These are sample questions from the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Certification Exam. The bottom of the page contains explanations and correct answers.
Here’s the Quiz:
Which one of the following terms refers a service being available without any downtime for a prolonged period?a. Agilityb. Fault Tolerancec. High Availability
Which of the following can you use to manage governance across multiple Azure subscriptions. Azure Initiativesb. Management Groupsc. Resource Groups
Which one of the following is best suited for large amounts of unstructured data such as images and videos? Blobsb. Filesc. Queues
Which format does Azure Resource Manager template use?a. HTMLb. JSONc. JSONc.
Which of these could require both a password AND a security question to complete authentication? Azure Firewallb. Application Gatewayc. Multi-Factor Authentication
Which of the following allows you to grant users only the rights they need in order to do their jobs? Azure Policyb. Compliance Managerc. Compliance Managerc.
Which of the following is a definition of performance targets, such as uptime, for Azure products or services?a Service Level Agreementsb. Support Plansc. Use Meters
Which of the following offers Azure customers the chance to test the beta version and other pre-release features before they are released? General availabilityb. Private Previewc. Public Preview
You are running a virtual computer in a public cloud using IaaS. Which model accurately reflects how this resource is managed? Model of shared responsibilityb. Model for cloud user managementc. User management model
You are developing an application and want to concentrate on building, testing, deploying, and maintaining it. You don’t want to manage the underlying hardware and software. Which cloud service type is right for you? Infrastructure as a Service, (IaaS).b. Platform as a Service, (PaaS).c. Software as a Service, (SaaS).
After you have answered the questions, verify that they are correct. For the Azure fundamentals AZ900 exam, the passing rate is 70%.
Here are the right answers:
cExplanation – High availability ensures that the service is available for long periods of times with minimal downtime. This depends on the service being used.
bExplanation Management Groups allow for hierarchical organization of Azure resources into collections at a level that is higher than subscriptions. Azure Policy and Azure RBACs allow you to apply different governance conditions to each management group. This allows you to effectively manage Azure subscriptions. The conditions that apply to a management group are automatically applied to resources and subscriptions.
aExplanation: Blobs. Azure Blob storage, Microsoft’s cloud object storage solution, is what it does. Blob storage is designed to store large amounts of unstructured data such as binary or text data.
bExplanation JSON: Resource Manager templates JSON files that specify the resources you need for your solution. The template can be used to create multiple versions of your infrastructure such as production and staging.
cExplanation : Multi-Factor Authentication can require two or more elements to complete authentication.
cExplanation : Role-Based Access allows you to grant users only the rights that they need to do their job.
aExplanation: Service Level Agreements. The SLA is a set of performance targets for Azure products and services.
cExplanation. Public Preview means that all Azure customers can access a feature for evaluation purposes.
aExplanation. The correct answer is the shared responsibility model. The shared responsibility model shares the management of the resource between the cloud provider as well as the end-user. The cloud provider is responsible to provide cloud services infrastructure, while the end-user is responsible to configure and manage the service correctly.
bExplanation
