Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Study Guide 2026
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📋 Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Exam Format at a Glance
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✍️ Sample Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Questions & Answers
1. To pull a container image from Azure Container Registry into an App Service Web App, which identity type is recommended?
A system-assigned managed identity on the App Service eliminates stored credentials and grants ACR pull permissions via RBAC.
2. Which consistency level in Azure Cosmos DB provides the strongest consistency guarantee?
Strong consistency ensures linearizability, meaning reads always return the most recent committed version of an item.
3. What is the recommended approach for rotating a Key Vault secret used by an Azure Function without downtime?
Using the `latest` version URI in Key Vault references lets App Service/Functions automatically pick up the new secret version without restarts.
4. Which Azure Service Bus class in the .NET SDK is used to send and receive messages in the modern (`Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus`) package?
The modern SDK uses `ServiceBusClient` to create `ServiceBusSender` and `ServiceBusReceiver` instances, replacing the legacy `QueueClient`.
5. What is the default maximum execution timeout for an Azure Function running on the Consumption plan?
On the Consumption plan, Azure Functions default to a 5-minute timeout but the maximum allowed is 10 minutes.
6. Which partition key choice would result in the BEST throughput distribution in a Cosmos DB container storing IoT sensor readings?
Using deviceId distributes data evenly across logical partitions since each device generates a unique stream of readings, avoiding hot partitions.