Management and Governance practice quiz

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Questions

1. A team is comparing two Azure architectures before creating any resources. Which tool should it use to estimate their monthly cost?

2. A. Azure Pricing Calculator

3. B. Azure Service Health
4. C. Azure Policy

5. D. Resource Health

6. Which factor can change the price of otherwise similar Azure resources?

7. A. Region and selected SKU

8. B. The color of the portal theme
9. C. The user's display name

10. D. The order of dashboard tiles

11. A subscription has a monthly budget of €2,000 and reaches €2,001. What happens by default?

12. A. Every resource is deleted

13. B. Azure stops accepting all requests
14. C. Configured budget notifications are triggered; resources continue running

15. D. The subscription automatically changes owner

16. Finance needs to determine which Azure service generated the largest actual cost last month. Which tool fits best?

17. A. Cost Analysis

18. B. Azure Status
19. C. Azure Arc

20. D. ReadOnly lock

21. A company wants to group Azure costs by department inside one subscription. What should it apply consistently?

22. A. CostCenter tags

23. B. Availability zones
24. C. Public IP addresses

25. D. Update domains

26. An organization needs to discover sensitive customer data and trace its lineage across databases and analytics systems. Which service fits best?

27. A. Microsoft Purview

28. B. Azure Advisor
29. C. VPN Gateway

30. D. Azure DNS

31. New resources must be limited to West Europe and North Europe. Which tool and effect fit best?

32. A. Azure Policy with Deny

33. B. Azure RBAC with Reader
34. C. Resource lock with CanNotDelete

35. D. Service Health with an action group

36. Security wants to measure violations of a new rule without blocking deployments. Which Policy effect fits best?

37. A. Audit

38. B. Deny
39. C. ReadOnly

40. D. Owner

41. Fifty related policy definitions should be assigned and reported as one compliance baseline. What should be created?

42. A. Policy initiative

43. B. Resource lock
44. C. Availability set

45. D. Log Analytics workspace

46. Which service decides whether a user may create a VM in a resource group?

    • A. Azure RBAC
    • B. Azure Policy
    • C. Microsoft Purview
    • D. Azure Advisor

47. A production database must remain configurable, but administrators must not delete it accidentally. Which lock fits best?

    • A. CanNotDelete
    • B. ReadOnly
    • C. Reader role
    • D. Audit policy

48. A storage account has a CanNotDelete lock. Which statement is correct?

    • A. The storage-account resource cannot be deleted until the lock is removed
    • B. No blob can ever be deleted
    • C. The account becomes free of charge
    • D. Every user receives Owner access

49. An administrator needs a browser terminal on a temporary computer without installing Azure tools. Which service fits best?

    • A. Azure Cloud Shell
    • B. Azure Advisor
    • C. Microsoft Purview
    • D. Azure Data Box

50. Which tool uses commands such as az vm list?

    • A. Azure CLI
    • B. Azure PowerShell
    • C. ARM template JSON
    • D. Application Insights

51. Which tool uses cmdlets such as Get-AzVM?

    • A. Azure PowerShell
    • B. Azure CLI
    • C. Cost Analysis
    • D. Azure Status

52. A company wants Azure Policy and inventory for servers running on-premises and in another cloud without migrating them. Which service fits best?

    • A. Azure Arc
    • B. Azure Migrate
    • C. ExpressRoute
    • D. Blob Storage

53. Which Azure service is the consistent management control plane used by the portal, CLI, PowerShell, and templates?

    • A. Azure Resource Manager
    • B. Azure Files
    • C. Microsoft Purview
    • D. Azure Virtual Desktop

54. A team wants concise declarative Azure infrastructure files that are stored in Git and deployed through ARM. Which language fits best?

    • A. Bicep
    • B. KQL
    • C. SQL
    • D. HTML

55. Which service provides personalized recommendations for cost, reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence?

    • A. Azure Advisor
    • B. Azure Service Health
    • C. Azure DNS
    • D. Azure Files

56. Operations needs notification about planned Azure maintenance affecting VMs in its subscription and region. Which service fits best?

    • A. Azure Service Health
    • B. Cost Analysis
    • C. Microsoft Purview
    • D. Azure Pricing Calculator

57. An engineer needs the availability history of one specific VM. Which experience fits best?

    • A. Resource Health
    • B. Azure Status
    • C. Pricing Calculator
    • D. Policy initiative

58. CPU above 90% for ten minutes should send an email. Which solution fits best?

    • A. Azure Monitor metric alert with an action group
    • B. Azure Advisor cost recommendation
    • C. CanNotDelete lock
    • D. Microsoft Purview classification

59. An auditor asks who deleted a virtual network yesterday. Which data source should be checked first?

    • A. Azure Activity Log
    • B. Pricing Calculator
    • C. Azure Status
    • D. Purview data catalog

60. A team needs to query centralized Azure Monitor logs using KQL. Which experience fits best?

    • A. Log Analytics
    • B. Azure DNS
    • C. Azure reservations
    • D. Resource lock

61. Developers need request duration, exceptions, dependency calls, and distributed traces for a web application. Which capability fits best?

    • A. Application Insights
    • B. Azure Policy
    • C. Azure Arc
    • D. Cost Analysis

62. What does an Azure Monitor action group define?

    • A. Reusable notification and automation targets
    • B. The VM operating-system image
    • C. An Azure region pair
    • D. A storage redundancy mode

63. A resource group has Environment=Production. Which statement about its VM is correct by default?

    • A. The VM does not automatically inherit the ARM resource tag
    • B. The VM automatically receives the tag in every Azure service
    • C. The tag grants the VM Owner permissions
    • D. The tag prevents VM deletion

64. Finance wants an alert before overspending is likely, based on projected month-end cost. Which budget condition should it use?

    • A. Forecasted cost
    • B. VM CPU metric
    • C. Resource Health state
    • D. ReadOnly lock

65. A diagnostic setting should be deployed when it is missing from existing resources. Which Policy effect is designed for this pattern?

    • A. DeployIfNotExists
    • B. Audit only
    • C. CanNotDelete
    • D. Reader

66. A company needs to assess and move VMware servers into Azure, not merely govern them in place. Which service fits best?

    • A. Azure Migrate
    • B. Azure Arc
    • C. Azure Advisor
    • D. Cloud Shell