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Azure Fundamentals Practice Quiz Challenge

Test Your Azure Skills with This Quiz

Difficulty: Moderate
Questions: 20
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Ready to reinforce your Microsoft Azure fundamentals? This Azure fundamentals quiz is ideal for cloud administrators and IT students seeking to gauge their mastery of core Azure concepts. Participants will test their skills with compute, networking, storage, and security questions designed for real-world scenarios. It's fully customizable in the intuitive editor, so you can tailor each question set to your training needs. Dive deeper with Azure Administrator Practice Quiz, challenge networking concepts via Network Fundamentals Practice Quiz, or explore all quizzes to broaden your cloud expertise.

Which Azure service is primarily used to create and manage scalable virtual machines?
Azure SQL Database
Azure App Service
Azure functions
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines is the core Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering in Azure for creating and managing VMs. Other services like App Service and functions are Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) options.
What is the main purpose of Azure Blob Storage?
Hosting relational databases
Running serverless functions
Managing virtual networks
Storing unstructured object data
Azure Blob Storage is designed for storing large amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data. It is not intended for relational databases, networking, or compute functions.
Which pricing model lets you pay only for the resources you consume in Azure?
Enterprise Agreement
Reserved capacity
Pay-as-you-go
Free tier
The Pay-as-you-go model charges based on actual resource consumption without upfront commitment. Reserved capacity and Enterprise Agreements involve pre-commitments, and the free tier is limited in capacity and duration.
Which Azure service provides identity and access management for users and applications?
Azure Policy
Azure Key Vault
Azure Monitor
Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is the identity and access management service for authenticating and authorizing users and applications. Key Vault manages secrets, Policy enforces rules, and Monitor handles observability.
Which Azure service offers a unified security management system and threat protection?
Azure Security Center
Azure Sentinel
Azure Advisor
Azure Monitor
Azure Security Center provides security posture management and threat protection for Azure resources. Sentinel is a SIEM solution, Advisor gives best-practice recommendations, and Monitor collects telemetry.
Which tool should you use to estimate your monthly Azure costs based on planned resource usage?
Azure Cost Management
Azure Resource Graph
Azure Advisor
Azure Pricing Calculator
The Azure Pricing Calculator lets you model resource configurations and estimate costs before deployment. Cost Management analyzes actual spending, Advisor gives optimization advice, and Resource Graph queries resource inventory.
Which Azure support plan provides the fastest response time for business-critical issues (Severity A)?
Developer
Basic
Standard
Professional Direct
The Professional Direct support plan offers a 1-hour response time for Severity A cases. Standard provides 1-hour for critical issues? Actually Standard offers 1-hour for critical, but Professional Direct includes additional advisory services and shorter responses for non-critical issues. Developer and Basic have longer response SLAs.
To enforce resource tagging across your organization, which Azure feature should you use?
Azure Blueprints
Management Groups
Azure Policy
Role-Based Access Control
Azure Policy enables you to create rules that enforce tagging conventions on resources. RBAC controls access permissions, Management Groups organize subscriptions, and Blueprints package policies and resources together.
Which Azure feature is used to define and enforce organizational standards and resource compliance?
Native RBAC
Azure Blueprint
Resource Locks
Azure Policy
Azure Policy allows you to create, assign, and evaluate policies that enforce organizational standards. Blueprints can include policies but are a packaging tool, Resource Locks prevent deletion or modification, and RBAC assigns permissions.
What Azure service enables private communication between two virtual networks in the same region?
ExpressRoute
VNet Peering
Application Gateway
VPN Gateway
VNet Peering connects two virtual networks privately in the same region with low latency. VPN Gateway is for cross-premises or cross-region VPN, ExpressRoute is for dedicated on-prem connectivity, and Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer.
Which Azure resource provides a managed VPN endpoint for secure connections between on-premises networks and Azure?
Azure VPN Gateway
Network Security Group
Azure Firewall
ExpressRoute
Azure VPN Gateway is the managed service that provides site-to-site or point-to-site VPN connectivity. Firewall and NSG control network traffic, while ExpressRoute is a private circuit connection, not VPN-based.
Which Azure Storage access tier is most cost-effective for data that is accessed frequently?
Premium tier
Hot tier
Cool tier
Archive tier
The Hot tier is optimized and priced for frequent access to data. The Cool tier is for infrequent access, Archive for rarely accessed archival data, and Premium refers to performance tiering rather than access frequency.
Which Azure service lets you automatically scale and manage a group of identical virtual machines?
Azure Batch
Azure Container Instances
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure functions
Virtual Machine Scale Sets allow you to deploy and manage a set of auto-scaling identical VMs. Batch orchestrates large-scale parallel jobs, functions is serverless event-driven compute, and Container Instances run containers without managing VMs.
Which feature should you implement to distribute VM resources across different isolated hardware clusters within a single region?
Availability Sets
Resource Groups
Availability Zones
Fault Domains
Availability Zones are physically separate zones within a region to maximize fault isolation. Availability Sets group VMs across fault and update domains, not necessarily separate hardware clusters, while Resource Groups organize resources, and Fault Domains are part of availability sets.
Which Azure SQL Database feature encrypts data at rest by default?
Customer-managed Keys
Always Encrypted
Transparent Data Encryption
Azure Disk Encryption
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) encrypts SQL Database data at rest by default. Always Encrypted protects sensitive columns client-side, Disk Encryption applies to VM disks, and customer-managed keys can be used but are not default.
Which Azure service should you use to route incoming DNS requests globally to the healthiest endpoint?
Azure Application Gateway
Azure Front Door
Azure Load Balancer
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic distribution service that routes queries based on endpoint health and geography. Front Door provides HTTP/HTTPS routing with WAF, Application Gateway is a layer-7 load balancer, and Load Balancer operates at layer 4.
To grant an Azure function app the least-privilege access to read secrets in Azure Key Vault without storing credentials, which method should you use?
Shared access signature
Azure AD B2C
Service principal with client secret
System-assigned managed identity
A system-assigned managed identity lets the function app authenticate to Key Vault without credentials and follows the principle of least privilege. A service principal requires a secret, SAS is for storage, and B2C is for customer identity scenarios.
Which command-line tool and command would you use to deploy an ARM template to a resource group?
az deployment group create
az resource deploy start
az group template upload
az arm template apply
The Azure CLI command "az deployment group create" deploys an ARM template to a specified resource group. The other commands are not valid Azure CLI commands for ARM deployments.
Which Azure service protects your applications from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks at the network layer?
Network Security Group
Azure DDoS Protection
Azure Security Center
Azure Firewall
Azure DDoS Protection provides automatic defense against network-layer DDoS attacks. Firewall and NSGs control traffic but do not offer DDoS mitigation, and Security Center offers threat detection but not dedicated DDoS protection.
Which Azure Storage replication option synchronously replicates data across multiple availability zones within the same region?
Locally redundant storage
Read-access geo-redundant storage
Zone-redundant storage
Geo-redundant storage
Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) synchronously replicates data across availability zones in a region for high availability. LRS is within a single datacenter, GRS and RA-GRS replicate to a secondary region asynchronously.
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Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse core Azure services and solutions.
  2. Evaluate pricing models and support options.
  3. Master identity, governance, and access management.
  4. Identify networking and storage features in Azure.
  5. Apply security best practices in cloud deployments.
  6. Demonstrate virtual machine and app deployment skills.

Cheat Sheet

  1. Core Architectural Components - Get to know Azure's building blocks by exploring regions, availability zones, and resource groups. This helps you keep your resources organized and resilient, like sorting your apps into neat digital filing cabinets. Azure Fundamentals Guide
  2. Compute Services - Discover how to power your applications with Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and Azure Virtual Desktop. You'll learn when to spin up a single VM or automatically scale out to handle traffic spikes without breaking a sweat. Azure Fundamentals Guide
  3. Networking Essentials - Dive into Virtual Networks, subnets, and Azure DNS to design secure, efficient network topologies. Mastering these services ensures your applications can chat safely across the cloud. Azure Fundamentals Guide
  4. Storage Options - Explore Azure Blob Storage, File Storage, and hot/cool/archive access tiers to optimize cost and performance. You'll know exactly where to stash your files, backups, and big data sets. Azure Fundamentals Guide
  5. Azure Active Directory - Dive into identity and access management with Azure AD, learning about single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). Secure user sign-ins and manage permissions like a security guru. Azure Fundamentals Guide
  6. Security Tools - Protect your resources with Azure Security Center and Azure Firewall. These services help you detect threats, enforce policies, and keep compliance worries at bay so you can sleep easy. Azure Security & Pricing
  7. Pricing Models - Compare pay-as-you-go and reserved instances to find the best cost strategy for your workload. A little budgeting know-how can save you big bucks on your Azure bill. Azure Fundamentals Guide on Azure Guru
  8. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) - Understand the uptime and performance guarantees for each Azure service. Knowing the SLAs helps you set realistic expectations and architect high-availability solutions. Azure Fundamentals Guide on Azure Guru
  9. Governance and Compliance - Use Azure Policy and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to enforce standards and manage who can do what. Good governance keeps your environment both safe and compliant. Azure Security & Pricing
  10. Monitoring and Reporting - Keep an eye on your cloud with Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health. Track performance metrics, set up alerts, and troubleshoot issues before they disrupt your users. Azure Security & Pricing
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