AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Your company is planning on using Azure AD for authentication to the resources defined in Azure.
Does Azure AD have built-in capabilities for securing authentication and authorization to resources?
Yes
No
Answer is Yes. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources such as Microsoft Office 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications with built-in capabilities for securing both authentication and authorization.
For more information, please visit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-whatis
You have an Azure subscription named Subscription1 that contains an Azure virtual machine named VM1. VM1 is in a resource group name for RG1.
VM1 runs services that will be used to deploy resources to RG1.
You need to ensure that a service running on VM1 can manage the resources in RG1 by using the identity of VM1.
What should you do first?
From the Azure portal, modify the Access control (IAM) settings of RG1.
From the Azure portal, modify the value of the Managed Service Identity option for VM1.
From the Azure portal, modify the Access control (IAM) settings of VM1.
From the Azure portal, modify the Policies settings of RG1.
Answer is From the Azure portal, modify the value of the Managed Service Identity option for VM1 (since the question is asking for “using the identity of VM1”)
Please refer to the following links:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview
A company is planning on upgrading their current Microsoft Azure Free plan to the Basic plan. Does the Free and Basic Azure AD plan come with the same standard support from Microsoft?
Yes
No
Answer is No. Because only paid services come with standard support.
For more information, please visit:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/active-directory/
A company wants to try out some services which are being offered by Microsoft Azure in Public Preview.
Do the services in Public Preview within Azure come with an SLA?
Yes
No
Answer is No. Because previews are provided "as-is," "with all faults," and "as available," and are excluded from the service level agreements and limited warranty.
For more information, please visit:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/
A company wants to try out some services which are being offered by Microsoft Azure in Public Preview.
Does Microsoft provide a separate Azure portal for trying out the services in Public Preview?
Yes
No
Answer is Yes. You can access preview features that are specific to the Azure portal from preview.portal.azure.com.
Microsoft Azure offers preview features to you for evaluation purposes. You can use preview features from A preview may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions. Previews are subject to reduced or different service terms, as set forth in your service agreement and the preview supplemental terms -https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/ .Previews are made available to you on the condition that you agree to these terms of use, which supplement your agreement governing the use of Azure.
For more information, please visit:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/
Your company needs to deploy and manage several Microsoft Azure Web apps using the Azure App service resource.
Which of the following URL's would you use to manage the Azure Web Apps?
https://portal.microsoft.com
https://portal.azure.com
https://portal.azurewebsites.net
https://portal.azurewebsites.com
Answer is https://portal.azure.com
The Azure portal is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools. With the Azure portal, you can manage your Azure subscription using a graphical user interface. You can build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud deployments. Create custom dashboards for an organized view of resources. Configure accessibility options for an optimal experience.
For more information, please visit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-overview
A company needs to store 2TB of data that will be infrequently used.
The data needs to be accessed via Power BI.
Choose 2 of the following options the company should consider as cost-effective data storage solutions to fulfill this need.
Azure SQL Databases
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure PostgreSQL
Azure CosmosDB
Azure Data Lake
Answer is Azure Synapse Analytics & Azure Data Lake
Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs
For more information, please reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-overview-what-is
Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable public cloud service that allows developers, scientists, business professionals and other Microsoft customers to gain insight from large, complex data sets. As with most data lake offerings, the service is composed of two parts: data storage and data analytics.
For more information, please reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-store/data-lake-store-overview
A company wants to ensure that users in their company are authenticated when they access resources defined in their Microsoft Azure account. Which of the following is the correct definition of authentication?
This specifies the type of service you can use in Azure
This specifies the type of data you can use in Azure
This is the act of providing legitimate credentials
This specifies what you can do in Azure
Answer is This is the act of providing legitimate credentials. Because authentication is the process of proving you are who you say you are (i.e inputting your creds). Authentication is sometimes shortened to AuthN.
For more information, please visit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-scenarios
A company is planning on creating several Virtual Machines within Microsoft Azure.
They would be using the Azure Virtual Machine service.
Which of the following is the right category to which the Azure Virtual Machine service belongs to?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS)
Function as a service (FaaS)
Answer is Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Because IaaS gives you a server in the cloud (virtual machine) that you have complete control over. With an Azure VM, you are responsible for managing everything from the Operating System on up to the application you are running.
For more information, please visit:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/infrastructure-as-a-service-series-virtual-machines-and-windows/
You need to manage Microsoft Azure by using Azure Cloud Shell.
Which Azure portal icon should you select?
1
2
3
4
5
Answer is 1
More for information, please visit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview