July 3, 2020
Azure AZ-900 Exam Study Notes Part – 6
This “Azure AZ-900 Exam Study Notes Part – 6” blog series covers the continuation of the questions and answers I used for brainstorming and self-learning part of my exam preparation.
AZ-900 Exam Study Notes – Part 6
| 101 | When would you use Azure Logic Apps to solve a problem? |
| A | Logic Apps are a way to connect many different and varied systems both within and outside Azure. |
| 102 | Which of the following are services are in Azure DevOps? |
| A | There are currently 5 services in Azure DevOps. Azure Boards for managing and tracking projects and Pipelines for building, testing, and deploying projects. Repos for storing and managing code. Test Plans for conducting manual tests and automating tests. Artifacts for hosting and sharing packages to share functionality across teams. |
| 103 | Is it possible to implement Azure VMs with their virtual hard disk files stored in blob storage? |
| A | It is not possible to implement Azure VMs with their virtual hard disk files stored in a blob storage account |
| 104 | What is the best definition of Azure DevOps? |
| A | Azure DevOps is a set of modern tools to create more robust software, faster. |
| 105 | How to programmatically access Azure AD through REST API? |
| A | The Azure Active Directory Graph API provides programmatic access to Azure Active Directory through REST API endpoints. Apps can use the Azure AD Graph API to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on directory data and directory objects, such as users, groups, and organizational contacts. |
| 106 | What are some benefits of using Azure AD as an identity provider? |
| A | Azure AD provides an affordable, easy to use solution to give employees and business partners single sign-on (SSO) access to thousands of cloud SaaS Applications along with offering centralized identity management. |
| 107 | What are the most common Azure billing options? |
| A | The most popular and flexible payment plan is Pay-As-You-Go subscription; the other possible ways to purchase Azure are Enterprise agreements, Microsoft resellers, and Microsoft partners. |
| 108 | What are some of the likely outcomes from using Big Data analytics? |
| A | Analyzing Big Data can often lead to more precise decision making for a business, a cost reduction on the storage of the data using a service like Azure Data Lake, and better products that take customer feedback and behavior into account. |
| 109 | What type of Azure Storage would you use for storing virtual disk files for Azure virtual machines (VMs)? |
| A | Page blobs |
| 110 | What does Advanced Threat Protection do? |
| A | Azure Advanced Threat Protection helps you detect and investigate security incidents across your Azure accounts both on-premises and in the cloud. It monitors users, devices and resources in terms of their behavior. If any behavior is out of the ordinary an alarm can be raised. |
| 111 | You need to verify application performance from different locations. Which type of monitoring should you configure? |
| A | Endpoint |
| 112 | Which statements are true about Azure Key Vault? |
| A | Azure Key Vault is a secure place to store passwords and other secrets. Once stored, you can never retrieve the actual value, but you can share access to the value with other third-party clients and other Azure services. |
| 113 | What is a security policy in Security Center? |
| A | A security policy defines the desired configuration of your workloads and helps ensure you’re complying with the security requirements of your company or regulators. |
| 114 | What is the main function of Azure Information Protection? |
| A | Azure Information Protection helps secure email, documents, and sensitive data inside and outside your company walls. You can classify sensitive data, track activities on shared files and documents, collaborate securely, and much more. |
| 115 | Can you convert a Standard storage account into a Premium Storage account? |
| A | No |
| 116 | What storage types would you recommend for storing the VHDs and video files? |
| A | Block blobs let you upload large blobs efficiently, it’s best used for object storage that is, video, audio, pdf, etc. |
| 117 | What are valid use cases to use Azure Service Health in your architecture? |
| A | Azure Service Health notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance. You can use this information to take appropriate actions to limit any downtime. |
| 118 | You need to ensure that users do NOT need to re-enter their passwords after they authenticate to cloud applications for the first time. What should you do? |
| A | Configure Azure Active Directory Sync to use single sign-on (SSO) |
| 119 | What is the service for managing privacy on Azure called? |
| A | Privacy is a core component of each and every Azure service, so there isn’t a single service. |
| 120 | Is it mandatory to set up a custom Domain Name System (DNS) on your Azure virtual network? |
| A | No, it is not. If you do not set up the DNS, your network will use the Azure built in name resolution. |
Summary & Next Steps
For passing the exam, on top of this blog series, I strongly urge you to create an account in the Azure portal and get some real-time experience on the topic. For more information, please visit Microsoft sites AZ-900 and Azure fundamentals. Also please go through ” Azure AZ-900 Exam Study Notes Part – 4 and 5 ” in case if you missed previous study notes. Happy learning
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