MTA Cloud Fundamentals 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the purpose of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)?
- Managing on-premises file servers
- Providing cloud-based identity and access management (Correct answer)
- Hosting virtual machines
- Managing network security groups
Correct answer: Providing cloud-based identity and access management
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, enabling users to sign in and access Microsoft 365, Azure, and thousands of SaaS applications.
Question 2: What does 'fault tolerance' mean in the context of cloud computing?
- The ability to add more servers quickly
- The ability to continue operating correctly even when components fail (Correct answer)
- The speed at which data is processed
- The geographic spread of cloud regions
Correct answer: The ability to continue operating correctly even when components fail
Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to continue functioning correctly and without interruption even when one or more of its components fail.
Question 3: Which cloud computing concept ensures that resources are shared among multiple customers on the same physical hardware?
- Dedicated hosting
- Multi-tenancy (Correct answer)
- Single-tenancy
- Bare-metal provisioning
Correct answer: Multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy is a cloud architecture where a single physical infrastructure serves multiple customers simultaneously, with logical isolation keeping their data separate.
Question 4: What Azure feature allows you to estimate monthly costs before deploying resources?
- Azure Cost Management
- Azure Pricing Calculator (Correct answer)
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Monitor
Correct answer: Azure Pricing Calculator
The Azure Pricing Calculator lets you estimate monthly costs by selecting services, regions, and configurations before you commit to deploying resources.
Question 5: What is the Shared Responsibility Model in cloud security?
- Customers are responsible for all security
- The cloud provider handles all security
- Security responsibilities are divided between the provider and the customer based on service model (Correct answer)
- Security is only the responsibility of third-party vendors
Correct answer: Security responsibilities are divided between the provider and the customer based on service model
The Shared Responsibility Model divides security duties: the provider secures the infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for data, access management, and application security.
Question 6: Which Azure service provides globally distributed caching to speed up content delivery to users?
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure CDN (Correct answer)
- Azure Traffic Manager
- Azure Load Balancer
Correct answer: Azure CDN
Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) caches content at edge nodes globally, reducing latency by serving users from a location closer to them.
MTA Cloud Fundamentals 3
What is the purpose of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)?