Microsoft Certification Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)

Question 1

Which Azure service allows you to run event-driven code without managing server infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Azure Functions

Answer

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that runs code in response to triggers without requiring server provisioning or management.

Question 2

What is the purpose of the Azure App Service Plan?

Accepted Answer

Defines the region, features, and compute resources for hosting App Service apps

Answer

An App Service Plan specifies the compute resources (size, OS) and region that your App Service web apps, API apps, or function apps run on.

Question 3

Which Azure Cosmos DB consistency level provides the strongest consistency guarantees?

Accepted Answer

Strong

Answer

Strong consistency in Cosmos DB guarantees that reads always return the most recently committed write, but comes with higher latency and lower availability.

Question 4

What is the primary use case for Azure Service Bus?

Accepted Answer

Reliable messaging between decoupled applications and services

Answer

Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker that decouples applications with queues and publish/subscribe topics.

Question 5

Which HTTP status code does Azure API Management return when a request exceeds a rate limit policy?

Accepted Answer

429 Too Many Requests

Answer

When a rate limit is exceeded in Azure API Management, it returns HTTP 429 Too Many Requests to inform the caller to slow down.

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Microsoft Certification Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)