Microsoft Certification Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is Azure Blob Storage primarily used for?
- Running virtual machines
- Storing large amounts of unstructured data like images and videos (Correct answer)
- Managing SQL databases
- Hosting web applications
Correct answer: Storing large amounts of unstructured data like images and videos
Azure Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, backups, and log files.
Question 2: What does Azure Monitor primarily do?
- Manages Azure billing
- Collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from Azure resources (Correct answer)
- Provisions virtual machines
- Manages DNS records
Correct answer: Collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from Azure resources
Azure Monitor collects metrics and logs from Azure resources and applications to help detect and diagnose issues and understand performance.
Question 3: What is the difference between Azure Scale Sets and standard VMs?
- Scale Sets cannot run Windows
- Scale Sets allow you to deploy and manage a group of identical VMs that autoscale (Correct answer)
- Standard VMs support autoscaling by default
- Scale Sets are only for Linux workloads
Correct answer: Scale Sets allow you to deploy and manage a group of identical VMs that autoscale
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create and manage a group of load-balanced, identical VMs that automatically scale based on demand.
Question 4: What is Azure Policy used for?
- Creating virtual networks
- Enforcing organizational standards and assessing compliance of Azure resources (Correct answer)
- Managing Azure billing accounts
- Configuring Azure AD roles
Correct answer: Enforcing organizational standards and assessing compliance of Azure resources
Azure Policy helps organizations enforce governance rules and compliance standards across Azure resources at scale.
Question 5: Which Azure storage tier is most cost-effective for infrequently accessed data?
- Hot tier
- Cool tier
- Archive tier (Correct answer)
- Premium tier
Correct answer: Archive tier
The Archive tier in Azure Blob Storage is the lowest-cost option, designed for rarely accessed data with high retrieval latency.
Question 6: What does Azure Load Balancer do?
- Encrypts data in transit
- Distributes inbound network traffic across multiple backend VMs (Correct answer)
- Creates private DNS zones
- Manages Azure subscriptions
Correct answer: Distributes inbound network traffic across multiple backend VMs
Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming network traffic across healthy VMs in a backend pool to ensure high availability and reliability.
Microsoft Certification Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) 2
What is Azure Blob Storage primarily used for?