Azure Monitoring and Governance Design Flashcards

Which Azure cost management feature allows you to set spending limits and receive alerts when costs approach or exceed a threshold?

Answer: Azure Budgets

Azure Budgets allow you to set spending thresholds and configure email alerts when actual or forecasted costs reach defined percentages, helping prevent unexpected overspending.

What is the purpose of Azure Management Groups in a large enterprise?

Answer: To apply policies and access controls hierarchically across multiple subscriptions

Management Groups provide a hierarchy above subscriptions where Azure Policy and RBAC assignments can be applied once and inherited by all subscriptions and resources in the hierarchy.

Which Azure Service Health feature provides personalized alerts about service outages that specifically impact your Azure resources and subscriptions?

Answer: Service Health Alerts

Service Health Alerts send notifications about Azure service incidents, planned maintenance, and health advisories that affect the specific subscriptions and regions your resources use.

An architect needs to ensure that all Azure resources across an enterprise have required tags (e.g., CostCenter, Owner). Which policy effect automatically adds missing tags?

Answer: Modify

The Modify effect in Azure Policy can add, update, or remove resource tags on existing and newly created resources, enabling automated tag governance across the environment.

Which Azure feature integrates security signals from multiple Azure services into a single pane, enabling security analysts to detect, investigate, and respond to threats?

Answer: Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM/SOAR platform that ingests security signals from Azure, on-premises, and third-party sources for unified threat detection and automated response.

Which Azure Monitor component automatically detects performance anomalies in web applications using machine learning without requiring manual threshold configuration?

Answer: Application Insights Smart Detection

Application Insights Smart Detection uses machine learning to proactively detect unusual patterns in failure rates, response times, and dependency failures without manually setting thresholds.