Practice for the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) exam with 16 exam-style practice questions, instant answer reveals, and concise explanations of every correct answer. Topics include: If you wanted to get an alert every time a new virtual machine is created, where could you create that?. Follow @CertPunch and visit certpunch.com for more certification practice exams and study content.
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What you will practice
- If you wanted to get an alert every time a new virtual machine is created, where could you create that?
- How do you stop your Azure account from incurring costs above a certain level without your knowledge?
- What happens if Azure does not meet its own Service Level Agreement guarantee (SLA)?
- How many hours are available free when using the Azure B1S General Purpose Virtual Machines under a Azure fre…
- What does the letter R in RBAC stand for?
- Which feature within Azure alerts you to service issues that happen in Azure itself, not specifically related…
Answers and explanations
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Q1. If you wanted to get an alert every time a new virtual machine is created, where could you create that?
Answer: B. Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry from your environment, letting you set alerts for specific actions like virtual machine creation. Azure Policy enforces compliance rules, but it is not the native alerting tool.
Q2. How do you stop your Azure account from incurring costs above a certain level without your knowledge?
Answer: B. Implement the Azure spending limit in the Account Center
Spending limits suspend your subscription when you hit the cap, preventing surprise overages. Billing alerts are great for notifications, but they do not automatically stop services from running once the threshold is reached.
Q3. What happens if Azure does not meet its own Service Level Agreement guarantee (SLA)?
Answer: B. You will be financially refunded a small amount of your monthly fee
If Azure fails to meet its Service Level Agreement, you receive service credits as a small financial refund. The exact refund percentage varies depending on the specific service and the severity of the outage.
Q4. How many hours are available free when using the Azure B1S General Purpose Virtual Machines under a Azure free account in the first 12 months?
Answer: C. 750 hrs
The free account provides exactly 750 hours of B1S virtual machine usage per month for the first year. This hour allotment allows you to run a single instance continuously throughout the entire month.
Q5. What does the letter R in RBAC stand for?
Answer: C. Role
The acronym RBAC stands for role-based access control. For the exam, remember that RBAC manages access to Azure resources through role assignments rather than individual user rules or blanket permissions.
Q6. Which feature within Azure alerts you to service issues that happen in Azure itself, not specifically related to your own resources?
Answer: B. Azure Service Health
Azure Service Health alerts you to issues affecting Azure itself, such as regional outages. Azure Monitor is a strong distractor, but it focuses strictly on metrics and logs for your specific resources.
Q7. What operating systems does an Azure Virtual Machine support?
Answer: E. Windows and Linux
Azure Virtual Machines support both Windows and Linux operating systems. macOS is not supported as a host operating system, so options including it can be eliminated immediately on the exam.
Q8. What data format are ARM templates created in?
Answer: D. JSON
ARM templates are written in JSON, allowing declarative infrastructure deployment. While YAML is used for other deployment methods like pipelines or Bicep serialization, standard ARM templates specifically rely on JSON.
Q9. True or false: If your feature is in the General Availability phase, then your feature will receive support from all Microsoft support channels.
Answer: A. TRUE
Features in general availability are fully supported by Microsoft support channels and include service level agreements. Preview features lack full support, so they should never be used in critical production environments.
Q10. How does Multi-Factor Authentication make a system more secure?
Answer: D. It requires the user to have access to their verified phone in order to log in
Multi-factor authentication increases security by requiring an additional verification factor, such as a code sent to a verified phone. This layered approach stops unauthorized access even if a primary password gets compromised by an attacker.
Q11. What type of documents does the Microsoft Service Trust Portal provide?
Answer: B. A list of standards that Microsoft follows, pen test results, security assessments, white papers, faqs, and other documents that can be used to show Microsoft's compliance efforts
The Service Trust Portal provides compliance documentation such as audit reports, white papers, and penetration tests. Do not confuse this with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, which provides actionable recommendations about your own specific Azure usage and resource configurations.
Q12. With Azure public cloud, anyone with a valid credit card can sign up and get services immediately.
Answer: A. TRUE
The Azure public cloud is universally accessible, allowing anyone to sign up with a valid credit card and deploy services immediately. This open availability contrasts directly with private clouds, which restrict access to a single organization's internal users.
Q13. What is the service level agreement for two or more Azure Virtual Machines that have been placed into the same Availability Set in the same region?
Answer: B. 99.95%
Two or more virtual machines placed in the same Availability Set are protected against localized hardware failures and provide a 99.95 percent uptime guarantee. For the exam, associate 99.99 percent specifically with Availability Zones, which rely on separate physical datacenters.
Q14. Which of the following are one of the advantages of running your cloud in a private cloud?
Answer: C. Assurance that your code, data and applications are running on isolated hardware, and on an isolated network.
A private cloud provides isolation by running your workloads on dedicated hardware and networks. It is generally more expensive than the public cloud, making the cheaper cost option an incorrect distractor.
Q15. What are resource groups?
Answer: A. A folder structure in Azure in which you organize resources like databases, virtual machines, virtual networks, or almost any resource
Resource groups act as logical containers to organize and manage related resources like databases and virtual machines. They are not automatically generated by type, nor are they security groups used for user permissions.
Q16. Which of the following is a key benefit of using cloud services like Microsoft Azure?
Answer: A. Reduced upfront capital expenditure (CapEx) by paying only for what you use.
Using cloud services reduces upfront capital expenditure by shifting to a pay-as-you-go model. Fixed costs are a strong distractor, but cloud pricing intentionally varies based on actual service consumption.
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