Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Azure Messaging and Event-Driven Solutions

Question 1

What is the key difference between Azure Service Bus queues and Azure Storage queues?

Accepted Answer

Service Bus supports advanced messaging features like dead-lettering, sessions, and transactions

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Storage queues support larger messages

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Storage queues have lower latency

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Service Bus queues are free tier only

Question 2

In Azure Service Bus, what feature ensures that only one consumer processes a related group of messages in order?

Accepted Answer

Message sessions

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Dead-letter queue

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Message lock

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Topic subscriptions

Question 3

What is the default Time-to-Live (TTL) for messages in an Azure Service Bus queue?

Accepted Answer

It is set to TimeSpan.MaxValue (no expiry by default)

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1 hour

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1 day

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14 days

Question 4

Which Azure event service is best suited for high-throughput telemetry ingestion from IoT devices?

Accepted Answer

Azure Event Hubs

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Azure Event Grid

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Azure Service Bus

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Azure Notification Hubs

Question 5

What protocol does Azure Event Hubs use that is compatible with Apache Kafka producers and consumers?

Accepted Answer

Kafka Protocol (port 9093)

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AMQP 1.0

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MQTT

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HTTP/2

Question 6

In Azure Event Grid, what resource subscribes to events from a source and routes them to a handler endpoint?

Accepted Answer

Event subscription

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Event publisher

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Event domain

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Topic filter