is an Azure Resource Group?
- A billing account
- A logical container for related Azure resources with a shared lifecycle (Correct answer)
- A virtual network segment
- A role-based access policy
Correct answer: A logical container for related Azure resources with a shared lifecycle
An Azure Resource Group is a logical container that holds related Azure resources that share the same lifecycle and permissions.
Which Azure service is used to run event-driven, serverless code without managing infrastructure?