AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam, part1

What is the name of Azure's hosted SQL database service?. Azure Sql Database. Table Storage. Sql Server in a vm. Cosmos db.

Which Azure Service contains pre-built machine learning models that you can use in your own code, using an API?. App Service. Azure Blueprint. Azure Functions. Cognitive Service.

True or False: Azure is a public cloud, and has no private cloud offerings. True. False.

Who is responsible for the security of the physical servers in an Azure data center?. I am responsible for securing the physical datacenter. Azure is responsible for physical security of datacenters.

What Azure tool gives you the ability to manage multiple subscriptions into nested hierarchies?. RBAC. Management group. Resource Group. Azure Active directory.

Which of the following is a feature of the cool access tier for Azure Storage?. Cheapest option when it comes to bandwitch cost to access your files. Much cheaper to store your files than the hot access tier. Most expensive option when it comes to bandwitch cost to access your files. Significant delay in accessing your data, up to several hourse.

What is Single Sign-On?. When an application outsources (federates) it´s identity service to a third-party platform. The ability to use an existing user id and password to sign in other applications, and not have to create/memorize a new one. When you sign in to a application, it remembers who you are the next time you go there.

What hardware device is required to exist or be installed on your company network in order to set up a site-to-site VPN?. VPN gateway. Virtual Network. Application Gateway. Virtual Machine.

True or false: you can create your own policies if built-in Azure Policy is not sufficient to your needs. True. False.

Outlook 365 is what type of hosting model?. IaaS. PaaS. SaaS.

Which feature of Azure Active Directory will require users to have their mobile phone in order to be able to log in?. Azure information protection (AIP). Azure Security center. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Advance threat protection (ATP).

If you wanted to simply use Azure as an extension of your own datacenter, not primarily hosting anything there but using it for extra storage or taking advantage of some services, what hosting model is that called?. Private Cloud. Hybrid Cloud. Public Cloud.

Which Azure service is meant to be a security dashboard that contains all the security and threat protection in one place?. Azure Security center. Azure Monitor. Azure Portal Dashboard. Azure Key vault.

What is the most number of virtual machines that can me managed under a single Virtual Machine Scale Set?. 1000. 1. 100. 10.

Which of the following is something that Azure Cognitive Services API can currently do?. All of these, azure can do it all. Create text from audio. Speak text in a extremely realistic way. Recognize text in a image. Recognize face in a image. Translate text from one language to another.

Which Azure feature is specifically designed to help companies get their in-house developed code from the code repository, through automated unit testing, and onto Azure using a service called Pipelines?. GitHub. Azure Monitor. Azure DevOps. Virtual Machines.

Which ways does the Azure Resource Manager model provide to deploy resources?. PowerShell. CLI. Azure Portal. Rest API / SDK. All of those ways can be used to deploy or manage resources using ARM.

Logic apps, functions, and service fabric are all examples of what model of compute within Azure?. IaaS Model. Serverless Model. App Services Model. SaaS Model.

What is the MAIN management tool used for managing Azure resources with a graphical user interface?. PowerShell. Azure Storage Explorer. Remote desktop protocol (RDP). Azure Portal.

What types of resources are defined as "compute resources"?. All resources that are listed in the azure marketplace. Only virtual machines. Resources that perform some type of task that requires CPU cycles to perform the work.

Your organization has implemented an Azure Policy that restricts the type of Virtual Machine instances you can use. How can you create a VM that is blocked by the policy?. The only way is to remove the policy, create the resource and add the policy back. Use an account that has contributor or above permissions to the resource group. Subscription Owner (Administrators) can create resources regardless of what the policy restricts.

What is the name of the group of services inside Azure that hosts the Apache Hadoop big data analysis tools?. Azure Kubernetes Services. Azure hadoop Services. HDinsight. Azure Data Factory.

Which of the following methods of deploying a virtual machine provides the highest availability SLA?. Two or more virtual machines in a avaliability set. Two or more Virtual machines across avaliability zones in the same region. Two or more virtual machines in a data center. A single Vm.

An IT administrator has the requirement to control access to a specific app resource using multi-factor authentication. What Azure service satisfies this requirement?. Azure Authorization. Azure Function. Azure Authentication. Azure AD.

Which tool within Azure helps you to track your compliance with various international standards and government laws?. Microsoft privace statement. Compliance manager. Service Trust Portal. Azure Government Services.

What are Azure Availability Zones?. A feature of azure that allows you to manualy specify into which data center your virtual machines are placed, which allows you to achieve higher avaliability than any other option. This is the same as a region. A folder structure in azure which you organize resources like databases, virtual machines, virtual networks, or almost any resources. Within each individual datacenter, certain rack or servers have been architected by azure to have higher uptime than others. If you place your apps into this rack, you 'll get higher uptime than if you let azure do it.

What type of container is used to collect log and metric data from various Azure Resources?. Append blob storage. Log analytics workspace. Azure Monitor account. Managed storage.

Which of the following Azure features is most likely to deliver the most immediate savings when it comes to reducing Azure costs?. Using Azure reserved instances for most of your virtual machines. Changing your storage accounts from globally redundant (GRS) to locally redundant (LRS). Auto shutdown of development and QA servers over night and on the weekends. Using Azure Policy to restrict the user of expensive VM SKUs.

True or false: Formal support is not included in private preview mode. False. True.

What is Azure's preferred Identity/authentication service?. Azure active directory. Live connect. Facebook connect. Network security group.

A virtual machine is called what type of hosting model?. IaaS. PaaS. SaaS.

Who is responsible for the security of your Azure Storage account access keys?. Azure is responsible for securing the access key. I am responsible for securing the access key.

What is the basic way of protecting an Azure Virtual Network subnet?. Azure DDOS standard protection. Network security Group. Azure Firewall. Application gateway with WAF.

Which Azure website tool is available for you to estimate the future costs of your Azure products and services by adding products to a shopping basket and helping you calculate the costs?. Azure pricing calculator. Microsoft docs. Azure Advisor.

Can you give someone else access to your Azure subscription without giving them your user name and password?. No. Yes.

What is a DDoS attack?. An attempt to guess a user's password throught brute force methods. An attempt to send SQL commands to the server in a way that it will execute them against the database. A denial of service attack that sends to much traffic to a network that it cannot respond fast enogh; legitimate users become unable to use the service. An attempt to read the content of a web page from another website, thereby stealing the user's private information.

What is the default amount of credits that you are given when you first create an Azure Free account?. Azure does not give you any free credits when you create a free account. The default is USD 200. You are given $50 per month, for one year towards azure service. You can create 1 linux VM, 1 window VM, and a number of other free services for the first year.

True or False: Azure still has some responsibilities to manage the hardware even in the Infrastructure as a Service model. True. False.

True or false: there are no service level guarantees (SLA) when a service is in General Availability (GA). True. False.

Which major cloud provider offers the most international locations for customers to provision virtual machines and other servers?. Amazon AWS. Google cloud platform. Microsoft azure.

True or false: You cannot have more than one Azure subscription per company. True. False.

What service does Azure provide as an optional upgrade to protect against DDoS attacks?. Azure protect against DDOS as part of it's basic offering and there is no service you can upgrade to. Advance threat protection (ATP). Azure DDOS protection Standard. Azure DDOS protection basic.

What benefit does a Content Delivery Network (CDN) provide its users?. Allows you to reduce traffic comming into a web server for static, unchanging file such as images, videos and PDFs. Allows you to store data that can be retrieved later in an extremely fast and inexpensive manner. Allows you to keep temporarily session information on the web visitor such as their login ID or their name. For a small fee, Azure will take over management of your virtual machine, perform OS update and ensure it's running well.

What makes a system highly available?. It's not possible to make a highly avaliable system. A system specifically to be resilient, with no single point of failures. Must have a minimum of two VMs. If it maintains 100% avaliability.

What feature within Azure will make recommendations to you about reducing cost on your account?. Azure service health. Azure advisor. Azure security center. Azure Dashboard.

Which feature within Azure collects all of the logs from various resources into a central dashboard, where you can run queries, view graphs, and create alerts on certain events?. Azure monitor. Azure security center. Storage account of event hub. Azure portal Dashboard.

Azure Services can go through several phases in a Service Lifecycle. What are the three phases called?. Development phase, QA phase, and Live phase. Private preview, public preview, and general avaliability. Announced, comming soon, and live. Preview phase , general avaliability phase, and unpublished.

What feature of a system makes it elastic?. The ability to stay up (Avaliable) while updates are being made to the system. The ability to withstand denial of service attacks. The ability to increase and reduce capacity based on actual demand. The ability to heal itself after crash.

Why would someone prefer a Consumption-based pricing model as opposed to a Time-based pricing model?. The pricing model is simpler and easier to understand. You can save a lot of money if you don't use the resources often as opposed to having it available for use 24/7. It is always cheaper to pay for consumption that to pay by the hour. You can easily predict the cost of the service into the future.

One of the benefits of the cloud is agility. What does that mean in the context of the cloud?. The ability to respond to and drive market change quickly. The ability of a system to grow it's capacity easily when it reaches full capacity. The ability to recover from a big region-wide failure in a short amount of time. The ability to spin up new resources within minutes.