DRAG DROP -
Match the term to the appropriate description.
To answer, drag the appropriate term from the column on the left to its description on the right. Each term may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
NOTE: Each correct match is worth one point.
Select and Place:
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Correct Answer: Single sign-on (SSO)
Authorization
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Explanation: SSO allows one set of credentials across multiple services. Authorization defines what access level a user or service has. MFA requires multiple verification factors to identify a user or service.
Question 167
HOTSPOT -
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Hot Area:
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Correct Answer: Yes
Yes
Yes
Explanation: Azure Functions is a serverless offering that falls under the PaaS model in Azure fundamentals.
Microsoft 365 delivers fully managed applications, which is SaaS.
Azure Virtual Machines provide compute infrastructure, which is IaaS.
Question 168
What additional resource is required by an Azure virtual machine?
A. a virtual network
B. a service endpoint
C. Azure Firewall
D. a public IP address
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Correct Answer: A
Explanation: An Azure virtual machine must be connected to a virtual network to obtain networking services such as an IP address and communication with other resources. A public IP address is optional, and service endpoints or Azure Firewall are not required for VM creation.
Question 169
What enables a cloud service to adapt quickly to changing requirements?
A. high availability
B. predictability
C. manageability
D. agility
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: Adapting quickly to changing requirements is a defining characteristic of agility. In cloud computing, agility refers to the ability to rapidly provision, scale, modify, and deprovision resources on demand with minimal effort. High availability focuses on uptime, predictability on consistency, and manageability on ease of administration, but none directly enable rapid adaptation like agility does.
Question 170
What is a feature of an Azure virtual network?
A. resource cost analysis
B. packet inspection
C. geo-redundancy
D. isolation and segmentation
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: An Azure Virtual Network (VNet) provides logical isolation from other networks and allows segmentation within the network using subnets. This enables secure separation of resources and controlled traffic flow, which is a core feature of VNets. The other options relate to services outside the basic VNet feature set.
Question 171
Which cloud computing benefit provides continuous user access to a cloud-based application with minimal downtime?
A. agility
B. scalability
C. elasticity
D. high availability
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: The benefit that ensures continuous user access with minimal downtime is high availability. High availability focuses on keeping applications operational through redundancy, failover, and fault tolerance, even when components fail. Agility, scalability, and elasticity relate to speed of change or resource sizing, not uptime.
Question 172
You need to compare a company's cloud usage to industry standard best practices.
What should you use?
A. Azure Monitor
B. Azure Service Health
C. Application Insights in Azure Monitor
D. Azure Advisor
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Correct Answer: D
Explanation: Azure Advisor compares your Azure resource usage and configurations against Microsoft and industry best practices. It provides personalized recommendations across cost, security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence, which directly addresses the need to compare cloud usage to industry standards. Azure Monitor, Service Health, and Application Insights focus on monitoring, telemetry, and service status rather than best-practice evaluation.
Question 173
HOTSPOT -
Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
Hot Area:
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Correct Answer: select Stop for the virtual machine from the Azure portal
Explanation: Stopping the VM from the Azure portal deallocates compute resources, which stops compute billing. Disconnecting, sleeping, or shutting down from inside Windows does not deallocate Azure resources and continues to incur costs.
Question 174
At which OSI layer does ExpressRoute operate?
A. Layer 2
B. Layer 3
C. Layer 5
D. Layer 7
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Correct Answer: B
Explanation: Azure ExpressRoute operates at OSI Layer 3 (the Network layer). It provides IP-based connectivity between on‑premises networks and Microsoft cloud services and uses routing protocols such as BGP to exchange routes. While the underlying provider may use Layer 2 technologies to deliver the circuit, the ExpressRoute service itself is fundamentally a Layer 3 connectivity service.
Question 175
HOTSPOT -
Select the answer that correctly completes the sentence.
Hot Area:
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Correct Answer: hybrid
Explanation: The web app runs in Azure (public cloud) while the SQL Server is on‑premises (private environment), which together form a hybrid cloud.
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