Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
Free Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate practice — 6 questions on Deploy and manage Azure compute resources, with explanations. No sign-up. Full 12-question mixed test →
A financial services company runs a tier of 6 identical VMs in a single Azure region. The workload requires 99.99% availability SLA and must survive the complete loss of a single datacenter within that region, while VMs must still be able to communicate with low latency. Which configuration BEST meets these requirements?
Availability Zones map to physically separate datacenters within a region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking. Spreading VMs across zones is the only construct that provides the 99.99% SLA and protects against full datacenter loss.
A company needs to encrypt the OS disk, data disks, temporary disk, and disk caches of Azure VMs at rest without installing any encryption agent inside the guest OS, and with minimal performance overhead. Which feature BEST satisfies these requirements?
Encryption at Host encrypts data on the physical host itself, covering OS disks, data disks, temporary disks, and caches, all without requiring BitLocker/DM-Crypt agents inside the guest OS, and with negligible performance impact since it happens below the VM layer.
A company built a custom VM image and now needs to distribute versions of that image to VMs in three Azure regions, control how many replicas exist per region, and share specific versions with another subscription. Which solution BEST meets these requirements?
Shared Image Gallery supports image versioning, configurable per-region replica counts, multi-region replication, and RBAC-based sharing across subscriptions and tenants — exactly what's described.
An administrator needs to update only the NIC configuration of a single VM in a resource group and deploys an ARM template using Complete mode. After the deployment finishes, several unrelated resources that previously existed in the resource group are gone. What is the MOST likely cause?
In Complete deployment mode, Resource Manager deletes resources that exist in the resource group but are not defined in the template. Since only the VM/NIC was included, everything else in the group was removed.
A Virtual Machine Scale Set configured with autoscale is rapidly scaling out and then back in every few minutes in response to short CPU spikes, causing instability and unnecessary cost. Which setting should be adjusted to resolve this scale flapping?
The cooldown period defines the minimum time to wait after a scale action before evaluating metrics again. A short cooldown causes autoscale to react to transient spikes, triggering rapid scale-out/scale-in cycles. Increasing it smooths out this flapping.
A company is building a microservices application that needs event-driven autoscaling based on message queue length, built-in Dapr service-to-service invocation and state management, and must NOT require the team to provision or manage any Kubernetes cluster infrastructure. Which Azure service BEST meets these requirements?
Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless container platform built on Kubernetes, KEDA, and Dapr under the hood, exposing KEDA-based event-driven autoscaling and Dapr integration natively — without requiring the customer to provision or manage the underlying cluster.
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