Microsoft Certification Azure Administrator (AZ-104) 2

Question 1

What is an Azure Availability Set designed to protect against?

Accepted Answer

Hardware failures and planned maintenance within a single datacenter

Answer

Availability Sets spread VMs across fault domains and update domains to protect against hardware failures and scheduled maintenance in a single datacenter.

Question 2

Which Azure storage tier is most cost-effective for data that is rarely accessed and can tolerate higher retrieval latency?

Accepted Answer

Archive tier

Answer

The Archive tier offers the lowest storage cost for data that is rarely accessed, but retrieval can take hours as data must be rehydrated first.

Question 3

What does Azure Network Security Group (NSG) control?

Accepted Answer

Inbound and outbound network traffic rules for Azure resources

Answer

NSGs contain security rules that allow or deny network traffic to and from Azure resources based on source, destination, port, and protocol.

Question 4

Which Azure service provides DNS hosting for domain names and enables low-latency DNS resolution using Microsoft's global network?

Accepted Answer

Azure DNS

Answer

Azure DNS hosts DNS zones on Azure's global infrastructure, providing high availability and fast DNS resolution using Microsoft's anycast network.

Question 5

What is the purpose of Azure Bastion?

Accepted Answer

Providing secure RDP/SSH connectivity to VMs without exposing public IP addresses

Answer

Azure Bastion provides browser-based RDP and SSH access to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal, without requiring a public IP on the VM.

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Microsoft Certification Azure Administrator (AZ-104) 2