Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Average Salary — $126,653/year
Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure are the big boys of the cloud computing world, even though AWS is much bigger than Azure.
Revenue from Microsoft Azure grew 72% from 2018 from $7.56 billion to $13 billion. Azure contributed to almost 10.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue in 2019. It has also been noted that the US defense chose Azure in its tactical operations. The last quarter earnings of 2019 grew by 64%.
Azure Fundamentals exam is an opportunity to prove knowledge of cloud concepts (20%), Azure services (20%), Azure workloads, security and privacy in Azure (30%), as well as Azure pricing and support (25%). This blog also includes Azure Services Cheat Sheet.
The exam is intended for candidates who are just beginning to work with cloud-based solutions and services or are new to Azure.
Candidates should be familiar with the general technology concepts, including concepts of
networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development.
Azure Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based or specialty
certifications, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.
Below are the top 40 AZ-900 Microsoft Azure fundamentals Certification exam questions and answers dumps.
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I- AZ-900 Cloud Concepts – Azure Services
Question 1: Microsoft Office 365 is an example of which cloud deployment model?
A. PaaS
B. IaaS
C. CASB
D. SaaS
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Question 2: You have an on-premises application that processes incoming Simple Message Submission Service (SMSS) queue messages and records the data to a log file. You migrate this application to an Azure function app. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
A. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
B. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
C. Serverless
D. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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Question 3: Define “economy of scale”.
A. Spending money on products or services now and being billed for them now. You can deduct this expense from your tax bill in the same year.
B. Spending money on physical infrastructure up front, and then deducting that expense from your tax bill over time.
C. Prices for individual resources and services are provided so you can predict how much you will spend in a given billing period based on your expected usage.
D. The ability to do things more efficiently or at a lower cost per unit when operating at a larger scale.
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Question 4: Which of the following are characteristic of private clouds?
A. Lower costs
B. High scalability
C. Improved security
D. Limited flexibility
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Question 5: Which of the following Azure solutions allows you to geographically cache and distribute high-bandwidth content, such as streaming videos, to users in different parts of the world?
A. Content Delivery Network (CDN)
B. Load Balancer
C. Application Gateway
D. Virtual Network Gateway
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Question 6: You are beginning to extend your on-premises data center into Azure. You have created a new Azure subscription and resource group called RG-One. You deploy two virtual machines into RG-One with the intent of promoting these to Active Directory domain controllers. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
A. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
B. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
C. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
D. Hybrid-as-a-Service (HaaS)
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Question 7: Select the concept that is defined as ensuring that servers are available if a single data center goes offline.
A. Scalability
B. Fault tolerance
C. Elasticity
D. Agility
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Question 8: In regards to comparing Public Cloud and Private Cloud, which of these best describe the characteristics of a Public Cloud?
A. No-upfront costs
B. More control over the security
C. Less reliability
D. Less maintenance
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Question 9: Which of the following are considered capital expenditures (CapEx)?
A. Storage area network
B. Cloud-based virtual machine
C. Office 365 licenses
D. Hyper-V host server
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Question 10: You are in the process of migrating your existing on-premises SQL databases to Azure. You will migrate them to Azure SQL databases, as opposed to deploying SQL database servers in Azure. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
A. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
B. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
C. Serverless
D. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
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Question 11: Which of the following statements are true for IaaS cloud services?
A. The client is responsible for purchasing all Operating System (OS) host licensing.
B. Services can be scaled automatically to support system load.
C. The client has complete control over the host operating system.
D. The client is responsible for all guest OS and application updates.
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Question 12: Which of the following tools can be used to manage Azure resources on a Google Chromebook?
A. Azure portal
B. PowerShell
C. Azure Cloud Shell
D. Azure CLI
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Question 13: Which Azure service can provide big data analysis for machine learning?
A. Azure App Service
B. Azure WebJobs
C. Application Insights
D. Azure Databricks
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Question 14: You need to create an Azure storage solution that will store messages created by an Azure web role. The messages will then be processed by an Azure worker role. What type of storage solution should you create?
A. A Queue service in a storage account
B. A virtual machine data disk
C. A File service in a storage account
D. A Blob service in a storage account
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Question 15: You have an on-premises application that sends email notifications automatically based on a rule. You plan to migrate the application to Azure. You need to recommend a computing solution for the application that should minimize costs by incurring charges only when it is executed.
Which Azure solution is best for this type of application?
A. Logic App
B. A web app
C. Service Bus App
D. IaaS web server in Azure
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Question 16: You are the Systems Administrator for a local university. You are deploying several sets of systems that will be used for research and development teams. Each set of systems will be uniform in nature, containing the same number and type of Azure resources.
What should you recommend to automate the creation of these Azure resources?
A. Azure Resource Manager templates
B. Multiple Azure subscriptions
C. Management groups
D. Virtual machine scale sets
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Question 17: You are deploying a pair of Azure virtual machines. You want to ensure that the application will remain available in the event of a complete data center failure. What Azure technology will help most in this task?
A. Locally redundant storage
B. Zone Redundant Storage
C. Availability zone
D. Availability set
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Question 18: Which of the following database solutions has the ability to add data concurrently from multiple regions simultaneously?
A. SQL managed instances
B. Cosmos DB
C. SQL Data Warehouses
D. Azure SQL Databases
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Question 19: Which Azure service can host your web apps without you having to manage underlying infrastructure?
A. Azure App Service
B. Azure WebJobs
C. Azure Databricks
D. Application Insights
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Question 20: Which of the following components can be used to load balance traffic to web applications, such as Azure App Service web apps using layer 7 of the OSI model?
A. Virtual Network
B. Virtual Network Gateway
C. Route table
D. Load Balancer
E. Application Gateway
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Question 21: Which Azure service can help you collect, analyze, and act on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments?
A. Azure App Service
B. Azure Monitor
C. Azure Analyzer
D. Azure WebJobs
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II- Azure workloads, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Trust
Question 22: Which of the following components are required to establish communication between on-premises resources and resources in Azure?
A. Virtual Network
B. VNet peer
C. Route tables
D. Virtual network gateway
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Question 23: Which Azure service should you use to correlate metrics and logs from multiple resources into a centralized repository?
A. Azure Event Grid
B. Azure Event Hubs
C. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
D. Azure Monitor
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Question 24: You are the Azure Administrator for Radio Gaga, LTD. You have a resource group named RG-RG and need to ensure no other administrators can create virtual networks in this resource group. What can you implement to accomplish this?
A. Access Control (IAM)
B. Azure policy
C. Locks
D. Properties
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Question 25: Which of the following is the organization that defines standards used by the United States government?
A. NIST
B. ITIL
C. GDPR
D. ISO
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Question 26: You have an Azure virtual network named VNet in a resource group named Bob-RG. You assign an Azure policy specifying virtual networks are not an allowed resource type in Bob-RG. What happens to VNet once this policy is applied?
A. VNet is moved to a new resource group.
B. Bob-RG is deleted automatically
C. VNet continues to function normally, but no new subnets can be added.
D. VNet is deleted automatically.
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Question 27: Which Azure tool allows you to view which user turned off a specific virtual machine during the last 14 days?
A. Azure Event Hubs
B. Azure Activity Log
C. Azure Service Health
D. Azure Monitor
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Question 28: What kind of information does Azure Information Protection protect?
A. Email messages
B. Office documents
C. Azure Blob Storage
D. Virtual hard disks
E. PDF documents
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Question 29: Which of the following is true regarding HDInsight?
A. It is an on-demand analytics job service that simplifies big data. Instead of deploying, configuring, and tuning hardware, you write queries to transform your data and extract valuable insights.
B. It is a managed relational cloud database service.
C. It is a cloud-based service that is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
D. It is an open-source framework for the distributed processing and analysis of big datasets in clusters.
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Question 30: Which of the following website provides information on Azure product updates, roadmaps, and announcements?
A. https://preview.portal.azure.com/
B. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/
C. https://portal.azure.com/
D. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/updates/
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Questions 31: Azure virtual machines can be moved between which of the following Azure resources?
A. Subscriptions
B. Regions
C. Availability Sets
D. Resource Groups
E. Availability Zones
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II- Azure Pricing and Support
Question 32: Which Azure support plans can open support cases?
A. Professional Direct
B. Basic
C. Standard
D. Developer
E. Premier
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Question 33: For any Single Instance virtual machine using premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all Operating System Disks and Data Disks, what is the SLA guarantee for virtual machine connectivity?
A. 99.9%
B. 99.99
C. 99.95%
D. There is no SLA guarantee
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Question 34: Which of the following Azure services is a cloud-based service that leverages massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data in a relational database?
A. Azure SQL database
B. Azure HDInsight
C. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse )
D. Azure Data Lake Analytics
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Question 35: You have an Azure subscription that contains the following unused resources:
| Name | Type | Configuration |
|---|---|---|
| nic0 | Network Interface | 10.0.0.6 |
| pip1 | Public IP | Static |
| lb1 | Load Balancer | Standard, 5 rules configured |
| VNet2 | Virtual Network | 10.1.0.0/16 |
| VM3 | Virtual Machine | Stopped (Deallocated) |
Based on this information, which of the following unused resources should you remove to lower cost?
A. lb1
B. VNet2
C. pip1
D. nic0
E. VM3
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Question 36: Which of the following recommendations is provided by Azure Advisor?
A. Azure resource costs
B. Azure virtual machine IP configuration
C. Storage performance and reliability
D. Azure App Service security
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Question 37: You are planning on purchasing Azure AD Premium for your Azure subscription. What is the SLA for this product?
A. 99.99%
B. 99.9%
C. 99.95%
D. Azure AD products are not covered under an SLA.
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Question 38: Which of the following Azure support plans offer Severity “A” and “B” cases to be opened?
A. Premier
B. Standard
C. Developer
D. Professional Direct
E. Basic
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Question 39: This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.
When you are implementing a software as a service (SaaS) solution, you are responsible for configuring high availability.
Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.
A. No change is needed.
B. defining scalability rules
C. installing the SaaS solution
D. configuring the SaaS solution
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Question 40: You have an on-premises network that contains several servers.
You plan to migrate all the servers to Azure.
You need to recommend a solution to ensure that some of the servers are available if a single Azure data center goes offline for an extended period.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. fault tolerance
B. elasticity
C. scalability
D. low latency
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Question 41: This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.
When planning to migrate a public website to Azure, you must plan to pay monthly usage costs.
Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.
A. No change is needed
B. Deploy a VPN
C. pay to transfer all the website data to Azure
D. reduce the number of connections to the website
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Question 42: You have an on-premises network that contains 100 servers.
You need to recommend a solution that provides additional resources to your users. The solution must minimize capital and operational expenditure costs.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. a complete migration to the public cloud
B. an additional data center
C. a private cloud
D. a hybrid cloud
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Question 43: Which Azure offering refers to a set of development, testing, and automation tools?
A. Azure Cognitive Services
B. Azure Boards
C. Azure DevOps
D. GitHub
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Question 44: Which of the following are available in the Azure Marketplace?
A. Virtual machine images
B. SaaS applications
C. Solution templates
D. Sample application code
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Question 45: Which of the following regulates data privacy in the European Union (EU)?
A. ITIL
B. GDPR
C. ISO
D. NIST
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Question 46: You currently have two Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions. You would like to transfer billing ownership of the subscriptions to another account while moving the subscriptions into the other accounts Azure AD tenant. How can you accomplish this?
A. Open a support ticket by contacting Microsoft Azure Support
B. In the Azure Portal, under Azure Subscriptions click Change Directory
C. Using Azure CLI, run the az account merge command
D. In the Azure Portal, under Cost Management + Billing under Azure Subscriptions
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Question 47: Where can you open a new Azure support request?
A. Knowledge Center
C. Azure Portal
D. Security Center
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Question 48: You attempt to create several managed disks in your Azure environment. In the Portal, you receive a message that you must increase your Azure subscription limits. What should you do to increase the limits?
A. Modify an Azure policy.
B. Use Azure PowerShell to create the new managed disks.
C. Create a new support request.
D. Upgrade your support plan.
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Question 50: This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.
When you are implementing a software as a service (SaaS) solution, you are responsible for configuring high availability.
Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.
A. No change is needed.
B. defining scalability rules
C. installing the SaaS solution
D. configuring the SaaS solution
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IV- Microsoft Azure Question and Answers
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In Azure, every VM – regardless if Linux or Windows – gets a temporary disk assigned automatically. This temporary disk is located on the physical server (the hypervisor) where the Azure VM is hosted and is non-persistent. Disks used by the operating system or additionally added data disks are persistent disks and stored in Azure Storage.
Azure VM’s can be moved from its current host to new host at any time due to maintenance, hardware failures or other reasons. In such an event, the data from the temporary storage will not preserve or moved to the new host. Apart from the hardware failures, there are many other reasons data from the temporary disk will be lost:
- Resizing of the VM
- Restarting of the VM
- Moving from one host to another
- Updating/upgrading of host
Really, the temporary disk should never be used for data that has to be persistent. To avoid misconfiguration, the disk also has the drive label “Temporary Storage” and includes a text file “DATALOSS_WARNING_README.txt”. Read more here…
2- Does Azure VM include a Windows license?
It depends on the virtual machine type we talk about. Some Azure virtual machines include a Windows operating system license in their price (some even include a SQL Server). Some do not, however, there is an “Azure Hybrid Use Benefit” in certain Microsoft licensing programs, where basically the customer can use its previously acquired software licenses on Azure virtual machines (“bring you own license”). Also, there are Azure virtual machines available with different Linux distributions (both commercial and community), Windows Server license is obviously not included in these. Continue reading here
Please consult the Windows virtual machine pricing guide of Azure for details: Pricing – Windows Virtual Machines | Microsoft Azure
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- Step 1 − Login to Azure Management Portal.
- Step 2 − Go to Virtual Machine.
- Step 3 − Select the virtual machine you want to monitor.
- Step 4 − Select Monitor from the top menu as shown in following image.
- Open VM instance and run the server on port 80 and checked the localhost is running in the local browse,
- added port 80 in the inbound of Network security group,
- turned off all three types of firewall from the VM windows.
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- Click on a Windows VM.
- Select Diagnostics settings from the Azure UI blade.
- Under the Overview tab: Pick a Storage account: Select your storage account so that the metrics stats can be stored. Click on ‘Enable guest level monitoring‘ and wait for the process to complete.
- On the Azure portal, select Create a resource.
- Search for and select Snapshot.
- In the Snapshot window, select Create. …
- Enter a Name for the snapshot.
- Select an existing Resource group or enter the name of a new one.
- Select an Azure datacenter Location.
Azure Services Cheat Sheet
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Use the following flowchart to select a candidate compute service.
Definitions:
- “Lift and shift” is a strategy for migrating a workload to the cloud without redesigning the application or making code changes. Also called rehosting. For more information, see Azure migration center.
- Cloud optimized is a strategy for migrating to the cloud by refactoring an application to take advantage of cloud-native features and capabilities.
- App Service. A managed service for hosting web apps, mobile app back ends, RESTful APIs, or automated business processes.
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). A managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications.
- Batch. A managed service for running large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) applications
- Container Instances. The fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to provision any virtual machines and without having to adopt a higher-level service.
- Functions. A managed FaaS service.
- Service Fabric. A distributed systems platform that can run in many environments, including Azure or on premises.
- Virtual machines. Deploy and manage VMs inside an Azure virtual network.
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) lets you provision individual VMs along with the associated networking and storage components. Then you deploy whatever software and applications you want onto those VMs. This model is the closest to a traditional on-premises environment, except that Microsoft manages the infrastructure. You still manage the individual VMs.
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides a managed hosting environment, where you can deploy your application without needing to manage VMs or networking resources. Azure App Service is a PaaS service.
- Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) goes even further in removing the need to worry about the hosting environment. In a FaaS model, you simply deploy your code and the service automatically runs it. Azure Functions are a FaaS service.
There is a spectrum from IaaS to pure PaaS. For example, Azure VMs can autoscale by using virtual machine scale sets. This automatic scaling capability isn’t strictly PaaS, but it’s the type of management feature found in PaaS services.
Azure Data Store:
Use the following flowchart to select a candidate data store.
Top-paying Cloud certifications:
- Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect — $175,761/year
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