Chapter 13: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

In Chapter 12, Azure Service-Level Agreements, you learned about the purpose of an Azure service-level agreement (SLA), identifying actions that can impact an SLA, and describing the service life cycle in Azure.

This chapter will cover exam preparation tests in each key skills-measured section from the exam objectives; combined with the hands-on exercises throughout this chapter, you will be confident and ready to apply the knowledge and skills that have prepared you for a real-world, day-to-day Azure-focused role.

Test questions

Each of the following tests maps to the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals skills-measured exam outline.

Practice test 1 – cloud concepts

1. In the cloud computing shared responsibility model, who is always responsible for the tenant information, data, accounts, and identities?

   a) The service provider (SP)

   b) The customer

2. Which of the following characteristics relate to the public cloud delivery model?

   a) Metered pricing and consumption-based billing

   b) Availability, reliability, fault tolerance, redundancy

   c) May allow on-premises facilities hosting computing resources to be decommissioned

   d) Bursting or extending computing resource capacity to a public cloud

3. Which of the following characteristics relate to the private cloud delivery model?

   a) A dedicated entity (single-tenant) computing model.

   b) Resources are only available within the capacity provisioned.

   c) Hardware/ physical resources must be supported; failed hardware must be replaced.

   d) Provides...

Test answers

Practice test 1 – cloud concepts

1. (b)
2. (a), (b), (c)

   Answer (d) is a characteristic of the hybrid cloud delivery model.

3. (a), (b), (c)

   Answer (d) is a characteristic of the hybrid cloud delivery model.

4. (a)

   Answer (b) is a characteristic of the IaaS cloud delivery model; answer (c) is a characteristic of the serverless/function as a service (FaaS) delivery model.

5. True
6. (b), (c).

   Answer (a) is an IaaS service type.

7. False— an app service is a PaaS service type.
8. True
9. True
10. True
11. True
12. (a).

    Answer (b) describes HA.

13. (a).

    Answer (b) describes agility.

14. All are true
15. (c)

    Answers (a) and (b) protect systems, not data.

Practice test 2 – core Azure services

1. (a)

   Answer (b) is recommended to protect against a single data center outage in a region; answer (c) is recommended to protect against an entire region failure; answer (d) is recommended where low latency is required between infrastructure components...

Summary

This chapter covered exam preparation tests in each key skills-measured section from the exam objectives.

With the knowledge and skills learned in this book, you will now not only be ready to take the Azure Fundamentals certified exam, but through the hands-on exercises throughout this book, you will be confident and ready to apply the knowledge and skills that have prepared you for a real-world, day-to-day, Azure-focused role.

With this being the last chapter in this book, I would like to close off by saying a big thank you to all my readers who have given their time and commitment to broadening their skills and knowledge in Azure through this content; I hope it may act as a springboard and spark your interest to pursue further training and education.

Additional information and study references

Here are some links to additional exam information and study references:

• Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/certifications/exams/az-900
• Exam AZ-900 skills outline: https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE3VwUY
• Microsoft Learn: Azure Fundamentals – Describe Azure cost management and service level agreements: https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/az-900-describe-azure-cost-management-service-level-agreements/
• Microsoft Learn: Learn the business value of Microsoft Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/learn-business-value-of-azure

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